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COOPER POIN JOURNAL
Students and
health insurance,
Part 2:
Painting for
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urvlvors
"As you know. I 'm an exerciser: I like
to exercis e. I exercised a little too much
and my knee hurts. (Laughter ) But neverthe less, I Jeel- I made the right choice to
exercise on a daily has is. I 'm a healthier
person/or it. And HSA - that would show
up in an HSA because there would he more
money lep over on an annual basis because
I am a healthier person, more oj my own
money that will be accumulating, that will
be being saved. The heal/hier your lile, the
more money you build lip tax:{ree in your
health savings aCC01l11l. "
• • • • •
Skylight
Come see a play directed by and
starring Evergreen alums. Skylight, a
British play by David Hare, continues
to be shown at the Midnight Su n performance space in downtown Olympia.
Tickets are $5-10 on a sliding sca le.
You can catch a showing Thursday,
Saturday, February 17, 18 or 19 at 1\
p.m., and February 19 at 2 p.m. Buy
tickets at the door of the M idn ight Sun ,
113 Columbia Street NW.
-President Blish, Jan uQ/)' 28, 2004
I shall call the
PIZZA STORE'
Photo by Eva Wong
Students work on painting the survivor mural project sponsured by the Office a/Sexual
Assault Prevention. The th eme 0/ this portable mural is "Imagine a World Free Prolll
Sexual Violence. " 1t will be displayed during Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.
For more in/orlllalion about the mural project, contact The Office oj"Sexl/al AssaI/It
Prevention at x 5221 .
"Pizza Tillie's On
Strike!"
as good as coun tries that s pe nd much less
than us.
BUT WHAT MEAT???
Pork or lemur?
~o
o
..........- - - - -.. awww, you fell in the tar pit, try againl
At the heal1 of the argument for HSA s
Iies the prem ise that health care costs are
rising because patients are overusing the
system. We sicklings just love to vi sit our
doctors. St uffy nose ... doctor; stubbed
toe ... doctor; hangnai l. .. doctor. We don't
understand just how much we're costing
the system because we have hea lth in surance that covers some or all of the costs
for us.
What if you didn ' t have hea lth insurance that covered Iri ps tu the doctor or
prescription drugs? You'd have to examine whether you really need that eXIra leg
cast. If we have to pay for all our healt h
care Ollt of our own pockets. we'll spcnd
a lot less.
You ng and healthy peo pl e with hea lth
insurance are attract ive to insurance co mpanies because they pay their premiums
but rarely use the se rvices. This same
reasoning leads the yo ung and hea lthy
away from buying hea lth insuranc e. Why
should they pay for other peop le 's bad
health ? Paying a fee to join a risk-poo l
of hypochondriacs sounds just about as
appealing as taking a dip in raw sewage.
With HSAs, you and your employe r can
put aside money into a tax-free account.
Thi s is for everyday expenses li ke contact lenses, broken bones and flu vaccines.
HSAs give you the 0ppol1unity to invest in
the stock and bond markets of Wall Street
and actuall y make money.
HSAs wi ll cut costs for th e yo ung and
healthy because they will no longer have
to support the sick and poor with thei r premiums and tax dollars. On the other hand,
See ." kalth Insurance," Page 3
By Sam Goldsmith
4th and Je ffe rso n- Prote s ters are
a common scene in Olympia, but this
boycott is something different. A change
in leaders hip occ urred at Pi zza Time
last Wednesday, and the workers aren't
happy.
The smell of unrest loom s where that of
pepperoni once dominated . When building owner Richard Kelly ga ve control of
hi s business to Shane I310king last week,
Blokin g and his brother Jeff made some
structural adjustments. Shane, who managed thc storc nearl y a yea r ago, clai ms to
be the new owner, but the workers say thi s
is not so. Kel ly, who the workers clai m is Pros testors sho w [h eir di.\·cuntent \\'ilh
still the real owner, is ex pected 10 return Pi::::::u Tim e.
early from vaca tion on Thursday and wi ll
address th e sit ua ti on upon arri va l.
Thc second empl oyee fired was one of two
In the mea ntime , Shan e fir ed tw o black staff members.
employees within two day s of hi s ta keThe II emp loyees met last Friday nig ht
over. The first, John Clark , was hired just to di scllss the situation at the hom e of then
two weeks before. Shane would not com - manager Alex Wentz. They agreed to strike
ment on the reasons behind the nring, but and came lip wit h a li st of demands:
sa id he had "just cause:' John suggests it
I.
Abara and John get their jobs
was simpl y because "he didn 't lik e me. " back. Jeff Blok ing, the owner's brother,
"Shan e said I didn ' t have enough ex pe- has to go.
ri encc, but I have s ix years' experience
2.
No workers are fired without just
makin g pi zza."
cause and without wariling.
The second cm)l loyee fired was unavai l3.
No more racial slurs.
ab le for comm e nt, but workers suspect
4.
A friendly, clean and sa fe work
that racism may have played a role in the en vi ronment.
second firin g. Joe O'Conor, Pizza Time
5.
Standardized breaks.
striker, claims to have heard Shane use the
6.
Respect our right to unioni ze.
word "nigger" on multiple occasions and
" We're not looking for more money,"
even claims io have been called a "nigger said one striker, "we just don 't want a
lover" by Shane for challenging hi s lise of
See "Pizza Time:' Page 3
the word. Shane denies these allegations .
TESC
Olympia, WA 98505
..
fireftg'hters
Lacey Fire District 3 is looking for
capable men and women intere sted in
becom ing volunteer fi refighters. A ppl ication packets .can be picked up at thei r
headquarters, Station 31, 1231 Franz
Street SE, Lacey between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m ., Monday through Friday. They are
collecti ng appl icat ions through February,
and a written test and oral board interwill be held afterwards.
By Lauren O'Connell-Fujii
In order to control the costs of hea lth
care; President Bush is promoting Health
Savings Accounts. The target of these new
accounts is the young and healthy. If you
fall into this category yo u should know
about HSAs and what they can and cannot
do for you.
In 2003, we Americans spent $ 1.6 trillion on our "National Health Expenditures,"
or 15% of our Gross Domestic Product.
We spend more than anyone else in the
world , and yet our health indicators, infant
mortality rates and li fe expectancy aren't
News In Brief
Volunteer
wanted
HSAs and you
Issue
17
Volume 33
February 17
• • • • •
Interested in cooperative
development?
The Community Cooperatives Forum
and Workshop will take place on Monday,
February 21 from 9:30 a.I11 .-4:30 p.m at the
Old Carnegie Library downtown.
The event will include examp les
of s uccessful cooperatives in India and
Argentina. There will be speakers from
the N W Cooperative Development Center
and the USDA, and upd ates about the
organizing underway in Olympia. For
more info, contact mary@ ri seup.net.
• • • • •
Not in Our Name
If you arc interested in participaling
in a chapter of Not in Our Na me here on
ca mpus, you are encouraged to attend the
first meet in g on Friday, February 18 at 6
p.m. -I ' ,~ roup will meet in front of the
CA B a nd move to a space from there.
NION is the group for yo u if yo u would
like to work to end police state restrict ions.
illegal roundups, detention of im III igrant s
and Bush's war.
• • • • •
Commuter contest begins
this week
The Eve rgreen Commut er Co nt es t
started Monday, Febru ary 14 and rlln s
until this Friday, Februa ry 18. By recording how you commute to the co ll ege for
the week, yo u can win one of$700 in g ift
certificates and help the coll ege obtain
grants to fund altern ative commut in g
prog ram s.
Despite its name, the contest is not just
open to alternative commuters. Participation from people that driv e alone is very
important for provid i ng g rant sta t istics
and developing commuter program s.
Turn in a comp leted survey by nex t
Friday, Febru a ry 25 to Parking Services or complete one online at http ://
www.evergreen.edu/commute and receive
a $1 drink ca rd for use on campus.
. -Brief submitted
Clark
PRSRT STD
US Postage
Paid
Olympia WA
Permit #65
Tim Yates is ajunior enrolled in Foundations ofYisual Arts. He is studying graphic arts and animation.
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COOPER POINT JOURNAL
FEBRUARY 17, 2005
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Vox Populi
Se If-Rea I ization
People hang out with
other people because
th ey don't want to be
alone, that fear of loneliness. Some people
get married to those
they don't necessaril y
love in the lon g run ,
but they stick with it
because they don ' t
want to die alone. Why is it that we are so afraid to
be alone? Is it because we don't want to take time
to reflect on the pain and strife we have endured
through the years? Is it because we might find that
we have acquired the inability to harness truth as a
result of smelling the perfume of lies and obfuscati on? I have learned t6 look for truth where ever I
can find it and somet imes hangi ng with others too
much can hinder that.
• Sometimes late at night Ilie in my bed with my
eyes staring at the ce iling and li sten to my heart
beat, the rhythm of my heart beat tell s a story, the
rhythm of my hear1 beat expresses tales of long
and hard fought days just to reali ze who I am
and how some go through life never at1empting
to search for that se lf-reali zation. So what is my
se lf-realization, you ask? It's simple. Wheh I die,
I want to be remembered as one of the greatest
thinkers of our time, co ming up with new ideologies on how to access thi s ever-chang ing world
around us. Hundreds of years from now, people
will build statues, sc ulptures and monuments in
my likeness. I believe that some day my ideas wi ll
be incorporated into college curriculum s arou nd
the wo rld, the story of an inner ci ty yo uth that
grew from humbl e beginnings to be the very
definition of integrity and a strong advocate for
education will be told.
Voices of Color is a column designed to promote cultural diversity as well as understanding within the immediate Evergreen community. Here, students of color may
address 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.
Ways to help raise money for
the victims of the Tsunami
disaster in South Asia
By Joe Jatcko
Since the recent tsunami di saster in south Asia,
a variety of groups on campus have begun organi zing events to ra ise donations for the survivors. In
addition to the events being put on by the Cent er
for Community-Based Learning and Acti on, representatives from various student groups, including WashP IRG, the CP J, the Student Un ion and
Students for Chirst, have formed a coalition to
orga ni ze these and other events. This group meets
every other Monday at 6 p.m. in the student activities
conference room (CAB 3 15). The next meeting wi ll
be held Monday, February 28 and is open to anyo ne
interested in getting involved.
U peoming tsu nami relief even ts:
Today: A Garage Sale is being held in the first
floor lobby of the Libra ry Building from 10 a.m . to
3 p.m. All funds rai sed wi ll be donated to organ izations providing relief to the affected commu nities.
staff
Monday, February 21: No school on this day,
but come and vo luntee r for the Tsunami Relief
Work Day on Presidents' Day. Teams of students,
faculty and/or staA-can hire out for odd jobs to fo lks
both on and off campus. All fund s raised will benefit tsunami relief. This proj ect is being coordinated
with simil ar effort s at SI. Martins' Co ll ege and
Sout h Puget So un d Community College, so it wiII
rea lly be a day out in the community. Voluntee rs
are still needed, so ca ll 867-6859 to sign up .
Business manager ... ..... .................... ....... .... Adrian Persaud
Assistant business manager ........... ............. Jessica Tweedy
Ad proofer and archivist... ......... ....... .... .... Kristen Lindstrom
Cir9ulation manager/Paper archivist ........... ...... ...... .. unfilled
Distribution manager................................... David Hornbeck
Ad sales representative .. ..... .... ..... .. ..... .. ....... Andrew James
News
Editor-in-chief .. . .... ... . . ...... ........ .... Renata Rollins
Managing editor.. .. . ................ ...... ......... Corey Young
Arts & Entertainment coordinator...... Christopher Alexander
Briefs coordinator........
....... .............. Kate DeGraaff
Calendar coordinalor .................. ....... ...... ...... Katie Thurman
Comics coordinator. ................... .................... Chelsea Baker
Copy editor.......... ....... ......................Mitchell Hahn-Branson
Copy editor.......... ..... ............ ...... .. ....... .................Sean Paull
Letters &Opinions coordinator ... ....... ........... Sam Goldsmith
News coordinator. .... ..... .................... ...................Joe Jatcko
Photo coordinator. .. ................... .... .. ..... ... .............. Eva Wong
Seepage coordinator. ......... ,.. ......,............... lkuko Takayama
Sports coordinator ...................................... .. Meredith Lane
Vox Populi coordinator....... ............... ........... David Hornbeck
Design ... ....... ................. .... ,.'... ........ ... ......Kristen Lindstrom
Brad Meyers
Tim Yates
Advisor ................ ..... .. ......................... Dianne Conrad
Assistant to the advisor .. . .. .. .... .. .................... MA Selby
"Why do/don't you live on campus?
