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~ MAYAN CALENDAR: "WE LIVE IN ARTIFICIAL TIME," PAGE 2
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COOPER POINT JOURNAL
Alumni
Association
is looking
for a student
representative
Academic Fair preps
campus for next quarter
By Claire Harlock
Cluir£: Hurlock is ajunior currently enrolled in Medi aworks.
See Alumni Association. Page 3
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O ly mpia, WA 98505
A ddress Service Requested
News In Brief
Don't miss FOPA's
"Birth of a Nation"
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
May 12-14, wi II be your chance to see the
original perform ance, Birth of a Nation:
Untold Stories, presented by the Evergreen
program Foundations of Performing Arts.
Moving Mom ents. The performances will
be held in the Expe rim ental Theatre in
the Com Building beginning at 7:30 p.m.
each night. Tickets are available now in the
bookstore, and will al so be sold at the Box
Office one hour before each showing. The
cost is $3 for students and $5 for the ge neral public; parking is $ 1.2 5 on Thursday
and Friday for those who do not have a
TESC parking pass.
By Sinnamon Tierney
Do you want to meet new people?
Network with TESC alumni? Be a part
of fun events and raise student scholarships at the same time? Establish relationships that will last a lifetime? Are
you creative? Accountable? Ready for
so mething more?
The TESC A lumni Association is now
accepting applications for the Student
Representative position for 2005-06. The
Association is made up of Greeners who
all have one thing in common- a passion
for Evergreen!
The position began in November 2002
when the Alumni Association recruited
their first Student Representative. The idea
was mirrored after the Student Trustee
position on TESC Board of Trustees. The
intent was for alumni to connect with current students and get a fresh perspective of
what was happening around campus.
Our firs t Student Repre se ntative,
Vi ctoria Cunni ngham (formerly known
as Victori a Pierson) was deeply engaged
in Evergreen and with the mission of the
A lumniA ssoci ation. She helped bridge
the Associat ion members to the college
through many proj ects, espec ially with
the Greener Oasis, the beer and wine
garden he ld annually at Super Saturday.
Cunningham graduated from Evergreen
in 2004 and work s in the mortgage-planning field . " However," she said, " I had
so much fun on the Board as student rep.
I just couldn ' t leave." She now serves
as Secretary on the Alumni Association
Board of Directors.
Our second and current Student
Representative is Hannah Scott, who was
recruited by C unningham while they were
both working in the Career Development
Center. Scott is now in her second year on
the Board. She studied architectural design
at TESC and is graduating in June.
Since being on the Board, Scott has
honed in on the opportunity to help with
the Alumni Association scholarship fundraisers . Whether she is volunteering her
time for the Greener Oasis, stuffing student survival kits, or picking flowers from
the Organic Farm to sell at graduation, she
always has a smile on her face. "I really
enjoy participating in events connected to
student activities," she said.
" What I like most about being on the
Board is the people I se rve with because
they are friend ly, always interested, and
fu ll of ideas for what we can do to rai se
scho larship funds," Scott said.
Eve n thoug h Scott is leavi ng th e
Student Represe ntati ve pos iti on, she sti II
has an ·i nter~s t in her re plac ement. " It
needs to be 'a st ude nt with time to devote
to the Board . I th ink it coul d pe rhaps be
a great opportu nity for a contract , even,"
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Volume 33
May12,2005
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Coach resigns
Photo by Eva Wong
Siuden/s speak with next year:5 program faculty at th e Academ ic Fair 0 11 Wednesday,
May 11. Faculty were on hand to answer questions, review portfolios and hand out
syllabi to anyone interested in taking their programs. The Academic Fair was held in
the gym this year because of the construe/ion projects in the library huilding.
Re-roofing project
underway at the CRC:
Project should be done by June 17
By Joe Jatcko
CIintworth also stressed that students
should find al ternative routes to their
classes until the project is complete. "The
project is on a highly traveled route, but
there are a lot or other options," he sa id.
Students on their way to upper campus
from Housing have encountered a roadblock the last few days. The fenced-off
area is par1 of the re-roofing project that
was already underway to repair the roof of
Joe Jatcko is a junior enrolled in
the College Recreation Center (CRC).
Democracy and Free Speech. He is the
The project began when the college News Coordinator at the CPJ and can be
facilities department determined a need reached al jatjos08@evergreen. edu.
toreplace the water proofing membrane,
which was allowing a good amount of
water to leak through the roof. The project also included
measures to put
down a new base
under the roof tiles,
which are currently
unstable, as well as
fixing leaks around
the skylights.
The digging that
is currently being
done is to fix additional lea ks that
were discovered
in an underground
access tunnel.
Accord in g to
proje ct manager
Dick C lint worth.
the project shou ld
Photo by Eva Wong
be do ne by the
planned
da te Construclion 0 11 tlit' eRe hegins with repairs to the roof of the
o f June 17 a nd hui/ding ..Idditionai repairs are heing made to an underground
under the orig inal access {unnel, lI'hich Iius heen leaking This pro/eel is set for
$5 88,000 budget. ' completion by mid-Jullt'.
