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Greener intern's
protest state budget

By Christopher Hickman

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Nathan Vin cent 'is a senior currently working on photography not associated with any course. He is f ocusing on Japanese studies,

During this academic year the Services
and Activities Fee Allocations board has
been hard at work making decisions that
have an effect not only on this year 's
on-campus activities, but on the future
as well.
On Friday, March 18, the S&A Board
deliberated on the 2005-06 Tier 1 budgets,
which include the CRC, the Children 's
Center, the C PJ, KAOS and the S&A
Administration. T hese deliberations also
included the 2006-07 budgets. The funds
allocated at this time are part ofthe annual
biennium process, which is how the larger
campus entities that serve the student population are given their portion of available
funds. The deliberations themselves lasted
eight hours before the board was ready to
reach consensus on the fo llowing items.
Forthe 2005-06 portion of the biennium,
the Student Activities Administration
recei ved $3 19,429, the Children 's Center
$209 ,6 84, the Cooper Point Journal
$99,652 and KAOS $ 166,709. The subsection of S&A Admini stration known as
S&A Productions rece ived $45, 186 and
the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention
was also awarded $ 15,290.
These fu nds themselves go toward such
expenses as staff wages, staff benefits, student wages and benefits, travel, and goods
and services. Goods and services generally
equates to those essenti al materials vital to
the continued abil ity of the organi zation
to continue to de live r services to students
unimpeded .
The numbers themselves for these
and all areas don't change significantly
from 2005-06 to the '06-07 year of the
biennium. Any changes are reflective ofa
mandatory increase dictated by the state
and are required, but in the long run are
minimal.
Due to a very tight budget this year the
board was forced to make very tough decisions as to,the section of budgets known as
enhancements. These are costs that groups
requested in addition to being funded at
their present operating costs. All groups
this year were at least funded at their present operating costs with the inclusion of
cost of living increases and inflation over
the next two years.
As well , the area of the College
Recreation Center received sufficient
funding to maintain their current level
of services provided. For the 2005-06
Section of the Biennium they were
allocated $226,347 in the area ofCRC
Operations, $60,576' for Intercollegiate
Sports, $64,829 in Recreational Sports,
and $13,460 for the Wilderness Center. In
the area of additional enhancements, the
CRC has decided to appeal their awarded

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Issue 23
Volume 33
April 21

News In Brief
Community Based
Learning and Action
Panel

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Filmmaker visiting
Evergreen

Ph oto by Eric Tompkins

WROC interns Pippenger. Anderson and a dead Wholey protesting the state budget.

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medicat ions they can afford .
The " Die In," directed at state legislators, demonstrated the lethal consequences
Seven sheet-shrouded bodies lay on the
of cutting social services. WROC interns
ground whi Ie a trio of state patrol officers
Kara Anderson, Jonathan Pippenger, Raine
stood by, waiting to act. Cardboard tombWholey and Eric Tompkins loudly voiced
stones recorded the reasons for those that
their oppositi on to tlJe proposed budget,
passed. Symbol izing victims whose deaths
along with 40 other acti vists fro m Real
were caused by state cuts to programs for
Change and the Statewide Poverty Action
low-income peopl e, Eve rg reen internNetwork.
activists participated in a " Die In" las t
" It was empowering and fun to be
week on the state capital campus.
making a diffe rence," stated Anderson
Whil e ideas of internships ge ne rate
ing the
" It was great seeing
images of simply
somanyd ifanswering phones
f e r e nt
or making copies,
gro ups repinterns at the
rese ntedWe i fa re Right s
To contact your state legisby
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Or g ani zi n g
and
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C o a l i t ion econ omi WROC ,
pro(BOO) 562-6000 to leave a
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to affect
difference.
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State Legislature
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was
is presently prea culmination of direct actions to raise
paring its biennial budget. Low-income
legislator consciousness regarding issues
people will be profoundly affected by
of low-income people. For informaWashington State's fiscal plan. Some of
tion regarding internship opportunities
the state budget plans include a $3 coat WROC , contact Monica Peabody,
payment for Medicaid recipient prescriporganizer and intern supervisor, at (360)
tions, a $1 co-pay for Medicaid recipient
352-9716.
transportation to medical appointments,
To contact your state legislator and the
cuts to G.A.U . (General Assistance for
governor, call (800) 562-6000 to leave a
the Unemployable), and no cost of living
message opposing $3 co-pays for Medicaid
increase for 12 years to T.A.N.F. recipients
recipient prescriptions and the $1 transpor(Temporary Aid for Needy Families). The
tation fee to medical appointments.
G.A.U. grant is a small stipend for those
unable to work at only $339 a month.
Eric Tompkins is a senior doing an internMedicaid recipients with multiple preship with WROC.
scriptions will be forced to decide which

By Eric Tompkins

level of funding. This encompasses areas
such as National Travel expenses, Uniform
& Equipment allowance, CRC equipment,
pre-seaso,n -athlete housing and soccer
game day employees.
This area of the budget will be heard
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Olympia, WA 98505

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The entire Evergreen community is
invited to a free public presentati on sponsored by the Center for Community Based
Learning and Action. The panel discussion
on computer technology and comm unity
li fe will be held fro m 6-8 p.m. ne xt
,Wednesday, April 27 in Lecture Hall 5.
Panelists wi II address issues including the
use of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), citizen-led techn ology initiatives
and using technology to provide peopl e
with equal access to justi ce.

Board seeks student
reaction to 5% raise

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at an appeals hearing during this week, at
which time a decision will be made as to
these issues.

Evergreen Expressions and the Local
Knowledge program are bring ing fi lmmaker Judith Hetl and to ca mpus May
3-6. Best known for her se lf-described
"toxic comedies" Healthy Baby Girl and
Blue Vinyl, Judith addresses issues such
as the effect of environmental toxins on
human health in her film s. Judith 's visit
will include a special commun ity session
with clips from her work at Traditions Fair
Trade Cafe on May 4 from 7-9:30 p.m.
An all-campus presentation will fo llow
on May 5 from 7-9:30 p.m . in Seminar II
DI \05 . More information about Judith 's
work and media-commun ity connections is
available at htlp ://www.bluevinyl. org and
http://www.workingfi Ims.org.

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Smoking Shelters
Comment Box ,
I' m an enroll ed student working on the
contract to design and build the she lters
in designated smoki ng areas on campus,
I know this has been a hot topic on the
campus with a lot of debate about where,
why, poli cy, eMorcement, etcetera. I j ust
wanted to let you all know that there is
now a comment box on the second tloor
of the library building in the lobby where
you can put comments about where
you'd like to see the shelters. We are in
the final phase of the design process and
we would like to make it available to the
community to give us their say. Thanks,
everyone, for your opi nions ... Please
leave us a note in the box, not by e-mail.
-Brief submitted by Campus Shelter
Contract Group

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Dating study looking
for participants
Unhappy with the current state of
your relationships? Looking to meet new
people? Having a hard time making those
first moves? If you're interested in participating in a dating study, please email
TheDatingProject2005@hotmail.com for
more information.

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Feminists in Self-defense Training
. (FIST) leads a workshop April 27

Vox Populi

By Aiden Seraphim

Do you have a secret? If so, what is it?

Feminists in Self-defense Training
(FIST) will lead a workshop focused on
self-defense from 5-7 p.m . in CAB 110 on
Wednesday,April27.
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Sexual assault, safety and empowerment will be themes addressed as the
Office of Sexual Assault Prevention
(OSAP) wraps up sexual assault awareness month on campus. FIST is a program
that developed out of Olympia in 1979 that

OK, my peeps. Just a real quick rundown on some
events and goings-on the student groups are organizing. WashPIRG is doing a couple of things. First off,
from 10 a. m.-2 p.m. on Friday, ApTil 22 in the CRC,
there will be th e Tsunami Slam benefit tournament.
Anyone can join their team and you can win prizes,
so be there or be square. Just after that, there will
be a rockin ' Futurama-watchin ', snack-eatin ' , and
letters-to-the-editor-writin ' bonanza! Ahem, at 6:30
p.m., in the HCC, join fellow Greeners to wTite those

damn polluters.
On another note, the Men's Center is back
in action, and of course everyone is welcome.
Meetings ~re at 2 p.m. on the third floor of CAB.
SESAM E, which is Students Edu catin g Students
About the Middle East, is looking fo r new members to help eliminate ignorance abo lit that crazy
pl ace. Good luck, Greeners , and be sllre to look
for a mu ch longer and more thorough articl e next
week. Godspeed, YOll crazy hippi es.
David Hornb eck is afreshman enrolled in Popular
Economics.

''I'm not going to Evergreen next
year, takin' some time ofT!"
Katherine Jardine
Sophomore
Women: Voices and Images

"I've once urinated on a piece of
artwork in the process of creating

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aims at addressing the differences in how
men and women grow up and how that
affects experiences, fears, and feelings
toward violence and self-defense.
The workshop is open to all people
who care about ending sexual violence.
It is important to note that even though
self-defense can increase personal safety,
sexual assault is never the fault of the sur-

Construction at Evergreen
cause$_upset

Spencer Thun
JunioT
Teaching Through Perfo rmance:
American Radical HistOlY

"Sometimes I talk to plants .. ."
John Samson
Sophomore
Patience

Voices of C%r is a column written by any student of color who wants
to for the given week. It was created recognizing that people of color
and many concerns unique to communities of color in the U.S. are
underrepresented in mainstream media. It is a place for students to
share their experiences, with the intent of furthering understanding
of race issues within the immediate Evergreen community.