By Chelsea Baker and Mitchell Hahn-Branson
"The thought of bei ng able to cook
excl usively with a microwave."
Adrian Witternbcrg (on campus)
Freshman
Evellillg alld Weekelld Stlldies
"Beca use I find they don't give yo u
eno ugh space, and it's too cramped.
A nd it costs less to Iive off campus."
Ben Stein (off campus)
Sophomore
Audio ProductiOIl Contract,
C++ class
" Because I already have a ·home."
Perrin Randlette (off campus)
Senior
Mediaworks
.r
"I Iive off campus because we need to
break out of the bubble."
Elisa Barrios (off campus)
Junior
Medicllvorks
"I guess it '5 ju st the convenience?"
Jordan Richards (on ca mpu s)
Junior
Evening lind Weekend Stlldie.1'
If yo u ha ve any questi ons about these events
contact Sy lvi e McG ee, Coordinator of the Ce nter
for Co mrnunity-l3asecl Learning and Act ion:
Phone: 867-6859
Email : mcgecs@evcrgrec n. edu
Al so, the Tsunami Reli ef Coa lition is plann ing a
basketba ll tournament and needs team s made up of
student groups, dorm s and friend s. If yo u want to
regi ster it team of three or more, ('ontact Llewe lyn
Johnson:
Phone : 867-6058
Ema il : Lulu5186@aol.com
"Now I have a dis hwasher."
M iehael Nail (off campus)
Sophomore
Mel/lOry of Fire
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By Chris Frank
PAGE TWO
Friday Forum
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Put your values to the test! Discuss ethics,
journalism law and confl ict resolution ,
All meetings are in CAB 316.
•
Communities In crisIs:
a survey of
hunger and homelessness i:n America
By Regina Amodeo
Just one week after the Bush adm inist ration rel eased its budget proposal
that calls for deep eLlts to dozens of low
income programs, WashPIRG has released
its new report, Comm unities in Crisis,
which reveals that hunger and homelessness are up nationwide as well as here
in Washington. Inadequate resources are
leaving communities struggling to help
everyone in need. The report signal s that
the Bush administration and Congress
must immediately and aggressively take
action 10 strengthen programs to alleviate
hunger and homelessness.
For years, students from Was hPIRG
have volunteered at local shelters a nd
emergency kitchens. Each year, they coordinate an event called the Hunger Cleanup,
which this year will be onApril9. Through
projects like the Hunger Cleanup, students
donate thousands of hours to help people
who are hungry and homeless here in
Olympia and the surrounding areas,
Yet the problems persist: Shamefully,
hunger and homelessness are status quo
in America today. And the problems are
getting worse. This realization prompted
the launch of the 2004 Survey of Hunger
and Homelessness in America, the results
of which are compiled in Communities
in Crisis . We wanted -to know why these
problems see m to be getting worse.
How can the trend be reversed? There
Spec il~cally, the ad mini strati on proare char iti es and volunteers like those
with WashPIRG dedicated to helping , poses to:
• Cut over a quarter o/a million people
but can- and should- they do it alone?
Government programs help many, but the off of the Food Stamp Progr'am over ten
federal and state governments are clltting yea rs through a $ 1.1 billion funding cut.
• Drastically reduce resources to build
bill ions of dollars for these programs. How
does this affect our communiti es and low- affordable housing, run jobs programs and
support shelters in low-income communiincome Americans?
Communities in Crisis is based upon ties by cutting nearly $2 billion from the
our comprehensive 2004 survey of 900 Com munity Development Block Grant.
·Cut $564 million from public housemergency food and shelter provid ers
in more than 400 cities and towns in 32 ing.
Today, WashPIRG 's Student Campaign
sta tes. The findings are bleak. Hunger
and homelessness are increasi ng here in Against Hunger and Homelessness and our
Washington state and nationwide , and partners ca II upon Congress and the Bush
communities don ' t have the resources to adm inistrat ion to take these findings into
help everyone in need. Yet the government consideration, halt all plans to cut low
is cutting funding to all of these critical income programs. and in stead increase
funding for critical hom e less ness assi ssocial programs.
tance, affordable housi ng and food proWe found that:
• Emergency food requests last year gram s. All Americans deserve to have
went up 19 percent. Shelter requests went food and a roof over their heads each night.
Our elected officials must take aggressive
up 26 percent.
·88 percent of shelters and 29 percent action to support the programs that help
of food providers were forced to turn away people in need in our communities.
To get in vo lved with the Student
people in need, primarily due to a lack of
Campaign . Against Hunger and
resources.
• Despite increasing need , 100 percent Homelessness and WashPI RG, corne by the
of agencies in Washington and 82 percent Was hPIRG office at Student Activities!
nationwid e saw dec reased or stagnant
Regina Amodeo is a senior in
federal fundin g.
The Bush administration's proposed Mediaworks. She is the aJvocucy cuor2006 budget, released last Monday, exem- . din(Jturfur Sludents Against Hunger and
plifies thi s alarming trend. As promised, Homelessness/or WashPIRG . She is studythe budget is " Iean"-and it 's also mean. ingfilm and media_
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Midwinter Ceili
EIR E is spo'nsor ing two events at the
end of week eight to chase away the midwinter blues. Rrst , a Cei li on Friday, February 2S in the Longhouse. The ceili wi ll
feature Maldon Meehan , an ex-Greener,
as caller. Music will be provided by The
Burren Boys and Footnotes. The mu sic
starts at 7 p.m., and is free to Greeners
and minors (under 18), and $5 for the rest
of the world.
The foll ow ing day, Saturday, February 26, stop by Seminar II , El107 at I p.m.
for Sean-Nos 101. This informal styl e of
solo dance will be explored with Maldon
Meehan and Ronan Regan. Admission will
be $ 10 for Greeners, $15 for community
members and $5 for minors (under 18).
• • • • •
Earth First Northwest
Regional Rendezvous!
Come on a three-day camping trip, featuring workshops, skillshares, ecoknowledge, tree climbing and music. This is free!.
The event takes place in Dosewallips on
the Olympic Penninsula. Take 1-5 to
Highway 101 North (Exit 104). Continue
on Highway 101 North for 60 miles. Turn
left after Dosewallips State park entrance.
Drive about 13 miles to the road washout
and park. Follow the signs. February 2527. Contact olyef@cascadiarising.org.
360 ,943 .8044
233 Division St NW
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113 Thurston Ave NE
Dpwntown Olympia
956-7072
Open Daily
(360) 352-1103
903 Rogers St. NW
next to the Westside Co-op
Breakfast-Lunch
8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Wednesday-Friday
8:00 am to 2:00 pm
saturday and Sunday
Qinner
5:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Wednesday-SUnday
and wait for striker attrition to set in.
Sam Goldsmith is a junior at Evergreen
and coordinates the Leiters and Opinions
section 0/ the Cooper Point Journal.
Westside:
921 N, Rogers St.. 9 - 8 daily
EastsIde:
509 E. 4th Ave, • 352-0123
Fr. & ~,I' IU-'I,
Luuren 0 'Connell-Fujii is a senior doing (J
contract called National Health Insurance
and The Evergreen State College.
Delicious natural foods and fabUlous
goods prodUced with a conscience,
Everyone Is welcome at the Olympia
Food Co-op!
We buy books everyday!
Mon-Th 10-8,
etables? Say a drunk driver injured you?
There are endless possibilities for whi ch
we cannot blame the victim.
Maybe we should all start HKAs,
Health Kiss Accounts, so we'll have an
abundance of kisses to fix our boo boos
when we exercise too much.
ECLt well.
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work."The co mmunity at large has shown
support by honking, waving and choosing
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not to patronize the restaurant. In just a
hostile work environment." "The Olympia few days, the strikers have "c ut business HSA s leave the sick, who have higher
community s hould know that the new in half," says Shane.
costs of health care than the healthy, to
owner is violating workers' rights. It would
The Blokings agree with the workers . pay for themselves. If sickness is the fault
be great if [Shane] could be held account- right to protest, but deny "i ntentionally of the individual in question, then thi s
able. I don ' t think Olympia, Evergreen wronging anyone." JeffBloking explained approach makes sense.
or SPSCC would like this." Most Pi zza that problems with the workers arose
Cancer, the leading cause of death in the
Time employees earn minimum wage, largely due to lack of respect for manage- U.S., is not always the fault of the patient.
Wentz explained that not only is the wor~ ment and problems with worker cleanli- And are the parents at fault when a child is
environment suffering under the new man- ness. Shane said that workers simply didn 't diagnosed with leukemia? What if a family
agement, but the qual ity of product is, too, agree with the new management style and cannot afford to eat organic fruits and veg" We take pride in our work," but he says walked out. He sees no way to reconcile
they have been stripped of any pride they . with the strikers and has started hiring business has deteriorated and call off any
'once held.
new employees. "They ' re people who deal with the Blokings, There is some talk
"Community support has been great," don't want to work for a team," he said, among strikers of making an offer to buy
Wentz explained: Mandy Zabohne, TESC "They're all no shows. They don ' t work the business themselves and turn it into a
alumni and member of the Olympia here anymore ," A help wanted sign hangs worker-owned cooperative. Workers have
Industrial Workers of the World stands on the restaurant door.
not pursued legal action against Pizza
"in solidarity" with the strikers, Both The
"As far as not being team players," says Time, but " it is not out of the question,"
Olympian and SPSCC's student newspaper Wentz, "we've been out here as a team says Wentz.
So the strike goes on: While workers
have covered the story, and City Council everyday." The workers will continue to
the arrival of Kelly, perhaps their last
await
member Joe Hine offered "unofficial city picket and wait for former, or perhaps
support" and was "very impressed by the current, owner Richard Kelly to return. Ii ne of defense and only hope for an interamount ofpride the employees take in their Wentz hopes that Kell y will see the way nal resolution, the Blokings keep cooking
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Stories frol11 Japan:
Reflections from the Greeners in Evergreen's
exchange scholarship program
By Brian Williams
I 've had man y great experiences
working alongside the Japa nese students
at the University ofHyogo in Kobe, Japan.
Many of them haven 't had the experience
of working together academ ically with
a foreigner and are often excited at the
prospect of working with someone who
brings a completely different cultural
background to the table.
During the exchange, the choice is
yours to focus your time on what you
want to study, and also how you wish to
go about it. I chose to focus on studying the
difference of social and religious beliefs
between younger and older generations
of Japanese, which I researched through a
series of interviews and surveys. However,
some of the most enlightening things I
learned came through simply engaging
acquaintances in casual conversation.
On many occasions, I found myself
participating in activities outside the
univers it y as well. In one instance, I
headed nor1h of Kobe to th e small town of
Toyooka, which lay in an area hard-hit by
floodin g and landslides. Therc, I worked
alongside a local volunteer group ass ist ing
with cleanup efforts. Also, as part of my
independent research, I embarked upon a
bicycle trip of roughly eight hundred miles
around the island ofShikoku, following the
path of the ancient Eighty-Eight Temple
Pilgrimage from start to finish. During my
travel s, the knowledge and experience I
gained from speaking with such a wide
range of people have proven invaluable to
the development of my language ability,
while the trip itself allowed me a glimpse
of the striking comparison between
modern and ancient Japan .
.
This has been a grea~ year for me, and
I highly encourage anyone interested
in experiencing Japan firsthand to take
advantage of the same opportunity.
