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Presidential recap:
The monkey beat the wet log
by Yazmin Shah
O n a nati o na l sca le, Geo rge W. Bu sh
( Re publi ca n) squ as hed Jo hn Ke rry (Demo c rat) 5 1% to 4 8%. In our little , inconsequential
sta te, however, Ke rr y won by so mething to
something else. ( FY I: It does n't matte r.) In the
s pirit o f favo ring the incumbent, Patty Murray
l D) is aga in th e senator for Was hington State.
The ho use represe ntative fo r K ing County is
Jay In s lee (D). For here, Bria n Baird (D) is the
house represent ative who will be igno ring yo ur
requests fo r change.
Here are th e o utcomes in li st fo rm :
Preside nt : Bu s h i.e. "M r. Dipl o macy"
(R - d uh)
S enate: Patt y Murray, a. k.a . "Te rro ri st
Hugge r" (D)
Ho use ( he r e) : Bria n Baird (D)
House (Seattle- where stu ff IUlppen s):
Ja y In slee (D)
Attorney G eneral : Rob McKe nn a (R)
S upre m e C our t: J im Jo hn so n and R ichard Sanders
Gove rnor : Ei th e r Di no Ros s i (R) or
C hri s tin e Grego ir e (D) - it 's too close to
dete rmine as of now. What can be said is th at
Ruth Be nn ett (L) is definit ely not it.
T he monorai l li ves l Bikers rej o ice !
Republi ca ns ow n the Senate, the House,
and yo' ass l T hi s should be an es pec iall y sweet
v icto ry for Bush, see in g as it 's th e first tim e
he's bee n elected pres ide nt. Ap pa rentl y the re's
a fir st tim e fo r eve rythi ng.
)'o::l11in Shah is aji'esh /l /{III enrolled ill Calc/duled Fiction.
Seminar II cafe
won't open
'til January ' by Renata Rollins
by Traci Sanderson
7i'uci SUllderson is
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sop llo/ll or l! I! /I mf/I!d ill Intl'Oc/uclio/l to Nat ura/ Scil!lIcl!s. Sill! is study ing EIlVirol1lll ellW/ Sc i ellces.
T he Semin a r II ca fe is n' t o pe n, a nd it
wo n't be up and runnin g until th e start o f
nex t quarter.
Co ll ege staff in vo lve d in th e process ,
includin g th e Direc tor of Fac iliti es and the
Director of Ho usin g and Food Se rv ice, had
intend ed the ca fe to o pen in tim e fo r th e new
sc hoo l year in Sep temb er, o ffering stu dents a
new locati on for co ffee and es presso as we ll as
gra b-n- go sa nd w iches, sal ads, and soups.
But the ope nin g was delayed because " the
co ll ege is wa itin g on so me necessa ry eq ui pment ," accordin g to John Lauer, TESC Direc (o r of Housing and Food Service. Equipm ent
s uch as re fri ge ratio n systems, a di shwasher, a
three - compartm ent sink , and a coffee bre wer
are all needed be fore th e cafe ca n o pen.
As of thi s wr it ing the equipment o rd er has
not yet been pl aced. but TESC interim Director
of Facilities Co lin Orr expects the ord er to go
oui on Th ' r v November 4.
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
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Address Service Requested
october 28, 2004
cooper point journal
What are you going to do
now that George W. Bush
has been reelected?
by David Hornbeck and Sam Goldsmith
" I' m serious ly con-
sidering look ing into
becoming a Canadi an
citizen."
Greta Lewans ki
Senior
Foundations of Visual
Arts
Last 1hlll's({ay, a local grullp ufpru-liie demonstl'lItol's made·llleir (Il/nllaltrip to Evergreen
n le grollp stood in a line arollnd the hill a/ the entrance to Red Sq uare holding large signs bearing images 0/ ahorted /e tmes.
The response among pro-chuice .1'Il/dem,\' was mixed. While some voiced their disapproval
by yelling in the direction of the demonstration. others instead dec ided to talk to them and challenge their pain/ 0/ view. A group of stllden/s organi::ed an on-the-spot coumer-demons/ration,
which /armed at the top ol the hill.
One demonstratOl; Cindy Choo. who insisted on showing ireI' old Evergreen I. D. cards,
responded to th ose whofelt the pictures to be uffe nsive . " This is what really happens in abortions. " she said. "It :v harder to ignore this lVay. "
Despite t!te/aetthat mo,l't stlldents did not appreciate the means the.Sf.' protesters employed,
the el'elll with of/witholltmojor incidellt. Lasl yew; in contl'{W. Ihe demonstrators and the counler-de lll onstratol's engaged (f heated c{)n/lict. IU(fl'ing a lot olresellllllent alll ong ,I'tlldents.
It took some tim e gett ing th e fin a l li st
because ne ith er anyone from A ra mark nor th e
des ig ner A ramark hired had golte n the li st to
O rr. O rr says he didn ' t rea li ze he was lacking
th e in form ati o n unt il a co uple weeks ago .
'" [T he Se min a r II ca fe) was n' t a pri orit y
to have o pen," O rr sa id . With a ll of the other
proj ects gQing on that he has to overse e, such
as the libra ry renovatio n, openin g a thi rd food
se rvice ve nue was n' t hig h on the to- do li st,
he sai d.
Onc e he knew he was mi ss in g info rmati on, howeve r, he got in touch w ith the ca fe
desi g ner, Tim Sh e lt o n , a nd on M o nd ay,
November I, Shelton se nt Orr th e compl ete
li st o f equipment necessa ry for the cafe.
Once th e ord er is pl aced , th e suppli er,
Bargreen- Ellingso n, ca n have the equipment
to the co ll ege in thirty d ays, accordin g to O rr.
That pl aces the proj ect in sta ll ati on start tim e
in earl y Dece mb er, the end of fa ll quart er.
Rath er th an pu s hin g to open at th e ve ry end
of the qu art er, O rr plans on having the college faci li ties crew compl ete th e work over .
winter break .
He sees no reaso n why the cafe s ho uldn ' t
be ope n th e Ii rst day of winter qua rter. The
onl y problem wo uld be if the cafe doe sn't pass
co unty health de partment stand ard s.
But accordin g to Fred Swift from Hou sing busine ss oper atio ns, who ha s be en wo rkin w ith Thursto n Co unt Public Health and
Social Services, "the hea lth depart ment thin g's
pretty much a sla m dun k."
Rel/ata Rollins is n"se nior study ing civic
jO l/rnalis m through an intem ship 1I' i/h the
CPJ. She is the edit or-in- chie/ of the CPJ
and may be reached at cpj@ evergreen. edu
Corrections
Poet John O' Leary comes to Evergreen
today, Thursday, Novembe r 4. A reception
in Ell 05 begins at 5 p .m. and the readin g
beg ins at 5:30 p.m. in the same room . Due
to a contributo r error, the wrong times were
li sted last week.
Stud ent Day naty ah Sera phim 's contributions in the 10/28 iss ue of the C PJ did not
co nta in an a uth or bi o. She is enro lled in
M ulti cultura l Counse lin g and is studying art
therapy and writing. T he C P J apolog izes for
thi s mi stake.
A bri ef artic le th at ran on page 2 last week,
abo ut a TESC po li ce officer shooting a deer,
conta in ed inaccurate info rm ation due to poor
reporting. The correct story appears o n page
5 of this week's issue . The CPJ apo logizes
to Officer Tammi Stretch for mi srepresenting
he r actions and to readers for unintentionally
mi sleading them .
" We need to get
o rgan ized.
Eve n
th o ug h h e's th e
pres id e nt , he can ' t
ust ass u m e co ntrol over the whole
country."
Nate Midgley
Freshman
Negotiating
Cultural
Landscapes
"I ' m go in g to
make love like Cornel
West; 'love as a subversive act .'"
Afsheen Fate mi
Sen ior
Imperialism
" I ' m g oin g to
m a ke th e rev olution happen , but [
was going to do that
anyway. "
Maya Elson
Freshman
Introduction to
Natural Sciences
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" Wh ateve r [ ca n
do w it hin reason ,
provid ed it does n ' t
int e r fe r e with my
schooling. "
Gwen Kelley
Freshman
Geology and
Art
PRSRT STD
US Postage
Paid
Olympia WA
Permit #65
voices of color
briefs
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"Temperate
rainforests
of home"
"Tem perate ra i n fo rests are rare on ly .2% of the Eart h's land mass - yet
are biolog,ically ric h and diverse. From
the Tonga ss in Alas ka , the Great Bear
in B.C. , Clayoquot Sound , th ro ugh our
own Olympics and the Gifford-P inchot,
the Klamath-Si sk iyou and the northern
California redwo od ~ , down to Chi le and
across to the Tark ine in TasOla n ia and the
West Coast of New Zealand , see photos
of old-gro\'tth temperate rainforests and
the endemic species that depend on them.
Learn of the World Temperate Rainforest Networ k (WTRN) recently formed
to faci litate internat iona l cooperation fo r
their conservation." - Pat Ras mussen
If thi s int ere sts yo u, the Environ mental Resource Cente r is sponsor ing a
present at ion on temperate rai n for ests on
Wednesday, November 10 in Lecture Hall
I. Pat Rasmussen is the Coordinator of tile
Worl d Te mperate Ra inforest Net wo rk.
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Kindimprov
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Careers in
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Chemistry Day
Pigs and punks
the HCC
I r you wan t to be a che m ist when
you g row up, then Friday, November I:!
is yo ur day. Careers in Chem istry Day is
being put on by the A merican Chemica l
Society at the Department of Health Labs
in Shorel ine, Thi s is yo ur chance to attend
presentations and tours that could help yo u
find your way after Evergreen. Relax, you
don 't have to drive to Shore line. Everg reen 's Chem Clu b is tak ing three vans
and they 'd be happy to bring you. Register
on Iine at http://academic.evergreen.edu/
groups/chemclub.
Everyone needs to relax and have a
little fun at the end of the week. So, if yo u
Iive on campus and yo u need somethi ng to
do on Friday night before 10 p.m., then yo u
shou ld wa lk yourself to the HCC at 8 p.m.
Th is is yo ur chance to see a couple of Oly
ac ts without an ID or cover charge. Mind
Your Pig, Latoya and The Punks are sure
to entertai n you, at least until it 's tim e to
hit the part y circuit. Check it out Friday, '
November 5.
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Lost Film Fest
The Lost Fil m Fest is making a stop
at Evergreen on Friday, November 12. The
th ree -hour show features film s being presented the same way a OJ present s music.
According to th e website, their goa l is
" to spread th c ideal s of particip ator y
med ia, whi Ie break ing the illusions cast
by Holly wood and CNN." 1\ also claims
to represent the futu re of cinem a. Th is
event is being sponsored by the Evergreen
Political Information Center (EPI C), and
more inform ation can bc found at http :
I/www. lostfi lmfest .com .
Did any of yo u acco mpany your parent s to that improv perform ance during
Orien tatio n Wee k': The Hea rt s par kle
Playe rs are perform ing aga in on Friday,
Nove mber 12. They \\ ill be coll abora ti ng
wit h Random Acts of Kindness, a group
of seniors committ ed to, well, kindncss.
The theme is Unexpec ted Kin dness . You
can catch thi ~ kind improv at Trad iti ons
Cafe on Fri day, Nove:m ber 12 <lI 7:30 p.l11 .
T he cost is $)- 10, out it's hard to bel ieve
tha t anyone thi s kind would turn someone:
away for the sake of five bucks,
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Free money
Just when you settled ) our fina ncial
aid \VOl' S 1'01' 20 04. it's ti l11c to think about
fU ilding your fut ure yea rs at Everg. r c~n .
It's not too ea rl y to appl y fo r scholarshi ps.
First Peop J.:s' Adv ising Se rvices is putting
on a scholarship work shop in Sel11inar II.
B11 07. Stumble into that room on Tuesday, Nove mber 9 at 5 p.m ., and yo u Ill ay
di scover some free money.