Photo courtesy of hllp:llwww.evergreen cdu
J o hn Barb ee rece ntly resi g ned as
Evergreen s Men s Head Basketball
Coach. See article on Page 11 for more
information.
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Student to Perform
Self-Written Stand-Up
Show
Senior Lee Kepraios will perform hi s
sel f-written stand-up comedy show " Don 't
Forget to Try the Veal" Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, May 20, 21 and 22, in Lecture
Hall I. The show is part of an independent
contract Mr. Kepraios designed and implemented himself. All who enjoy laughter
are welcome attend . .
Known also around the CP J as "The
Curmudgeon," Lee 's show will cover a
wide range of subjects contrasting the
mundane to the world-shaking ranging
from oversized burgers to politics, from
deodorant commercials to gay marriage,
Kepraios will give all of them hi s outspoken, uninhibited treatment.
The show will run from 7 to 8 p.m . and
costs $3 at the door.
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Tune up your bicycle
Vol unteers from The Evergreen Bike
Shop will be hangi ng out at the Eve rgreen
Organic Fa rm this Friday, May 13 to help
yo u cyclists tu ne up yo ur bikes. Stop by
between noon and 2 p.m. to take adva ntage
of their help. Ca n't make it Friday? Yo ur
next opport unity wi II be nex t Wed nesday.
May 18. from noon to ~ p.m. in Red
Sq uare .
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Vox Populi
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Do you think the hike in housing
prices next year is justified?
By David Hornbeck
"My plumbing's fucked up, my shower
overflows and my toi let doesn't work. My
room i,sn't even that big. The only thing
they have going for them is convenience,
and that doesn't justify it."
Chris Holly
Freshman
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If We Shift The Software That Controls Our Minds, We Are Bound To
Get B~ck Into Peaceful Time. Currently, We Live In Artificial Time. It
Creates War And Chaos. Change The Gregorian/Julian Calendar For A
Natural Lunar Synchronometer And Re-Insert Ourselves Into A
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Assistant (SMA) at Evergreen's Health
Center is coming to an end at the conclusion of the 2004-2005 academic year, and
it is tim e to welcome in the next class of
fantastic Student Medical Assistants for
2005-2006.
The interns hip is a paid, year-long,
six-c redit program that trains students
for licensure in the state of Washington
as Healthca re Assistants. It is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in
the medical profession to explore their
curiosity. The Health Center is a general
practice clinic that treats students for a
variety of health concerns, such as colds,
birth control consultations, STD testing,
depress ion and anxiety management, and
chronic health problems such as asthma,
diabetes and high blood pressure.
Student Medical Assistants assist practitioners- a medical doctor, two certified
physician assistants, and four nurse practitioners- in providing medical care, and
get trained in regul ar in-services on Peer
Health Education, HIV/AIDS safety for
hea lthcare providers, STD education, crisis
management and psychological issues in
the student popul ation, and much more.
In add iti on , I personat Iy got the pleasure
of work ing with a diverse group of fellow
SMA s and th e opportunity to help my
fettow student s.
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By Phuong Nguyen
" I think th ey 're doing it for the new student union bu iId ing. In th at case, yes ,
it 's just ifi ed ."
Micaela Colman
Freshmnn
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Health Center internships
provide preparation for
a variety of fields
" In a way they are. I know maintenance
has projects. They're deterring st udents
next year. If anything they shou ld lower
prices."
Marit Knutson
Junior
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: : 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.
To submit letters, poetry, or essays to Voices of Color, or to talk to an editor, :
stop by CAB 316 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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Photo coordinator .. .... ... .... ... .
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Seepage coordinator.. .... ..... ....... ........ ..... Ikuko Takayama
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production and content.
is published 28 Thursdays each academic year, when ct<lSS is in
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Our meetings are open to the Evergreen
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Help discu ss future content, s uch as story
idea s, Vox Popul i questions and possible long
term reponin g projects. as well as other t!lings
needed to help the week along.
Paper Critique
4 p.m. Thursday
Comment on that day 's paper. Air co mJllents ,
concerns, questions, etc. If so meth ing in the
CPJ bothers you, this is the meeting for you!
Friday Forum
she sa id . "Students most likely to participate will have many other interests on
campus, but I'd tike to see a student with
the Alumni Board as their main extracurricular interest."
The Student Representative is expected
to attend approximately eight Alumni
Association Board meetings and work on
a minimum of one fundraising committee . To apply, please submit a cover letter
explaining your interest in the position
and a resum e induding contac t information, education and detai ts of previous
community service along with personal
references to Scott Pinkston in the Oftlce
of Alumni Affairs - L3116, ext. 6568, or
Bonnie Marie in the Office of Finance and
Administration - LJ127, ext. 6500.
Sinnamon Tierney gradua ted from
Evergreen in 1998, and she earned her
MPA in 2000. She is theformer Presiden t
of the TESC AluIIIni Association Board of
Directors.
3 p.m. Friday
All meetings are in CAB 316.