Brian Williams is a senior at Evergreen.
that they really didn't want us to comewe walked up and down the nondescript
street
four or five times, byt the place was
I'd been anticipating this day for
nowhere
to be found. Then we looked at
months, ever since I began scheming to
our
directions
again. "The first floor is a
visit my good friend Seth, who had recently
moved to the Tokyo area. I was living in tropical fish store." It dawned on us we had
Miyazaki at the time, far to the south in seen such a store, though there appeared
Japan, a lovely town full of palm trees and to be nothing but apartments above it. We
surf shops, but I was having a bad craving went back. No sign, no indications of a
for the insane-density of Honshu's cities. I business establishment, and the tropical
knew that it was these kind of places which fi sh store was closed. Then we saw the
stairway leading up to the apartments.
breed
noise,
We climbed up a
where the hard- "
and started
floor
to-find random
down
a concrete
ejaculatory
We
took
off
our
shoes
hallway g roreleases of artists
tesqu
e ly lit by
and
stepped
up
into
like Hijyokaidan,
bu
zz
i
ng fI uoa cramped one-room
A ube
and
re
sce
nt
li ght s.
Masonna
are
heaven of eclectic avantThe
apartment
tucked away in
garde, noise and early
at the end of the
the corners of
ha llwa y had a
experimental
recordtiny music stores
sign
on the door.
Ings.
hidden in the back
Omega
Point.
streets of sickenAll
wa
s
si
le nt.
ingly hip di stri cts
We knocked.
of Tokyo and
"
Pardon
the
intrusion
.....
Arter all, this
Osaka. A veteran orfile-sharing nelworks,
was
an
apartment.
We
took
ofT our shoes
I' d scoured every virtual corner known to
and
stepped
up
into
a
cramped
one-room
me in hopes of. well, stealing thi s music.
heaven
of
eclectic
avant-garde,
noi se and
My limited successes had only left me with
a desire to hear more. I'd have to engage in early experimental reco rdings. Besides us,
the 'commercial act. Today I would search the only life forms in the room were the
out Omega Point, a hidden recor.d store in owner, a middle-aged Japanese man with
a sli ghtl y pained smile and his skittish
Setagaya-ku.
tabby cat.
.
Why toda y? The rec ord store was
"She
ge
ts
excited
when
customers
only open two days a week, Monday and
Wednesday, 2-9 p.m. It was like they didn't corne in. How on ear1h did you find thi s
want anyone to corne. This, of 'course, placeT'
I explained my dorky obsession and
heightened the allure for me.
confessed
my ignorance of much of the
Once Seth and I got off the train we folJapanese
noise
scene. Albums began falllowed our internet directions, confirming
By Patrick Robison
"
students, it was easy to meet a lot of other
people who were just as displaced and
nervous
as I was, and living with mostly
When I was informed that I had been
Japanese
students forced me to actually
se lected to study abroad in Mi yazaki ,
use
the
Japanese
I was learning in class.
Japan , at first I was elated. Later, when I
Then,
having
a
personal
room let me lock
reali zed what I had gotten myse lf into, I
was terrified. No soothing words, no travel the door so I could at least speak English
guides and no late night samurai-movie to myse lf.
Living in what's almost a tropical parmarathons could ease my anxiety. DlJring
adisecomplete with near constant sunthe entire flight to Japan, I relt my stomshine,
friendly
natives and spiders bigger
ach turn in horror, as if asking me what I
thought I was doing going to live for an than my fist- wasn't always a vacation.
I fou nd that the
entire year in
mo
st reward i ng
some foreign "
part
of my stay
country in whose
in Japan was the
language I could
At the risk of soundstruggle. I went
barely introing a little saccharine,
with only a year
duce myself.
Miyazaki
was
a
town
with
of
language eduThen , getting
simple
kind
of
charm,
a
cation,
and in the
lo s t
during
fi
rst
months
found
lost on tourists coming
my transfer in
myself frustrated
Tokyo didn ' t
to Japan expecting all
and
humiliated
help matters. I
Godzilla and dancing
to
the
poi nt that
finally arrived in
robots.
I
wanted
nothing
Miyazaki some, ,
more than to give
time around 10
up . I don't recall
p.m. on one of
exactly
when or
those hot, early-fall nights. During the trip
where,
but
one
day,
I
suddenly
found
that
to the university, my ride's passenger side
all
my
work
had
paid
off:
I
could
converse
window filled with gently swaying palm
trees, orange groves and lights from the in Japanese with confidence and relative
odd still-open ramen shop or convenience ease. The little things like buying groceries and going to resta urants stopped
store. It was oddly sedating.
With terrible jet lag the next day, I intimidating me, and I could finally work
woke up at the crack of dawn. No one myself up to bigger tasks, like calling in
else was up, so I went for a walk around hotel reservations, cross-country travel or
the school, which was surrounded by little even taking classes intended for Japanese
farms with tiny household shrines tucked students.
Looking back, the year I spent studyin between the houses, song birds and
ing
in Japan was the best I had in my life;
cicadas, a couple of little shops and a few
these
days, it almost seems like a dream .
pretty dramatic mountains. It wasn't long
As
much
as I hated to go, it was important
before I got to thinking that a year just
to
know
that my time was limited.
then
wasn 't enough. At the risk of sounding a
little saccharine, Miyazaki was a town with It forced me to make the best of my stay
a simple kind of charm, lost on touri sts and not waste another minute with worry
coming to Japan expecting all God zi lla or homesickness, so now when I think
and dancing robots. It 's a part of Japan of everything I brought home with me ,
I see some poorly shot di gital photos, a
you can't see in the movies.
The dorms at Miyazaki weren 't exactly few cheap so uvenirs and a hell ofa lot of
palatial, but they se rved their purpose. memories.
Even as the international students ' dormitory, the residents were still mostly Jona/han Newe ll is a seniur a/ Evergreen.
Japanese student s. It wasn't such a bad He was an exchange stlldentto /I,fiyazaki.
si tuation, though. Living with other foreign Japan in 2003-04.
By Jonathan Newell
ing into my hand s as he made hi s way
rapidly around the room, whipping OLit
one-of-a-kind metal CD jackets and cassel1e tapes ensconced in elaborate works
of trash ar1. My consumer euphoria bega n
to kick in and I felt di zzy. Our combined
excitement encouraged the cat to leap up
onto her owner 's back, and he screamed as
she dug her nails in gleefully to maintain
her hold. Listening to his yells and curses
and the sound of him banging against
his desk trying to pull the cat off, I felt a
shiver of pleasure run through my body;
the sonic material contained on the albums
I clutched in my trembling hands would
probably be of a similar emotional vein.
At that moment I felt anew that com ing to
study in Japan had been the right choice
for me.
Patrick Robison is a junior at Evergreen
and was an exchange s/lldentto Miyazaki.
Japan in 2003-04.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2005
5
Permaculture community restores hope
after World Social Forum
one another; they make hysterical fac ia I at 15 ft. intervals. "For erosion," he tell s
expressions and bring up funny stories us. "The previous owners mistreated this
from the past to prove their points. In land. They cut down all the trees and
the
end the room explodes into laughter, grazed too many cows. So the rain causes a
Editor s note : Sarita Role and Ethan
with
everyone hooting and hugging and flood and it cuts this trench. We've planted
Schaffer are traveling through SOllth
walking
away shaking their heads. I try to species with strong root systems on both
America with th e non-profit organization
imagine our world leaders resolving their sides to prevent the banks from receding
OrganiC Volunteers .
differences this way- Bush cupping Hugo further ... and the corn in the gulch itself.
Chavez's face in his hands and kissing his The dams catch the soil, water, organic
matter. And we eat the food." Cristiano
forehead between fits of giggles ...
Bage, Brazil
We have tons of work in very little time, flashes us a smile that teaches from ear to
but our hosts insist that we find a nice place ear. We respond with a thumbs up, a sign
The day the World Social Forum ends,
to
relax after lunch. Andreu explains, Brazi lians use all the time to express both
a heavy rain falls on Porto Alegre. It is
"Now
we rest. One hour. In Brazil we call delight and gratitude.
as if the city is cleansing itself of all the
thi
s
sesta.
Then we work unt~l.d inner. "
We follow the propertY.line to the
dust, sweat, commerce and human drama it
We crawl into a hammock and nap until upper fields. Hardly anything grows on
has endured. We say good-bye to our host
and his family and r -'_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-,-.".,....... Joanna appears with the nei ghbor's side. There is only stubby
a armful of burl ap grass and a shrinking, algae covered pond.
friends and head to
sacks and says (in Some cows stop grazing and stare at us.
the Forum to meet
English), "Co rne, "They wi sh their owner did permaculup with the folks
we're going to catch ture," someone says, and everyone nods
from IPEP(lnstitute
beans. "
and laughs.
of Perrna culture and
We follow our
We harvest black beans until sunset. I
Ecovillages of the
ho sts thro ugh the do not think of what we are doing as work.
Pampas) who have
ri ce paddies, up We are amongst friends , sharing dream s of
invited us to the ir
thc hill overlooking a sustai nable future, exchanging stories,
site.
the earth hou ses. joking about Mayan ca lendar signs. At one
We find th e folks
Along the way we point we ask one another 's ages. Everrone
from IP EP huddled
stop to look at an turns out to be between 22 and 24 years
under their bamboo
area where they 've old. Andreu (w ho is somewhat eas il y
shelt er, eat ing manplanted av ocados, exc itab le) rai ses his han.ds over hi s head
goes and sta'1ing a
sw eet
po ta to es and begins chee ring, "Nossa' ge nerac ion'
fire in a tiny cob
and
lea
ry
g ree ns Nossa generacion'" (o ur generation). His
oven. We approach
beneath
the
native shout s make me feel ecstatic. They erase
them and ask for
c
lim
ax
s
peci
es . the sadness that the chaos and commercialGuillerme,
th e
" We are s howin g ism of the World Socia l Forum had left me
person with whom
that you don't have feelin g. Wherea s the Socia l Forum made
we've had th e
to clear th e forest me doubt that another world is poss ible,
most· contact. Bira,
to grow food," watching my generation growing food ,
a wiry guy with
explains
Cristi ano. building earth houses. sharing meals and
blackened, callused
"Most people here resolvi ng con fl icts restored my hope.
hands, shoves two
I'h olos courlesy oj Sarita Role and Elhan Schaffer
are too impatient to
papayas and a knife
wait for this tree to
To intern at IPEP, visit their listing at
at us and explains From left to right: Cristiano. Sarita, Juanna and Julie harvesting black beans at
grow
fully
and
die
http
://www.growfood .org
between spastic IfEP.
back, so they burn it
hand gestures and
down. It is unneces- Sarita Role graduated from Evergreen ill
fits of laughter that the van is broken; we she wants to learn, I nod continuously. Her
sary. If you wait for it to die back, all the 2004. While at TESC she studied internaeyes
light
up
when,
in
response
to
her.
intelwon 't leave until six and we 'd better eat
matter that it drops adds nutrients to the tional education, media and culture.
something, because we have a lot to do. lectual journey, I tell her it makes sense to
soil, helping the next cycle of life."
me
that
studying
economics
would
make
We spend the rest of the day breaking
Just past the forest garden Cristiano
down bamboo structures and stacking hay her wonder how our brains could come up
points out a gulch with hand-woven dams
with
a
system
bales, then race
that assigns a
to the station to
higher value
catch the bus to
to gold than to
Bage.
the clean water
Whereas the Social Forum
Six hours
and fresh air our
made me doubt that another
later
we
lives depend
sturn ble into
world is possible, watching
on. She tells me
the open arms
my generation growing
most people are
of Andreu and
confused
by her
food,
building
earth
houses,
Cristiano, the
transition.
sharing mean Is and resolving
IPEP residents
At
lunch
who stayed
conflicts resored my hope.
we
gather
h orne to care
around
one
for the land.
long
table,
our
They
welplates
heaped
come us with
with rice, black
a warmth I' ve
n'ever experienced anywhere, showering beans, deep-fried polenta, arugula, cucumbers, carrots, beets and tomatoes- all
LIS with hugs and kisses and babbling excitgrown
on-site, except for the tomatoes.
edly about how happy they are to receive
Over
our
meal we discuss what we need
us. Andreu leads us up two ladders to drop
to
do
to
prepare
for the week-long, 100our packs in our loft, then insists we join
everyone for tea and a midnight snack. person natural building course that begins
When we finally crawl under our mosquito in a few days. Some disagreements arise
over how to prioritize chores and how
nets, we sleep like rocks.