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Voices of Color
Meet the
President
It can be easy for college students to
feel like they're not being li stened to. It
might see m like the United States' admin istration does not recognize our voices, but
Eve rgreen's president would be happy to
talk . Les Purce will be ava il able Monday, .
Nove mber 8 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. to talk
to st ude nts, faculty and staff. He should
be on the second floor of the CA B. You
ca n also call exten sion 6100 to find out
when he is avail able (usually the second
Monday of each month). The election may
be over, but there are more opportu nities
to be heard.
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Voices of Color is a column designed to promote cultural diversity as well as understanding within the immedmte Evergreen community.
Here, students of color may addre~s any concerns or joys. It is a place for students to share their unique cultural experiences with the rest of
the Evergreen community. It is a place of learning. It is a place of teaching. It is a place of understanding.
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Islands, missing
children and seal
people
National
Thi s weekend , the Oly mpi a Fi lm Fes - "Howl-In" Protest
ti val wi ll screen a new print of Th e Secret
(JjRu{/n fnish, a 1994 film by director John
Sayles (Loll e StOl; Silver City ). The movie
tell s the tale of Fiona , a Iittl e gi rl who goes
to live with re latives in a vi ll age near Roan
In ish, an island th at has some secret s to it.
Fiona learns a fCw things abo ut the mys teri ous d isappeara nee of her Iittl e brother
and her anccstra l relation ship to Selki es,
strange creatures that change frolll humans
to seals and back. Thi s film , one of Sayles'
very b'est. olTe rs incredi bly bea utiful cincmilt og rap hy, hau nting trad iti ona l Iri sh
tun es arranged by Mason Daring, a nd
wonde rful. leisurely storytel ling. Th ere
a rc so ml' I'a th er prett y sea ls, too. The
mov ie I I ill play on Sunday, Nove mber 7
at I p.m. at th e Capit ol T heater. See http:
I/IVw w.olympi afilml cstival.org lor more
det ail s.
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Need somet hing important to do thi s
Saturday ? Prote st the ae ri al hunting of
Alaskan wolves. In June of2003, Alaska's
governor signed leg islation overturning a
voter-approved ban of thi s practice. Th is
Illean s th at private citi zens can go to
Alaska, follow wolves in heli coptcrs or
airplanes , and shoot them from the air,
or fro m the g round after land in g. You
don't even need to stand out in tile cold
to ta ke a stance aga inst th is prac ti ce .
Just get in yo ur car, dr ive to Tenino, and
visit Wolf Haven Intern ati o nal. Si g n a
postca rd bet ween 10 a.l11 . and 4 p.m . thi s
Saturd ay, Nove mber 6, and yo u have
prot ested . Pat yo urself on the back and
take a tour of the wolf sanctuar y whil e
yo u' re there. For mo re infor mati on visit
http://www.wolfhave n.org.
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by Ana Lucia Rodriguez
Hello to
all, my name
is Ana Lucia
Rodrigue z,
enrolled in the
Organizing for
Democracy
program . I' m
Co lombian
and I have been
living in the USA for abo ut 10 years. This
is my last year at TESC, and I wanted to
become more involved with the Evergreen
community by being the Voices of Color
coordinator. I li ke writing fictional short
stories and poetry. The vision I have for
this page is to encourage dialogue on local
as well as globa l affairs. This page can be
a platform to improve social rel ations here
and with the global community.
Here's a start:
On November 3, 2004, a day after the
elections, I woke up to the news: George
W. Bush was re-elected to be our new
president. I did not know how to feel.
I felt angered, but eager to continue the
momentum to organize for social change.
The program I'm enrolled in organized a
forum to discuss the results of the elections, but most importantl y to discuss
the ramifications of having George W.
Bush, chosen by the American people to
be the continuing pres ident. I want to ask
why, in the mainstream media, it was not
mentioned or reported what individuals in
other countri es thought about the elections.
I'm sure the reasons had to do with how
countries are suspi cious and cautious of
American foreign policy. It 's clear that not
only "Third World countries" are against
American foreign policy, but other rich
countries in the globe, such as the peop le
of Great Britain.
The mainstream media are not reporting
the real numbers of Iraqi casualties in the
war. This morning, November 3, as I was
listening to the radio show Democracy Now,
it was mentioned that the real number of
Iraqi s killed in the war and the numbers
are horrific - about 100,000 individuals - and thi s is just a rough estimate.
George W. Bush's slogan, "Let's support
the troops," is another stage performance
to maintain military power in Iraq. Why is
it that corporate mainstream media does not
show the American people the faces of famil ies devastated by the war: yo ung kids left
orphans, mothers giving birth to children
with ab norm al body parts due to nuclear
rad iation, and Iraqi women raped as a tool
to "win" the war? The mainstream media
only show us the image of the brave soldiers
wi th their guns, sav ing theAmerican people
from future terrori sts. It's very encourag-
ing to know that American soldiers are
refusing to fight the American war on the
Iraqi people.
These are just a few words to encourage TESC students to submit their artistic
ex pressions and story ideas to this page.
Feel empowered with the Voices of Color
page: You wi II be heard . Let's create
meaningful di alogue on the issues you
are passionate about.
Ana Lucia Rodriguez;s a senior enrolled
in Organizing For Democracy. She is
studying feminist development studies.
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Organiiation Meeting
5p.m. Monday
Find out what it means to be a member
of the student group CPJ. Practice
consensus-based decision making.
Content Meeting
5:30 p.m. Monday
Help decide what should be in the
next issue of the CP J.
Paper CritiQue
4p.m. Thursday
Comment on that day's paper. Air
comments, concems, questions, etc.
If something in the CPJ bothers you,
. thi is the meeting for you!
Friday Forum
3p.m. Friday
Put your values to the test!
Discuss ethics,'journalism law
and conflict resolution,
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session: the 1st through the 10th Thursday of Fall Quarter and the 2nd
through the 10th Thursday of Winter and Spring Quarters.
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Persons in need of more than one copy should contact the CP J business
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Sports coordinator ........................:..........................Meredith Lane'
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This column is reserved especially for the underrepresented who want a consistent "message board" or medium to communicate and express to the Evergreen community. The guidelines for the Voices of Color column are as follows:
1) Must be a student of color.
2) The submission can be around but no more than 800 words per person per issue (we can use more installments for
longer submissions, or print two at once if they 're shorter).
3} The submission must specifically state that this is for" Voices of Color. " Remember, students of any ethnicity have
a voice in any section of the paper.
4} The deadline for submitting anything to this column is Friday at 3 p. m.
5) The submission MUST include a name, phone number and email where you can be reached (for issues of accountability) and MUST meet all other guidelines of the current submission guide.
I strongly encourage those ofyou who are new to Evergreen and the surrounding community to write a short narrative
ofyour experiences! Voices of Color would be a great place to start introducing yourself to Evergreen while at the same
time contributing to the community,
-Renata Rollins
Editor-in-chief
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A Night to
What I didn't know, I didn't know
Rel11el11ber
A look into Japanese carpentry
Photos and article by Ron Shea
There are three kinds of knowledge. First, there is the knowledge you know you
know. People become Jeopardy champions with this type of knowledge, and we take
pride in the quantity of it we possess. The second knowledge type is the know ledge
you know you don' t know. We can make a list of the various categories of this type of
knowledge and seek the assistance of Evergreen faculty to fill the hollow between our
ears. The third type of knowledge is the knowledge you don't know you don't know.
This knowlf!dge is the most eye-opening know ledge we can obtain.
As a fifty-two-year-old fu ll-t ime Evergreen student, I am amazed on a daily basi s
at the quantity of the third level of knowledge available to me. I first became aware of
this in a writing class, when the term vegan was used. I was clueless, and being a newly
enthralled st udent, I asked what the term meant. I became very aware of the apparent
sheltered lifestyl e I had been living, based on the majority of the class's response. This
was not a new term to many of them .
As I continue my trek through formali zed ed ucation, I have had many revelations
of third level know ledge. Reccntly,
Daryl Morgan, Evergreen's resident
woodworking guru, led an eye-opening trip to visit the con struction site
of a 1600-sq uare- foot home being
built us in g traditional Japanese
techniques . For those not hav in g
been exposed to Daryl's classes, he
validates ye llin g at the hard of hearing, is wiser than an owl, and is as
sk illed with wood as a brain surgeon
is with a sca lpel. But most o r all, he
possesses the abilit y to transfcr hi s
lalent to h: S student s.
As wc drove up to the construc- A I fiOOsquare./i)(JI Traditional Japanese
tion si te, a large tarp covered Ihe architectllral hOl1le FOII/l'
entire co nstru cti o n zo ne. T he y
simpl y do not sell that large ofa tarp at 1I0mc Depot. It was hu go:. The first question in
my mind was, who cl imbed the trecs to hang the tarp') Ncst ledllnder the tarp was the
framcd structure. We md with Dale Brothel10n oft he Takllllli Com pany and his apprcnti ce, Yann Giguere. The Takullli Compan y spec ia lizes ill authcnlic traditional Japanesc
Arch itec tural Woodworking, wh ich is known for its elegant and time less beauty. Less
known is what makes up Ihe most i Illponanl ingredienl 10 Japanese arc hi tect ure . That
is the traditi on of using hi ghl y r..: fincd , spec ial ized woodwo rking methods to construct
the post and beam structures.
Th is way of buildin g is very diffc rent fro III modern Western construct ion and is what
defines a building as ·'Japan ese." So lid wood pieces of large dimension, often including natural round posts or log beams, are precut in a workshop and carefu lly detailed
with intricate joinery. Flat surfaces are shaved sati n-smooth with hand planes, causing
the finished wood grain to spring to life and allowing it to age to a rich natural patina.
Dale says, "The secret is to make the wood seem to flow ii-mn each other. .. a clean and
quiet flow." Daryl elaborated with , "Not to be
drawn to anyone th ing, but experience the total
structure as one."
Dale is considered a Diaku, or carpenter. He
has spent a total of twenty-five years mastering
his cra ft , including a six-year apprenticeship with
Mr. Imai of Kyoto, a Sukiyadiaku, or teahouse
carpenter, and two years in Nagano specializing
in traditional intricate joinely. Dale said, "The
reason I do thi s is I love the hand work ." Daryl
himsclf did over four years of apprenticeship
with one of the lasl of the trad itiona lly trained
master carpenters. Mr. Kobayashi in the Konia
Prov ince. as a Miyadiakll - a tcmpl e or shrine
carpenl cr. Dary l sai d. "1 spec iali zed in anictllatin g Join ts. whi ch had to give and movc but
rema in solid , tru t'turally.'·
Handwork i~ exactly what Ileamed in Daryl's
Beginnin g and Intermediate Wuodworking
Fro m Ie/i. Dale Brotherton. Dan'l classes . Duryl says, "Th ere are too ls of the
Mo rgan and l'anJ1 Giguere admiring mind ."These are Ih e layout tools : the Sashigane,
or J" panese square, the SUll1itsobo, or inkpot
t/'li Ccra/isl/1anship.
30.30 cm - 11.930 inches. These are divided into ten units called Sun, which are 3.03
cm - 1.193 inches. These are divided into ten units called Bu, with each unit being
3.03 mm - 0.119 inches. "Everything in Japanese carpentry is based on centerline
references," says Daryl. "That way you could have a curved shaped piece of wood and
~
still have all of your measurements referenced
"",
correctly," Morgan continues.
Centerline reference marks can be seen on
the floor joists of this quality custom home.
You can even see dovetail joinery used to combine lengths of lumber. Port Orford cedar and
Alaskan Yellow cedar dominate the construction, with white oak pins wedging the keyedthrough tenons tightly against the accepting
mortise. Even the archways have a dovetail
end fitting to ensure a quality fit. This is quality
construction technique, and you do not have to
be a wood worker to ap'preciate the ski lls Dale
and Yann are using. It's like comparing standard
television to high-definition television.
Morgan is passing these same joinery lechniques on to his students . Using mortise and
tenon joinery in his beginning class and more
Dale Brotherton using a Sahigane to complex joinery in the intermediate class is a
verify measurement.
rewarding
.
expenence.