• • • • •
Run or volunteer at
the Evergreen 5k
Artist with degree needed for work
with children PT, starting Fall '05 in the
Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland areas,
Must have obtained art degree within
the last 5 years. Call 360-357-5301.
Previous experience working with children preferred,
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I want to trade furniture
moving,
431-3339
Call Petra at (206)
Quiet,
waterfront
Evergreen 's Media Loan wit t host the
screen ing of student film s in the lecture
hall s on Super Saturday (.June II). This
is a great opportunity to have your work
seen, as Super Snturday is expected to
draw 15 ,000 people, including parents of
students and members of the local commun ity. The screcni ng wiIt last from 10
a, m. to 6 p.m.
To subm it your piece, emait Michael
Imb oden, Media Loan Intern , at
imbmic23 @evergreen.edu and drop off
cabin
your tape at Media Loan by May 3 I .
MiniDV and DVCAM will be the on ty
formats excepted . The piece should not
exceed 15 minutes. Please labe l yo ur
tape with the title, your name and phone
number and the runtime. As thi s is a fam iIy
event, please inform Media Loan if your
piece includes mature con !ent.
• • • • •
Bicycle Commuter
Contest
The 18'" Annual Bicycte Commuter
Contest is underway during the entire
month of May, and it's not too late to register. Evergreen is subsidizing part of the
registration fee for students, staff and faculty. To participate, simply fill out the fonn
available in Parking Services, Seminar I
2150, and pay $7.50 if you are a Greener
or $10 if you are a member of the general
public. T-shirts featuring this year's theme,
"Bicycle just for the health of it," are also
avaitabte for an additional $13,
Everyone who participates by recording
how many miles they commute on their
bikc thi s month will receive a booklet of
coupons from local businesses. Additional
prizes wi ll be awa rded to individuals who
ride the most miles or number of days in
their age group or special c<Jtegory, such as
pnrents l\lith kids in tra ilers. Teams will be
awarded pri zes based on similar criteria .
Vi s it
http :
Qu esti o ns?
I /www.clim atesoluti ons. org/J1ngesl
bc eOS.htm , email bikec llllllute@climatc
so lutions.org or contact Parking Se rv ices
at Evergreen extcnsion 63 52.
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Performance at Tacoma
Campus tonight
Corrine Fitzpatrick and Bethany Spiers
will present a performance of experimental
poetry with musical accompaniment entitl ed " Peter and Therese" tonight, Thursday,
May 12, at Evergreen 's Tacoma Campus.
The perform ance, inspired in part by early
20 th-century we stcrn portraiture, wi tl
address gender, identity and viotence.
"Pete r and The re se" is sponsored '"
by the program Translation as Art and
Metaphor. Transformational Literacy.
The one-hour performance will begin at
6 p.m. in room 105. Evergreen's Tacoma
Campus is tocated at 1210 Sixth Avenue,
Tacoma, 98405 .
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Hey Dave, , have
something to advertise!
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Classifieds
and some cash for help with
Put yo ur values to th e test l Discuss ethics,
journalism law and conflict resolution .
The Evergreen State Co ll ege Tacoma
Ca mpus presents the lOt" annua l comm unity showcase and resource fair, "Strategies
for Renewing and Restoring Community.'"
The event, taking placc on Saturday, May
21 from 2-7 p.m. , is a great opportunity to
check out what's goi ng on at the Tacoma
Campus. The fa ir wi II feature information
booths, workshops, demonstrations and
performances, all of which will address
justice, education, hea lth, economics and
the media. Kids are welcome: There will
be X-Box games, DVD movies, robots and
workshops to entertain them.
TESC Tacoma Campus is located at
12106'" Avenue in Tacoma, WA. Contact
them directly at (253) 680-3000.
Show your film at
Super Saturday
5 p.m. Monday
Content Meeting
.Tacoma Campus
Resource Fair
The Friends of the Evergreen Library
are sponsoring the seco nd annual
Evergreen 5k on Sunday, June 12. The 3.1mile event will take place on campus and
will be USATF certified, allowing runners
to establish record times on the course. The
race will be tim ed by Perfect Time Events
for quick , accurate results. Regi strat ion
forllls arc available on th e table to your
right as you enter the Library, next to the
Phuong NgUl'en is u senior study ing pre- Gum ba tt Poetry machine. More information ahout participating c,an be found on line
med
at htl p:l/www evcrgreen.edu/l ibrary/5k. If
you arc interested in voluntcering at the
even t, you can contact Jenny Dellaas at
de hna sv@evergreen .edu or Evergreen
ex tension 6487.
Orgallizational Meeting
Find out what it means to be a member of the
stud ent group CPJ. Practice consensu s-based
dec ision makin g.
continued!