"I applied for W. Bush's cabinet.
I'm sorry. Really. "

To submit letters, poetry, or essays to Voices of C%r, or to talk to an
editor, stop by CAB 316, call 867-6213, or email cpj@evergreen.edu.
You must specify that you want your work to go in the Voices of
Color section.

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Erica Woodmonsee
Sophomore
American Places

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Anthony Sison
Freshman
Chemistryfor Health
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staff
Business
Business manager. .... .. ................ ... .... ..... Adrian Persaud
Assistant business manager. ... .......
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Ad proofer and archivist.. ............ .... ..... .. Kristen Lindstrom
Circulation manager/Paper archivist .... .... ...R. Yazmin Shah
Distribution manager..... ......... .. .. ............ David Hombeck
Ad sales representative .... .... ........ .... ..... ...... ........ ..... unfilled
News

Cooper Point
Journal
Your work in print
is written, edited and distributed by students enrolled at
The Evergreen State Cotlege . who are sotely responsible for its
production and content .
is published 28 Thursdays each academic year. when class is in
session: the 1st through the 10th Thursday of Fall Quarter and the
2nd through the 10th Thursday of Winter and Spring Quarters.

is distributed free at various sites on The Evergreen State College
campus . Free distribution is limited to one copy per edition per person .
Persons in need of more than one copy should contact the CP J business
manager in CAB 316 or at 867-6054 to arrange for muttiple copies. The
business manager may charge 75 cents for each copy after the first.

Editor-in-chief.. .. .
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Managing editor ............ .... ...... ... .....................Corey Young
Arts & Entertainment coordinator.... .Christopher Alexander sells display and classified advertising space. tnformation
Briefs coordinator. .. .......... ................... ....... ....Kate DeGraaff about advertising rates, terms and conditions are available in CAB
Calendar coordinator ...................... .. .............Katie Thurman 316. or by request at (360) 867-6054.
Comics coordinator. ....................................... Chelsea Baker How to Contribute
Copy edilor. .................... .. ............ .....Mitcheli Hahn-Branson
Copy edilor............... ........ ......... ........ ................... Sean Paull Contributions from any lESC student are welcome. Copies of submission
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News coordinator .. ................ .... ........ .............. ..... Joe Jatcko 316, or by request at 867·6213. Contributions are accepted at CAB 316, or
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Sports coordinator .................. .... ...... ... Meredith Lane
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Brad Meyers CAB 316
Tim Yates News: (360) 867 - 6213
Email: cpj@evergreen.edu
Advisor . .... . .. ......................... .. .............. Dianne Conrad
Assistant to the advisor . .. .. .... .. .. ................... M.A. Selby Business: (360) 867 - 6054
Email: cpjbiz@evergreen.edu

Meetings
Our meetings are open to the Evergreen
community. Please come and discuss with us!

Organizational Meeting
5 p.m. Monday
Find out what it means to be a member of the
student group CPl. Practice consensus-based
decision making.

Content Meeting
5:30 p.m. Monday
Help discuss future content , such as story
ideas, Vox Populi questions and possible long
term .reporting projects, as well as other things
needed to help the week along.

Paper Critique
4 p.m. Thursday
Comment on that day's paper. Air comments,
concerns, questions, etc. If something in the
CPJ bothers you, this is the meeting for you!

Friday Forum
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3 p.m. Friday

Put your values to the test! Discuss ethics,
journalism law and conflict resolution.

All meetings are in CAB 316.

Construction f or a one-lane roundabout begins on Evergreen Parkway This project
has faced oppos ilionji'om some residents of Cooper Point Road. who have Slated that
" 70 percent (jfth e arterial use is through traffic. " and the reduction down to one-lane
is "unsaf e and an ineffective use offunds. " Th e Evergreen Board of Trustees approved
this $1.5 million-dollar proj ect in March.

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The Board was also faced with a very
difficult decision during their deliberations
in terms of available funds and the amount
requested. The solution the board came to
was to raise the student fee from its current level at $143.80 or face deficits in the
next two years and some equally seveTe
financial shortfalls over the next five or
more years.
In the end, the board reached consensus
on raising the student fee by five percent,
which is on par with the college as far as
the maximum that the fee can be raised .
This will , in turn, raise fees from $143.80
to $150.80 per quarter, which is an additional $7 more per quarter, starting in the
fall of2005.
What this fee increase will do is allow
the board to continue to fund the aforementioned organizations at their current levels
\Vithout having to sacrifice service to the
students. It will als'o allow the board to
work toward paying off the debt ofrebuilding the Chi Idren's Center additional costs
incurred since it had opened later than
expected. These add up to $107,000 a
year for the next two years.
In the long run , raising the fee wi ll also
benefit the greater student popu lation by
generating more funds that can be used
toward Tier 2, .whi ch encompasses any
and all registered student organizations
which reside outside the realm of Tier I.

These budgets fund student organizations
during their operational budgets as well
as the Special Initiative fund . As well, it
will give the board more funds to deal with
emerging needs that may be unforeseen
as of now_
In 2005-06 the projected S&A Revenue
will total $1,687,718, with the five-percent increase totaling around $76 ,636
for a total of $1,764,345 to go towards
allocation. And in 2006-07, S&A revenue
will be $1,764,354, while the five-percent
increase that year will account for $80,468.
This will then give the board $1,844,822
to go toward allocations.
In order to allow the Evergreen student
population greater voice about this issue,
we would like to know what you think
about this fee increase. Starting next week,
the board will be tabling in the CAB with
comment cards. We will also be handing
out information about the increase as well
as answering questions. There will also
be a community forum for student input
directly to the board on May 2 from 4-6
p.m. in CAB 315.
The entire budget for this year goes
before the Board of Trustees on June 9
during their general meeting. At that time
they w ill make any and all fee increases
official, as well as the boa rd 's fi nanci al
recommendations.
Chris Hi ckman is a senior enrolled in
Framing Film. He is the S& A Board
coordinator this year.

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continued!

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By R. Yazmin Shah and Adrian Persaud
By David Hornbeck

21, 2005

Volunteers needed: Faculty applicant preEvergreen Sustainable sentation
Home
This is a final opportunity to participate in the building ofthe EveTgreen
Sustainable Home, a collaborative
Evergreen-Habitat for Humanity project that will provide an affordable home
for purchase by an Olympia family. The
home, designed by Luke Howard and
other Evergreen students in the 20032004 Ecological Design progTam, is
near completion. Construction has used
alternative, sustainable building materials and practices. It already has won
many awards, including national ones,
and will be one ofthe greenest buildings
in the country.
Completion ofconstruction is expected
about May I. In the meantime, additional
volunteer labor is needed to work on the
final touches. This wiII include sanding,
painting, cleaning, landscaping, etc . If
you want to get in on the work of thi s
exciting projec t that has uni que ti es to
Eve rgreen, merely show up at the site
on one of the fo llowi ng days between 9
a. m. and 3:30 p. m.:
Saturday, April 23
Wednesday, April 27
The house is at 1104 [3rawne Avenue
N.W. a t the inte rsecti on wit h Foote
Street. On Braw ne Aven ue near the
Westside Olympia Food Coop, merely
dri ve about a block down the hill toward
the waterfro nt. You wiII see the house
and Habitat fo r Humanity sign on the left.
Ask for Jerry Fug ich, construction supervi sor. Here's a link to a map that shows
the location : http ://www.4-earth .com/
Habitat/Directions/dir-Brawne.htm
To read about this amazing collaborative project between Evergreen and
Habitat for Humanity, here is a link to
one of many articles written about it:
http ://www.theolympian .com /hom e/
specialsections/HomeoftheMonthl
200407311110454.shtml
-Brief submitted by Jose Gomez
Member of the Evergreen Faculty
and Habitat for Humanity Family.
Advocate Committee

All members ofthe Evergreen community are invited to attend and comment on
a public presentation by Ron Meyers, an
applicant for a faculty position in public
administration . Believing... Green and
Voting Green: Comparing and Measuring
Environmental Ethics and Support for
Environmental Policy will be held in
Seminar II CliO? on Thursday, April 21
from 4:45 to 6 p.m.

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Knight at
E.vergreen Friday

JZ Knight will be speak ing in the
Evergreen Gymnasium (CRC) thi s Friday,
April 22 at 7 p.m. The di scussion, entitl ed
In Search % ur Self and its Purpose, will
add re ss questi ons such as " Why am I
here?" "How can I truly enrich my li fe ?"
and "What does the futu re hold for me and
the world ?" Tickets cos t $5 and are avai lable at Evergreen ' 5 Bookstore, Rainy Day
Records, and Traditi ons Cafe. The doors
will open at 5 p.m ., the presentati on begi ns
at 7 p.m. and a book signing will follow
at 9 p.m.

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Graves at
Evergreen Sunday

Now is the time to buy tickets to see
Joules Graves, Taarka and Flowm otion
in the Longhouse on Sunday, April 24.
The show starts at 8:30 p.m. and tickets
will be on sale at the door for $10 with
an Evergreen ID and $13 without. But
you can save thTee bucks by stopping by
Evergreen 's Bookstore with your ID for
$7 student tickets. If you are not a student,
-then your advance tickets are available at
Rainy Day Records for $10. Enjoy the
show.