An advanced class wou ld be the logical progression;
however, it has not been offered 10 Ihe students for reasons unknown. Seems to me Ihat if the students desire
10 achieve the Master skill leve l, it should be made
available to them . However, now Daryl is passing on
his extensive Japanese Miyadiaku skills by offering
the students at Evergreen an opportunity to participate in the construction ofa traditional Torii Gate. He
will be pass ing on the traditional construction techniques to those sludents participating in the project,
beginning in
winter quarter. Morgan's
classes, along Dovetail archway joint.
with his Tools
of the Trades class, give students the abi lity to
not only apply traditional woodworking sk ills to
their projects, but build an English bow saw and
hand plane to complete their future projects . The
total Morgan experience truly prepares people to
create functiona l works of art using the medium
of wood. Every time Daryl has lectured or demonstrated his ski lis, I have leamed another piece
of the third level of knowledge . Something new
that I didn't know, I didn't know!
Centerline and Dovetailfloor jois /.
/
Ron Shea is a continuing student enrolled in
Personal Lile Experience (PLE). He is working toward double degrees at the end 0/
this yem:
•. ••_. , •...1. _.'- ... ' .
by Brian Flewell
'.
)
Last Wednesday, the clouds parted
from a week ofrain for Olympia residents
to view the last total lunar eclipse until
2007. The first lunar eclipse of the yea r,
last March, saw only two people out at the
soccer fields to watch it. This month that
number grew greatly. As the moon moved
inta the shadow of the Earth, several dozen
people went out to t he soccer field in front
of the HCC to watch . As the moon moved
into totality, dozens of people clapped and
howled and beat drums. It certainly was
an interesting experience.
For thousands of years, Native A l11ericans saw the moon as a sacred object, and
the unpredictability oflunar eclipses often
caught the Native Americans off guard.
T hey thought that a celest ial snake was
eating the moon and that if they didn't try
to drive it off, the moon wo uld be devoured
and never return. Villagers believed that
as the snake took the moon into its mouth,
the moon was being covered in blood as it
s lowly turned red . Entire vill ages wou ld
gather together, cl ap, howl , and beat drums
in an attempt to drive the evi l spirits away
and have the moon return to its former
glory. It was bel ieved that because of their
This photo was taken by Bill Flewell
during last Wedn esday 's lunar eclipse.
The Earth's shadow is cur ved across th e
moon's SUI/ace, proofpositive that the
Earth is a sphere.
actions, the snake was always driven ofr.
In 2004, we know that a celestial
snake isn't eati ng the moon ; rather, it 's
simpl y sp inn ing aro und our globe and
passing through the Earth's shadow. Yet
still we yell and howl and beat drum s. It
seems some of us haven't come too far
in thousands of years of development. I
hope that all of you that went out to howl
at the moon will sti ll go out and look to the
st.ars .the next time the skies clear. Happy
vIewIng.
6 PM.
Brian Flewell is a senior enrolled in
Lights, Camera, Elect ion! and Politics and
the Med ia. He is studying cinematography
and videography.
november 4, 2004
TESC offi-
Democracy in the Americas: A brief look cer shoots
at some elected leaders south of the border injured deer
by Ben Rosas
On Sund ay, October 31, el ect ions
were held in Bra zil , Chi le, Uruguay, and
Venez uela. Presidenti al candidate Tabare
Va zquez became Uruguay's fir st left- wi ng
leuder. With slightly over 50% ort he popular vote, Va zquez's "Broad Front" coalilion party successful ly ended 170 yea rs of
two-pa rt y rule in Uruguay.
Brazil's president, Luiz Inacio Lu la de
Silva, elected in 2002 by a strong majority,
saw his Workers' Party lose leadership in
three major ci ties in the municipal election.
Chile ended the 17-year rule of
military d ictator Augusto Pinochet, who
took power after the September II , 1973
coup agai nst Salvador A lIende 's social ist
government.
Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan president,
ha s faced fierce opposit ion to his left
leaning polici es and has prevailed in his
leadership despite attempts to remove him
~~JET"
from office. He was elected by a landslide Saca promotes pro- free market policies.
in 1998 and continues to receive slrong
Guatem ala ended a bloody 36 -yea r
support from the nation's poor. His eco- civil war in 1996. President Osca r Berger,
nomic policies in particular have mobi - backed by the agriculture and banking
li zed a wealthy elite agai nst him . A 2002 el ile, won the 2003 presid ency. Berger is
coup removed hi m frolll office, but he was chall enged to dea l wit h Ge neral Monlt ,
reslored to power 48 hours later when the the country 's former mil itary ruler. Monlt
post-coup gove rnment co ll apsed as a races ge nocide charges and gave up his
res ult of massive mobili zation of Chavez seat in congress thi s year.
loya li sts. (See the documentary titl ed Th e
I n November 2002, former coup leader
Revolution Will No t Be Televised.)
Lucio Guitarrez won the pre s idential
Argentin a, still recovering from the election in Ecuador supported by t he
economic collapse of 2001, in May 2003 impoverished indigenous community. His
elected Nestor Kirchne r, whose riva l, position fuels controversy; he is supported
forme r pre s ident Carlos Me nem, quit by a small Marxist party, radical Indian
the race . Mr. Kirchner has a left-w ing gro ups, and left ist unions. For the second
background and even spent a short time time, hi s growing opposition is trying to
as a politica l pri soner dur ing the 1976-83 impeach him or force his resignation. This
military dictatorship.
press ure has prompted Mr. Guitarrez to
I n May 2004, former sports an nouncer adopt more moderatc policies.
Tony Saca won a five-yea r term as the
President ofEI Sa lvador. Saca is the leader
Ben Rosas is a sophomore enrolled
of the right-wing Arena party. His victory in all individual contract called Te lling
ea rlier thi s year has been attributed to fear Storie s with Media. He is st udying
tactics and hi s party's control over med ia. journalism and global issues.
by Renata Rollins
Las t Monday, October 25, TESC
O ffi cer Tammi Stretch shot an inj ured
male deer.
A n I ntercity Transit bus driver noticed
the dee r on Everg reen Parkway and made
a call to Everg reen Pol ice Services.
Th e deer had been hit by a car, and his
hind legs were broken and mangled.
"You never want to respond to that
ki nd of call," St retch sa id .
She said the deer was panicking when
she approached him , so she missed with
her first two shots, wh ich went into the
ground. Finally she was able to kill him
with two more shots.
Evergreen Faci Iities removed the
deer's carcass shortly afterward.
Renata Rollins is a senior studying
civic journalism through an internship
at the CPJ. She is the editor-in-chie/
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,I{ And finally, he says, "There are tools for
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files for sharpening saw teeth .
Japanese measurement units are shown
on the Sashigane square and marked in
Shaku units. A Shaku is approximately a
sixtecnth of an inch less than one foot , or
Photo by Eva Wong
Educator Carlos Corles addressed over 800 Greeners last Wednesday, as well as
those who tuned in/rom TESC's Tacoma campus and on an internet simulcast. The
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letters and opinions
self-op
by Mike Moren
Currently,
there is a strong
trcnd to ward
privati zation
in institutional
food service,
as wel l as in
cdu ca ti o n and
o the r rublie
serv ic es and
infras tructu re, Priva te in terests w(l nt to
own ~ and thereby con trol -ou r mean s
oj" eat ing. lea rning. and tr;Jvcling fro til
place to place, ClCI inli nitum , In mainstream
dial og uc, vcr: le\\ vo ices are givcn proll1i ncnce that would even dare to imply that
thi s trend is anyth ing but be ncfici al fo r
cve ryo ne invo /\'ed, Th ere are g row in g
nu mbel's of people . though . who bel ievc
that poli cics madc in the interests of big
bus iness ' profit s arc bad for the maj ority o f people whom the poli cies directly
affe ct.
By taking the mainstream, convenien t
path of contracting out to large corporation s, we lose control oVe r where our
money goes, our community relationships, and our range of choices. Money
spent on corporat e products leave;, our
loca l community and adds to far-away concentrations of wealth . Local communit y
flounders as the rower to make changes
becomes more and more concentrated in
the hands of distant CEOs, As corporat ions
drive out the small loca l competition, our
choices as cons umers become increasin g ly fewer and more homogenou s,
Over the summer, one of the largest
multinationa l food scrvice companies,
A ramark, took over Evergreen's food service, Aramark, Iike our last food service
provider, Bon Appeti tlCo mpass Group, is
heav il y involved in the pri son-industrial
complex and the military, and is anti-labor.
with
Evergreen's
food
As of 2000, Aramark claimed to service ment, hopefully a growing one, whose
over 95,000 prisoners in 150 correctional goal it is to rid our cam pus of Aramark
institutions and over one million students or any other l1lultinational corporation the
in over 330 U.S, School districts. Aramark adl1linistration decides to impose on us,
has been found guilty man y times in fed- and replace the corporate model with one
eral labor court of violating labor law, that is more sustainable and communityincluding not allowing workers to union- friendly, whose va lues and goa ls will be in
ize, not payin g worke rs overtimc, and better alignment with ours as a comm unity,
racial di scriminati on,
Having done preliminary research into
At the Un iversity ofN elV Orlcans uni on vario us alternative poss ibiliti cs, a group of
org(ln izing drive, Aramark claimed that us have dec ided that we should push for
unions arc "illegi timatc labor orga ni za- the option o f an in-house, college-run food
ti ons" <lIld rc rused to mect either with union servi ce operation, The co llege wou ld be
o ffi cials or thc National Labo r Rel ati ons responsibl e for hiring, and all the workers
Boa rd (NL RI1 ), At th e Uni vc rs ity or wo uld then be el1lployees of Was hington
Roch.:s ter. so me stud ent s wo rk cd fo r State, The operati on could conceivably be
alm os t t\\ 0 1110 nth s without rece iving a run by a board made LIp of wo rk ers, stupayc hec k. Afi er Aram ark ton k over thc d e lll ~, fac ult y, etc., or it co ul d be l1l anaged
caJ'cteria 1'01' th l! Detro it Amerit ec h office. more traditionall y.
l1lan) Af'ri ca n-Amcrical~ women had thci r
There arc seve ral compe lling reason s
sick days. vacationtimc. and other be n efi ~s for go ing in-house, rath er than other postaken away and their wages slashed.
sibiliti es, It would most likely be better for
In all. th ere Iwve be en at lea st 180 the cu t;rent el1lp loyees of Aramark , l1l any
charges of violations by Aral1lark rel at- of' whom are reluctant for yet another
ing to unfa ir labor practices, Aramark is shaky transition , and understandably so:
also supportive of many other cOl1lpani es Evergreen has gone through severa l transith'lt are involved in hum an ri ghts and tions with various companies in the past
en vironmental abuses, such as Taco Bell, few years. Possibilities involving l1lultipl e
Wal-Mart, and Coca-Cola.
small local businesses would make it di fIn Fall 2003, management orour large ly fiCLdt for workers to stay on in similar or
student-run cooperative, "t he Corner," was better positi ons, or to unionize, As state
taken ove r by Bon Appetit, so we no longer employees, food workers would be paid
ha ve any choice but to patronize Aral1lark higher wages, and there is the potential
if we want to buy food at school, especially for a stronger union, Stabi lity is a real and
if we are among the first-year stud ents pressing concern for the workers, and thi s
required to buy food here duc to a man- needs to be respected in our plans.
datory mcal plan and the kitchens being
Another good reason for going self-op
ripped out of our dorl1l s, Students who is that it would be extremely difficult for
have been here for several years remem- the college to contract out again, making us
ber the student-operated food serv ice in the much less vulnerable to corporate design,
HCC and wonder what happened .
The college, and hopefully the students as
Th is is an exa mple of' corporatio ns well , would have more control over how
co ntrolling o ur live s- right here at the food servi ce wou ld be run, According
Evergreen, where things are supposed to to the Food Service Di sa ppearing Task
be different.