The experiences I have gained at the
Health Center have st re ngth ene d my
interest in becoming a physician. Student
Medical Assistants th at have comp leted .
the program have entered into a variety
of healthcare field s. Of the 2004-2005
class of SMAs, one is accepted to Bastyr
Un ivers ity for naturopathi c medi c in e,
another is accepted to Oregon Health &
Sciences University for an acce lerated
nurse pra'ctitioner program , and another
is accepted at the University of Arizona
for an accelerated bachelor of nursing program. The remainder of the SMAs want
to pursue degrees in allopathic medicine,
-osteopathic medicine, physician 's assistant, mechanical engineering, Master
of Science in nurse midwifery, medical
physicist/radiologistiroek-star and a Ph.D
in immunology/genetics ; others are st iII
undecided ,
The Health Center is currently acce pting applications for the 2005-2006 class of
SMAs. If this article resonates with you,
please stop by Seminar I 2 110 to pick
up an application or as k quest ions about
the Health Center or the SMA program.
We are also ava il ab le at extension 6200.
Appl ications are due Wednesday, Mny 18.
Good luck l
Alumni Association
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"No, I think hOLi sing is al ready a rip-off'.
Tlll:Y shou Idn't raise it ever ngai n. I Ii fact ,
it should be free ."
Miles Thelonious Franzoni
Freshman
S Dorm
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NEWS
MAy 12,2005
Grassroots ecological
agriculture thrives in Argentina
LEITERS AND OPINIONS
However, there is a thriving movement
of local, ecological agric ulture motiBuenos Aires~ ln the U.S., the eco- vated by necessity and survi val. After
logica l agriculture movement, for the most the economic crash of 200 I, many activpart, is driven by the premiums people wi ll ist groups turned to organic farming
pay for organic food . Conscious consumers method s to augmen t dai ly food need s.
base their consumption habits on ethica l Here, the link between sustainability, fa ir
and moral standards. This form of cap ital- economics and soc ial justice is obvious.
ist ac ti vis m
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second larg- A papaya and banana oasis in the middle of Rosario, In Argcntina,
est amount the third largest city in Argentina.
there IS a
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worker orgaNinety-five
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agricu lture
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model and
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support
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logica l farming methconsume r
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Photo by Ethan Shaffer MOCAFOR
organic label
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gardeners
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in
Rosario.
market
much value.
stopped cor-
porations from aerial-spraying Round inhabitants. The economic crisis of 200 I
Up on genetically modified soy crops . left 60 percent ofthe population in Rosario
Probably the most developed ecological below the poverty line and 30 percent in
agriculture movement in Argentina is in extreme poverty. Local agrarian activi sts
Misiones, th e province tucked between . successfull y lobbi ed municipal support to
Paraguay and Brazil. Mi siones has a net- convert abandoned lots into community
work of 43 farmers' markets where local garden s. They saw se lf-sufficient food
producers can se ll their products. Such production as a root so lution to povel1y.
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nity gardens
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Movement
organic
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Photo by Ethan Shaffer
of Misione s. An abundant organic garden in San Pedro, Misiones.
is a luxury of
They wanted
the wealthy.
to create a viab le economic alternative Amidst organic Cheetos and TV dinners
to planting the major crops in the area: it is easy to lose sight of the purpose
tobacco, tea and yerba mate. These crops of organic farming. Howev er, in the
require high pesticide use and fet ch a low third world, in the most marginalized
price because of corporate control of dis- part of the world, the purpose couldn ' t
tribution. The farmers' markets encourage be clearer. Ecological agricul ture is a
families to first produce their own healthy practical way of improving the quality
food and then make money sell ing to their of life and escaping from the slave ry
loca l co mmuniti es. I visi ted one farm that imposed by global industrial agriculture.
was bursting with so much abundance that If you want to visit and work with ecothe owner was able to donate all the food logica l agriculture groups in Argentina or
needed for a festival honori ng the farm- other parts of Latin America, visit http:
ers' markets. The owner even had a biogas I/www.growfood.org.
digester built by her 15-year-o ld son that
converted cow manure into cooking gas. Ethan Schaffer is a senior enrol/ed in
Thi s ecological revolution is not limited Pati ence. He is studying social revoluto the country. [n Rosario, the third larg- tion.
est city in Argentina, urban agriculture has
become a lifeline for the city's poorest
A fair for all seasons
Hazardous trees
may face cuts;
community comment sought
By Renata Rollins
Fourtrecs shou ld be removed or reduced
in height for campus safety, according to a
memo sent out Wednesday. The trees were
labeled as hazardo us to fooi and bike traffic, vehicles and building structures by the
Campus Land Use Committee (CLUC),
which made the recommendation.
The committee hopes to keep as much
of each tree as possible, but one of the trees
suffereq irreparable damage and will be
completely removed.Whenever possible,
the trunk is left on-site so animals can still
use itThe trees in question have notices
posted on them.
The recommendations are:
Greeners and th ose-to-be learn about all ofthe cool non-illegal things
th ey can do with other students in th eir spare tim e at the Student
Activities Fair on Wednesday.
-a 50 foot Cedar located behind the
smoking area next to the amphitheater steps should be reduced to 30
.feet. The top 25% is dead.
-a 60 foot Cedar located at the
northwest corner of Seminar II
B should be cut to 40 feet. Its
root syste m was damaged during
Seminar II construction.
-a 50 foot Cedar east of Seminar
II B is dead and shou ld be reduced
in height.
-a 45 foot Ponderosa Pine near the
Seminar II courtyard is complete[y
dead and should be removed.