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S&A Facts
• For the 2005-06 portion of the biennium:
• The Student Activities Administration received $319,429
• The Children's Center: $209,684
• The Cooper Point Journal: $99,652
• KAOS: $166,709
• The subsection of S&A Administration known as S&A
Productions received $45,186
• The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention was awarded

$15,290.
• The area of the College Recreation Center received (for
'05-06):
• $226,347 in the area of CRC Operations,
• $60,576 for Intercollegiate Sports,
• $64,829 in Recreational Sports, and
• $13,460 for the Wilderness Center.

• In 2005-06 the projected S&A Revenue will total
$1,687,718, with the five-percent increase totaling around
$76,636 for a total of $1,764,345 to go towards all ocation.
And in 2006-07, S&A revenue will be $1,764,354, wh ile .. .. t!
five percent increase that year will account for $80,468. This
will then give the board $1 ,844,822 t o go toward allocations.

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FIST Workshop

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Editor-in-Chief for ·'05-06:
Eva Wong!

vivor. Regardless of whether the survivor
fights back or cannot fight back, it is never
the survivor's responsibility.
It is believed that although self-defense
will not end sexual violence, it can help
protect people greatly. Taking a selfdefense class can be a valuable way to
practice screaming, " Stop!" and asserting
clear boundaries in a safe space, especially when we have been socialized to
act politely.
According to self-defense information
compiled by George Mason University,
"records show, that using self-defense,
women can and do resist rape attempts
successfu ll y .... Based on these studies, f,I.S.T. (Feminists in Self-Defense
Training, Olymoia, WA) states that there
are three times as many rape attempts as
completed rapes. Some women had used
physical force to resist their attackers, but
the majority of them had only to use verbal
statements to avoid an assault. In the case
of acquaintance rape (80% of all assaults),
assertiveness and verbal . resistance have
been found to be highly effective." These
statistics show that taking a self-defense
class can triple a person's knowledge of
increasing their personal safety as we ll as
provide an 0PPol1un ity to practice.
Many organizations have adopted the
FIST model for se lf-defense. Recently in
Olympia the Gender Variant Health Project
put on a three·week , one-night-a-week
workshop addressing the needs of gende r
queer and transgender people . Making
self-defense inc lus iv e of all people is
so important as shown through statistics
gathered by the Survivor Project (focused
on the needs of Trans . and Intersexed
survivors).
"In preliminary data, the Gender,
Violence, and Resource Access Survey
of trans and intersex individuals found

By Lee Kepraios

Some re so urces in fighting again st
sexual vio lence and working to create
safety are:
http: // w ww. ca ra-seatt le . org l
program s .html http: // www.aware.org/
aboutaware.shtm I#M iss ion
http ://www. yeh ud it .org/yeh ud itI
FIST.html
http ://www.gmu.edu / facstaff/sex ual /
self defense.html H
http :// www.surv i vorproj ect.orgl
defbarresp.html

Aiden Seraphim is a senior enrolled in
Multicultural Counseling. He is doing an
il7lernship through the Office of Sexual
Assault Prevention.

Evergreen hosts Earth First! presentations April 29
By Deane Rimerman
The Eart h First ! Round River
Rendezvous Road Show is going to be
on Red Square this Friday, April 29, at
noon . Come and learn about Cascadi a
[editor 's note: "Cascadia" is a name used
by many environmentalists for the Pacific
Northwest] and share the love of defending
wilderness.
The event is in preparat ion for the
National Eart h Firs t! Rende zvous,
thi s su mm er, July 4-11, right here
in Cascadia! Keep a n eye on http :
Il www.earthfirst 2005.org for all the
deta il s'
2005 marks 100 years of the US Forest
Service mi smanaging our public lands, but
it also marks 25 years of Earth First!(EF!)
Rendezvous resisting their destruction.
This year is al so the 100-year anniversary of the Industrial Wo rkers of the
World(IWW), who have been at the forefront of the radical la bor movement. Their
history and how the ir movement affected
th e env iron me nt w ill al so be co vered
through out the road show.
fhe Road show isn ' t just ce lebrating
511ch a mo mentous year and hi story. We' ll

also be talking about the here and now.
Someone from the frontlines of the Battle
to Save the Biscuit will be there to talk
about their struggle, what has happened
and why they are fighting for thi s special
area. There will also be many other presentations that apply to our struggles today,
such as why we do what we do, and a show
and tell of Nonviole nt Direct Action tactics
and the wild beings that motivate us to take
these actions.
The Road Show was born from the
Round River Rendezvous organizing
committee, so we ' ll definitely be informing folks about this year's gathering. It's
going to be held in the majestic forests of
the Mt. Hooo National Forest. You ' ll be
sure to find more music, games and workshops than your heart cou ld desire.
So visit the EF! Road Show on Red
Sq uare at noon on Friday, April 29. See
what we ' re up to this year. It's bound to be
a fun and ,crazy time. Invite a friend and
don't forget yo ur danc ing shoes.

Brought to by the Environmental Resource
Center: 86 7-6784 ercra;riseup,net

Hello! I'm Eva, photo coordinator at the Cooper Point
Journal. You might have seen me around, taking pictures at
events on campus. Or perhaps I have left you a voice mail
to the effect of "Hi, I'm Eva Wong from the CPJ. As you
may have noticed, we are including contributor headshots
with .all our L&O articles this year ... " Or you might just
work at Medialoan, and [ have often troubled you with
not knowing what sort of microphone I need to check out.
Whatever our relationship may be at this point, it's about
to get way more awesome. In a great feat of consensus
decision-making, I have been selected as the next editor of the Cooper Point Journal.
Heck yes! I am really looking forward to being editor next year, and getting a chance
to work with you to improve the CPJ. [ would love to hear about any ideas that you
have for the paper. I can be found in the CPJ office in CAB 316, or reached by phone
(360-867-6213) or email (woneva28@evergreen.edu). Stop by! I'd really like to hear
from you . And if all goes well , I might be able to rope a few of you into applying to be
the illustrious managing editor.

Eva Wong will be the CPJ editor-in-chieffor the 2005-06 academic year. She is ajllnior
enrolled in Mediaworks . She was appointed to the position on Monday. Not to be outdone.
on Tuesday the Vatican announced Joseph Ratzinger would be the new pontiff

Business manager for
'05-06: Corey Young! .
By Corey Young
. Hi!
My
name
is
Corey Young,
and I' m the
Busine ss
Managerelect for next
year.
I star ted
off at the
Cooper Point Journal as a page designer
my sophomore year and became Managing
Ed itor for my time as a junior. During my
stay here at the CP J, I' ve learned loads
about leade rship, communication, and, of
course, my own personal ways of handling
conflict.
I'm excited to have been appointed
Business Manager-elect, and [ have high
hopes for next year. One of those hopes is
to have a strong busi ness department with
an eager-to-Iearn staff.
Lhighly encourage anyone interested
in business or even finance to come up
to the office and check out our business
department. We ' re currently looking fur
an Assistant Business Manager and an
Ad Representative for next year, two
extremely rewarding positions.
The Ad Representative is responsible
for selling ads to local businesses and
writing up advertising contracts for the

department's records. ThI S means plenty
of client interaction and record keeping.
The Assistant Business Manager is
partly responsible for all the advertising
content and bus iness operations of the
newspaper. They work with the Bu siness
Manager to help wi th the leadership of
the CP J organization, and are expected
to become the Business Manager the following year.
Now, that all may seem a littl e daunting, but remember, we ' re all here to learn
in this office. The more responsi bility a
position has, the more experience you get,
and the experience you get at the CP J is
applicable to the real world. Think about it:
Where else could you go and get real world
business experience in record keeping and
management and receive a stipend? Truly,
the CP J experience is unique.
So, if you're interested in business, feel
free to come up to our office in CAB 316
and grab an appl ication. Even better, come
on in and have a chat with us. Or, if you
don ' t find your person on campus all that
much, give us a call at (360) 867-6213.
We'd appreciate it, as it gets really quiet up
here in our little corner of Evergreen.

Corey Young is ajunior enrolled in a contract titled Where Do Stories Come From?
She is studying creative writing as well as
try ing to hone her meager math skills.

Evergreen: reviewed
ana recognized
By Renata Rollins
Evergreen made it again on several
Princeton Review college guides.
This year the small,
public liberal arts school
in Olympia, Washington
is li sted as one of the Best
357 Colleges in the nation,
a Best in the West college,
and one of the top 81 Best
Value Colleges- where
you ' ll get the most for
your money.
References to " hippies" and " trustafarians" abound in the Students Say section ,
where actual Greeners throw in their two
cents about the college's academics and
li fe. Students also expressed a desire for
more diversity on campus.
Other Evergreen rankings include:

"B i rkenstock -weari ng, tree-hugg ing,
clove-smoking vegetarians" : #8
"S tudents ignore god on a re g ular
basis": # 18
"G reat college radio station": # 15
"Students most nostalgic
for Bill Clinton" : # II
" Dod ge ba II targets"
(based on popular ity of
theatre and smoking): # 19
Portland's Reed College
beat Evergreen in nearly all
of these categories.
Check it out on the web at
http ://www.princetonrev iew.com.

TIii .
(~nceton
. Review

Renata Rollins is a senior enrolled in
Business in Action. She is the editorin-chief of the CPJ. and her academic
emphaSis is journalism.