Force (DTF) recommendations from 200 I,
So. I have bccome involved in a move- such an operation would be most likely to
Student union: An opportunity for real autonomy
by Caroline White
wou ld
like to suggest
a propo s ed
so luti on to
the iss ues on
thi s cam r us,
A II
these
Iss ue s that
kl'er comin g
.......
up in the CP.I
are studetit issu.:s , II' you r.:ad th e C PJ
regularl y, you 'w seen num erous arti cles
and opi nions on Housing, o ur corporate
food se rvice, aware ne ss of sexuality,
smoking, and even dem ocracy, These are
student iss ues, You should be abl e to help
craft the decision s that govern your lives
here at school. I would like to throw out
the radical concept that the time you spend
at Evergreen is your time, and that while
yo u are here you should be able to greatl y
influence how ihis college is run ,
I wish this idea weren 't so radical. One
thing is certain: change, Why is our soc iety
so resi stant to change? Or is it the establishment that is resistant to change? What
is it about society and school that make~
people believe it is okay to sit back and let
things happen?
Students will complain about things
we don't lik e, but where is the action?
Is it because students do not be lieve we
ca n influence the establishment and the
establ ishcd polic ies? Everything is done
for us and we aren 't rea lly invited to join
in . Is that a good excuse not to unify ourselves and assert our voices? Are we so
wretchedly individualistic that we cannot
come together for the simple purpose of
november 4, 2004
saying we are here and we want certa in th at regulates and control s it s students,
things? t We are the students whO/lind thi s Your freedom is under attack, Freshmen
institution, If our input were recogni zed. will" be required to live on campus, like
we would have a better college, In viting at mo st sta te univers ities. In my first
stude nts to sit on DTFs (Disappearing Task year on campus, 200 I, fr es hmen were
Forces) and Sta nd ing Committees is far NOT required to buy meal plans, We had
from an adequate balance of student and kitchens,
ad m in istrative power.
I am oflcring you the concept ofa "stuSt ude nt s need 10 be involved in the dent uni on." The student union campa ign
ollt come 01' dccis ions, not just thc dec i- group meets on Mondays at 3 p,m. in CAB
s ion -m a kinl!. p rocess, Stu de nts nee d 320 on the couches, We are proposing to
to have th e fre ed om to be in charge 01' the students a mode l in which any student
ca mpu s servic es, S&A g roups al'e not could represent the students of Evergreen
e nou gh, Student s need to hav e oth er (in a council position) and work on issues
slpa ces on campu s th at are student-run that concern or annoy us, such as Housing.
and sliIdel1l -col1ll'o/fed out side the third You would investigate how the college or
floor of th e CAB. Look at campus hous- area of concern works, how deci sions are
ing: You may have noted in Sebastian's current ly made and how yo u can influence
article ("Evergreen deserves better food the policies, or call for student support to
serv ice, " CP J, October 28) that the HCC change existing policies that are not supused to have a student-run food service ported by the student body. We also have
that sold good cheap food, I mean warm, elected positions for official legal and
yummy food food , This was done in the unifying reasons. Our student union is not
best interests of students. (Oh, and it just official. We will ask the students to vote on
happe ned to be student-run. Imagine that.) whether or not we want the student union
As long as we have off-campus businesses campaign group's proposed model. If the
running our food service, it's going to be students support this model, we can get to
for profit, not for student benefit. I cou ld work on the issues. We also plan to get the
say a lot about Housing in this regard too, union officially recognized by the college,
but I'll leave that up to your wild 'n' free the Board of Trustees, and the Governor of
Greener imaginations,
the State. This will help make Evergreen a
A II these issues on campus are about school for the students instead of another
student control, student power, We need institution controlled by state employees
to claim our domain . If we don't stand and corporations, Evergreen is ours if we
up and unify our voices, the college will wi II only ri se up and embrace it.
continue to drift into this indeed trendy
habit of creating more and more and more .Carolin e While is a senior enfolled in
regulations and restrictions for future Organizing/or Democracy, and Ballet. She
Greeners. Evergreen, once something of lived on campus jor three years and can be
a utopian state school dream, will become contacted at whicar22@evergreen.edu.
another drag of a college : an institution
service
bring in revenue for the college, although
it would require large startup costs and
at least 'a year of planning in order to
adequately prepare for such a transition.
It would be a long and complicated process, but I believe it is the best long-term
so lution to the problem of food service
here, The current contract with Aramark
is for the next five years, but either the
ad mini strati on or Aramark can cancel
with 90 days' notice, We should follow
the 200 I DTF 's recom mendation of staying with corporate food service for the
next year, whil c planning a trans iti on to
sustainabl e and acco unt able sc if-op erated
food servic ,
The self-op mode l for rood service
could a lso be made compatib le w ith
small e r form s o f' diver sifi ca tion, such
as s m~11 contracts with loca l bus inesses
or stud ent-run co-ops. Th ere would be
more room for trying out positi ve innovations, such as more extens ive work with
Evergreen's organic farm . It co uld also
include opportunities for students to learn
about the restaurant business through individual lea rning contracts, or possibly even
a new academic program in sustainabl e
business practices with direct hand s-on
experience. Eve rgreen, and the range of
opportunities in hi gher education, c,ou ld
benefit a lot by offering such a program,
Many colleges and universities around
the country, as wel l as in Canada and other
countries, have small student-run stores,
cafes, coffeehouses or restaurants. Many
are run collectively and offer an invaluable reso urce to their communities, both in
term s of services they offer and as places
for students to learn about running a business through practica l experience, Up until
very recently, Evergreen Jla~ h e Corner.
Asmentiuned
earlier, management of the Corner was
taken out of student control at the request
of the administration, The Corner had
about a 20-year hi story on campus, and at
times it was quite successful. At the time
it was taken over, thoug h, they had apparently been losing money. They threw out
the baby with the bath water.
The administration will almost certainly
be wary about all ow ing students to start
so mething similar aga in , but with some
persistence, organization, and enthusiasm,
they might come around, There are many
successful models out there, as well as tlte
collective experience of ex-Corner workers, to be tak en into account, Regardl ess of
what else happens, I believe Evergreen is
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The journalist has the power and
esponsibility to expose the unjust, support what's right, and inforn~ the people.
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~oordinators, copy editors, managing ediors, photographers, advertisers, and most
mportantly, writers. What makes the CP J
o unique is that every student of The
~vergreen State College is a staff writer.
IWith a writing staff of roughly 4000, our
paper has great, though unrealized, potenial. I encourage every student to contrib~te to the CP J Letters and Opinions page.
/Whether you're a seasoned journalist or
~ timid first-timer, I am avai lable to help.
~ust bring your work to the CPJ (CAB 316)
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"Warning: This package 'and its contents are not appropriate ... "
by Sam Goldsmith
I want to
talk abo ut personal responsibility.
A nyone in
the CAB la st
week s urel y
noticed the
free , brightly
J.
co lor ed
"Campu s
Trial Paks" at the entrance to the bookstore. Many stud ents glad ly accepted the
offering of free products and coupons: The
bookstore distributed 1200 units (700 for
her, 500 for him) into the hands and subconsciouses of the student body.
Inside the SpongeBob SquarePants box,
Greeners found a variety of goodies like
Tampax "Pearl" tampons, Vic's DayQuil
and NyQuil, Secret antipers piran t!
deodoran t, ra mcn noodle s, a Trojan
condom . a fre e trial of America Online,
plastic wrapping, etc,
I was somewhat shocked to find this
blatant advertisement on our campus, The
repOt1er in me surfaced. Where did these
boxes come from ? How did they get here?
I grabbed a Pac and began my investigation, , ,
The corporation l'es ponsible fo r th e
Pac s is 360 Youth , a "direct mark eting a nd marketing services compan y
targe ting Gcnc ra tio n Y,., " Si mpl y put,
prod uct manufacturers pay 360 Youth to
di stribute s<lmpks to eager Gen-Y coeds,
Why Y? We ' re lJuite the market: http:
1360youth .com boa sts, .• 15,3 mi ll ion
students spend $200 billion eac h year and
have an average of II hours of free time
each day. Of these, 91 % own a com puter,
53% have off-campus jobs, and 22% have
on-campus jobs; they tend to be savvy,
trend-conscious, and independent, "
Those are !mpressive statistics, but
where do they come from ? How does
a corporation know so much abo ut it s
target market? The biannual "360 College
Outlook Explorer Study," that 's how. The
"most comprehensive study of college students on the market today" is pure gold
to profit-hungry corporations, It covers
topi cs like " income, spending behavior,
recreatio nal activities , Internet habits, education financin g and technology usage,"
Supplemental topics include "power of
appearance, eat ing habits, September II,
health and beauty, and minority teens.'"
360 Youth se lls the report to an extens ive clientele, a virtua l "who's who"
of notorious multi-national s including
Nike, MTV, Procter and Gamble, Target,
Phillip Morri s, Di sney, Ford, General
Motors, Starbucks, Twentieth Century
Fox, Lockheed Mart in Corp " , The li st
goes on and on.
My stomach began to tUI'll. As a 20year-old male co ll ege student in th e
United States, I am a "target," ;] stati stic ,
a dollar sign, But thi s is not news to me, I
know abo ut consumer culture, the regime
of capi ta Iism and the need to amass more
and more wealth without end, I know the
hea lth and beauty products found in the
Pac are made by Proctor and Gamble, a
corporation respon sible for the he inous
torture of millions of animal s and a majo r
contributor to our polluted air and water.
I see th e perpetuation of a destructive
se lf-image in our culture that leads youth
to beli eve acne makes us undesirable and
unsexy, and that menstruation is gross and
unnatural and should be kept "discrete."
(One stud ent left a not e at the di sp lay
table warning women of the "residue"
Pearl tampons leave behind, It turns out
the bleach in Tampax tampons contains the
known carcinogen Dioxin, an ingredient in
Monsanto 's infam ous Agent Orange,)
I know Sp ongeBoh SquarePants is
amon g Viacom 's cas h cows, the sa me
medi a conglomeratc behind Dan Rather
of CBS and Carso n Dai ly of MTV, plus a
participant in o ur country's reprehensible
corporate news,
What surpri sed and upset me were not
th e Pacs them se lves, but that corporate
America has managed to permeate all
aspects of our lives, even TESC. But how
did they pop the bubble of our radical
ca mpus?
I to ok my qu estion s to bookstore
manager Pat Miller. I entered hi s office
expect ing the worst. something shady like
financial compensation for di stribution of
Trial Pacs, but I was wrong
"It 's a gift to the student s," Pat
exp lained. He watches wh il e students
pour hundreds of dollars on books and
supp lies each quarter and wants to offer
something in return, I need to make thi s
rea ll y c lea r: Pat is benevo lent in his
intentions, Ne ither he nor the ' b-O'okstore
rece ivcs an y compensation for di stributi on
of the Pacs , Let me expla in : The National
Assoc iation of Col lege Stores (NACS)
hosts a yearly co nference, ConText, for
co llege retailers. At the conference 360
Youth representatives give bookstores as
many Trial Pacs as they' ll tak e at no cost
other than shipping,
Now, back to my point: personal
responsibility. I didn't write thi s article to
shame anyone, to make anyone feel gui lty
or defensive. I simpl y want to encourage
everyone to look deep ly into their own
actio ns on a dai Iy basi s. We mu st ask
questions and look for the true cost s of
what goes on aro und us. This is how it
plays out for me : I am not part of a target
market for corporations; I think advertising is out of control ; I find animal testing
completely unethical ; polluti on is a se rious
probl em that's fallin g on the shoulders of
Generation Y, and corporations have no
right to manipulate our emotions to boost
sales.
I know I' m not alone in my views, so
let's take some respons ibility. As a student
body let's graciously say, " no, thank you"
to Pat Miller and the bookstore for the
Pacs. Our campus cannot stop corporate
America, but we can choose not to condone their actions by not participating in
consumption.