The committee is seeking public comment. Comments should be sent by email
to the CLUC at clucdl@evergreen.edu by
12pm on Tuesday, May 17th. Ifthe recommendations are approved by the Campus
Land Use Committee, work may begin on
May 18th. For more information please
contact Mark Kormondy at 867-6349.
Renata Rollins is a senior enrolled in
Business in Action. Her academic emphasis is journalism.
Maria Horan (Assis tant to the Director of
Facilities) contributed 10 this report.
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The future of AIDS
By Dolly Eng/and
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By Ethan Shaffer
COOPER POiNT JOURNAL
MAY 12, 2005
I wrote this
for an essay
contest that
[ have yet to
find out if I
won. It 's a
littl e heavi e r
then
the
articles that I
usually write,
but the AIDS cpidemic in Africa is no
laughing matter. As Americans we will
never fully understand ho w A ID S is
affecting Afri ca . Thou sa nd s of peop le
are bccoming infected with and dying of
A IDS each day. It is slowly a ffecting every
aspect or A frican soc iety in the fo rms of
economy. educat ion and opportunities for
future ge nerations. A II I can ask is for you
to use yo ur imaginati on.
Im agine a girl named Imani . At age
10, [mani has taken on the responsibility
of ca ring for her two yo ung brothers. The
gri ev ing chi Idren possess on ly a matchbook frame of a house. T he doorways
have no doors, the wind ow frames no
glass. There's not a stick of furniture,
they sleep on pi led-up blankets, and what
littl e clothing they have dangles from a few
nail s on the wa ll. Two paraffin burners si t
on th e dirt noor alongside a few potatoes
and th e meal y Il1calthat wi ll provide their
main sustenance.
Im ani has been robbed of a childhood
that was grim even before her mother fell
sick with AID S. Hashi ki supported her
famil y by buy in g and se lling things, but
she never earned more th an a pittance.
Her hu sba nd , Suwcs i, works 200 miles
away, comes hOlllc twi ce a year and sleeps
around in betwee n.
It is 11 0 t un c 0 mm 0 n inA fr ic a fo I'
womcn to fec i powe rl ess in regard s to
change of sex ual behavior. Eve n when a
woman wants to protect herse lf, she usua ll y can' \. It is not uncommon for men to
beat partners who refuse intercourse or
request a condom. "Real men " don 't use
them , so women who want their pal1ners to
use condoms must fight deeply ingrained
taboos. If yo u talk to him about condom
use, be prepared 1'01' accllsations, abuse or
abando nm ent.
As Im ani watched her mother die, she
could on ly imagine what her future would
look like. AIDS orphans begin to experi ence th e consequences of being an orphan
even before the deat h of thei r parent. The
long illn ess of th e mother or father results
in an improvised household . The soc ial
st igma of A IDS often precludes adequate
family and community support.
Now [mani mllst fend for herself, st rugg ling to survive. The trauma of losing
parents is compounded by the burden of
becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans
sink into extreme poverty, drop out of
sc hool and suffer malnutrition, ostrac(sm and psychological distress. They
scramble to live on pitiful handouts from
overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor or
a state grant, or they beg and steal in the
streets. The orphans represent desperation
as life forecloses on a brighter future .
Now imagi ne a 22-year-old African
American female. Of-her four siblings,
three of whom are younger, two have children, one is a high school drop out and one
is currently incarcerated. Against all odds,
she works hard and receives scholarships
and follows her dream of a higher education. This is who [ am.
As a teenager [ had a friend who was
H[V-positive. His love and encouragement
inspired me to focus my life's work around
the AIDS epidemic. [n the last few years, I
have been involved in numerous peer edu-
A frican-American s also believe that U.S.
government sc ientist s created H[ V to
eradicate or "control" African-American
com muniti es. Both A frican s and A fricanAmericans are not gelli ng the preventative
messages they need. Not enough educat ion
is being done in high-ri sk communities.
or all of thc cont inents in the world,
Africa hCl s been hit hClrdest by the A IDS
epidemic . So far, 17 million have died.
At least ~ 5 Illilli onllluy foll ow. UNA IDS
Clnd UNICEF estilllCllc that , based on current trend s. the numbcr of AIDS orphans
could reach 25 milli on by 20 10 and 40
million by 2020. In the United Statcs,
nearly 185.000 I3IClck s have died of AID S.
BIClck America ns have th e poorest A IDS
survival ra tcs of all ethn ic groups. 81ack
you th ages 13-19 rcprcscnt 65 perccnt of
cati on groups, planning committees and
non-profit AIDS organizations. ['m most
proud of my internship at the Thurston
County Health Department, where I have
worked with needle excha nge program s,
as well as correctional faci lities.
In th e Uni ted States, th e epidemic
is starting to grow amon gs t AfricanAmericans. W hi Ie A frican-A merican s
make up 13 percent of the U.S. popu lation , they rcprcsent over 50 percent of new
HIV in fections. A Ithough many A fric anAmericans believe they are not at ri sk,
thinkin g, "H IV happen s to other folk s
who are not at all lik e me ," they are still
becoming in rected and dying from A IDS.