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The Curmudgeon: On student group funding

8yEva Wong
50% of respondents had been raped or
assaulted bY la romantic partner, though
only 62% of those raped or assaulted (31 %
of the total sample) identified themselves
as survivors of domestic violence when
explicitly asked. Ofthose who were raped
or injured, 23% (12% of the total sample)
required medical attention for injuries
inflicted by a romantic partner," according to the survivors project.
There are a number of organizations
that are dedicated to fighting sexual violence. It is important to acknowledge that
men are involved in deconstructing gender
stereotypes and coming together to join
the fight against sexual violence. You can
check out more information through http:
Ilwww.mencanstoprape.org/.
The Office of Sexual Assault
Prevention would like the thank everyone for participating in Sexual Assault
Awareness Month. Together we can make
a difference, together we are stronger, and
together we are one step closer to putting
an end to sexua l violence once and for a ll.
If you have any questions or just want to
get involved, call X5221. TTY relay: 1800-833-6384.

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[ recentl,),
resigned from
my position
as coordinator of the
Mindscreen
Film Group.
I had been
working as
~""_..J coordinator of
the group since spring of iny freshman
year and I wanted out, partly because I'm
a senior and can 't be showing movies right
up until graduation and partly because I've
become terribly frustrated with the way
things have been for us budget-wise. ,
Mindscreen did not receive 'a budget
. for spring quarter. By the time it was
Mindscreen 's turn to make the quarterly
budget proposal presentation, we were
informed that the funds were just about
spent. Nothing for Mindscreen for spring
quarter. And having just hired two ab le
yo ung coordinators to replace me, that's
no kind of welcome for Mindscreen's
new faces.
Mindscreen is one of the 75 student
groups on campus, with more groups
being formed all the time. The groups are
housed in the S&A office and get their
funding from the S&A board, a panel of
students who divvy up the funds to each
group based on the group 's requests.
That's the kind of thinking we have
here at Evergreen, and sometimes it's not
healthy. We' re so inclusive and concerned
about giving every gro up their voice that
we ' ve lost control of any sense of order to
the system. But hey, fuck the system , man.
It's bullshit anyway.
Uh, no. Exc use me, but there is only
so much money to be doled out to each
student gro up to do its thing. There has
to be a reason for tossing all this money
around. Eac h year. the school places in the
control of the S&A Board a sum of 1.5
million dollars to be divvied up. (By the

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bine these groups and form one sprawling,
all-powerful , multi-faceted group dedicated to making a difference in the world?
I may be ambivalent about some of the
group's motives and goals- for instance,
I think a student union on this campus is
an utterly terrible idea~and even though
some of the groups are cliquish and serve
what are, to me, fruitless and meretricious
causes, [ do understand that these groups
do need to be there. But we need to control
ourselves here.
Winter quarter was even worse for
Mindscreen this year. At that proposal
meeting , we were told by the S&A
Board-which I believe should consist
of experienced adults instead of peers my
age-that we were only being partially
funded. The reasons stated were that we
were not drawing a large enough crowd for
the budget to be justified and that we did
not make an effort to bui Id a constituency.
I mentioned that those in the Evergreen
community- bandy the word "community" about on this campus and doors will
open for you- are our constituents. Any
student who shows up to our movies is a
constituent. Our movie screenings are our
meetings. But they had trouble wrapping
their minds around that concept. We were
asked what kind of goal we were working toward, as if that should be the reason
we should be funded. I had forgotten you
need an agenda to be taken seriously at
this school. But essentially we were told
the budget wasn't allowing it.
The S&A Board now operates on the
more frugal mantra of "cost-effectiveness," which is just another way of saying
" It 's all about the Benjamins." The budget
decides all. I say, " Why?" First of all, any
shortage of funds the S&A is having is
their problem , not the student group's .
Secondly, where do people think budgets
come from? Budgets are not mandated by
some omniscient magi who bring them
down on a golden chariot from the heavens courtesy of the high gods of funding
and finance. They don 't pass through a

membrane from some di stant universe.
They're made by people, meaning people
can change them., There's not enough in
the budget? So fix the fucking budget! All
budgets have to come from somewhere,
and with a little persistence, they can be
changed.
r understand there will be money problems, but as a student I don't see the point
of these punitive, confiscatory shell games
in which th.e importance of your agenda
should take precedence in whether or not
you get funded. I've been at this' school
for four years and I can see the people
who show up to the Mindscreen movies
because they exist. That's all the reason
you need.

Lee's New Rule of the Week:
Mourning the death of Mitch Hedburg
does not make you a stand-up comedy
aficionado. At least not any more than
rooting for Lance Armstrong makes you
an international cycling aficionado. Look,
r loved Mitch, but why not broaden your
horizons and bask in the joy of so many
other delightful stand-up comedians the
world has had to offer instead of just the
ones your friend burned you the albums of?
I don't mean to be so petty and negative
but why not take the time out to sample
the improvisational . genius of Robert
Klein, the raw, the ribald scatology of
Redd Foxx, the razor-sharp wit of Dennis
Miller, the self-deprecating hilarity of
Richard Lewis or Rodney Dangerfield, or
the biting political commentary of your
Mort Sahl or your Bill Maher? There are
a lot of great comics out there now, but
stand-up is not what it once was. Forty
years ago, Lenny Bruce challenged and
deconstructed the minutest machinations
of the political and soc ial order. Today
most comics can reach roughly the same
conclusion : TV commercials are dumb.
Yeah, we get it.
Lee Kepraios is a senior doing a contract
on stand-up comedy.

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way, this is not hard-hitting; investigative
journalism- all this information can be
looked up on the campus website). And it
gets handed out in bits to the CPJ, EPIC
and all the other groups we have, excluding
the ones that operate without a budget.
The problem is that there are more and
more student groups being formed each
month and there is simply not enough
money to accommodate all of them, even
in the slightest. Now, [ may not be an
expert on the gymmistics of the jurisprudence of college spending, but even I can
tell that we have too many student groups,
which wouldn't be a problem if many of
these groups produced any kind oftangible
results.
Which brings me to the student groups.
I feel a number of these groups are meandering, arbitrary and redundant and do
not produce the kind of results necessary
to justify their budgets. We need to either
strike some ofthese grou'ps lest they work
toward setting specific accomplishments
other than " Let's fly somewhere and
stand around and hole! up signs and shout
things until the police come and pull us
away," or lump a few of the redundant
ones together.
For example, we have Students
at Evergreen for Ecological Desi gn,
Development of Ecological Projects
for the Evergreen Organic Farm, The
Ev~rgreen Animal Rights Network, The
Environmental Resource Center, The
Evergreen Political Information Center,
The Healing Arts Collective, The Student
Union Work Group, The Prison Action
Committee (noticing a pattern here?) ,
The Radical Catholics for Justice and
Peace, The Society for Trans Action and
Resources, Students Against Hunger and
Homelessness and on and on and on.
What we have here isa numberofgroups
with specific goals who, if we extrapolate
from their individual mi ssion statements a
bit, are really all working toward the same
solution : making Evergreen and the rest of
the world a better place. So why not com-

Whil e most cyclists [ know will tell
anyone who asks them that drivers are
consistently assholes to us, I had a recent
ex p~ience that casts at least one driver in
a totally new Iight. I wish all my verbal
interactions were as pleasant as the one
I' m about to relate to you.
I was riding home from a late night at
Evergreen on Thursday, April 14, 2005. It
was about II p.m. and I was less than a
mile from home when a man in his earlyto mid-50s driving a white Chevrolet truck
pulled up on my left with the passenger
window rolled all the way down. Having
seen this behavior many times before, I
readied myself for a hostile barrage of
insults about how inconsiderate [ was for
, riding in the actual road and not in the
clearly designated bike lane that's four feet
to my right. Instead, and to my complete
surprise, our conversation went like this:
Driver: Isn't that what that lane is for?
Me: I don't have to use it.
Driver: Really? I thought that's what
they put them there for.
Me: It is, but I'm not required by any
law to ride in the bike lane.
Driver: I didn't know that. I thought you
had to use the bike lane if it's there.
Me: Nope. I can use the bike lane if

it's there, but I choose to ride in traffic so
drivers are forced to pay attention to me.
I' ve had too many close calls with vehicles
not noticing me when I' m riding in the
bike lane.
Driver: Well , I was just curious. Thanks
for the information. Have a nice evening.
Me.: No problem . Glad to help. You
have a nice evening too.
After this exchange, he passed me as
he would a car and drove away like it had
never happened. I, of course, could not
believe the sheer politeness of this guy
and kept playing the experience through
my head to make sure that it was real.
I really wish I had had the presence of
mind to notice his license plate number
so I could include it in this piece to let him
know that I had nothing but appreciation
for his random act of kindness.
So what's the lesson in all this? Don't
give up on those Iess-enlightened-than-us
people ruihing around in their gas-guzzling metal monstrosities: The next one
you meet might actually treat you with
the espect every human being deserves.

Uriah Watkins is a sophomore enrolled in
Pre-Calculus and True, But Not Obvious.
He always rides his red Jamis Aurora in
traffic no matter what.