In the morning, we awake and wander many scoops of sawdust should be tossed
Photos courtesy a/Sarita Role and Ethan Schaffer
outside into a permaculture paradise. in the composting toilet after each use. But
the
arguments
are
more
entertaining
than
Though it's only three years old, IPEP has
Ethan in the organic rice paddies at IPE?
two completed earth houses and two more divisive: Those in disagreement imitate
under construction; a luscious veggie and
flower garden; composting toilets; a biodigester; an organic rice paddy that produces
800 kilos annually; field s of yucca, bl ac k
beans and other staple crops; and huge
areas of regenerating native forest.
I spend the morning mulching a field
with Joanna, a young woman from Sao
Paulo who has corne to visit her friend
Jessica, who lives at IPEP and teaches yoga
in Bage. We exchange histories as we work
and discover many similarities in our personal journeys and worldviews. As Joanna
describes her academic migration from
Economics to Psychology to wondering if
any university program can teach her what
By Sarita Role
"
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FEBRUARY 17, 200S
7
Housing cracks down on A Dorm's seventh floor
By Lee Gillentine
Ilive on the
seve nth floor
of A Dorm.
I am writing
thi s- as fl oor
me m bers are
being removed
one by one- to
provide so me
:r&._-.l hi s toric a l
record of what happened on thi s sli ce of
A Dorm.
My floor is famou s for its se nse of
community. During the first week, it was
hard to tell that thi s floor of 21 men and
two women would become such close
friends over the course of the quarter.
But as orientation week ended, we drank
together, smoked together, listened to
music together and studied together. The
seventh floor quickly earned its reputation
as "the party floor" because of our warmhearted fraternizing .
We had created a genuine social space
in A Dorm . Many people who came up
to the floor, after getting over the initi al
shock of trash bins full of beer cans and
testosterone-driven roughhousi ng, rea Iized
that we had so mething that other floors
lacked- a true feeling of commlmity and
acce ptance.
Perhaps we accepted too much. By the
time the first chair was thrown off the bal cony (sometime in first quarter- memories are a little fu zzy on thi s floor), we had
become so close that we cared more about
each other than about Housing's property.
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The culprit of that particular crime still cha nting, "Homewo rk , not Handc uffs l "
and wa it ed until our fr iend was released
remains at large.
The Hou sing office responded by keep. from custody. The picture of th e entire
ing a c loser watch of our fl oor. There was floor crowded in the elevator on that hismore police attention and warnings from toric night is still stapled to our battered
RAs. Our fl oor responded by escalating, bulletin board .
We met with Housing and ass ured them
instead of toning down, our act ions. We
that
the fl oor would be better. But those
began brewing our own beer, smoking
promi ses
.
more and PlaY ing "
were
forgotten
our mu sic loud er.
-----------that
lon g
over
After we set off a
fire alarm- the first
Housing can remove my
winter brea k.
Or ma y be it
of three- we began
friends from our floor, but
didn ' t eve n
receiving incredible
they can never take away
take
th a t
attention from the
my memories of the sevlo
ngthree
police. One ni ght ,
enth floor and the pride
da ys before
at around II :3 0
p.m. , we were all
I feel from being part of
wc left for
break wc sc t
roused from our
that community.
off the fire
beds by the police
alarm again.
and rece ived a pep
Winter
talk about the danquarter
started
,
and
things
seemed
rel agers of "smoking dope" and how we had
been labeled as a "probl em floor." Our RA tively calm on the floor: Half the floor had
was mysteriously absent from this incident moved on to different places, and only the
occasional shout of "fuck the police" to
of police intimidation.
Officer
Perez got us a talking to. But about
Even after thi s, the problems on the
"problem floor" didn ' t stop . Whether you three weeks into the quarter, anothe r chair
blame it on a group of stubborn, drunken was thrown off th e balcony.
Housing had had enough. They ca lled
guys or an authority structure that had no
another
fl oo r meeting, and the area director
consistency in handling conflicts on the
warned
us that serious consequences were
floor, tensions between members of the
floor, the Housing office and the police imminent if we didn ' t change our behavdefinitely esca lated. In Nove mber, the ior. At the previous meeting, we had our
police brou g ht up a breat haly ze r and ci garette-smok ing privi leges restored after
arrested a floor member who was studying they had been taken away due to the fire
while having a beer. They' put him in hand- alarm incident. Thi s time, the tone of the
cuffs and took him away in a squad car. meeting was much more somber, but not
We marched down to the police services much more sober.
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Over th e
pa st co upl e
week s,
a
ma n by the
name a f Ward
C hurchill , a
professor at the
University of
Co lorado. has
been the target
of a great deal of anger from the AIllerican
populous for a critical essay orthe U.S. in
regards to the attack s on Se ptem bel' II.
Seein'g as I don 't have television, I could
only assume that it was being blown out
of proportion. Oddly enough , I've yet to
get tired of being correct.
I read over Churchi II 's lengthy essay on
9/11 and found out that the majority of it
was about Iraq and a critique of American
policy abroad . He mentions that the US has
bombed Iraq for the past 14 or so years and
has killed over 500,000 innocent children,
not to mention the other 500,000 adults,
anp because of this mass genocide by
the American war-machine, any terrorist
action taken against the United States was
most likely justified. Add up all the deaths
by terrorists over the past decade or two
and you get less than one percent if you
add Oklahoma City to the equation, which
means that the U.S. has killed 1,000,000
people just in Iraq and the terrorists have
killed about 5,000 people. Churchill
points out that by committing a terrorist
act, " [T]he hope was-and maybe sti II
is-that Americans, stripped of their presumed immunity from incurring any real
consequences for their behavior, would
comprehend and act upon a formulation
as uncomplicated as 'stop killing our kids,
if YOll want your own to be safe.,,,
In his essay, Churchill does make some
rather outlandish statements that were seen
In the days follow ing the meeting, a
large ho le in the wa ll surroundin g our
co mm on room appeared.
Last Monday,. the remova ls started . One
mem bel' was reinoved for the second chair
off the balcony, and another for his first
drinking oilense. On Tuesday, a member
was removed fo r smok in g pot , and my
roommate wa s removed for throw in g
crackers at our RA .
There was once a strong com munity
here. We had a fl oor that wasn't like the
other fl oors- we did what we wanted, and
didn 't give a fuck. In some ways, we were
simply 'drunk all the tim e. In other ways,
we were the most liberated people in A
Dorm, not hav ing to conform to any laws
or rules of soc ially acce ptabl e conduct.
Sometimes, by talking about the floor, I
feel I am trying to defend a captain for running hi s ship ashore. But the experiences I
have had on this floor are priceless, and I
have a new perspective on life. I cam e to
Evergreen because I thought the education
was about accepting differences and not
passing judgments on people, and on my
floor I practiced those ideas. In turn, I feel
that by living here, I've learned more about
what it mea ns to be a part of something
th an I could ever have lea rned anywhere
else. Acceptance builds community.
Ii ousi ng can remove my fri ends from
our floor, but they can never take away
my memorie.s of the seventh fl oor and the
pride I feel from being part of that community.
Lee Gillentine is a ji-eshman enrolled in
Negotiating Cultural Landscapes.
So I'm a White Guy: No soap strong enough
By Ted Reinbold
TOll g h
tim es for the
white
g uy
thi s mornin g.
I went in to
. th e bathroom
for my us ua I
mornin g pi ss
when I rea lized there was
red stu ff all over my hands. It looked Iike
blood, so I went to the si nk , and I washed
and washed and washed, but the stain was
too deep to be removed with just soap and
water. You would think that this would be
traumati zing, but lucky for me, this sa me
thing had happened to m y fath er and hi s
father before him. It turns out that the
blood was not mine, but rather the blood
of the individuals who have suffered under
my complacent weight. I have to say, the
sight of the blood surprised me. I thought
my share of the blood would be on the
hands of the Republicans and the establishment I rebel against. But as it turns out,
despite my youthful rebellion and sunny
disposition concerning discrimination, it
seems that my climb to the top has been
made easier on the backs of others. I only
wonder which back it was that I stepped on
to get all this blood on my hands. Maybe
it is from the tribe that was kicked otfthe
land where my family 's house now stands ,
or it could be from that nice Mexican kid
as wrong for good reason, such as claiming that the World Trade Ce nter employees were not innoce nt because they were
wo rking for a tec hnolog ica ll y adva nced
corporation propagating American interests abroad and therefore also spreading
Amer ica 's power or mil itary by dcfau It .
He also says that the Pentago n em ployees we re not innocent Americans because
they worked on a military target, " pure and
si mple." The Pentagon exp lanati on is one
I can understand , see ing as they are milita ry personnel and are just as fai r game as
so ldi ers riding in tanks down the center of
Baghdad, though I' m sure hi s mentioning
of them in hi s essay did not serve to create
much empathy among most Americans.
Churchill happen s to make a good
point in his essay when he di scusses the
"counter-terrori sm" forces that have been
created as a result of 9/11. He points out
that civil rights have been trampled on to
protect our freedoms here in the United
States while we supposedly bring freedom to the Middle East. The CIA has
been work ing to destroy "terrorist infrastructures" for years, but they fai led to
stop guerrillas-older word for what we
now call terrorists-in Vietnam, as well
as working to destroy the USSR before
its eventual economic collapse in 1989,
not to mention being unable to stop AI
Qaeda today. The FBI· and CIA exist to
' attempt to bend the world 's di ssidents to our history than anything else. He wrote
America"s will by committing terrorist- an addendum to his essay when ' it was
like acts around the world through torture released, stating that it was written as a
and genocide, more so than to protect us " first take" reaction to the September II
from evil terrorists that are here to destroy attack, but reiterated that it isn 't just the
our freedoms because they "hate liberty." Iraqis who are justified in committing an
The only terrorists that' are destroying our attack against A merica for its crimes, but
freedoms and ruining the world's chances all people whom the U.S. has screwed
for peace are the American military and over. Ranging from the 3.2 million
intelligence agencies, as Churchill also Indochinese who were killed as a result
attempts to vocalize in his essay.
of America 's war in Southeast Asia to the
Basically, the backlash against Ward Native Americans who were nearly wiped
Churchill's writing is more a denial of out in the "founding" of this nation, there
that was -i n my high school ; he gave it a
good try before rea lizing that his family
couldn ' t afford him going to school any
longer. It is awkwa rd to talk to him at the
Jiffy Lube where he changes my oiI.
But honestl y, I think the blood sprouted
up from one of my fam il y members. It
feel s good to have people prai se yo u for
yo ur ed ucational prowess. I was back in
Eastern Washington last week and we nt
out to lunch with my sister and dad and
a co upl e of my dad 's lawyer co lleagues;
they were a ll full of praise for my decision
to go to law sc hoo l. I don 't remember any
of them ask ing what my sister was up to,
but it turns out she 's a lready been accepted
to law schoo l. I feel like that praise mi ght
have an effect on each of our ca reers, se lfes teem ... but she' ll get over it, rig ht ? Ri se
to the top and what not. I am sure those
stuffy old men will change and see her for
what she really is as soon as she is out of
law school ; then they will treat her like an
equal, I am sure. But right now I have to
do something about this blood. Maybe a
good old -fashioned protest will do. I hear
that there 's something happening in South
America next month: trade or G8 or something. It should be fun and at least enough
of a rebellion against the establishment to
get this blood off my hands, right?
Ted Reinbold is a senior enrolled in
Articulating Power. He is studying white
anti-racist action and activity.
are plenty of people around the world
who have been royally fucked over by
American aggression. It was only a matter
of time, Churchill believes, before one of
them was smart enough to fight back .
Read his essay in its entirety at
h tip :ll www.p.oliticalgateway.com l
news/read. html ? id=273 9"
Jacob Stanley is a freshman enrolled in
America in the Twentieth Century.
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
8
FEBRUARY
The Curmudgeon:
Money: the root
of all·evil?
Let's say that I raise sheep. A problem
arises when you rai se sheep, however: You
I rec e ntl y can't eat just sheep to survive. Now, my
s howed a film neighbor, he 's a nice guy who grows tom aon
ca mpu s toes. Some tom atoes would go real good
as part of my with my lamb chops, so I decide to try and
get some of hi s tomatoes. I offer him a
coord in ator
job w it h th e sheep f'or a bushel of them tomatoes. (S ure,
he cou ld give them to me for free, but what
Mind screen
1V0uid
be the fun in that'l) Unfortunately.