St igma in our comlllu niti es prevent s us
from talking openly about sex and scx uality. A significant proportion of surveyed
the reported A ID S cases among youth in
2002, even though they are only 15 percen t
of the US population .
Somewhe re in the Un ited States right
now, an African American fema le who has
worked hard to beat all soc ial stigmas, and
has ri se n above oppress ion to educate herself and bccome a model citi zc n, is now a
stati sti c. Heteroscx ual A frican American
females are currently at thc highe st ri sk for
infection in the Unitcd States . She's young
and one day plans on fallin g in love and
havi ng a famil y. Sad ly, at the rate things
are go ing here in America. she will onc
day leave behind an lillani.
Do!!y Englund is U Sl'illo /' I' nro//cd in
illlernship willi th e 11111/'.1' / 0/1 CO llnty
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The Curmudgeon: Blue whales have megabytes
By Lee Kepraios
] recently
read something written
by this guy.
He cited, as
one example
toward
the
beast of technology, that a
~----' jet airliner has
3.1 million different components. I don 't
know what his intention was behind the
discussion, nor do I really have a concrete
knowledge of the author's own feelings
on the topic of technology. I guess I could
speak about what was actually written and
read a whole bunch of extra nonsense into
the text, but I don't think I' m that elite of
a socia l com mentator.. . yet.
The section of the text did, however,
elicit a response on my own part, and my
mind proceeded to engage in a dialogue of
sorts on the topic of technology. The text
seemed to take a pretty negative stance.
The tone made me wonder as to what is so
frightening and hateful about technology.
It 's a them e that I've noticed quite often in
my various social interactions with people.
A lot of peo pl e out there don 't seem to
take very kindly to technology. There 's
a s lew of reaso ns out there, but it seems
that the most pervasive reason , whether
stated succinctly or not, is that technology
is unnatural in some way. This feeling , as
it seems to me, is derived mainly from a
sense that most technolog ical devices are
frightenin gly complex. To move fro m the
general to the specific, 3.1 million parts is
just way too ma ny.
Th is fear o f co m pl ex it y ostensib ly
looks like a somewhat justifiable fear.
Looking at a maze of wi res and gears and
ma chin ati ons of a ll so rt s is overwhelmi ng
as it is imp ressive. But there 's something
deeper there . Wh at is it we ' re so afraid of"
J..:.eep in min d th at 1' 111 1I 0t talk ing abou t
pathologica l rear~ rew people beg in to
shaf.:e un co ll trollably when th ey plu g
nUl11 bers into their calcula to r~bu t rathe r
a sense th at thi ngs aren 't quite right with
techn ol ogy.
Technology is fri ghtenin g fo r the sa me
reason every thin g can he fri ghtenin g: We
just don 't understand ir. I' m not saying that
technol ogy is always good, but it certainly
isn 't the root of' :ill e' :1.
Furthermore. thi s fear of complexity is
compou nded by the fact that technology
is a wholl y hum an endeavor. So, sure, the
fact that there are 3.1 million individual
parts in an airp lane is a bit scary, especially
when people are entrusting their lives to
th ose 3.1 mi Ilion parts. Of course there are
an expo nenti ally large r number of atoms
in your little finger, and if one of those
atoms decides to convert itself into pure
energy, a phenomenon which is a very
real phys ical possibility, you're fucked .
But that 's not what concerns me. What
concern s me is that gasket somewhere
that an alcoholic who hates his wife tampered with on the plane in an attempt to
strike back at the cruel world that makes
his life so dismal. Yeah, 3, I million parts
seems like an extraneously large number
of parts , and if one fails we're all fucked,
right? Not exact ly.
A lot of people seem to forget that
planes don't just fall out of the sky. This
is because the reason planes fly is because
of something ca lled Bernoulli's Principle.
Ever hear of Bernoulli? He's one of them
sGie nti st guy s that want nothing more than
to destroy the world. A plane might be real
complex, but really, Bernoulli 's Principle
is pretty simple. So why do we think that
3. 1 million part s makes it so damn complex ? And why does th at complexity seerr
so unnatural?
What c(}uld possibly be more complex
than life, especially sentient life? It's something that we're not even close to being
able to replicate mechanically. Even those
grand thinking machines, computers, can't
even come close to being as complex as
I am.
I'll tell you what's unnaturally complex:
eating. I'll explain. First I'll talk about
the human digestive system, and then I'll
explain how computers work, and I'll let
you decide which is more complicated, I
take a bite. Immediately, my saliva begins
dissolving and digesting part of that food .
In particular, saliva begins the digestion of
complex carbohydrates or monosaccharide
like gluco~, fructose and others. I chew
the food with my teeth, which are protrusions of bones sticking out of my gums,
which occupy the top and bottom portions
of one of my body 's few orifices. Some of
my teeth are particularly designed for tearing, others for grinding, and still others are
designed for still another process.