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Dear Ms. Rollins,
Tl1is letter is in response to Erin
Rashbaum 's article in the April 14, 2005
issue of the CP J.' There is a taboo in many
cultures which prevents an open discussion
I am a parent of a new Greener and
of painful conditions which affect people's therefore a new subscriber to the CPJ . I
sex lives. Unfortunately, this taboo also write to express my admiration for Erin
prevents people from getting informa- Rashbaum's lively columns about the
tion about these conditions, and about joys and responsibilities of human sexuthe available treatments. I applaud Ms. . ality. Though fairly common in Western
Rashbaum and the CP J staff for address- Europe, Ms. Rashbaum 's clean and coning this issue, as well as the brave woman fident expression on this subject is sadly
who asked the question, "Why does sex rare in this country. The reason, of course,
hurt so much?" Dyspareunia is the medi- is that we are taught that sexual expres"
cal term for painful penetration. Vaginal sion is wrong and dangerous unless done
dryness, as addressed by Ms. Rashbaum, without comment, in the dark, and within
is one of a host of possible causes. Others the confines of marriage.
include STDs, urinary tract or yeast infecYour correspondent Ms. Dir~ criticized
tions, endometriosis, muscle tightness, a the CPJ for printing Ms. Rashbaum'5 deep
past history of abuse or a variety of skin throat piece, yet claims not to be prudish
conditions. One source of information on (CPJ, 417105). I ask her and an)' other read~
dyspareunia is http://inteliheaIth.com. ers who were offended: If Ms. Rashbaum
Put "dyspareunia" into the site's search had advised her readers on how to release
engine.
trigger points in trapezius muscles, would
Sincerely,
they have had a similar reaction?
Kathy Hahn
Frank Gibson

Kathy Hahn lives in Seattle. where she
also works as a physical therapist. She is
a parent ofan Evergreen s.tudent.

Frank Gibson is a parent ofan Evergreen
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,My Name Is Rachel Corrie,

Taken from' the writings of Rachel Corrie
ai-Hams, an unarmed scho,olgirl repeatBy Sarah Manvel
edly shot last October as she walked
The justification for dramatizing ripped- toward an army watchtower. Rachel is
from-th e-headline events such as journalis- not even the only ISM volunteer to die
tic interviews , newspaper articles or even in Palestine; Tom Hurndall, a 21-yearjud icial ' hearings is that the public has a old British man , was shot in the head in
right to knOw. Here in London there has April 2003 by an Israeli soldier and spent
been a theatrical t,rend toward "verbatim nearly a year in a coma before his death ,
theatre," with plays such as Guantanamo: And later that spring, the fata l shooting
Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Stuff of British documentary fi loullaker James
Happens and Bloody Sunday. According to Miller was ca ptured on camera by his
the dramatists, theatre is the rapidest pos- colleagues.
sible medium to bring these stories to the
"Rachel was an astonishin g, brilliant
broadest possible audience. The decision to 'writer," said Elyse Dodgson, Associate
stage Rachel Corrie's writings , which were Director and Head of the International
probably not intended for public consump- Department at the Royal Court. After her
tion, stems not only from the fact that she death , her emails home" from Palesti ne
is gone. She left behind work so powerful were serialized in Th e Guardian, one
that it has had a global impact since her of the UK's major newspapers famou s
death- work which translates surprisingl y for its leftist o utlook. Upon seeing them,
well to th e stage.
Alan Rickman- the actor and noted stage
The Royal Court Theatre in London is director, whose previous directorial credthe ideal home for ti1e new one-woman play its include The Winter Guesr-contacted
My Name is Rachel Corrie, which is run- the Royal Court. "He wanted to do somening until April 30. For 50 years it has been thin g with this incredible writing," said
the UK's leading home for new writing, Dodgson, who has led the Royal Court's
from the premiere of John Osborne's land- Palestinian outreach work since 1995.
mark Look Back in Anger to, in recent years, "Obviously, through our work in Palestine
provocative works from authors including we are aware of the situation , and at the
Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh and Gary time it was very difficult, with the deaths
Mitchell. As well as performing global out- of Rachel, Tom Hurndall and James Miller
reach with writers in countries including happening in just seven weeks. We conCuba, India, Uganda and Russia, the theatre tacted Rachel's family, and in time we
also runs a biennial national competition for we.re delighted to receive 184 pages of
playwrights
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tious decons truct ions 0 f
in front 0 f
an Israeli bulldozer as it lurched toward a her life. As "performed by Megan Dodds,
Paleslinian home . Quoting verbatim from who is alone on stage for the entire 90diaries and other writings supplied by her minute production, the audience's attenfamily, the play shows the internal drives tion never wavers. "With the focus on
and passions which led to Rachel's deci- the words, her voice, we thought it was
sion to travel to Gaza with the International important to have an American actress,"
Solidarity Movement (ISM}-a Palestinian- said Dodgson. And what words they are.
led activist movement, working nonvio- It was Rachel's gift that she gave eloquent
lently to raise aware~ess of the struggle for voice to the little things . About her growPalestinian freedom and an end to Israeli ing commitment to her political activism,
occupation.
she took her inspiration from the salmon
But whYoRachel's story? Thousands of run under Olympia's Plum Street: "It's
Palestinian civilians have died as a result of hard to be extraordinarily vacuous when

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the other half of Olympia walk down
the street in animal costumes. Think of
the fireworks on the 4'h of 1uly, only a
lot more fun. The Weather Channel is
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Friday, April 22
Calvin Johnson, The Weeds, Birdie.
S p.m., Capitol Theater, 206 E. 5'h St.
All ages.
I went to see the Early Day Miners

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A view inside the Royal Court Theatre.
The play begins with Dodds lying on a
bed in a pile of books and dirty laundry,
complaining about how the red walls are
oppressing her. It ends with her sitting on a
virtually bare stage, writing the last impassioned email she sent her mother: "When
that explosive detonated yesterday it broke
all the windows in that family's house. I
was in the process of being served tea and
playing with the two small babies ... . Just
feel sick to my stomach from being doted
on very sweetly by people who are facing
doom ."
But plays are about more than words,
a lthough Rach el's are powerfully acted
by Megan Dodds . Hildegard Bechtler's
set and Rickman's stagin g are vis ua ll y
striking, from the messy room being tidied
aw ay into the arr ivals hall in Jerusalem 's
airrort . Thi s' move from the comfortable
world to Olympia to th e constant stress of
her new home is symbolized by the thin
green scarf Dodds winds around her neck.
Piles of rocks prop up' a stunted tree in a
small garden. A small table and a battered
computer in an internet cafe, where she
wrote the final emails to her family that
so clearly articulated her support for the
Palestinian resistance, becoming one of
the most unlikely sy~bols of nonviolent
direct action against the Israeli presence in
Palestine. We walk with her as she starts
smoking from the stress and is teasingly
berated by her hosts for the damage she is
doing to her lungs.
It's difficult to imagine someone living
under bombardment worrying about the
dangers of smoking. But wanting a normal
life is ,normal, of course. In contrast to
her work in Palestine, we're also shown
. Rachel's previous commitment to normalcy, through her work in Olympia as
a counselor at a drop-in center for people
with mental health problems. The play's

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twice her age was amazing, as was her
good humor and attention to details.
Rachel did more ,than relate to other
people-she took . action. The activities
to which she devoted her final months in .
Palestine don't sound like much : buying
cloth for banners, writing speeches, laundry, baby-sitting. But her words show
very clearly how heroic th ese small ,
peaceful acts are in thi s environment.
Her Willingness to bear witness, to try
to use her "international white-person
privilege" for the advantage of others,
has had an impact she could not possibly
have imagined- w hether we agree with
her goals or no t.
"Her slory is not abo lit Oly mp ia or
Palestine," said Dodgson.. "It's about how
we live, how we cope with th e sufferin g
we see around us every day." Of course
you cannot separate the where from the
why. But it's impossible at the moment
to se parate her life fi'OI11 this play. With
every sharply delivered turn of phrase,
you're aware that until March 16,2003,
the world had no reason to know Rachel
Corrie. But all you can think about is what
she left behind- writing so powerful, and
so powerfully staged in this astounding
production, that by the end many in the
audience were reduced to tears. By creating a play which shows so much respect
for her words, 'theitoyal Court has given
Rachel Corrie's family a marvelous legacy.
One hopes this production will find a wide
audience around the world; it's the least
we can do to remember her name.
The playscript is available:
Email bookshop@royaJcourttheatre.com
or order via http://www.amazon.co.uk.
Edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine
Viner.
Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre,
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Upon graqu'ation from Evergreen in
1999 with a concentration in theatre and
creative writing, Sarah Manvel moved to
London. She works as a PA in a headhunting firm by day and perfects her as-yetunproduced plays by night. She can be
reached on banriona@hotmail.com.

and Chris Brokaw at the Maniurn back in
1anuary. They had the misfortune to play
on the same night that Calvin 10hnson
was performing at the Art House. "So
is Calvin 10hnson still, like, the Pope
of Olympia?" Brokaw asked . "No!"
someone said . Of course, the Early Day
Miners played to a paying audience of
seven. Everyone else was at the Art
House.
10hnson generates a lot of ill feeling
in the independent music scene; someone once made a lot of money printing
t-shirts that read "Calvin 10hnson Ruined
Music for an Entire Generation." If that
person meant making a dent, however
small, in the nihilistic macho boys club
that came to be called punk rock, then
sure: Johnson's Beat Happening ruined
music. A lot of people are still pissed
off afthe amount of attention that band
received, and truthfully, he is an ea~y
ta rget. What's remarkable is that music
that is so wimpy and childlike on its surface can threaten so many people.
Si nce Beat Happening 's break-up,
Jo hnson has recorded with the Halo
Benders a nd the Dub Narcotic Sound
S ystem. DNSS recently played thcir
firs t show in over a year, opening up
for San Francisco trio Erase Errata,
a nd it ruled. His solo set opening for
the Evens a month ago was similarly
impressive: He often performed away
from the microphone a nd could still be
heard perfectly. Don't believe the (anti)
hype: Johnson is a riveting songwriter
and performer.