To those who agree with my analysis:
Please let me know through an email
(go lsa m2 1@ evergreen,edu). Include
yo ur na me , academic statu s, and the
phrase, "No, thank you." If a plurality
of students responds, I will send a "No,
thank you" card to the bookstore. Come
on, Evergreen. Let 's stand up against what
we know is wrong,
Sam Coldsmi th is a seni()r enrolled in
America in the 20lh Cel11wy,
The Curmudgeon: I got set up by a cult!
by host 1.Z. Knight (she sounds like one ous sc ienti sts expounding on actua l real the real expert?
So it seems I was the victim of a masof the Wu Tang Clan or something), who scicntific subjects, For example, one of
In
the looks Iike the crazy aunt that wants to take the "experts," Mr. Di spenza, is actually sive con. Okay. They got me . I admit
of you away with her but who apparently has 'a chiropractor, parroting excerpts from it. But just so you know, if you see this
s prIng
2003 ,
I a huge and loyal cult following , How huge the sy mposia that come straight from the film, you'll be giving money to a bunch
of phony lunatics pushing their horribly
teachings of Ramtha .
received a call and loyal I had no idea. .
This was one hell of a snow job, to wayward, self-aggrandizing ideology for
from a group
So the film was shown on campus and
of fill11mak- was well received and played to a large say the least. The' fi lm juxtaposes all the cash, I hate when that happens.
Lee's New Rule of the Week: Call
ers wanting" to audience (consisting primari ly of older phy s ics stuff with fictional sequences
show a mod- men and women, most Iikel y the fi Im ;s involving Marlee Matlin as a disafTected things what they are! At some point in my
erate ly rough financiers), There was just one thing I photographer wandering through her life li fe, math became known as "Quantitative
cut of their wasn 't made aware of until recently, when wondering what it all means. Episodes Reasoning." Believe it or not, we ' re so
new qua s t- the fi 1m opened in theaters nationwide: of her se lf-examinat ion, which are laced right-brained around here, we can 't even
docu mentary, What The @ #$% Do We What The @ #$% Do We Know ? is a hoax, with silliness, phys ical humor and zany honestly call by its simple, direct , proper
Know? on cam pus. I was and am sti II the The whole thing is actually an infomercial animation. interming le with the interviews name a system that ex ists to make our li ves
sole coordinator of the Mindscreen Film for the Ramtha School of Enl ightenment, to make the film palatable to mainstream simp ler, like math, Now it 's obviously PC
Group at Evergreen, which shows weekly the highly expensive, hi ghl y excl usive, audi ences, To be more acc urate, the funny bullshit, but not on ly that, it doesn 't even
free films in Lecture Hall I. These film- ultra-secret indoctrination center located Marlee Mati in stuff makes you think less identify what's mea nt because it's buried
abo ut the ideas in the film and the fact under jargon. Call it what it is ! It doesn 't
makers had been taking their film around right here in Washington Sta te,
Everything was a hoax, The filmm akers that they cannot be understood by ratio- qualify as coffee if it contains crushed
to different colleges and using them as test
audiences. They said that they needed my and the producers who set things up with nal people who aren't mindless Ramtha ice, whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles
and melted caramel. It's just a milkshake,
help to secure permi ssion and a space and me (and essentia lly set me up) and paid zombies,
But why pose as experts? Why not just They cheated yo u, by not calling it what it
time in which to show the film , and that me generously, the "experts" in the fi lm
they would pay me to help them advert ise. and everyone associated with the prod uc- l11ake a straight-out Ral11tha documentary? is, I may have to lie to women from time
They were white-collar adults and acted tion of the fi lm were real ly followers of Probably because nobody \'>'ould see that to time to get myse lf a date but I would
ve ry professional about it, But we ' ll get Ramtha and her med ium , who I be li eve is in million years, But that confuses l11e, Do never do something like claim my penis
also a phony, This is not a documentary; the Ramtha peop le want to pass Ral11tha was actual ly a glass of orange juice.
back to them .
The film features a number of talking it is a piece of propaganda, and the three teachings ofras real sc ience, proselytizing
heads (who revea l themselves as fru it- fi Immakers- William Arntz, Betsy Chasse whoever sees the fi 1m? Or do they del iber- Lee Kern'ains is a senior enrolled in
cakes with their heads in the clouds) who and Mark Vicente, if those are their real ately want their ringer expe rts to mi slead Forensics and Mysterv Writing, He is
the audience and paint KnightlRamtha as studying film ,
postulate and hypothesize on the nature names- are all Ramthaheads,
Of course, these are consummate snowof life, matter and the universe. They say
that nothing reall y exists as we know it and ball artists who took me and many others in,
Food Service Continued.""
that our consciousness may be merely a and I was unaware that I was being bested
ings: Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m" S&A Area,
fa brication ,j ustlike time, Of course, even by them. I was taken in by their appearStory continued from page 6
CAB 320. E-mai l me with your opinion
educated audience members will not be ance and manner, their distingui shed work
(mike@riseup.net).
E-mail the adminis'ab le to make any of this out because the ethic, and most importantly, their money. ripe for a(nother) student-run cooperative,
tration
,
Write
a
letter
to the CP], Come to
experts featured in the film don 't really which was good. These people have more so that we ca n, at the ve ry least, have our
to help organi ze so
student
union
meetings
make what they're say ing very clear. Like mon eya nd clout than I thought a bunch of own alternative place on campus,
that
students
can
have
an
oflicia l in flu ence
We can make this happen! it 's our coltypical experts on the subjects of quantum ideological lunati cs who rob and prey on
at Evergreen. Let your vo ice be heard. This
physics and metapl;ysics, they seem lost the ignorance of a sheepish population by lege, our community, and our food. Th is
is an important issue that affec ts us directly
in their own worlds, their heads in some filling their heads \'\lith phony answers to sho uld be our fo od service- it shoul d
as
students, that affects our local commukind of intangible clouds that appa rently unanswerable questions could ever have. be unique, and we should be ab le to be
nity,
and that has the potential to contribute
There 's no accurate science in this proud of it. Help take back our power to
don 't ex is!.
to
the
larger movcment for social justice
The person who makes the most sense film. Many real physicists and professors make decisions about how our money is
and
peace.
Let's get moving,
in the film is Ramtha, the 35,000-year-old have already debunked the statements spent. Let 's not further contribute to the
Mike Moren is a senior enrolled in
spi rit sage from Atlantis who's channeled on causality and quantum physics made system of oppression that is corporate
Computability
by the "experts" posing as real meritori- globalization. Come to work group meet-
by Lee Kepraios
cooper point journal
november 4, 2004
8
arts & entertainment
Running \Nith the Dogs: Nina
Nastasia's firs~ album gets a \NeIldeserved reissue
l
cally. I'm in the shower, she says, 'Save
the water.' I can't be on best behavior."),
Nina Na sta sia-"Dogs" (Socia li st, sometimes mundane ("Sunday afternoon,
we'll drive for hours after church with
1999; reissued Touch & Go, 2004)
Nina Nastasia - Th e Blackened Air father"), and ultimately terminal ("S he
lies on her back, negotiating. She looks
(Touch & Go, 2002)
like disaster, there's no one to help her,
Nina Nastas ia's album artwork has no machine to keep her"). The song's piva tendency toward overstatement. The otal point comes when we hear a perfectly
covers of her releases heretofore in print awkward cbord introducing the mother, a
were literal illu strations of their respec- perfect di stillation of maternal concern:
tive titles: dark , bi Ilowing clouds (either "She looks around for me. Don't you know
of the portentous-thundersto rm or nearby- I'm always gonna be here? . .. I' m afraid
smoke-factory variety) obscure a golden of stormy, stormy weather." The metaphor
sky on The Blackened Air, and Run to of the storm as uncertain future is made
Ruin de pi c ts a r------------""....,.,. ~,......,..--,-... mor e poignant
s keletal do g in
when this bridge
mid-gallop. Conrep ea ts
it self
sider, then, what
after th e f in a l
she has chosen to
verse; mother and
dau g ht e r have
face the reissue of
her debut album: a
sw itch ed places ,
strik ing, high conthe daughter keeptrast photograph
ing vigil over her
of Nasta sia wit h
dy ing mother.
a male co mp anRev i e wion, a near-em pty
er s ha ve been
tumbler in both
reserved in their
her ha nd s. She
praise of "Dogs,"
look s hagga rd ,
unfairly comparwithdrawn , and
ing it in retrospect
pi ssed off, eyes
to The Blackened
sunken and lips pursed with wear, gaze Air and finding it lacking. This is a kind
fixed on the camera; he's in the middle of phenomenon that may one day be called
of a sent ence, most likely arguing with the Belle & Sebastian sy ndrome: Artist
her, and seems to not even be awa re of it s releases limit ed run of the ir first fullexistence. The word " DOGS" appea rs in length , which quickly goes out of print
large, bold capital letters over this pi cture, but amasses strong word-of- mouth praise.
and it's hard to tell if thi s is the name of Artist then releases a second album th at
ea rn s a surfei t of
the record or an
accusation of the
hosannas, and the
first album's repupeople depicted.
"' Dog s ,"
tat io n in c reases
thankf ull y, is
with th e ir aud ience.
Arti s t
not a co nfes sio nal break- up
fin a ll y release s
record , thoug h
tib e r-h yped fir s t
album to wider
it is defi nit e ly
b i 0 g r a p hi di s t ~!buti o n , and
ca l- a ut o as
peopl e preposterwell as of other
ously com pare an
outstand ing debut
people the writer
c lea rly knows
to an album they
well- and critimade after it.
cal of just about everyone involved. What
I, fortunately, suffe r from no s uch
makes these songs so outstanding is the handicap: My first introduction to Nasdepth she gives her characters; she never tasia was this summer, and I purchased
loses sympathy, even at her most trucu- the records in sequential order, finding
lent, and if she doesn't give anyone a free "Dogs" to be, Tigermilk-like , brilliant.
pass, it's also true that she never obscures Where the general consensus is correct
anyone's voice to make the charge stick . in rock-crit land is that the talents explored
Further, the album serves as meditations here are increased twenty-fold with The
on guilt, mortality, drug abuse and loss, Blackened Air. Made a full three years
and it's due to Nastasia's stunn ing acumen after "Dogs" was made on a shoestring
as a songwriter that it never lapses into budget, it sounds ten years stronger.
solipsism, or worse, self-pity.
This is due, in no small part, to factors
To accomplish this, she often adopts a external to Nastasia's songs: the imaginafirst-person narrative of these characters, tive, dynam ic arrangements of her backing
or switches viewpoint in the middle of band and the ace recording of Steve Albini.
songs. "Stormy Weather" is an excellent Clearly, the latter influences the former.
example of thi s: Over a subdued, modal You know the audible cave-in during PJ
guitar line, we catch glimpses ofa mother- Harvey 's (Albini-recorded) "Rid of Me,"
daughter relationship, sometimes fractiou s when the drums rouse from slumber? It's
(''' We're all on fire,' she says s.o hysteri- . all over thi s album : The band crashes
down as she croons the titular lyric, firmly
by Christopher Alexander
november 4, 2004
announcing her intentions in the opener
"Run, All You ..."; they roar to life after a
deft viola-solo augments a simple guitarvocal arrangement halfway through " In
the Graveyard"; "Ocean" wouldn't sound
out of place as a Godspeed You Black
Emperor! suite. Elsewhere, strings add an
ominous air to the parabolic "I Go With
Him" and march "This Is What It Is" into
dark territory (and onto every mix tape I
wi II make for the next year).
All of this wouldn't be halfas impressive ifNastasia didn't give her band such
utterly captivating material. The New
York City native abandons the personal
and urbane concerns of "Dogs" for evocative portraits of red-state anomie. "A ball
of fire that sits beside him /he beats the
earth , and Jesus loves him ," a defeated
hou sewife sing s on " I Go With Him" :
" My body 's young, and se rves to please
him /I serve him right, I go to bed." In "Oh,
My Stars," a young girI squeal s about hai I
falling from the sky and her father chasing
a peeping Tom down the road with equal
wide -eyed wonder. "Someone told me I
should visit you in the graveyard and pull
out all the weeds . But I'm still lonely and
I'm not ready. You scared me when you
hid behind the tree," she sings in " In the
Graveyard," and whether she's adopting
the voi ce of the bereaved or a ghost is
anyone's exhilaraiing guess.