Than I swallow once the food is suitably liquefied. My body is able to assess
that there is substance coming toward s
my throat, so it covers up my trachea and
thus allows the food to enter my esophagus . My brain sends electric sig nal s to
my esophag u s ~ actually, my brain 's
been sending electri c impul ses the whole
tim e~in str u ct in g it to begin contracting
the muscles that allow food to proceed
down into my stomach . Once the food
enters my sto ma ch, the real digestion
begins. As different digestive fluid s enter
my stomach from any number of o rgan s~
like the Iivcr and pancreas, to mention a
few~th e food begins to be divided into its
essentia l components. The components are
simple enough ~protein s , carbohydrates,
lipids and a few other th ings th at I can 't
remember ri ght Il o w~ b u t those are the
main three. I bel ieve. A mong othe r th ings,
there is hyd rochloric acid ill my stomac h
and all sort s oj bacte ri a. includi ng E. Co li ,
am ont! Ot l1l'J'S .
O n c ~ ali tne good stufTis separated and
ready to go, it's ti me to siart di stributing it
around the body. So then my blood comes
ri g ht next to my stomach and begins taking
all these nutrients and d istributing them to
the cells that need them. How my blood
knows what cell s need what nutrients is
beyond me , but I' m sure it 's a very s imple
thin g. The lipi ds are used to add .to cell
membranes or, in my case, to g ive me a
beer gut. Lipid s are g reat for ce ll membranes because they are non-polar. I!'they
were polar, then they wOI.lld dissolve in
water and we'd all be fucked.
The proteins are shipped over to cells
to perform two of the following functions.
Proteins either stimulate some action in a
cell by telling the parts of the cell what
function it needs to perform, or are used
to replicate dioxy-ribonucleic acid.
But my favorites of all nutrients, carbohydrates, get some sweet action. They get
shipped into a cell's mitochondria, where
all sorts of good stuff happens. I won't
go into cellular respiration right now, but
let's just say that some sugar goes in and
a whole bunch of adenosine triphosphate
comes out. Sweet.
The partially digested food then proceeds to my small intestines, which are
pretty damn long, and then finds a way
into my large intestine where all the extra
water from food is absorbed, unless I' ve
got dysentery or something. And then the
rest is left to be excreted into our water
system .
So there's a pretty brie f, oversimp lified
overview of the human digestive system.
Now, on to computers. Computers, for all
their supposedly high-tech gadgetry and
complex machinations, are just boxes with
a bunch of light switches. I s and Os, it's
as simple as that: information stored and
transmitted through a series of switches.
Those switches can either be in the "on"
position or the "off' position, The value
I has been given to the on position and
o to the off position, mostly to prevent
computer nerds from having to write
"onoffonoffonoffonoffon" a whole bunch
of times.
Those ones and zeros are known as bits
of information. In other words, one switch
equals one bit. A byte is a whole bunch of
bits and a megabyte is a whole bunch of
bytes. All the different parts of the computer are all the same, the only difference
being when their switches are accessed.
The central processing unit or CPU is
constantly having its switches accessed.
The hard drive, on the other hand, has its
switches accessed only when the information needs to be retrieved or stored on the
hard drive. The random access memory, or
RAM, is sort ofa middle ground between
the CPU and the hard drive. When you hear
about 20 Gb hard drives, it's talking about
how many switches the hard drive has .
And that 's it. Pretty fucking complex,
huh? And yet I have so much trouble sending a fucking e-mail. Stop trying to read
more into it and see more complexity.
They're relatively simple machines. They
can do complicated things \.ike transmit
pictures of busty teenagers having unprotected sex, sure, but they're pretty simple
machines. All technology has done for the
computer since its beginning is to give it
more and more switches. Whoop-diddy
fuck.
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Cae t u s---
By Sebastian Oer/ieu-$chulz
Taken away at night.
Provoked beyond endurance,
Crac kling with belligerence.
Living for the moment.
The prewar cultural center,
Lee's New Rule of the Week:
Don 't watch porn while you drive! A
growing trend recently with pimped-out
cars is screens in the front and back seats
showing nonstop porn. And that makes
sense because if you're dumb enough
to put 1500 dollars ' worth of rims on a
700-dollar car ... why the hell not spring
for some porn screens? You might as well
be watching a hummer while you drive
one. Get ready for some really horny crash
victim s.
By Jim Jordan
Along a lonely stretch
Of barren desert highway
A prickly cactus grows .
He knows ' bout the mysteries,
Of where the old west has gone.
He knows 'bout the sunrise,
Or as it used to be, the dawn;
..
He knows why it's missing,
He's seen them a ll go by.
He's seen them in their big dirty truck s.
He really misses the sky.
Sebastian Derlieu-Schulz is a senior enrolled in a contract
(In collage. dada and pop art. He welcomes comments and
reactions at delseb1 7@evergreen.edu
Or as it used to be, that is,
Before the men in trucks came 'round;
And the sky was blue,
And the birds, they flew,
Long before the dawn of the town.
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The CP J is an important venue for
the wealth of knowledge, activism,
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Those who have made the step proud.
She knew how to adapt to change.
Me, " Why have you gone?"