Film Gro up .
my
neighbor
has no use f'or sheep and he
The fi IIII was
a police pro- won't proceed with the trade. So it see ms
ced ural where a bag of money was the we ha ve hit an impasse.
But I still want them tomatoes, so I
thing that the charac ters in the movie
decide
to see if I can trade my sheep for
were aner. After the sc ree ning, a particusomet
hing
that would bl' of more use to
larly hairy attendee smelling of patchouli
took the tim e to share what he ga ined my neighbor. I take my sheep down to
from the mov ie. Appare ntl y, all that he the market and trade it to some guy f'or
had learned was that, "Money is the root ten Hotul as (the unit of currency in my
of all evil, man ." That was the sum total made-up sce nario) and go back to my
neighbor to buy that bushel of tomatoes
of hi s experience.
It bugs me that my articles latel v seem f'or the ten Hotulas I got f'or my sheep. Now
to be inspired by something naive- some- I got my tom atoes and my neighbor's got
so mething for all
one said, but
his hard work.
if it sets me "
So what really
off enough, I
There
is
no
inherent
value
happened here?
have to write
Essentially, I did
in
Monopoly
money,
yet
in
about it, at
trade my sheep f'or
least to cleanse
the context of the game, it
a
bushel of tomamyself. Sorry,
is used as a measurement
toes
because they
folks, but thi s
of
constructed
values
of
the
were both of the
shit sticks in
little
red
me value. But
sa
properties
and
the
my craw.
they
weren't really
and green pieces of plastic .
Saying
of
the
sa me value,
"Mone y is
Fucking brilliant!
were
they?
If they
the root of all
were, my neighbor
ev il" is typical
wo uld haY<: gladly
ove rl y s im"
traded
them
to
me
in
the
beo'" innin 0n' but he
plistic Greener logic. It se riously pains me
didn't
because
he
believed
his tomatoes
that even in colkge people do not have a
than
my
sheep.
To me,
were
more
valuable
working knowled ge of how money work s.
Some of my readers are smarter than I giw however. they were oCthe same va lue. So
them credit for, I know. Many of you no why did money help me')
Beca use money is a measurem ent and
doubt feel. as I clo, that it's ridiculous that
not
a good and is thus standardized. With
I am nolV about to expla ill \Vhatmoney is.
money
I can successfu lly trade my sheep
Aut I' m doing it.
There's a terrific book out called Rich f'or the bushe l beca use I can usc it to meaDad, Poor Dad. It explains that the number sure the value of each and asscss that they
one reason the ri ch stay rich and the poor are of equal valuc in a grander economic .
stay poor is simpl y because rich parents sen se of value and equality. That's the
teach their children about how money ultra-simplified version.
That's why I like Monopoly so much.
rea lly works. Understanding money is
There
is no inherent value in Monopoly
the key to achieving wealth. You need to
money,
yet in the c,ontext of the game, it
invest and make your money grow into '
is
used
as
a measurement of constructed
something. Get a return . Of course, with
that comes assessing and managing the risk values of the properties and the little red
of your investment and all that comes with and green pieces of plastic. Fucking brilit , but that's a whole other angry column. liant' Real life money is the same: There
Money is not the problem; it's the way is no inherent value to it. It simply exists
people use it that's the problem. People as a way of measuring the importance of
forget that money is entirely a human the goods and services that are acquirable
creation. They view it as a construction by money,
Class dismissed.
that has been thrust upon them by outside
forces. Not true. All the money in this
Lee's New Rule of the Week:
country used to be backed by gold; now
it's backed by nothing. That means, theo- Celebrities can't also be fashion moguls.
retically, anyone of us can create or invent Madonna, P. Diddy, Eminem, Jennifer
Lopez and every other overblown celeb
money, But what is money?
is
coming out with his or her won personal
Money is a measurement. That's all it is.
clothing
line as if it really means someIt's the same as a ruler, or a barometer, or a
Richter scale. It is a tool for measuring the thing. I say let's torch these clothing stores
monetary value of something or its numeri- and honor these artists the right way, by
cal value, or an amount that specifies the steal ing their work off the internet.
place of something on a strict economic
scale. That's a little obtuse, but I'll try to Lee Kepraios is a senior enrolled in
Forensics and Mystery Writing.
explain myself,
By Lee Kepraios
LEITERS AND OPINIONS
17, 2005
ILetters to the Editorl
Clarifying my role in
enrollment groWth
what do I need to do to I~elp? What would
enable students to better take part in this
In response to Ja vier Berrios' Letter process? I admit that this question comes at
to th e Ed it o r last week: I'm confused. a point when the DTF is beginning to conStudent op inions surrounding the iss ue of sider proposa ls and that perhaps it should
enrollm ent growth seem very diverse, yet have been posed to the community earli er.
as th e sole student representative, I ha ven't My fault. I take the blame for that.
I object to asseltions that the Enrollment
heard a word of' it exce pt through articles
in thi s newspaper that mi srep rese nt the Growth DTF has met " under the noses"
of stud en ts. This is patently f~rl se -th e
DTF en tirely.
I applaud the work of the student union, DTF was made known to stud ents in fall
lirst of all, and I am di sa ppointed in Adam quart er with an articl e written by myse lI'
Hilton's fai lure to check hi s fact s before in thi s very newspaper. Proposal s wou ld
writing his arti cle. However, that , to me , have been freely accepted from student s
docs not excuse one thing: Students have if they had been submitted . There was one
been given opportunities to give their feed - student on thi s campus who was on the
back to thi s DTF and, with the exception li st of potential proposal s, but not hing was
of a very small number of st udents, have ever submitted.
I want to clarify why I' m on thi s
failed to do so. The ove rall student reaction secms to be "SO what? I' m graduating DTF. I have se rved on the Enrollm en t
Coordination Committee for over two
before this happens. "
In 1110st cases, th·is 'iscnot actually true. years and have gained an extensive
There are a number of proposa ls being background on enrollment at Evergreen.
considered which could be implemented I was approached by the chairs of this
as soon as next year. This is dependent, DTF because of that background, which
however, upon the Board of Trustees and prepared me for my work on this DTF.
the President of the college; the DTF only Since then, I have made every effort to
exists to make a recommendation to the ensure that the viewpoint of students is
administration about where we think the well represented.
Being on the DTF, however, is more
college should grow.
Further, you're graduating, but you about reading proposals and being buried
have the most knowledge surrounding in data. For me, it's making sure student
Evergreen and the way it works. You have input is welcomed and heard. Give me
the best insi ght into what thi s college is all something to work with. Let me know
about. This applies to every member of the yo ur concerns, your fears, your hopes,
st udent body. This is yo ur college. You can your ideas. I wi II do my best to ensure
determine its future. I' m on the DTF to that the DTF takes the opinions of students
ensure that the voices of this st udent bod v seriously.
are heard, but Illy job is limited by my abilPeter Ellis is a sllper-senior enrollf!d ill
ity to get con s tn~tj.ve feedba ck.
Pcrhaps so far I ha ven ' t done my job. So The Novel: Lifeancl Form.
By Peter Ellis
Both Sides Now
By Sam Goldsmith
The
Synergy co nference hit its
climax last
Saturday night
in the CRC
with an address
by
Amy
Goodman, host
_1Io.l of Democracy
Now! Her radio program is one of the
strongest independent news outlets in the
United States, and at Synergy she called for
an honest depiction of the war in Iraq by
the corporate media and stressed the necessity for independent journalism. She said
that corporate media won't show images
of war because they are "distasteful." But,
as Goodman accurately points out, "War
is distasteful."
Goodman suggests that ifthe American
public saw the horror and destruction in
Iraq, "the war would end in a week ,"
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
COOPER POINT JOURNAL
FEBRUARY
Shadowlands presents puppets and
shadows, February 18 and 19
9
17, 2005
The night is enormous, The night is
endless, To and fro in the earth, and up
and down in it, the secrets walk. In the
Experi mental Theater, a piece of human
substance has pressed into the enormous
night, and through the fall has congealed
like a pearl in the mouth of enorm ity, .
a ha~mony with the massive and decaying
bodies of academia and a flock of queer
Like lichens in the mists, puppets and birds.
The Shadow resists expression; it is
shadows are gatheri ng in the Experi mental
Theater into the night. And the night is ~hat which we Illutually agree to hide,
enormous. What is the result of placing an 'g nore or obscure. Everg reen is one site of
arbitrary collection of people in an experi- active endeavor to give voice and substance
mental theater for a quarter and condens- to elements of our culture that are f'orced
ing their Shadows into visible substance? into the Shadow. In theater, the challenge
i>!lOl o bylc"ric Gre~11
Twenty students over the course of the fall IS t? find expressive techniques to stage
From leli.· Quinn Bivens, Sean D()uj;subject matter that is normally unspoken
have given to thi s question their dreams
.
las, Dianne, ['eler Hm, Ryan.
their time and their bodies. They hav~ or suppressed. Since the subject matter
found that where the
of Th e Nig ht
Showings are at 8 p.m. February 18
body di sperses beside
Showings are Friday and Saturday, is Enormous and 19 in the Experimental Theater (COM
resist s stagi ng, 124). There is no charge ror admi ss ion.
its shadow, another
February 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.
the product ion
Shadow ri ses with the
in the Experimental Theater.
explores a mul- Eric Grf!en is a senior studying Iheater.
ephemeral life of the
tidi sc iplinary
theater- and thi s they
combination
are offering twice, in
the night, once this Friday and once this of shadow puppetry, wearable sculpture,
film manipulation , digital music engines,
Saturday.
The Shadowlands program has been oral narrative, theatrical graffiti, da nce
the condwelling in the Experimental Theater and other techniques. Some
through Fall quarter through a res idency st ruct ions are as small as a hand , but arc
structured by their faculty, Ariel Gold- made huge in shadow projection. Others
berger. For years now, this vast dark are massive full-body structures made of
space ha s been inhabited only sporadi- latex and enorm ity that wal k among the
cally. When you enter the ET now, you do audience. The stage is a circle of eleven
not see people, but embodied shadows in ~nas,~ i~e proj ection screens with an adjoi ndisembodied space. The body of Tile Night Ing Sideshow." The st udents of Shadow- By Christopher Alexander
is Enormous is drawn from our cultural lands are trying from every angle to warp
A lot of good id eas come out of
"Shadow"- a Jungian phrase. As such , the shape of theater or to produce shard s Olympia. Seeing flyers for the Ladyfest
the bodies the production represents are of something new.
plan n ing meet ings a Iways rem inds me of
The production herein referred to as thi s, and so cloes the Sex Workers' Art
those that are suppressed from the theater of quotidian life. A " Freak Show" The Night is Enormous ha s three official Show. Originating in Oly, but now touring
examines the process of othering, while names: The Nighl is EnorlllollS, TIle Night nationally, the show has provided a stage
the singing corpse of Vaudeville puts on IS Endless, and The Secrels ol"Traveling. for the workers in the sex industry for the
last eiglJt years. It provides a voice that
in the organizer'S words, " moves beyond
' positive ' and ' negative' into a fuller portrayal of the complicated wavs sex workers
experience their jobs."
I caught up with a "very cafTeinated"
Annie Oakley Monday morning, and we
By Eric Green
FREE
of
An interview with
Annie Oakley of the
Sex Workers'
Art Show
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Perhaps she gives the American pub li c too
much credit, but she is abso lutely correct
when she says that we Illust be shown both
sides. We must see the reality of life in Iraq
since the onset of the war. We must see the
photographs and hear the stories.
The Cooper Point Journal hold s the
same journalistic re sponsibility that all
newspapers do. I call on the CP J to report
the real news: Publish weekly war updates;
body counts, photographs, the election ...
The newspaper staff has the responsibility to print this news, but the students of
Evergreen have to responsibility to write
it. Empower our community through
journalism. To quote Amy Goodman,
"Democracy Now!"
Chrislopher. Alexander.. How did the
idea/or the SWAS come abOUI?