, Saturday, April 23
Procession of the Species. 5:30 p.m.,
Downtown.
A week after 1 moved to Olympia, I
read this article about Rachel Corrie in
Mother Jones. Among other hilariously
inaccurate things, the author dismissed
Corrie's interest in the Procession as
"borderline New Age parody." Having
no idea what it was, I thought, "I don't
know, that doesn't sound so bad." It took
actually going last year to realize what
an idiot that person was.
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A few notes about his middle names:
Thomas is his father s name and his
mother sfather sname. He was going to
be Thomas, too, but his mom was weary
ofhaving a room full ofToms. So instead
he was named after St. Christopher. the
patron saint oftravelers whose story was
later declared apocrypha/. Which is a
lot of shit, I think. I mean, there s nothing to doubt in a story about a man who
wanted to workfor the strongest man in
the world, who workedfor a king afraid
of Satan, then worked for Satan afraid
of Christ, then just hung out in a jield
waiting for Christ, and in the interim
helped children and old people and puppies ford a river. until one stormy night
baby Jesus appeared, except he didn 'l
know it was the baby Jesus, and Jesus
was carrying a ball and said. "Help me
ford the river, kind and burly sir," and
then Christopher says "Alley -oop!" and
the kid climbs on and they're ojf; except
the ball the kid carries is really heavy,
and it s really stormy, and Christopher
almost doesn t make it, but he do es, and
when he drops the kid ojJhe asks what 5'
the dilly. and the kid says, "I 'm Christ
and I've been carry ing the whole world
on my shoulders, and y ou just carried
me carrying the whole world. You 're a
saint, " and Christopher goes on to get a
medal with his ownjace on it that adorns
the rearview mirrors of Catholics everywhere. What~· incredulous about that?
Satan hires all the time.
So that s Christopher Thomas. John
comes about from when he became
confirmed. Everyone else in his seventh
grade class was taking 'funny " names
like Stanislaus and Igor. so Christopher.
being the contrarian he was, chose
John. He likes this story because it s
analogous to The Smiths choosing a
banal band name in the face of bands
like Echo and the Bunnymen, and the
Teardrop Explodes. He told his mother
it was for Saint John someone or other.
but really it was because ofJohn Lennon.
Lennon wasn 'l Catholic, but he did write
"Strawberry Fields Forever. " which at
the time meant a lot more to Christopher.
Trnthfully, it still does, but that should in
no way mean that it s more important in
the grand scheme of things. Alexander
is a senior'enrolled in Patience, and this
week is studying how to try everyone
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made a name for themse lves over the last D a v e
couple of years by head ing the wave of La m bardo
techno-esq ue live jam bands, with laptops (S la ye r)
and their drummer Zach's li ve break beats. and Trevor
Their shows are all -around eve.nts, includ- Dunn4(Mr.
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performances. Open ing lip for them will be Their debut
DJ Relm . Tickets are $18 in advance and alb um was
$20 day of show. It wi II be all ages and doors innovative
open at 8 p.m,
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It co nsisted Ri vers wears the thick glasses because you think they're
Living Legendsdo they're thing at the Showbox Wednesday.
e ntirely hot. Weezer's in town, Wednesday at the Moore Theatre.
Tuesday, April 26
Fantomas at the Showbox in Seatt le. of horror
Fa ntom as is another project formed by movie th eme songs redone. This is the night, joining him will be Mario Parmisano and Pigeon John , This should be a great
Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr, Bungle, show that I' m waiting for. Also performing on piano/keyboard, Victor Miranda on bass, show and an opportunity to see the whole
is Locust and Trevor Dunn's Gumbi Ortiz on percussion and Ernie Adams crew back performing together. Tickets are
Trio Convulsant. The show is on drums , The show is at 7:30 p.m. and is $15 in advance and $18 day of show. A II
$20 in advance and is all ages. all ages.
ages, doors open at 8 p.m.
Doors open at 8 p.m.
WEEZER is back with a new album and Greg Fiennes is ajunior enrolled in Patience.
Wednesday, April, 27
He is currently studying abnormal psycholwill be performing at the Moore Theatre,
AI Di Meola & Quintet will
Tickets are $28 and the show starts at 8 ogy and aspects of foreign subculture and
be performing at Benaroy~ Hall p.m. If you want to check the album out early cultural genocide.
in Seattle. Di Meola is a master and have a chance to get prizes, shirts, etc.,
of jazz, rock and fusion on the there will be a pre-release Listening Party the
guitar, and beyond his solo day before at Sonic Boom Records (2209 N W
work he is known for such Market Street in Seattle) at 6 p.m.
projects as Return to Forever,
with Chick Corea and Stanley
Living Legends, the California based
Clarke ~ as well as his legendhip-hop crew, is coming to the Showbox in
ary performances 'and albums Seattle, The group spawned the solo careers of
Photo courtesy systemrecords.uk as part of a guitar trio beside
Grouch, Eligh, Murs and SunspotJonz.Along
the likes of John McLaughlan with other members Bicasso, Luckylam PSC
Sound Tribe Sector Nine will show you a good time at
and Paco DeLucia, (Check the and Scarub, they will be performing with
the Showbox Thursday-night.
Eastside Club Jukebox,) On this Philadelphia-based crew Jedl Mind Tricks By Kissley J, Leonor

By Greg Flennes

By Sebastian Derlieu-Schulze
Unmindful of the consciousness they offer,
Aware that you are watch ing
Art becomes a weapon to destro)'
Your rules or laws or temples
So she jumped to mythological ideas of art
and beauty
A symptom of reactionary
A passage th rough it
Both joyous and powerful
A raid on tradition
Between human consciousness
Proceeded to change their lives

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The Fourth Annual
Evergreen Herbal Fair:
Food as medicine brings you ...

Wild Foods Recipes
By Leilani Wong
Wild Greens Saute
1 small onion, chopped
2 Tablespoons olive oil
4-6 cloves garlic, chopped
112 cup feta cheese
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
. Salt and pepper to taste
Spring greens such as nettles, dandelion leaf, sheep sorrel or combinations thereof

Gather fresh greens, wash and chop
into large pieces. Saute garlic and
onions. Add lemon juice and greens.
Saute until greens are tender and
vibrant. Add salt and p epper to taste.
Sprinkle withfreshfeta and serve.

Anderson Geller, Adam Seller and Elders in
Belize, She is currently working with Elders
on the Skokomish Reservation, maintains a
private practice and teaches in the community,
Elise believes that plant medicine should be
in the hands of the people and is dedicated
to empowering others in practical herbal
medicine.
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the Herbal Fair on Friday, May 6 called
Sustainable Health and Commiu nity
Herbalism. Other presentations on Friday,
May 6 and Saturday, May 7 include Slow
Medicine: Relishing Our Medicinal &
Ancestral Roots; Nourishing Herbal"Brews:
Infusions, Beer, Wine, Soda & More; Eating
Better for Better Male Health; Qi Energy in
Foods; and Dietary Seaweeds for Optimal
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of wild herb and edibles foraging with two
amazing herbalists, Ryan Drum and Linda
Conroy, Space is limited on Sunday, so please
call 867-6143 to reserve a space,
The FourthAnnual Evergreen Herbal Fair:
Food As Medicine will take place Friday,
May 6-Sunday, May 8, Call Th'e Healing
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This recipe comes from Elise Krohn, an
Olympia community herbalist. Elise feels
passionate about the affinity between plants
and people. She has an eclectic background
in herbal studies, including constitutional
medicine, plant energetics, phytochemistry
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based on an Evergreen student.
Rich , whose forthcoming book of
Attention seniors and those thinking
ahead : What are you going to do after col- poetry Cures Include Travel (White Pine
lege? Surely your parents, friends, and even Press), has published in numerous jourstrangers are asking you this question, and nals; her most recent work can be found
most likely you answer with a nervous but in Cranky, North America Review, Poetry
International and The Alaska Quarterly
excited sigh and a heavy " I don't know,"
The Writers Guild is hosting a special Review. For those of you interested in
"The World After College" reading to help writing as a career, you know how hard it
is to break into the litercushion your post-colary scene: don 't give up.
lege stress, Evergreen
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alumna Allison Green,
published me before [
author of Half-Moon
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now, Rich worried about
life after college ; she
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said," So she did just that.
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education taught me
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about being curious and
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engaged, using my education
International, she lived
in the Republic of Niger,
to understand the world and
try to make changes in it." After graduat- West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer,
ing, she worked for a publishing company and she is an active member of the Somali
in Washin~on D.C., and later she earned an Rights Network , a non-governmental
MFA f~om Emerson College, When asked organization.
June is just around the corner, and for
what advice she has for students pondering
life after college, Green answered, "Stay many of us that means a slingshot ride into
focused on your passions, whether you are adulthood, and perhaps the new question
able to find work you are passionate about will always be, "What are you. going to .
or not. Life is about far more than the work do?"
we do for pay, Stay focused on art, friends,
family, activism, travel-whatever makes Kissley J Leonor is a senior enrolled in
you feel alive, You truly have a limited Quirky Characters and Sizziing Stories,
amount of time on this planet; make the Poets Alive, and a creative writing conmost if it." Green will be reading from her tract,
latest novel, Tear Gas, which is set during