Perhaps since her subject matter
inherently deals with , erm, wide open
spaces, she gives her band a lot more
room to fill. They achieve it in dramatic
fashion . The Blackened Air is a gorgeously
picturesque album . It is also so palpably
rustic that it merits a useful (though lazy)
comparison to Gillian WeIch: both artists
write autumnal, folk-tinged songs that
sound as if they were sealed, airtight,
sometime around 1918 (it helps that their
vocal ranges and timbre are very similar).
Welch , of course, is a much more accomplished performer, but what Nastasia lacks
in chops she makes up for in blind lyrical
talent.
As stunning a performance as it is,
however, it doesn't explain the incredulous
disappointment with "Dogs." Clearly, the
seeds of genius are all there: she convinc ingly throws hersel f into characters as
di sparate as a dog and the Grim Reaper,
and her band has a preternatural proclivity
towards unconventional instrumentation
in songs like " Underground" and "Stormy
Weather." Indeed, the only fault one can
find with "Dogs " is that, unlike its follower, it isn't one of the best albums of the
last five years. They are both enriching,
enduring pieces, essential for any collection of independent music.
Christopher Alexander is a senior
enrolled in Pat ience. He is studying
writing He is also a coordinator of the
Evergreen h?(oshoppe.
Last chance to see
the "Art and Social
Commentary" exhibit!
by!<ylin Larsson
Welcome to my Art News column!
I cons ide r it one of my many mi ss ions in
li fe to inform my community about the
wonderful , artistic and sometimes slightl y
hi dden event s happening on campus and
in our local communi ty. In this vein , I fee l
the need to alert yo u to a g reat ex hibit in
it s last week.
The "A rt and Socia l Commentary"
ex hibit offers timely and provocative
images to ponder during this tumultuous
time. I spoke with Ann Friedman, Director
of Evergreen Galleries, about this exhibit.
Some of this work is "overtly pol itical ,
some question[s] aspects of society not
always considered ' political,' and some
[is] meant to contribute to the dialogue in
other ways," A nn explained in her written
description of the exhibit.
The exhibit
includes an interesting balance of textbased work and visual images that reflect
how both are used to influence thought in
powerful ways in our culture. Dominating
the room with their presence, the words
"The Brutal ity Which I s America
(public) Raises Mad Dogs (enemy) That
Were Once Beautiful Children (care for
youth)" read acros~ three black and white
poster-sized prints by Hachivi Edgar Heap
of Birds. (Check out his website at http:
I/www.heapofbirds.com). The use of black
and white and the seeming simplicity of
the presentation powerfully bring into
focus that issues, political or otherwise,
are never simply black and white, no
matter how strong one's convi ctions are.
There is a pai nting in the exhibit by Roger
Shiomu ra that is not to be mi ssed, called
Fux and Bonsai. Sty led with a pop artl
co mic book influence in order to be easily
readable, th is work is part of a series that
questi ons stereotypes that are seen every
day. There is a blonde, Mari lyn Monroeremini sce nt fi gure holding a geisha mask
up to her fac e. The mask is a yellowish
fle sh color, explicit in its stereotype of
Japanese culture in ignoring that a geisha
mask would be painted white. Shiamura
positions people and objects that are not
normally seen together to bring these
contradictions in the cultural media
forward . .
The artworks in this exhibit "examine
contemporary life, [and] question the
people and institutions wielding power."
By creating these works, these widely
varied and talented artists "encourage
viewers to consider societal structures
and the human condition, and, perhaps,
to act toward improving those conditions."
Don't miss your last chance to this exhibit!
Take an art break and visit Gallery 4 on the
fourth floor ofthe library (by the relocated
Computer Center) through Saturday,
November 6 from 12 to 4 p.m .
Kylin Larsson is a senior enrolled in
Evolution of the Book.
cooper point journal
arts & entertainment
9.
How to ask your date for Ministry's new CD walks
a kiss!
through the valley of the
by Philipe Lonestar
shadow of Dubya
to be the case! What could be hotter than
the person(s) you are with looking you in
Have you ever felt confused about the eye and telling you how much they
reference to 9/1 I, intentional or not. What
how to initiate a first kiss? Were you ever adore you and want to ki ss you? Or asking by Cameron Lamar Anderson
is
intentional is where the last two songs
kissed when you didn' t want to be? Have you elMctly what will make you purr with
are placed , which are on Tracks 23 and 69.
Hous es of the Mole
you ever wished you could get more of delight? It may seem awkward at first, but
The "69" (which is also scrawled on the
Ministry
what makes you feel good in a relation- with practice, communication can actually
packaging, via the "6" and " 9" displayed
Sanctuary Records
ship or during sex? Unlike in the movies, increase your romance, especially when
next
to Tracks 6 and 9) is in reference to
when the lights go down and the bad you're sure you are giving the person
Psalm
69, the album that broke Ministry in
By the time you read this review, it
synthesized music starts, it's not always you're with just the kind of touch they
clear how the romance should continue desire . most. Doing something someone will have been two days since the most 1992, when Bush I ruled the White House.
on physically. In reality, people do not doesn't want could be a mood killer at important election of our lives took place. As for "23," this refers to Psalm 23, which
always know exactly what to do or what best, or it could be rape at worst. It is not Then again, by the time you read this, it Bush invokes in a sample right before the
the person they are with may want or need. safe to assume what kind of activity makes could still be taking place, knowing what first song, "No W," kicks into overdrive.
Finally, in what Jourgensen claims as
And unfortunately, that's about all it takes different people hot. People can and will happened the last time around . At any rate,
I figured that this week I should be topi- a total coincidence, the nine listed tracks
to really hurt another
surpr ise you!
cal
with my review. Thank AI Jourgensen all start With the letter " W." (I know that
Though it is
person. Unwanted,
(a.k.a.
Ministry) and his current group of "No W" begins with an "N," but humor me
non-consensual
true that commu cohorts
for putting together an album here; it's also a play on Jourgensen's previor non-negotiated
nication can onl y
whose
so
le aim is to
ous Bush-bashing hit from
increase fun , trust
physical contact can
Psalm 69, "NW.O.").
ruin a date or an
and res pect, there point out just how much
ran
ged
lunati
c
o
f
a
d
e
While all of the tracks
is a myth that m is entire relation ship. It
Bush
II
is.
(barring
the silent ones) are
can permanently hurt
com m u n icat ion
That
album
is
a
n
pretty
damn
good, there are
sotnl,!one's feelings
can be the cause of
69
-track
mashour-long,
three I'd like to highlight,
and trust. In fact, it .
sexual violence. The
. starting with the opening
truth is that sex ual terpiece known as Houses
cou ld be rape.
cut, "No W." It 's pretty
" How to Ask
viol e nce is about of the Mol e.
I
know
what
you're
~~~~~
~~~~
.
obviou s what Jourgensen
Your Dat e for a
power and control.
thinking:
"S
ixty-nine
means with that title, and
Ki ss," an interactive
If we a re hon cs t
tr
acks?
I
don'
t
think
I
the song literally hamm ers
with
o ur se lves
th eater work s hop
it home, opening with the
with the Peer Ed uca- Evergreen studen ts Sarah MacKenzie
when engag ing in a can li sten to that many !"
tion Program through and Evan Fortin demonstrate "How to
sex ual relationship, Do not fret, my pets, for most of them famili ar strain of" O Fortuna" from Carl
the Everg reen Office ask YO llr dale for a kiss. ..
we ca n tell if t hc are abo ut five second s' worth of silence Orff's "Carm ina Burana," then following
of Sexual Assault Prevention, ca n g ive person(s) we are with are consenting to strung in a row. Technically, there are up with a few sampl es of Dubya before
you great starting ideas and tips for hot what is happening. If the person is pushing reall y eleve n tracks, two of which are rocketing off in a speed meta l barrage .
T hen, just to light en things up (in
communication on dates. Watch a date yo u away, not say ing any thing or cryi ng. hidden from the listing on the ba ck of
the
record.
Mini
str y te rm s, a nyway), Jourge nse n
happen before yo ur very eyes, as two they probably are not consenting. If the
l3efore
I
begin
rcview
ing
the
music
se nds a message of hope in a bottle ca lled
love bird s from Evergreen try to have fun person is being sil ent orq ui et, or ifyoll are
and fri sk iness one night aft er a part y. You not sure what they want or don't want fo r itself, I just have to note the shee r geni us " World ,~' where he envisions a pl ace where
get to tell the students how you think they any reason, just ask' It is aga in st the law Jourgense n has when it comes to packag- eve ryo ne will stand up for their right to
should try talking about sex and intimacy! to be sex ual with someone agai nst their ing and how rekva nt it is in regard to hi s li ve free or d ie tr ying.
Fi na lly; the albu m offi ciall y closes
You get to tell them ho w to run their date will. Thi s includes situ ations where the ta rget of choicc, Dubya. Starting with the
check
out
the
di
sc
itse
lf.
It
is
obv
ious,
w
ith
a nin e-m inut e numbcr ca ll ed
for maxi mum pl easure and sati sfact ion for person is under the influence of alcohol
bl
ack
with
an
ora
nge
-yellow
"
M"
taking
" Worm ," whi ch is a me lancholic, someboth people' The workshop happened as or drugs.
the
pl31:e
of
the
"A"
norm
all
y
found
in
the
what danceable ta le of so meo ne who
the first and las t eve nt of Sexual Assault
The Eve rg re en O ffice of Sex ual
sy
mbol.
Turn
it
upside
down,
howanarchy
ca
n't seem to see the li ght at the end of
Awareness Month las t Apri l and is bac k Assau lt Preve ntion is he re fo r you .
and
the
"
M"
becomes
a
"W"
encased
ever,
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Love your library: Rodrigo
Toscano comes to Evergreen
by Angela Buck
Rodrigo Toscano, poet and lab or
activist, gave an excellent reading last
Wednesday, hi s madcap, syntax steamrolling poetry eclipsed only by, well, the
eclipse, which reached its peak at about
7 p.m . Wednesday evening. The reading
began later than expected as students and
professors milled around outside Seminar II, admiring the lunar light show. The
night conditions were perfect for such an
event: a full moon and a clear night.
Rodrigo, not to be outdone, came back
with a high-energy reading bordering on
some uncharted fault line between avantgarde poetics, hip-hop and computer code.
He read primarily from hi s most recent
work, To Leveling Serve, steali ng the show
with lines like "there's a plentiful lack of
giddyup in your wuh uh uh" or "swingdancing, the most remotest thing to Communism," or " Who's dunkin ' whose donut
in whose chalice?" The meaning, if there
was any, evaded me, but I must admit, his
poetry sounded good.
Rodrigo Toscano is obviously a practiced reader, but anyone could have some
fun reading his books aloud. For those who
enjoyed the reading, or other aficionados
of contemporary poetry, I would also
recommend his books. He uses italics,
phonetic spelling, and line breaks strategically to indicate the sound and rhythm
coopet point jOlJrnal
of his poetry, a kind of versification with
street cred o His lines just beg to be read
aloud .
I would describe his poetry as political, but not in the obvious sense. His
poems sound, t~ my ear, like a renegade
language code in response to the dom inant syntax, Linux in a world of Microsoft, like someone steeped in politics, the
language of the politicos, offloading after
work, trying to make some sense of it all.
In a nutshell, his poetry sounds Iike the
greased sputterings of an overfed brain.
From "Writing":
Swivillization and its bearing grinding- listen.
Cylindrical vertical shaft to a flat
disk- expansive- beveled, boltMounted clarity of surface, distortion,
dramatic layout, world .
Rotating Superfly Periodista is correct.
Swivillization and its bearings grinding- sounding out.
Politically Correct has always been
fair play- all around, in that it
means to ramp-up a preceding
narrative- so that it might proceed to
a counter-dominant current- that if
honed, correct, or not, as the narrative's
intent to transform is- we've duly noted,
and have responded- is on its way.