. Annie Oakley: It started in Olym'pia
eight years ag<?1 used tobe.in this activist
com munity center called Liberation Cafe
and I was one of the paid staff there as ~
grant writer. I started working in the sex
industry and I was really open about my
employment with everyone at the center.
It was a progressive activi st place, and
people had known me and had known
my work for years, so I assu med that it
would be fine. But they had all these reac tion s, like I was anti-remini st. They said
thes.e th,ngs that were really in sulting to
my Int ell'ge nce, and I relt lik e they cam e
from a really sex ist and class ist point of
view. So I was super angry.
We would have all these Friday night
events at the. center, and we were sill ing
around talkrng about th e next month 's
Friday night events. So I sa id , "Well, I'm
having a Sex Workers' Art Show." I didn't
have any idea what I was doing, what I was
~oing to do or what it was goi ng to look
like or anything. I just wanted to make
them deal with the stereotype s that they
had of the people in the industry. And I
Just put out calls for submissions all over
the place that year. You know, health
clinics, strip clubs, newspape rs, coffee
shops, homeless shelters, anywhere I can
think of. And the response to it was really
?verwhelm, ng ly posit ive and it's really
Just k md of grown from there.
C: Okay, why did yo u decide 10 lake
th e show 011 the road?
A: People had been hassi ing me to
doit for a while. I finally got tired of just
dOing the show here. I mean, the reaction
of the Olympia audience has changed a
lot, and for a town of its size, at this point,
Olympia is really savvy on sex workers'
politics. Andl started to feel like it would
be a lot more interesting to do it someplace
else. And so I decided to take the risk [... J
I had to learn how to become a book ing
agent and a promoter and a road manager,
and all of these things that I had no experi-
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FEBRUARY 17, 2005
Prepare to kick it old school
at the Midwinter Ceili:
Friday, February 25
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Kreator returns with surprisingly
great old-school thrash metal
bringing in two : Local heroes The Burren
Boys will be joined by special guests Foot- By Mike Treadwell
notes, featu ring Green Linnet recording
Krcator
art ist Johnn y Con nolly.
En emy o/God
As al ways, no prior danc ing exper iStea m ham mer/SPV, 2005
ence is ne cessil ry, as Ma ldon wi II teach the
ba sic steps before the dancing start s and
Ever haclthat fee ling that band s from the
go throug h each dance before it beg in s. past that com e back to rec ord aibulll s either
If yo u've never before trea ted yo urse l f to so und wa shed up or just pla in pathet ic?
the ma gica l c.\ pt.:rience that a good ceili Well here is an album that is an exception
can pl"Ovide, there 's no better tim e to start to that rul e. In 2004, there were more tha n
than nOl\'I
a few eighties metal band s that came back
T he nt.:\ t da y, the fun co ntinues as from the dead to record album s- Megadeth,
Ma ldon and Irish fiddler and dancer Ronan Exodus, etc.- and the resu lt s were mi xed.
Regan prov ide a dazzl ing introduction to From the same tim e period, here is a band
sean-nos d,lIlce, one of Iri sh culture's best- that has come back to record an album in the
kept secret s. Reg ularl y performed with "old-school" thrash style.
The previous Kreator album (Vi o gusto in Ireland but virtuall y unknow n in
thi s country, sea n-nos is a spirited , free- lent Revolution, 2001) was simil ar in it s
form style of improv ised solo dance, some- attem pt at recreating the music they did in
what ak in to American tap dance. Maldon is the eighties and early nineties. Thi s alb um
one of only a few experienced practitioners surpasses Violenl Revolution and most of
of this art in the States, so thi s is practi- their previous work in severa l ways. (Yes,
ca ll y ~ once- in -a- lifet im e opportunit y to "Enemy of God" may be better than thei r
learn something abo ut th is raw, energetic orig inal work.) This.is so for se veral reasons:
da nce style.
I) th ey}lOW know how to write a song that
Th e sca n-nos class will take place on is intricate yet sti ll interesting; 2) they still
Saturday. Fdxua ry 26 in Seminar JI EII07 . have the ene rgy and forc e that th ey did 20
at I p.m. Adm ission, so ld at th e door, yea rs ago; 3) no ser ious line-up changes in
is $ 10 for TF. SC stude nt s/staff/faculty, the band wi th the important members, i.e.,
li l5 for community me mbers <lnd $5 for voca list/main guitar ist and drumm er. With
people under IS. The ceili is free for TESC all of these pluses under their belt, En emy of
students/stafthac ult y and people und er IS, God turns out to be a great alb um that has
not one dull moment.
and $5 at the door for everyone else.
Admittedly, when I picked thi s up I
Zane Ilaxton is aiunior enrolled in Envi ron- didn't expect that much. The bands that were
mental Analysis and is also the coordinator K reator's contemporaries in the 19S0s have
for the Evergreen Irish Resurgence Element waned quite a bit in their musical offerings.
I f you pick up any Slayer album after 1990, it
(EIRE) Erin go bragh!
By Zane Haxton
The rumors yo u have heard are true:
Thece il i is back.
At the end of last qua rter, Eve rg ree n
stud ent s gathered under cover of darkness
in the Longhouse for a ni ght that none would
ever forget. .. for the next few day s, at least.
Propelled by the fl ashing fidd le li nes and the
high wai l of the ui//('(Jnn pipes, th eir hea rt s
penetrated by th e pul se of the pounding
hodhran, over 70 otherwise normal Evergreen students succumbed to the wiles of
Irish trad wizards Fiddlehead and the seduct ions of local caller Patti Martig. By the end
of the evening, as the inten sity of the music
hit a roaring crescendo, the room became
a fireball of pure vital energy, and a ll that
remained inside was a sing le mass of sweaty,
pulsating Greenerflesh .
If you were there on that fabled night ,
then you don't need me to tell you how much
fu n it was. If you missed out, then prepare
to become acqua inted with th e event that is
fast becoming an eagerly awai ted Evergreen
institution : the end- of-t he-quarter cei li .
Why should you come to the ce il i? And
just what is a ce ili, anyway? To the uniniti ated , your standard ce ili is basically a wi ldly
energet ic Irish soc ial dance part y, complete
with a live band and a ca ller to teach the
dances. But on Friday, .February 25 at 7
p.m. in the Longhouse, we' ll be kickin g it
up a notch or two. Instead of merely hi ri ng
a local caller, this quarter we'll be fl y ing in
Maldon Meehan , a Greener grad who has
been making a name for herself in Ireland
and the States as a top-notch Irish dance
instructor, to teach and call the dances. And
instead of just having one band , we'll be
Oberst is becoming a voice of ours.
His first cut, "At the Bottom of Everything," is straight social commentary, challenging materialism and war. Dylan was a
pioneer of anti-war/soc ial pa radigm song
writing. "H urricane," the first track on
Desire, speaks to the racial injustice of the
Awake is, as Sadd le Creek's website says,
early
'70s.
By Sam Goldsmith
"a country- tinged melange of Conor's finest
Finally, both B.E. and B.D. are on tour
aco ustic so ngs."
and playing at The Paramount in
Bright Eyes
Ober st is foll owi ng the
Seattle: Oberst tonight, Thurs1 'm Wide Awake It 's Morning
bloody tracks laid by Dylan in
day, February 17 ($21-$23, on
Saddle Creek Records
more ways than one. /'m Wide
sa le at ticketmaster.com) and
Awuke fea tures voca ls from
Dylan on March 7,8 and 9 ($37What do Bright Eyes and Bob Dyl an legendary singe r/son gwri ter
$67, also at ticketmaster.com).
have in com mon? More than you mi ght Em mylou Harri s, who nea rl y
Go buy /download / burn
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think.
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ago
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Relea sed last mon th ,
today. It wi II be amo ng the best
a lo ngs ide
I'm Wide Awake, It 's
albums of the year, and who
Dylan on hi s
Morning is one of two
knows, in a generation or so it
19 76 aibulll , "Into Conal' Oberst 's could
new a lbum s by Co no r
reach t he legendary stat us
D es ir e. sullen eye s and paUl- Bob hold s today.
Oberst (Br ight Eyes) on
Obe r s t, ing lips we must stare,
Sadd le Creek Records ,
like Dylan , we must stare, we must Sam Goldsmith would doubtless
hi s hometown label out of
Omaha, Nebraska.
si ngs a ut o - stare." Photo cour - like me to write a clever bio fu r
tesy of Saddle Creek
In the past few years
biographihim, too. I, Christopher Alexsince the release of Lifted
ca l
t a les Records.
ander, am heginning /0 regrel
or Th e Story Is In The
of miser y,
lhe day I ever wrote something in italics. I
Soil, Keep Your Ear To
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a lcoholi sm, th e toils of realize thai Sam is a busy guy and all, what
The Gro un d , Oberst 's Bright Eyes' ( '/II lI"ide Atl'ilke lt ·s .\lumillS!, love and the mood of the
indi e -rock ha s shift ed Albul11cnvc r :C') Saddk C r~~kRccord s country. Dylan is one of with coordinating our Leiters and Opinions
section in between his demanding America
from Elliott Smith-esque strung- out to th e greatest songwrite rs in rdck and roll in the 20 th Century curriculum. All the same,
Bob Dyla n-e sq ue folked-out. I'm Wid e hi story- the voice of his generation-and these bios are supposed to be about th eir
Conor Oberst is Wide Awake
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character, not mine. Digging il1to older
CPJs, 1 discovered thai "Dr. Goldsmith"
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he got his doctorate, or f urthermore why
he's enrolled in an undergraduate program
with his doctorate in tow. He is a prelly cool
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his computer's desktop, Also, the best song
on th e new Bright Eyes album is "Old Soul
Song." "Road to Joy" is a close second. ,
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album , and I wholehearted ly suggest it to any
fan of any genre of metal. If yo u like music
that kicks your ass, then this is it. Loud , hard ,
fast- just th e way it shou ld be.
8.5 out of 10
sucks. Same with Megadeth- with the exception of the last album in 2004- and even
more so with Metallica and Anthrax- two
Alex Slwlnici, Trio
bands who should 've just quit while they were
TransfiJrl1lClt ions
ahead. " Best before 1992" is the best rule of
Magnatude, 200.+
thumb. That is also where Kreator stood until
2001. But with the latest offering, I hope this
Hav ing just rev iewed a Illetal albulll by a
trend cont inues.
The first song starts off with a pummel- band that goes back to 1985 provid es a good
ing guitar
tran siti on to
riff
and
thi s eclectic
a quarter
pie ce
of
beat on the
work. A lex
high hat of
Sko lni ck
the drums .
was the gu iT he power
tarist of San
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then
end s Testament , and
you know
you have
he was one
of the most
something
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goo d. The
g u itari s t s
second song
of that age.
sta rts right
He ble nd ed
where the
fi rst leaves
signa tureoff with a
h e a v y
. speed-meta l
mini-drum
so lo intro
ri ffs int o
a k ind o f
and
th en
"Bac hthe constant
double bass
Krealor Enemy of God album cover. ©NippO/1 Crow/1 roc k" style.
A lex
left
with a sur- Records.
that . band in
pri s ingly
melodic guitar" riff. Great stuff continues on 1992 and si nce th e mid-nineties has been
the rest of the album with an intricacy that studying jazz theory in New York.
I've always li ked metal be bop and
keeps things interesting as well as forceful.
Mille Petrozza has made a great metal avant-garde jazz. Many people have fOLind
Of
Celery
and
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this amusing since I love people like Miles
Davis, Jaco Pastorius and Dizzy Gillespie
while st ill enjoying people like Rob Halford and bands like Death. But alas, we have
Transformations,
What this album represe nts is something truly ori gin al. Out of the eleve n
songs, four of the songs are originals written by Skolnick and company. The rest are
"covers." What the Skolnick team has done
is rewri tten Judas Pri est's "Electr ic Eye,"
Pin k Floyd's " Money," Iron Maiden's "The
Trooper," and Deep Purple 's "H ighway
Star" into jazz tunes.
Sounds odd at first, and many rockers
have becollle jazzers to no ava iI. It ju st
usua lly sound s so fo rced. Th is is qu ite
different though. The songs are good in
their own ri ght, and if you don' t know
the origina l tunes yo u would still think
Skolnick's treatment was good. Knowing
the origi nals just makes it better.