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reasoning skil!s. When you come up with an
answer, bring it to the ETC in CAB 108. If
you are one of the first three with the correct
answer, we have a prize for you,

box marked "peanuts" to contain the combination of peanuts and almonds. Similar
logic would follow if you were to choose
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Australia, Pt. 2 of 3
By Aaron Hartwell
In the first artic le in this series
began looki ng at Austral ia, whose government is a close ally in the U.S. war in
Iraq, by examining the historical events
it ce lebrates. I selected Austra lia Day, a
national holiday celebrating the founding of the colony, which meant death and
suffe ring to most of the white European
men sent to Australia as convict s whose
bodies forged the nati on. Australia wa s
the answer for the Crown's need to dispose of the undesi rabies it referred to as
a criminal class. At the time, jails were
few, and hum anitarian pressure had put
a stop to hanging as a means of disposal ,
so as an alternative, the Engl ish official s
elected to send them elsewhere. When the
newly ind ependent American co loni es
finally closed their doors to the buying of
English convict s as indent ured servants,
the Crown debated where else they could
be sent and sett led on Austral ia after care fully considering and rejecting Africa.
Along with the many men purged from
the British Empire, their home and their
families were the women, whose status
both at home and in the newly founded
colony was even lower than that of their
male counterparts.
During the 80 years of convict
transportation to Austra li a, over 24,000
women were sent there for the same types
of crimes as the men, largely petty theft
such as stealing button s, or butter, or
pieces of cloth. The oldest perso n, man
or woman, in the first convoy was an 82ycar-old woman tran spo rted for pcrjury,
and there were three gi rl s LInder fifteen
on the sa me ship . Like the men. these
were women who had not h~n g to su stai n
them in England and stole as a means of
survival. Their prope rt y crimes Illa de
them a threat to th l.: landed ari stocracy,
con sidered by many to be the successful
criniinal , of the era. and th ey were sen tencedlO tra nsport ation in lieu of a commut ed dcath se ntence. During transport ,
the co mbin ati on of inadequate rat ion s,
di sease, and littl e or no clothing. along
with the cramped and filthy condit ion s,
killed many women before they fini shed

the six months or more sea voyage. Once
the women arrived in the new colony, their
prospects were Iittle better.
When the boats landed in the new
penal colony, the women were lined up and
men came and selected women to be their
"servants," the officers being given first
choice and so on down the male hierarchy
of the colony. The women who were left,
the sick, the pregnant- often impregnated
on the journey by the officers- or those
with child, the old, infirm or undesirable
were sent to a Female Factory. In these
factories women were expected to work ,
typically spinning wool, and in turn were
supp lied with substa ndard rations and
nothing else, ir.cluding blankets or mattresses. Fo r this privilege the women were
expected to pay: After all, it was their own
defects that kept them from bei ng selected
as servants or sex slaves in the fi rst place,
as of.ficial thinking went. In the Eng lish
Government 's Committee on Transportation's own words, it was desirable for
women of a "marriageable age" to be sent
to the colony to deal with the sexual starvat ion of such a remote outpost.
Wnen women were punished for committing some second offense within the
colony, they were sentenced to hard labor
with the men, in the same 10-to-20-pound
leg irons, in the same chain gangs. IfIabor
didn't fit the cr im e, the women could be
flogged just like the men, and a common
punishment was to shave the heads of
women. Many women resisted and fou ght
against their trcatment. In one instance a
group of women attempted to burn one
of the factories down , and many official s
left record s noting the general disrespect
and "blasphemous" behavior orthe convict
women toward their oppressors.
Wit hi nth e co Ion), any perce ive d
immorality, of wh ic h there was much by
Georg ian England's standards. was certain
10 be blamed fir st on the women . The offi cial s and church join cd in loud choru ses
de nou nc ing all but a fl.:w of the female
colon ists as prost it utes. Some doubtless
were, given their economic situation, but
there were many more who were unmarried or cohabitating without the blessing
of the church who were labeled prostitutes.

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This is a photo of the remnants of the Cascades Female Factory, in Hoharr. Tasm ania.
Australia.

One Reverend Marsden even went so far
as to conjure up a "survey" in which he
conc luded that more than two-third s of
the women in the colony were prostitutes,
which included two women .who had lived
with but not married their respcctive male
counterparts for mo're than fifteen years
each, one woman having nine chi Idren by
her mate . This list al so included women
who were married as Catholics or Jews,
marriages the Anglican Marsden did not.
recog ni ze. Maybe unsurprisingly, Reverend Marsden, who was married , counted
in hi s li st of "prosti tutes" women who
had bastard children; of these, more than
a few indicated Marsden as the father after
having worked as servants on his estate.
The conditions of the women convicts
arriv ing to be dumped on Australian
shores were . in many ways worse than
the men: They were battered by the harsh
physical and mental rea lities of the patriarchal system devi sed for them , hardl y a

cause for celebration. Their continuous
resistance and defiance in the fa ce of'
incredible odd s, resulting in Australi a
beingtne second country in the worl d
after New Zealand where women coul d
vote, might be a more appropriate ca use
for national celebration.
Though life for women in Australi a
has improved since the ea rly days of the
co lony, the continued repression and government-sponsored violence against the
traditional owners of the land continlles.
In the last of thi s series of articl es \,11
di sc uss what the foundin g of Au stralia
and the ce lebration of Austra li a Day, or
in their word s th e inva sion, has mea nt
to the traditional owners of the land. the
Aborig i nal people.
Aaron Hartwell is a scnior illlerest£!ti 111
geopoli/ics and i.l'jinishing an individllll!
lea rning con /roC! which in vo lvcd s lll ,h
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Evergreen Track and
Field competes at

Oregon meet
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By Craig Dickson

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21, 2005

APRIL

Know your--------,
The
TeamQJ Grandest
of
Slammers

By Kip Arney

Evergreen Track and Field earned a
. few podium finishes at Saturday's meet at
George Fox University in Newberg, OR.
We had competitors in
middle
distance and distance events only.
The meet opened with the 10,000 meters.
All Evergreen competitors were novices at
thi s distance on the track. Meagan Mower
finished in third place, covering the 25 laps
in 43:45.80 a 7:03-per-mile pace.
In the men's 10,000 meters. Freshman
James Hudson led the Geoducks with
his seco nd-place finish and posting an
excellent debut time of 34 :30.00 . Jason
McConnell followed in 35:44. McConnell
will be attempting to qualify for the NAIA
Marathon at the Run for The Roses Half
Marathon in Portland next Sunday along
with Mower.
Frosh redshirt Miguel Pineda competed
in both the 1500 and 800 meters. He ran
seasons best in both events, a 4:21.39 (sixth)
and 2 :09.4 (l4'h), respectively.
Liesl Plomski finished third in the 800
meters (2 :44.4) in her season opener at
that distance. In the 5,000 meters, Rachel
Williams made her debut at that distance,
finishing in sixth place and running 6:45
miles to a personal best of 20:59.4. The
me n's race had recent Evergreen transfer
Joel Pearson runni ng unattached to fi ni sh
10,h in 16:48. James Hud son did the super
do uble of the day, coming back four hours
afte r the 10,000 meters to finish 12'h in the
race. His 17:09 was well offhis season's best
but a courageous effort nonetheless.
Evergreen Track and Field will compete
next Saturday at the Spike Arlt Invitational
hosted by Central Washington University in
El len sburg.

I've always wondered why baseball is
never played in the rain. A little water never
hurt anyone. But when you play on fields that
aren't as nicely gr.oomed at the major ballparks like Safeco Field and Petco Park, you're
bound to find home plate submerged in water
at times and the outfield to be a swamp. Hence
the weekend scenario down in Eugene, as all
three games were postponed. But another Saturday morning of departing campus at 6 a'.m.
in the pouring rain still led to good times in
the beaver state.
Well, maybe not good times all around, but
memorable nonetheless. When you can come
back and tell stories about cell phones getting
dropped in toilets, hitting up bars and finishing
other people's drinks unti I you're so funked up
that you're pissing on a stranger's shoes with no
consequences, watching RoboCop in Spanish,
and playing our own form of baseball in pure
mud, oh yeah, it certainly was memorable. I'd
just like to take this opportunity to clear all
my teammates' names of those first two events
because I was the person involved with the
phone and the shoes.
As I was saying, with the games put on
hold and nothing to report on, it 's time for
you people to know the student ath letes that
represent your school in America's national
pastime [refer to the box to /h e right'].
Whoever scheduled the ga mes need s to
reconsider the process because for the third
consecutive weekend , Evergreen will pile into
the van and thi s time head north to Bellingham
to take on Western Washington University in
sea rch of the first win. It'll be a tall order, as
Western Washington has a firm grip on the
number one seed in the conference and has
shown no signs of letting up. Hopi ng the rain
wi II let lip and let LIS play.

Craig Dickson is the cross coulllry und track
unclfield couch ut Evergreen.

Kip Arney is ajunior enrolled in Fiction and
Nonfiction andQuirky Characters and Sizzling
Stories. He is studying creative writing.