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november 4, 2004
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arts & entertainment
Film kernels: Olympia Film Fest
turns 21 t ·h·is year
sports
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Where were you over
Halloween Weekend?
by Dawn Curran and Kari Sutton
continued from page 9
it- is correct.
Hi s poet ry has a grinding sound 10 it ,
a halling, a wait-a-Illinule, and then a nolilll e-for-that. Hi s poe ms feel and sOll nd
lik e New York, wi lh the language ofbolh
lhe slreet and Ih e inl ell ectu als, read al a
lever pilch .
I f yo u III issed Ihe read i ng - what
can I say') - yo u fu cked up. Howeve r,
there is sti ll a chance lo r redelllPtion. Ili s
boo ks To Levelin,l!, Swerve (K rupskaya
Books, 2004), Plutfimn (A telos, 2003),
The DislJarilies (Gree n Int ege r, 2002) and
Part isulls (0 1300k s, 1999) are available
through Ama zon.co m or inlerlibrary loa n,
:Ind hi s reading, as we ll as two interviews
cond ucted by Leona rd Schwartz, wi II soon
be avni lable Ihrough the sound and image
Iibra ry here at Eve rgreen.
In the Ill ea nl illl e, thi s reading occurred
as pa rt ofa se ries sponsored by Poetics and
Power. The ne:-: t reading will be by Jea nne
Ileuving on Nove mber 10. Stay tuned 10
thi s column filr the tim e and location.
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Di.l"/h lrilies (C;rL'e n In It',l',cr, ](J02) and
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.ve ll· )"ork (' ily, II 'here he lIork s 01 'Fh e
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Poel 1' \'.2004 (Scrihl1l'1' '.1'), War and Peace
(() n:iUks, 2()()-I; (II/(I In the criminal 's
by Adina Lepp
This year, Ihe Olympia Film Festival
turns 2 1. You know, the magical age that
tr a ns form s de linqu ent s int o boozi ng
barfl ies. Eig hteen isn't the real age of
consent,j ust a biti ng pi nch ofresponsibi lily
in the adolesce nt landsca pe. Eigh teenvea r- old s ra id their parents' fridge , go
to jail fo r mi sdemeanors and answer the
phone when th ei r moth er ca ll s. Twentyone-year-o ld s don 't. Or al least they learn
to hide it. At 21, Ihe Olympia Fi Im Festival
won 't have to borrow his bi g brother 's 1.0.
to get into the Clipper, nor will he have to
shou Ider-Iap st ran ge rs in the Th ri ftway
parking lot. }'Ie's grown up now, though
he st i II enjoys a Iit lie deba uchery now and
again . Consider Ih is yea r's film festi va l to
be a large birthday part y of sorts, each film
a di stincti ve g irt on the brig htl y colored
table.
A full fe stival pass. giv ing the bea rer
full access to all eve nt s, is $75, and the
parlial pass is $2 1. Bolh passes require
Olympi a Film Society (OFS) membership,
while single movie passes arc $5 for OFS
members anJ $7 fo r non- mcmbers.
cabinet : a n nllwlo gy of poe tr y and
li cti on (nthposiliul1 ). llis puetry has heL'11
lI'Onsloll("' inf() French , Gerl//un, Spunish.
Portug uese alld (·alalan. He was l )(Jelry
<.:o - coordinalOr jiJl' " The Soc ial Mark "
sYll1l JOs iulI1 in Philadelphia. 2003, und a
recent participLint in "['oetrv & Empire,
Posl -!n vasion PO(! lic.l''' 0 1 Ih e UniversilV
11/ Penl1sy lvania, as well as "Suciet ies 0/
American Poelry, Dissenring Practices"
al Geo rge lo wn Uni ve rsity. Toscano is
orig inallyji'om California (San Diego and
San Francisco). His recenl poelic works
are wrillen /or two and three voices.
Angela Blick is a senior 0 1 Evergreen.
Sh e works in th e rare book 1'00 11/ 0 1 Ihe
library.
Brighl Leaves
(USA, 2003 ; 6:45 p.m., Sat urday,
Nove mber 6)
Cigarettes are pa ss ed down from
g randfat hers over deathbed s, a fam i1 y,
he i rlo om of sorl s. The legacy beh i nd
so uthern tobacco plantation s, rich in
tradition and culture, is a tobacco legacy.
In a poignant. thoughtful documentary,
Ross McE lwee explores how interwove n
and Icomplicated Ih ese legacies can be,
es pecially when coupled with the I~e of
bright leaves, Southern pride and denial.
McElwee, a Native North Caro linia n,
is bette r known lo r hi s 1986 documentary, Sherm an 's March, wh ich won Best
Doc umentary at Sundance. Some fam ilies
pass ant ique boxes and jewelry down the
hereditar y chain ; No rth Carolinia ns pass
dow n tobacco wi lh pride.
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The Deserted Station
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Tropical Malady
(T ha i Iand / Fra nce /G e r ma ny II ta Iy,
2004: 8:00 p.m., Sa turday, November
13)
;\ movi e that doe s n' t o utward ly
presc nt it s intenti o ns is a di fficult se ll ,
especia ll y whe n infused with traditional
T ha i folklore. We don't buy it because as
A merican s, we have no concept of our
ow n. nor are we vested in others. And
yet, a fi 1m with an unusual plot structure,
fi Imed in a land far, far away, is st ill attractive when done well and when the characters are lovers. And it helps when the
film won Ihe 2004 Jury Prize at Cannes.
Keng (Ban lop Lomnoi), a soldier fresh
from the battlefield, meets Tong (Sakda
Kaewbuadee), a na'ive working-class boy.
They sha re charming bike rides through
wheat fields and somethi ng secret beneath
the bustle of the city. When the Tong/Keng
narrative is juxtaposed with a folktale, it
becomes apparent that there are things in
their lives and in the story that exist solely
for the purpose of sy mbolism . There are
.. complexities which have the potential
10 confuse, ye t the woo of a love story
set under a heat ed , tropical landscape
is enough of an escape to warrant cud, dling and wishful gazing at the brightly
Iit sc reen.
( Iran, 2002 ; 5:45 p.m ., Saturday,
November 13)
The open road is a lure that many
filmillakers latch on to. Leaving is the
enjoyable pa rt. The scenery d ri fti ng by
like the stations on a televi sion is beautiful and idealistic. Spending a lengthened
period of time in a vehicle with a select
few is the trying part. When road trips
become reli g iou s pi Igr image s for the
unborn , th e cam py humor and cl iched
lines vani sh. The journey is to pray for
the safe delivery of the woman's unborn
child. A fter seve ral mi sc arr iages. th ey
need more insurance then the doc tor 's
good word . A motorcycle acc ident , which
causes the wife to be st ricken, force s a
chance enco unter w ith the village g uardian and on Iy teacher. Strange towns in Iran
aren't always the best places to be stuck .
Fortunately for the wife, the town acts as
a cata lyst, bringing her to undergo lifealtering changes, wh ich she wouldn 't have
encountered if she stayed hom e.
Satlll'day morning started out with good
luck. It wns 6 a. m. , cold, damp and dark as
I loaded my car with all my outdoor gea r
lo r Ihe weekend 's women's bac kpac king
o utdoor program trip. I was bal anc in g
a bage l with pea nut buller in my arm s,
and in a moment of co mpl ete grace lessness, it fell. It bounced off the bumper,
aga insl Illy legs, and on to Ihe gro und. I
was bUlllm ed ; my breakfast was ruincd.
Bul luck was with me, and in an amazi ng
start to the weekt:nd, my bage l, leg and car
werc completely clea n.
I arrived at ou r mee ting po in t and we
di Slri bul ed our gea r eve nl y betwee n the
pac ks. Bags reorgan ized , we set ofr in our
mass ive box ofa va n. After a wi nding trip
through the Cascades, we arrived at the
trailhead. We escaped rainy, hail -ridden
Olympi a and lound ourselves a beautiful
bl ue sky and warm dese rt day.
The s ix of us ladies we re enwrapped
by the canyo n wall s and twi sting creek of
Umtanum Canyo n. This mag ical desert
holl ow swe pt us away from the wo rri es
and stress or sc hoo l. We hiked the trail
wilh ease and took in the scenery. We were
blessed 10 see a herd of mountain goats not
far up the canyoll walls . We breathed in the
rresh scenl of sage and mou ntain clean air.
The sage was nowering a bright yellow
color across the mountainside.
As the day moved on , the sun fell
behind the canyon wall s and the cri sp day
started to chill our bones. We decided on a
campsite, dropped our bags and dashed up
the canyon wall to catch what we could of
the sun berore it was gone for the night.
As ni ght rell , we prepared dinner- no
easy le al, with but one fun ctional stove and
two small pots. We gat hered by th e fire to
eat. For hours we remnincd by the fire,
singing songs and readi ng poelry. As the
night progressed, the moon cl im bed over
the ri dge and lit Ihe ski es. The stars we re
bright and the air was a crisp 30 deg rees.
I kept warm sleeping under the sta rs in Ill)'
dOlVn coat, booties and slee ping bag.
When the S UIl rose the next morning.
we slow ly rose from o ur liltl e cocoons
o r wa rmth . In th e spirit of Hallowee n,
we donned costum es on the hik e oul of
backco unlry. As we slowly hi ked out in
the morning we sang so ngs and ex plored
new areas along the creek. None orus were
eager to get in the vans and leave that afternoon. The weekend was so cleansing: I
was able to g ive myse lf the space and tim e
to redi scover what is important in my life
outside of school.
Dawn Cu rran is a se nior enro lled ill
Po/ili cal Ecology uf Land She is studying environmental s lud ies und o urdoo r
recreali ol1.
Ka ri SUI/on is a ji'es hman unrullud in
Forests in Space and Tim e. She is sludying en vironmel71al studie,.
Adina Lepp is a fi'eshman enrolled in
Evolution a/ th e Book.
[,h % cO/me.IT oj 00 11 11 Curran
Wom en in Th e Owduor Program~' (TOP) wilderness backpacking Irip, October 30-31
at UlI/lanUlI1 Canyol1. Lefi 10 Rig ht: Kari SUllon, Dawn C urran, Krislen Etcheverrv.
Melanie Terrell, Aji on Moore, Laila Murfin
Attention Aspiring Writers!
The Sports Coordinator is looking ror one or two people to interview the nevv mcmbers of the CRC staff lor articles in the paper throughout the rest of the yearl I f you
arc int erested in thi s position- it 's less time con suming than Monday Night Football,
rea lity tel evi sion, or doing the di shes that wi ll be piled in yo ur sin k until Mom and
Dad come to vi sit late r thi s year- please co ntact me, Meredith Lane, in the CP J office
(CA B 3 16) or at extension 62 13, or e-mail epj @everg reen.edu).Thi s is a great lVay to
gct in vo lved on campus, Ill eet new people, and get Ihe inside scoop on whal is go ing
on with Evergreen Athleles!
Go Geoducks '
- Meredilh Lane, Sports Coordinator
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Graduate School Fair
a mm
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
ALLAN
JOHNSON
Unraveling the Knot of Race
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11 :00 to 1:30 and again 6:00 to 8:30
Dr. Allan Johnson is author of Privilege, Power and
Difference and The Gender Knot. He is a leading
anti-racist educator and speaker with a focus on
dominant-group privilege.
1\ote: RecipIents will be reqLli red 10 pani cip' le in a biweek ly se"mi nar with other recipients
Participalioll in the st!l1lin;tr should foster a s~ n se o f com munity, provide a support net,,,ork th a t ,\111
develop 1m .twarCllcS$ o f ca reer Om)l)rtullitlcs an d lead tv cont inued academi c suCc c s~ 1111 l"flbilip
possibilitoes wi th Ih e loca l hig h tl"c hnol o~y indust,y may .I so be possible.
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The Career Development Center of The
Evergreen State College is hosting the
13th annual Graduate School Fair. This
event will be held on Wednesday,
November 10, 2004 ,
from 11 :OOam - 4:00pm, in the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.