The songs on Transformatiuns represent something that is a proper bridge
between the world of rock and jazz. The
three-piece se tup is composed of Alex
Skol nick pl ay ing the guitar, Nathan Peck
playing the double stand -up bass and Matt
Zebrosk i playing th e drums/percussion
section. Eac h of these music ians is good
on their own in strum ent but pl ay well
with each other where no transition is left
hanging. Just for the sheer or igina li ty of
something ,like thi s, it 's worth picking up.
A song for the late
Colin Reese
By Nathan Hadden
Written on Colin's memorial in 2004, my fin al yea r at The Eve rgree n State Coll ege.
My g ift to the college after I ca me here aft er 9/ 11 .
Song: I will miss yo u, I wi llmi ssyo u, I \Ii sh lie
talked more, I wish we spent more tim e toge th er, I.ill:
was too short for us to be a part, we \\ere too lill"
apa rt fro m an un sec ured world to be ab le to be open.
If only we kncw we could tru st eac h other more but
when we come from differe nt world s and diffe rent
places somet imes we are more a lone than we th ink.
When life comes to a n end it is unopen ; it ca n be too
short. We think we will li ve for 100 years bu t
sometim es we will a ll drift apa rt and find time from
time to move on. A II people need to be loved not ju st
those that are what we make them to be. ' J() be love d
w ill be good.
90utof i0
Mike Treadwell is enrolled in Nietzche:
Life, Times, and Work and studies the
history ofphilosophy and economics.
We need you the way we need water in ou r life. I
need you the way the sun rises every day and falls
every night. T he day we no longer see the sun is the
day the time is com ing to an end. When the stars no
longer shine at night, when the world is not what we
make it to be. We are no longer loved ; we no longer
know who we are. I will mi ss you like I mi ss
chocolate, like I miss the love I never had . As I
move on from this place I know I was loved, I know I
had been loved.
By Katie Thurman
Chlorinated suga r helps us lose weight.
Or at least we think it does.
Chlorine, that's good for you,
It's found in natu re, right?
As children in poor countries starve
We deny ourselves our bounty.
We grow more ample as they grow weaker
And we curse our waistlines in the mirror.
In amer ica there's a new religion
Of soy drink s and salvat ion.
The thinner is the winner
Acros s thi s voluptuou s nation.
Chea and eas
."
Choirs : May we be loved, may we be loved. People need
to be loved by peopl e; to love all people not ju st
those that are . You arc not who yo u see m to be; yo u
are not what we make of yo u, but what you make of
yo urse lf.
Salvation
We'll scrape the plenty off our plates
And head to the gym to purge.
We'll painstakingly count the content
Of every gram offood.'
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Katie Thurman is a junior enrolled in
Introduction to Natural Science. She
is studying premed. Sh e also wants me,
Christopher Alexander, to write a clever
bio for her, but she's really not that interesting. Although we were the only two CPJ
staff who caught the AnaislHenry reference in last week's love lines.
Choirs:
You are not who you seem to be; yo,u a re not what we
make of you, but what you make of yourself. May tho se
around us continue to feel loved by those who loved
us. May love be the one thing that helps us become
what we need to be, love is what you make of it.
We were a ll a special group of peopl e; we cared about
the world not just money or life itself. We wanted to
make things better, may our lives know that we were
better, because they were. I miss you I will always
mi ss you because we were all loved.
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This is dedicated to every friend I knew that was involved in the so li da rity movem ent,
including Rachel Corrie and Colin Reese, two friend s dear to my very heart. Rachel Corr ie
went over to Gaza and was killed defending a Palestinian home about two years ago, after
I came to the Evergreen Sate College in 2001. I want to thank them for what I have done,
and what they have done, and hope that one day peace will be on earth , as we all wish it
was. The way they did, and they way I did, from the moment we were born.
Nathan Hadden is a senior presently doing a nutrition internship, and does grant writing
, and academic research.
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ence with. But it's really worked out.
only options available to them. I think that
C: Okay. You touched on this in an sex work is work. It 's more work than it is
earlier answer, but I did want to talk a sex, and it's really much more of a class
1--little bit about the whole debate between issue than it is an issue of morality.
people that think that the sex industry is
C: That's extremely well put. How do
inherently oppressive to women, and the youfeel people in the sex industry are usu- By Nicholas Stagnone
response to that being thaI a lot ofwomen ally portraxed, either by the media or by
find the sex industry to be very empower- people's mischaraclerizations, and what
Noam knew in Colombia before
That they so unjustly
ing. I g uess I'm jusl asking for your two do you feel the Al'l Show's role is in chal- Kofi did in SudanTook from everyone
cents, or ifyou could clarify that posit ion lenging that ?
Be it Mothers or Fathers
as much as possible.
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A: Uhm. First of all , I do think the sex they're demonized, like they're these dirty
Are starti ng to recogn ize
Brothers or Sisters
industry is exploitative, in as much as any crack whores on the street who are bringNeo-Hitler 's Master Pl an.
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They got a little bit from everyone ...
a capital ist system that tries ..,------.,------, mythologized as these sex Violence in the strcets
goddesses, nymphoman ito get th e most out of its
Is what happens when absent
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workers while offering the
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mysterious. Or th ey' re
littlest amount of cQmpensation. And I think th at sex
just like objects, lik e To illuminate the fe stering
Ithink it might be tilne
industry is no different from
some bars will have like
Mi sdeeds of our RULING CLASS
To
remove yoursel f from
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any industry in that respect.
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And craw l off
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Bcfore you get
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time, I really don 't feel like .
it 's more exploitative than
people from all areas in
To lea rn about things so
That Smug look
other industries. I feel like
the sex industry who are Blatantly absent in their
Bitch slapped
in it for a whole bunch of
the argument ofex'ploitation
GREEDY ACTIONSOff yo u I' face,
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PllOI" by Jallles McCaffrey different reasons, who had
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sexua lity, and to mask this A,.I Show appears Ihis Sal"rday, cxpcriences, and it makes Dividing us all into
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of others. And ifpeople arc and licke ls are $12
expcrience people have
concerned about exp loit awilhin indu stry, And the Never would my voice
Right about now
tion in the sex industry, then they should poi nt of doi ng th is is that the on Iy people
Be the one to
Gett
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be doing something to raise the minimulll that really benefit from the mythology and
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Of th e lies and half
wage, or to fight violence against women, sham e the surrounds the sex industry are
or to fight the vestiges of sex ism that make the people that run it, like the cops and the
To overthrow a sy stem
Truths from a sha Ilow
it so that women still earn less per dollar pimps and the greedy club owncrs and the
That is Rickety-Krickity
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for the same job th at men do. Women don't bad trick s. That's who ultimat ely benefits
All Hallowed out when
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have access to industries like the construc- frol1l the mythology and shame, because it
tion trade, th at don't require a college makes it easier for them to conlinll(: ab usRich bitch mother
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educat ion. People that are decrying th e ing the people in industry because it's out
Fuckers forget to
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Break out the broom:
Take two: TESe Women's
Basketball secures
playoffs seat
It's a sweep for Geoduck men's basketball
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A II rogether now. on the co unt of three,
in the tune of "W ho Let The Dogs OutT
One. two. three, "Who Let The Geoduck s
Out ? Goo, goo, goo goo." The chant was
inve nted by Eve rgree n student s Jaimie
Terada and Shan nun Lee and cou ld be
heard echoing off the wall s during Friday
nig ht's in-state battle aga inst the Northwest
University Eag les. A slow start for both
squads ended in an Evergreen rout , with
a fin al sco re of 70-63 as Evergreen swept
the season series.
I was watc hing Evergree n wa rm up
before the game and shot after shot clanked
off the rim. There are many reasons why
teams warm up before ga mes. Some do it
to find their rhythm ; othersj ust wan t to get
'oose. Then there's the answer that I hear
the most, ''I'm just getting my bad shots
out of the way." A in 't that the truth.
Asked to describe thi s team in o ne
word , I call them gunners. Yes, I know it
doesn't see m fitting for the lowest- sco ring
team in lhe conference, but I've noticed a
lack of Ouency in Ihe offense and rushed
three-poin l s hol allemp ts res ultin g in
a 33 percent average from beyond the
arc, eighth in the conference ..1I' you take
away all the three-po int shots attempted
and made for Evergreen and then look CIt
the stats, th ey shot 49 percent. five percent
hig her than their normal ave rage. While
the stati stical di fferent ialmay seem small
and insig nifi cant, the ac tu al play on Ihe
co urt becomes more cri sp and smooth.
It could nol have been more obv ious
on Fri day ni ght. The Geoducks worked
Ihe pai nt Iike I'd been hopin g they would
all yea r. On three cunsecu li ve pussl;:ss ions
earl y in Ihe first ha lf, senior Walt Tuck er
carne off pick s and popped I S-foot er
jumpers on Ihe base line. They also mad e
it a priority to.get the ba ll inside to sen ior
Barson Collin s to use hi s mu scle aga inst
This is Ihe \Vay basketball is meant 10 be
played.
A trend has a lso surfaced over the
past coup le games. It' s cal led seco ndhal f sjlurts. Everg reen lately has started
the second half with little 7-0, 8-0 run s
to either widen the lead or close the gap.
PholO by Kip , ll'II ev
S.:niur Wall Tucker cilshes in fu r 1\1'0 n/his leU/II -leading /8 poinls in Ihe Geoduck win.
Northwest's size, or lack thereof, including
thei r top scorer, sophomore A aro n Sawyer.
The numbers say il all. Evergreen shot 60
percent from the fi eld, thei I' most efficien t
ou lin g all year, and shot 54 percent from
three-point land , aga in their best al l yea r.
Everg ree n had a halft im e lead of s ix
aga inst the Eagles, and then things rea lly
began cli ck ing. Defense. shot se lecti on,
rebo undi ng, basical ly every aspect of the
game was goi ng the Geoducks' way. The
defining moment came at the 5:41 mark
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of the second half as Evergreen had the
command of the game and Barson Co llins
connecled on a put back basket while
gett ing fauled in the process. A scream
of exuberance came from hi s mo uth as
you could feel the frustratio n of the early
goi ngs of the seaso n sta rting to lift off thi s
team '5 shuulders.
The lead event ually was bui lt up to 17,
and with two minutes and change remain ing, coach John Barbee fe lt the game was
won, 50 he started bring in the rese rves .
To get ba'c k in t he game , Northwest
started to fou l and send Evergree n to the
line for foul shots. Free thro ws haVe been
Evergreen's Achilles hee l all season. On
three straight possessions, Evergreen players were fouled and sent to the line where
they were asked to preserve the huge lead
but co uldn ' t come through; which allowed
Northwest to make the score not seem like
such a beat dow n.
FOLir playe rs scored in do ubl e figures
for Evergreen and once again were led by
Tucker 's 18 on seve n of nine shooting,
incl uding two for two from three-po int
dis tance. Evergreen has so lidified a berth
in the confe rence tourna men t and I, Kip
Nathan Arney, honestl y be lieve thi s team
ha s the makin gs for an up set again st
a hi gher seed. They ' re fi nal ly coming
together, and they have o ne morc chance
to prove it to yo u as th ey hosl Warner
Pacific and Casca de thi s upcoming
weekend, Friday and Saturday, Feb ru ary
18 and 19.
By Meredith Lane
My apo logies fo r mi s informing the
evergreen community last week . Senior
night is this Saturday, not last Saturday,
and the three lovely ladi es mentioned in
iast ' week's articl e graduated last year.
Moving along.
This weekend, in the last home games of
the season, the Geoducks wi II host Warner
Pacific and Cascade College on Friday and
Saturday nights. Friday's game will start at
5:30 p.m . Saturday'S will start slightly after
5:30 p.m. following a celebration of the
athletic careers offour valuable members
of the women's basketball team.
Captai n Heather Hyde is a 5'9" starter
from Central High School. She transferred
to Evergreen from Tacoma Community
College. She will be graduating with a
degree in educati on and hopes to start
teaching soon.
Number 30, Stephanie MacDuff, as'S"
guard from Lakes High School, transferred
from Tacoma Community Co llege.