Here is a list of the fine gentlemen
currently representing our school in
the ball field, their academic standing and home town ..
Whalen Dillon
Senior, OFIP (Cloverdale, OR)
Sean Presley
Senior, PlIB (San Mateo, CA)
James Stippich
Senior, SS (Olympia, WA)
Kip Arney
Junior, OF (Seallle, WA)
Doug Dietz
Junior, OF (Longview, WA)
John Each
Junior, 2B (Burnsville, MN)
Ryan Q'Hern
Junior, OFIC (Evanston, lL)
Justin Porter
Junior, PIC (St. Louis, MO)

On Friday, April 8 at JO a.m., nervous
and excited tension filled the rock climbing
gym in the CRe. Forty-some-odd people
gathered to compete in the annual '"Boulder Bash" put on by The Outdoor Program .
Climbers from all over Olympia showed up
with ages ranging from high 30s to low teens.
Hands were taped and chalked , muscles
stretched and shoes laced up tight. The feel
of competition was in the air.
For many days before hand , trusty
climbing staff and volunteers helped prepare the climbing gym for this event. Most
of the holds were taken down and re- bolted
to create the high quality routes that were
presented on competition day. The routes
were rated on a 1-10 scale, I being the easiest and 10 being nearly impossible. Thanks
to Micah Humphreys, Travis Steiner, Kyle
Scaggs, Goeff Zawora, Trevor Fields and
Bryan Torian, the amount, quality and
variety of each and every single route was
excellent. Without them this event would not
have happened.
Each competitor had three chances to
attempt a route under the supervision of one
of six qualified judges, and if successful in
reaching the last hold with both hands, would

then earn the same amount of points the route
was rated . In other words, a route that was a
difficulty of five was worth five points. In the
end , whoever had the most points won.
Each competitor placed themselves in one
of three categories: beginner, intermediate and
advanced. The process of this competition was
set up by two twenty-minute heats. The beginners did their first heat , followed by the other
two categories. Then the same process was
Here are the fi nal ists for each category
of the competition:

Beginner:
Shayna Rose
Heidi Dunn
Scott Ruby

Intermediate:
Lisa Chulich
McKenna Neff
Kjerste Gedde

Advanced:
Eli Simon
Josh Finley
Daniel Laggner

Bombastic Movie Festival
Saturday, April 23
All movies play in Lecture Hall 3
Noon. The Kentucky Fried Movie
2 p.m. Ghostbusters
4 p.m. Annie Hall
6 p.m. Raising Arizona
7:30 p.m. Uncle Andy's FunhouseThe Andy Kaufman TV Special
8:30 p.m. Projects by Your HostsShort Films
9 p.m. The Jerk
10:30 p.m. Monty Python and the
Holy Grail

Saturday, April 30
A II movies play in Lecture Hall 3
Noon. This is Spinal Tap
1 :30 p.m. Blazing Saddles
3 p.m. Being There
5:30 p.m. Election
7:30 p.m. Projects by Your HostsShort Films
8:30 p.m. Wet Hot American
Summer
10:30 p.m . Freddy Got Fingered

Myles "1M" Conroy
Sophomore, OF (Olympia , WA)
Will Rockwell
Freshman, 3BIP (San Francisco, CAY
Patrick Glenn
Will Tubman
Tucker Waugh

repeated.
The beginner and intermediate groups
were very impressive since they were dominated by extremely hard-climbing twelve- to
fourteen-year-old girls. These young climbers are part of a bouldering team based out
of The Alpine Experience Climbing Gym
and train on a regular basis.
The energy was the highest in the
advanced heats, with shirtless men yelling
and screaming at each other to go for the
next hold, followed by caveman roars of guys
pulling the hard moves.
A fter the competitiQn was over, the
winners of each category got a smiley face
climbing hold . Due to very generous donations of several outdoor companies, three
large boxes full of gear ranging from clothes .
to chalk bags to backpacks were raffled, and
every single competitor walked away with at
least two arm loads worth of gear.
Overall this event was a complete success and will be repeated next year.

Daniel Laggner is a senior enrolled in
Patience. He is studying rock climbing,
mountaineering, skiing and environmental
science. He also enjoys long walks on the
beach.

8:30 p.m. Baka Beyond at the
Capitol Theater. $12 advance, $15
at the doof. Tickets available at
Traditions and Rainy Day.

Sunday, April 24
Taarka Flowmotion perform in the
Longhouse. Tickets $7 for students
at the bookstore.

Tubular Upcoming Events
Thursday, April 21
4:45 p.m. Ron Meyers, appiicant
for the faculty position in Public
Administration , will give a
presentation on Believing Green
and Voting Green: Comparing and
Measuring Environmental Elhics
and Supporl for Environmental
Policy. Sem II CI105.

Tuesday, April 26
5:30 p.m. Study Abroad Workshop,
Sem II E3109.

7:30 p.m. Alasdair Fraser & The

Wednesday, April 27
5 p.m. Fulbright Workshop, Scm II
E3109.

7 p.m. The Phrontisterion
(Evergreen's Classic Studies
Cartel) presents an evening with
Classicist Andrew Scott Reece,
Ph.D. Seminar II D1105.

Saturday, April 30
Friday, April 22
7 p.m. JZ Knight, president of .
Ramtha's School of En lighten ment
and channel for Ramtha, the
Enl ightened One, wi II speak to the
public in Evergreen's Gymnasium.
Tickets are $5. Doors open at 5 p.m .

8 p.m. Choral Union presents
their spring concert. They will
perform two pieces: Haydn's Mass
in D Minor and Mozart's Vesperae
Solennes de Contessere. Lagerqu ist
Concert Hall , PLU. Call (253)-5357602.

Wednesday, May 4
8 p.m. Ca lvin Johnson with The
Weeds and Birdie will perform at
the Capitol Theater.

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Totally Chill Group Meetings
Monday

I p.m. The Chemistry Club will
present a Women in Science
Symposium. It will be held in
Seminar II B2105.

Saturday, April 23

Didn't finish an article?
Missed a comic? Can't
remember the face
behind the opinion?

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No worries. Bring
yourself to the CPJ
office, CAB 316,
and raid our archives
for that certain issue.

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315.
4 p.m. EPIC, Seminar II A2I05.
4 p.m. CPJ production night. Come
participate in putting together your student
newspaper.

8-9 a.m. Swim Club
4-6 p.m. T"e S&A Board meets in CAB
315.

4 p.m. Evergreen Irish Resurgence

5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
5 p.m. The Cooper Point Journal
meets in CAB 316. Come participate in
the organization and the planning of the
newspaper.
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the
CRe.
7 p.m. Improvisational Theater, Seminar
HClI05.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the CRe.
Come jOin in late night activities.

S p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.

Tuesday

San Francisco Fi.ddlers will play
in the Washington Center. Tickets
for students are $21. For more
information call 753-8585.

Ross Trainor
Junior, CIOF (Andover. MA)
Anthony Atlas
Sophomore, OF (Rumson, NJ)

The Chemistry Club will be taking
a van down to the American
Chemical Society Undergraduate
Symposium at Seattle Pacific
University. If you are interested
in attending, please let us know!
Poibri 16@evergreen.edu

8:30 p.m. Joules Graves and

Eric Smith '"'"
Junior, PIC (Burnsville, MN)

Boulder Bash: a 'rockin' recap of
Evergreen's annual climbing competition'
By Daniel Laggner

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4 p.m. Prison Action Committee meet s
in CAB 320, Workstation 10.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRe.
S p.m. Socce.r in the Pavilion.
7 p.m. Students for Christ, Sem i nar II
E1105 .

S p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB :120.
S p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
6:30 p.m. Hunger and Hon\elessness
group meets in S&A office.
7:30-9 p.m. Ping Pong in the CRC
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the e Re.

Wednesday
8-9 a.m. Swim Club
1 p.m. Evergreen Queer Alliance,
Sem i nar II C2107.
1-3 p.m. Dodgeball in the field next to the
HCe.
1:30 p.m, Environmental Resource
Center, Seminar II E3105.
1:30 p.m. Radical Catholics meet in
CAB 320.
1:30 p.m. Native Student Alliance meets
in CAB 320, Workstation 13.
2 p.m. Evergreen Capitalists
Organization, Library 1308.
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for Choice,
CAB 320, Cubicle 17. Office hours:
Wednesday, 1-2 p.m.
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center. Seminar
II E2105.
3 p.m. SEED, Seminar II E3109.
3 p.m. Women of Color Coalition, CAB
206.
3 p.m. Writer s Guild , Seminar H AI 107.
3-5 p.m. Soccer
3:30 p.m. Environmental Alert, CAB
320 on the couches.
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board mebts in CAB

Element meets in CAB 320, Workstation
4.

5-7 p.m. Scrabbelicious presented by the
Writing Center in CAB 108.
7 p.m. Advanced Poetics poetry readings
in Sem II AII05.
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the CRC
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the CRe.

Thursday
4 p.m. Carnival. Seminar II DI 107.
4 p.m. Women s Resource Center, CA B

315.
4 p.m. CPJ paper critique. Come voice
concerns about the week s paper.
4 p.m. ASIA meets in the CAB third floor
conrerence room .
S p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets ill the
Longhouse.
6 p.m. EA RN meets to d iSCliSS an i mal
rights in CAB 320.
6 p.m. Men s Center meets in CAB 320
in Workstation 2.
7 p.m. Clean Cars Legislation
Organizing Group meets in the S&A
office.
7 p.m. Percussion Club. ba sement of the
Library Building.
7 p.m. Geodance meets in the bottom
floor of the Library.
7 p.m. Juggling Club, Seminar II B1107.
6·8 p.m. Olympia Men s Project meets
every second and fourth Thursday at
UCAN. For more information, call (360)
352-2375.
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at the CRe.

Friday
8-9 a.m. Swim Club
3 p.m. CPJ Friday Forum. Come
put your ethics to the test , learn about
journalism. and discllss issues in
journalism and group dynamics.
S p.m. Electronic Mu.sic Collective,
Seminar IT C2107.
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appreciation
Society. Seminar II AI 105.
S p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in the
Longhouse.
S p.m. ASTESC Student Union meets In
CAB 320.

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