This is ~ great opportunity for
you to meet with a variety of
graduate and profeSSional
school recruiters, career counselors and test preparation
centers , This event is FREE
to The Evergreen State
College students, alumni,
and the general public!
Submit to Enrollment Sel'Vices (Library 1221) the following:
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A leuer of application highlighting your pasl academic achievements and extracurricular
involvement. Indicate how Illath and/or computer science relate 10 your long-tenn educational and
career goals. In addition explain how this schol a rship wi Jl help you achicve your goa l ~ a t
Evergreen . Include in your letter, your name. address. slUdcnt identilicati on nllmber. email address
and the s pecific name of thi s scholarship
2)
Two leuers of recommendation from individuals. other than relati ves. who are famil iar wilh your
achievements. At least one ofthes. letters should be from a rL'Cent facult y mcmbl-r who is familiar
with your academic achievements and potential.
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UnoOkial academic transcripts.
4)
Complete the financial aid application process (FAFSA or Renewal Appl ication) forthe 2004-05
academic year. The results from the FAFSA application must be received in oor Financial Aid
Office no laler November 15 .2004.
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Geoduck sports wrapup:
Student Group Meeting Times
Men '$ soccer, women's volleyball,
both cross country teams moving along
by Meredith Lane
Cl u nces are, iI' you spent any tim e on
cam pus in the week pri or to Halloween,
the grc'en, wh ite and black uniform-clad
indi vid ual s weren't in costume. But they
definit ely received !rm!s . Now that every
SpOri is in seaso n. s! i iri! should start heating li p on campus ... Damn, no love. OK , no
nHm: Ii all oweell jokes, I promise. Ei th er
wa). liIlI sports may be wincl ing clown ,
but th c run is just startin g 1'0 1' some of our
stand -o ut squad s.
Mcn's soccer has put itsclI' in the idea l
posit ion li)r tak ing the playorrs by storm
and competin g at the NAIA Nation al
Championship in Kansas la ter thi s month.
With a win la st Tucsda y aga in st Sim on
Fra sier, a team they willm ore than li kely
hc pi ,, ) ing in the champi ()n shi p round o r
playotfs on Sa turda y, and previous win s
thi s season aga inst Co ncord ia University,
the conlCrence champi ons, whom they wi ll
play tomorrow, the team ca n go int o playolTs \\ ith co nlidcllce and the knowledge
that thc: ir talellt and chemistry will lead
them I ' l vic tory.
W() men's so cccr cnded th e reg ulM
sea SI" l \\ ith a vic·w rv. but the team lost
in the li rst round or playorrs. A 3- 1 loss
aga in : Westcrn l3aptistm ay be disappointing . l'I 't wi th onl y one se nior gradu ating
thi s year- Cara Fink, a mid fielder from
Troutfield, OR- the team will maintain
it s talent and depth whi le ga ining experience for 2005. Cong ratul ations on a great
year, lad ies'
Wom en '5 voll eyba ll had theiI' last home
game s of the season , with an edge-ofyo ur-scat win on Friday against Cascade
Collegc , ending in five gamcs. " You guys
alm ost gave me a heart attack'" said coach
Bill Lash (in hi s lo urth year) after the game
on Friday. The first win of the season was
bitterswee t for se niors Ilann a Plunk
(Broomfi eld , CO), and Meredith Lane
(O lympia , WA) The following night, the
g irl s lost in lo ur games to Warner Pac ilic .
Th is weeke nd th e tea m will trave l to
Oregon for the last games of the season
aga in st Western Baptist and Co ncord ia
University. on Friday and Saturday.
A Iso thi s weekend , men's and women 's
cro ss cou ntry will be competing in th e
Conference and Regional Champi onships
at Warner Pac ifi c on Sa turday, Novem ber
6. The season has been touch and go ,
wi lh var ious iniuri es and recove ry tim e,
but with eve ryone bac k in decent hea lth ,
the team should have no probl em defending their times.
Not on ly is th e rail seaso n drawing
to a close. wint er sea son is kicking it up
with men's and women 's ba sketball both
competing at horne in the CRC thi s weekend. Two ex pose games aga inst long time
cross-town rivals Saint Martin 's College
wi 11 provide a packed gymnasium, so get
there earl y for a good scat! The 2005 progra ms have improved in depth, experience
and chemistry since the squads of 2004.
8y bringing in new blood, maintaining
respectful leadership, and drawing support
from the Evergreen community, Geoduck
basketball should prove to be nothing short
of exc iting for the nex t few months. Ifyou
don't recogni ze man y of the names on the
rosters, it 's because both teams have only
a handful of returners. Men's basketball is
supporting 10 rookies, while the women's
team has eight.
Monica Heuer, the head women's basketball coach, says that thi s team is looking promising. A ftcr 12 years of coaching,
lo ur of whi ch have been at Evergreen, she
should know. " We have a lotofnew faces,
and right now we're still building chemistry. As soon as we can get that together, I
know we will be competitive both in and
out of the con ference. "
John Barbee shares simil ar sentiments.
Hav ing ex perienced everything from just
mi ss ing post-season play to going all the
way to nationals, he has the background to
reach the hi ghest potenti al with thi s team .
" It 's go in g to tak e some grow ing pains
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early on to gain camaraderie and unity,
but once that happens, we are go ing to be
definite contenders in the cascade conference, " Make sure to cheer them on this
season, starting this weekend.
Other sports are beg inning to get ready
for competition as we ll. Though they aren't
varsity sports (Y ET?), lacrosse, softball,
and base ba ll are gettin g geared up for
their seaso ns this winter and spring . If
yo u're interested in participating in these
sports, contact Zoe Leary in the Athletic
Departm ent, Second Floor of the CRC,
Extension 6770. It's OK to try something
new.
So with th e s tart of th e holiday
season, regardless of whether you cel ebrate Chanukah, Ramadan, Chri stmas,
Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, the Epiphany,
Sinterklaus Day, Qllema del Diablo, Dfa
de la Virgen de Guadalupe, or nothing at
all, give your school the gift of spirit and
get involved in making new friends , a fool
of yourself, or a winner out OfYOlIr school.
Until next week, go Green l
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a nd dinner. Cooked from scratch , and prepared to optimize
consume r health, our menu items feature fresh ingredients,
s upplied locally, primarily' by family farmers
and small businesses.
Fresh. We provide the freshest food possible.
Local. We seek local products first. We aim to strengthen the
community food chain by linking family farmers with neighbor
consumers .
Healthy & Organic. We offer naturally grown products . We
incorporate organic ingredients where feasible and take care in
avoiding foods with artificial additives, preservatives, stimulants,
or enhancers ,
The owner-managers of the American Grill look forward
to welcoming you:
Hours of Operation
Breakfast, Lunch - 7am-3pm daily
Dinner - 4-9pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Pizza (delivery & takeout) 4-9pm every day, except Tuesday!
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-A cafe with good food
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3 p.m. Student Union Campaign
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4 p.m. EPIC Seminar II A2105
5 p.m. Radical Catholics CA B 320
5 p.m. Evergreen Irish Resurgence
Element CAB 320
Workstation 4
Thursday
Tuesday
4 p,m. Carnival Seminar II DII07
4 p.m. Women's Resource Center
4 p.m. Prison Action Committee
CAB 320, Workstation 10
4 p.m. STAR Seminar II , B2109
4 p.m. Racquetball in th e CRC
5 p.m . Yoga Club CRC 11 7
7 p.m. AssociMed Students ofTESC
(ASTESC) Seminar II A3105
-; p.m. Students for Christ Se mina r
II A2 100
5 p.m. Gaming G uild CA13 320
CA B 315
4 p.m, Racquetball in th e CRC
5 p.m. Yoga Club C RC 11 7
5 p.m. GeoDance Club C RC 316
6 p.m. EARN meets to discuss anima l
right s in CA B 320
6 p.m, Men's Center
CAB 320 in Workstation 2
7 p.m. Pcrcussion Club
basement orthe l.ibrary Building. All
arc welcome a nd drums arc provided'
7 p.m. Juggling Club
Seminar II B 1107
7: 30 a ,llI , Yoga Club CRC 11 6
1 p.m. Evcrgrcl'lI Quccr Alliance
Semin ar II, C210 7
1:45 p,m. F.nvirolllllclltal Resource
Cc ntcl: thircill oo r of the CAB, in the
pit.
1:30 p.m. Native St udent Alliancc
CA B 320 Work station 13
2 p.m. Evergl'ecn Capitalists Organization Library 1308
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for
Choice CA 13 320 C ubicle 17
Office hours: Wednesday, 1-2 p.m.
CAB 320 Cubicl e 17
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center
Seminar II E2 105
3 p.m. SEED Sem inar II E3 109
3 p.m. Womcn of Color Coalition
CAB 206
3 p.m. Writel"s Guild
Sem inar II AI I07
5 p.llI. Elec tronic Music Collcctive
Se minar II C2 107
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appn'ciation
Societ y Sem ina r II A II 05
Sunday
3 p.m. Kickb:11I on the field next to
the HCC
5:30 p.m. Yoga Club Lecture Hall 3
6:30 p.m. Common Bread
Longhouse Cedar Room
Deluxe Burger & Fries
last word
books
$2.75
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Fish & Chips
rectheplace
records
BAR SPECIALS
5:00pm - 6:00pm
MON-FRI
Please check us out! 112 W 4th Ave.
Olympia, WA
8 p.m. DRAG BINGO! Olympia
Men's Project prese nts drag bingo.
Features exc iting hosts, mu sic and
prizes. Fun and FR EE. For more
infor mation , call UCA N at 352-2375.
Saturday, November 6
10 a.m. National "Howl-In" Protest
Join in protest ing A laska's aerial and
land-and- shoot hunting of wolves .
P ubi ic vote ban ned these practices
twice, a nd th ey 're still in use. Join
us at Wolf Have n Intern ationa l, 31 11
O tfut Lake Road, Tenino, Washin gton. For more infor mation, ca ll (360)
264 - 469 5.
8 p.III.- 12 a.lII. Steve Mungcr plays
th e Spar. Call (360) 357-6444 .
7:30 p,lII . MilldscrcclI: Tucsday
Night at thc Movil~s shows Boll /'e
Flu lI/ he llr. olle or the ear liest h Tll ch
cape r mov ics th at set the tOil e lar
fi 1m s depict ing the Llnderworld
of gri hers, th ieves alld con mell.
Remade as The! Good Thiefwith Nick
Nolte, Bob is about Bob, a French
Rivie ra gambler and ma ster thief
orchestrating a mass ive painting hei st
from a casino. A film that defi nes
cool, with a del ic iOll sly iron ic end ing.
He ld in Lecture Hall 3 (NOT E
Wednesday, November, 10
11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Career Development Center of The Evergreen State
College is hosting the 13th annual
Graduate School Fair. This event will
be held in the Longhouse Education
and Cultura l Center. This is a great
opportun ity for you to meet with a
variety of graduate and professiona l
sc hoo l recruiters, Career CO (lIl se iors
a nd Test Preparat ion Centers. Til is
event is free to Eve rgreen stud ents,
alumni and the ge neral public.
Attention CPJ Readers:
Hey, kids! We're trying to
improve all aspects of th e
CP J, includin g the Calend ar.
This means that we need
YOU to commu ni cate w it h
US, Have an e\i ent that yo u
want listed? Email us ahl)ut
it atcpj @ eve rg reen.ed u o r
drop by our o ffice and te ll us
abo ut it. Ne ed to annOU ll l'(' a
stude nt g roup meeting ti me?
Fo llow the same two ste ps .
Remember, kids, every time
th e calendar lacks an event,
the terrorists win.
- Katie Thurman,
Calendar Coordinato r
T hc N"lnnd.) Institute
233 Division St NW
$2.75
5 p.m. Poetry of Jolin O'Leary.
Renaissance poetry reading,
reception and di sc ussion in Seminar
2, E II OS . Hosted by the Evergreen
Iri sh Resurge nce Experiment (EIRE).
CHANGE OF LOCATION) from 7: .
30-9:30 p.m. Adm ission is free, and so
is the popcorn!
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