Sara Wallman, a 5 ' 6" guard fro m Elma,
WA , came to Evergreen from Elm a Hi gh
Sc hool. She wi ll be graduating with a
degree in forestry and park services. She
wants to work with the State Parks assoc iat ion as a ranger!
Les lie Jacobson, as ' 10" post from
Puyallup, transfe rred to Evergreen from
SPSCc. She plan s to go int o a caree r
involving C rim e Tech nology within the
FBI.
These se niors ca n be proud of lead -
Kip Arney is ajunior enrolled in Forensics
and Mystery Writing. He is sl/{{jying crl!alive wriling.
ing their team to th e second consecutive
round of post-season play for the Women's '
Basketball program . With th e guidance
of Coach Monica Heuer, the program is
developing intp a force to be reckoned
with .
Regardless of the loss la st weekend
versus Northwest, Evergreen is sti II in the
running for playoffs. That said, the best
th ey can do, ass uming doubl e wins thi s
weekend, is a tie with Albertson's Coll ege
of Idaho for a conf!!rence finish of fourth
place. Albertson and Evergreen have split
this year both winning at their opponent's
home. Even with a tie, AIbertson 's has
mo re wins overall than Eve rgreen, and
will host the first round of playoffs. If
Evergreen loses both games thi s weekend, they will be sitting at sixth place in
the conference, pl ay ing the number three
seed, which will be determined between
Eastern Oregon University and Weste rn
Baptist.
In a predictable confe rence, it could be
ass umed that Evergreen would win thi s
weekend, but with the lack of consistency
across the board in the CCC in 2005, the
top eight may already be determined, but
the standings will be up in the air until th e
linal buzzer on Saturday night. Playoffs
wi \I convene three days later on Tuesday,
February 22.
Ri ght now, the Greener gals sta nd a
great chance of making it to at least the
second round of playoffs; a fter thaI, it's
literally any team's game. Each program
has had its ups and downs throughout the
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17, 2005
Women's basketball:
Eagles swoop down on
Geoducks in a 75-68 loss
of halftime to cut the Eag le lead to nine
points . But Northwest used a full court
press to force 24 Evergree n turn overs
and keep the lead near ten for most of th e
second period.
Still , Evergreen looked poised to make
a run as Stephanie MacD uff drained a
three-pointer with 3 :2 1 left in the game
to pull Evergreen Lo within seven at 6067. But two Northwest baskets sandwichf!d
an Evergree n turnover to stretch the lead
back to II.
From there the Eag les iced the game
at the free throw line, going six for six in
the final 1:30.
The loss drops Evergreen to 15- 13 on
the year, 8-8 on conference play, and puts
in jeopardy the Geod ucks ' chances of
hosting a first-round Cascade Confere nce
playoff game.
By Erik Gibson-Snyder
The unheralded Northwest Uni versity
Eagles came into the Cam pus Recreation
Ce nter at The Evergreen State Co ll ege
and handed the Geoducks a 75-68 loss.
Free-thro ws aga in haunted Everg reen as
Northwest went 17 of 21 fro m the line
while Evergreen we nt just 10 of 16.
But the Eagles jumped the Geoducks
from the opening whistle, opening up a
double-digit lead earl y in the ball game.
Evergreen was virtually un able to stop
Northwest 's offense as the Eagles were
shooting over 60 percent from the fi e ld
for much of the first half.
Bekah Proctor lit up the Geoducks for
23 points and hit four of faur free thrown
down the stretch to de ny Evergree n a
chance at a comeback.
Jenny Olson led Evergreen in scoring
and rebounding as the sophomore recorded Erik Gibson-Snyder is pe/jarming double
. pllly as Ihe Head Wum en ~ Soccer Coach
22 points and hauled in 10 rebounds.
Freshm an Kamri ca Ary-Turner added and Ih e Evergreen Sporls in/ormati on
12 points and se ni or g uard Stephanie Direclor. He gradualed/i'om Evergreen .. .
afew years ago ..
MacD uff added II .
Evergreen scored the fi rst baske t Ollt
season. According to Coach Monica Heller,
Evergreen hasll 't had any signi ficant issll cs
o n the road: II 'S battling themse lves on
th ei r home court that hu rt their record
earli er thi s season . With onl y two home
games left thi s season, the girls need all
the support they can gct. l3e sure to checr
them on Ihi s weeke nd in thc C RCI
A/aedifh Lane is a sellior C wren/I)' il7lernillg ill Ih l! Washingloll Siale Senate. She
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Events This Week
Thursday, February 17
10 a.m.-3 p.m. All-campus garage
sale! Your old junk is someone
e lses desired treasure! Show up at
8 a .m. to drop off your stuff in the
first floor library lobby, or pull your
car around to the loading dock .
1 p.m. EF students wi 11 present
cultural information on Korea in
Lecture Hall 1.
,
4-6 p.m. The Evergreen Queer
Alliance will be g iving a workshop
in Seminar II Cl107.
6-8 p.m. The Washington Center
is hosting a seminar with Rebecca
Sol nit based on selections from
he r book Hope In the Dark: Untold
Histories and Wild Possibiliti es .
Longhouse.
6:30 p.m. An all encompassing,
no-nonsense STD and birth control
disc ussion with members of th e
Peer Hea It h Team w i 11 be held in
Se minar 11 C II07.
7 p.m. Scott R ittcr and Dah r Jamail
speak at Capito l T heater. Tickets
a re $10 in adva ncc and are available
at Tradi ti ons Cafe and Rain y Day
Reco rcls. $5 don at ion at the door.
Saturday, February 19
1 :45-4 p.m. Gre n Caje te w i 11 Icad
a seminar on hi s boo k Ig niting the
Sparkle: Indige nous Method s of
Sc ie nce Education. Sem II El107.
8 p.m. Dennis Hastings, a jazz
voca li st, will pe rform at th e Spar.
Mytholog ical M asquerade wi 11
be held at The Capitol Theate r
B ac ksta~e. Event features live
music. The Student Tsunami
Collaboration will be holding a
raffle and taking donations. Tickets
are $6 in advance and $8 at the
door. Advance tickets avai lable at
Rainy Day Records, Traditions, and
Last Word Books.
7-11 p.m. The Evergreen Irish
Resurgence Element presents a
Midwinter Ceili . Free for TESC
students a nd faculty and anyone
under 18 . $5 at the door for
everyone e lse.
Saturday, February 26
Tuesday
CRe.
4 p.m. Prison Action Committee meets
in CAB 320, Workstation 10.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
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4:30 p.m. The Evergreen Compost
Club meets in the Organic Farm
workroom: For more info, email
ca rj ay 13@evergreen.edu.
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4 p.m. Carnival, Seminar II DlI07.
S p.m. Yoga C lub, CRC 117.
4 p.m. Women s Resource Center,
CAB 315.
5 p.m. Soccer in the Pavilion.
4 p.m. Racquetba ll in the CRe.
7 p.m. Students for Christ, Seminar II
EII05.
.
4 p.m. CPJ paper critique. Come voice
concerns about the week s paper.
5 p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB 320.
4 p.m. ASIA meets in the CAB third
floor conference room.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
5 p.m. Yoga Club, CRC 117.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the
C Re. Come join in late-night activities
like Badminton, Ping-Pong, Basketball ,
Volleyball, and 4-Square.
5 p.m. Dodge ball in the Pavilion.
Come play!
6:30 p.m. Procession of the Species
Wednesday
8:30 p.m. S&A Productions
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""Tt.J
Thursday
Maldo r1' Meehan and Ronan Rega n
in Sem II E1107. $10 for TESC
stude nts/staff/fac ulty, $ 15 for
community me mbers, and $5 for
people unde r 18.
Sunday, February 27
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4 p.m. Racq uetball in the CRe.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Long house.
Celebration Benefit Concert,
featuring Alpha Yaya Diallo.
Capit o l Theater. $ 11 admission, ages
II and under free .
A"PDIZ E,.S~
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the
CRe. Come join in late-night activities
like Badminton, Ping-Pong, Basketball,
Volleyball, and 4-Square.
6:30 p.m. Hunger and Homelessness
group meets in S&A office.
1 p.m. Sean Nos Dance 101 wi II
W £.£K
6 p.m. EARN meets to disc uss a nimal
rights in CAB 320.
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CHRIS ENRIGHT
6 p.m. Men s Center meets in CA B
320 in Workstation 2.
7:30 a.m. Yoga C lub. CRC 116.
1 p.m. Evergreen Queer A lliance,
Seminar II C2 I07.
7 p.m. C lea n Cars Legislation
Organizi ng Group meet s in the S&A
offi ce.
1:30 p.m. Environ mental Resource
Cen ter, Semi nar II E3105 .
7 p.m. Percuss ion C lub, basement of
the Library Buildilig. A ll a re welcome
and drums are provided I
1:30 p.m. Radical Catholi cs meet in
CAB 320.
7 p.m. Geodance meets in the bott om
fl oor of the Library.
presents S leater-Ki nney and Sa rah
1:30 p.m. Native Student A lliance
meets in CA B 320. Workstation 13.
Doug her. T ickets w ith TESC
I.D. are $ 10 in advance and $ 13
2 p.m. Eve rgree n Capita lists
at the door. General Admission
O rga ni zation . Library 1308.
is $ 13 in advance and $1 5 at the
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for
door. Student ticke ts avai lable at
. Choice, CA B 320, C ubicle 17. Office
the Evergreen bookstore. General
hours: Wednesday. 1-2 p.m., CAB 320,
admission tic ke ts available at Rainy
C ubicle 17.
Day Reco rds and He lmers Music.
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center,
Seminar II E2105.
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7 p.m. Juggling C lub, Semin ar Il
Bl107.
6-8 p.m. Olympia Men s Proj ec t meets
every second a nd fourth Thursday at
UCAN. For more information, call
(360) 352-2375 .
9:30·11:30 p.m.· Late Night at the
CRe. Come join in late-night activities
like Badminton, Ping-Pong, Basketball ,
Volleyball , and 4-Square.
3 p.m. SEED, Seminar II E3109.
Tuesday, February 22
6:30 p.m. How do movies portray
communication around intimacy?
This event wi 11 explore how to
talk to your dates about sex and
intimacy. Sem II 03109.
Thursday, February 24
·1 p.m. EF students present
information on the culture of Japan
in Lecture Hall I.
i
p.m. Umoj a presents the Soul
Food Potluck in the Longhouse.
8 p.m. Mount Eeri e plays show in
Olympia. Cost is $5. Event to be
held at The Eagles Hall on 805 41h
Ave. E. in Olympia.
Weekly Group Meetings
3 p.m. Writer s Guild, Seminar II
Al 107.
Monday
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 315.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
Friday, February 25
8:30 p.m. The First Annual
3:30 p.m. Environmental Alert,
CAB 320 on the couches. Help
defend Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 315.
,
4 p.m.
~PIC,
Seminar II A2105.
5 p.m. The Cooper Point Journal meets
in CAB 316. Come participate in the
organization and the planning of the
newspaper.
4 p.m. CPJ producti on night. Come
participate in putting. together your
student newspaper.
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the
CRe.
S p.m. Evergreen Irish Resurgence
Element meets in CAB 320,
Workstation 4.
7 p.m. Improvisational Theater,
Seminar" CI 105.
7:30 a.m. Yoga Club, CRe 116.
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3 p.m. Women of Color Coalition,
CAB 206.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the
CRe. Come join in late night activities
like Badminton, Ping-Pong, Basketball,
Volleyball, and 4-Square.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
5-7 p.m. Scrabbelicious presented
by the Writing Center in CAB lOS.
Coffee, treats, and prizes!
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the
Friday
3 p.m. CPJ Friday Forum. Come put
your ethics to the test, learn about
journalism, and discuss issues in
journalism and group dynamics.
5 p.m. Electronic Music Collective,
Seminar II C2107.
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appreciation
Society, Seminar II Al 105.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
5 p.m. ASTESC Student Union meets
in CAB 320.
Sunday
1-3 p.m. Ultimate Frisbee in the
Pavilion.
3 p.m. Kickball on the field next to the
HCe.
5:30 p.m. Yoga Club, Lecture Hall 3.
6:30 p.m. Common Bread, Longhouse
Cedar Room.
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