Making up for in enthusiasm
tipping my hat to foolishness
Apparatus Iike the still head
Little spark le in workaday world
Background of exploration and personages
But 'tis not the average
Prickly cactus, no.
For this one, he knows.
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Jim Jordan is a senior enrolled in Foundation s of Perform ing Arts .
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The
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the
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By Paul C. Whitney, a.k.a. Cap'n Lexicon
Sluice (sloos), n. A man-made channel with a valve or gate to regulate the
flow.
Tr. V. To flood or drench by means
of a sluice.
Definition from Webster's New Collegiate Dicti onary
"We shook our fathers' hand s, and
ever on them we shall find blood .
Oh. to slui ce their sin s from us,
Nevcrmon: s hall we know innoce nce:'
Sy nonym s includ e overw he lm .
drown, clean. eng ul f. swamp, wash ove r,
and dou se.
Don ' t mi ss th e Writers Guild, eve ry
Wednesday, 3-4 p.m., Seminar II A1107.
Write on, fr iend s!
Palll C Whitney is a senior enrolled
in an independe/1l contract called Ink
SI ingers.
Workshop Wl!dne.l'days fiJI' n exl
week, May 18, in Seminar II A 2/09.'
Grammar Rodeo: Connecting
Clauses, ~- 3 p.m .
Academic Writing: The summative Se lf-Evaluat ion, 3-4 p.m.
Scientific Writing: Determined
by Needs of Student s, 4-5 p.m .
Creative Writing: Creative Nonfi ction. 5-6 p.m.
Excerpt
"D,o Ya Think I'm S~xy?"
MAY
9
12, 2005
So you wanllo be awesome:
PROJECT
BLOWED,
Three quick steps to be swinging and with
it in this crazy futureworld of the year 2005
By Cameron Anderson
[A uthor 's Note : This is an excerp t
from a book I've been creating for my
independent learning contract during the
past two quarters. The book itself is a
piece of creative nonfiction chronicling an
approximate six-year portion of my life as
a female-to-male transsexual. Th e excerpt
here is afragment of the full essay by Ihe
same nam e, and is about thejew tim es I was
almosl an alternalive porn sIal'. You know
whal to do frOIll here.]
My biggest potential money shot came
when I learned of an alternaporn site located
in Olympia, Washington, which shall be
dubbed as " NF," since it is still around and
the owners know of yours truly. I found out
about the site during the drama surrounding
SG (Suic ideG irl s.com) and their clai III upon
a LiveJournal community blog devoted to all
things SG; when the women behind the blog
created a new one in response to SG ac t ions
agai nst them- and posted parti al nude pics
of them se lves to boot- I decided to post up
the two nude sets I had origi nail)' created
for all of my fri ends to view. As a result,
the peopk involved in the new comm unit y
basically thought I rocked for posting.
One of them happened to be the webmi stress of NF, whom we shal l dub (for
those who do n 't know her) "Xt ina ." In
short, she offered me a chance to become
one of her models , and not just becallse I
was just another beautiful face . I thought
about it for a whi Ie, even looked around at
Xtina's site. I'm not s llre how I was able to
say yes- knowing I was going to be nearby
in Tacoma might have been it- but I submitted the sets with the online appli cat ion
form, and Xtina came back with a resounding, "Yes, yes, yes'"
When Veronica and Michelle - my
roommates; not th ei r rea l names- learned
of thi s. they both asked how I was goi ng to
be paid. I informed them that I would be paid
with a disc of my set, since Xt ina couldn't
affo rd to pay her models much , if at all, at
the time. In turn , they suggested th at if I'm
doing thi s, then the reward shou ld be worth
my time; that the disc, to them, wasn't the
right way to pay me; and that cash was the
way to go. See ing as we we re a II poor at the
time, they had a point. Yet, I still wanted to
pose for Xtina.
For the rest of 2003, I had tried to get
toget her with Xti na to shoot a set. She
offered to come up to Tacoma; I may have
tri ed to come down to Olympia, but something always got in the way, whether it was
time, money (again) or any other means of
comi ng together. Ifit wasjustto make pretty
pictures, then I probably would have given
up sooner, but it was Xtina's desire to meet
me for other reasons- reasons I still do not
know of to this very day- that drove my
desire to be, in some sense, a porn star.
A la s, two events came toget her to
completely put an end to the chase. The fi rst
involved a former model ofXtina's site; she
sha ll be dubbed '·Alicia." Alicia had written in her own LiveJournal about a situat ion
between her and Xtina that reminded me
of the drama that had occurred and sti ll is
occurr ing with SG. Thi s di sappointed me,
since I rea lly did love that site- I still visit
occasionally. even though I've yet to ac tu ally pO)' to go any further- but, much to
m)' di smay, I dec ided to no longer involve
myse lf with NF.
The ot her event was my de-transitioning
from Rebecca to Cameron.
To thi s day. I haven 't heard back from
Xtina. I was hoping to run into her when
held a forum abo ut DIY pornography in the
spri ng quarter of the 2003 -2004 academ ic
year at Evergreen , but that never happened,
As I sa id before, I do visit her site from time
to time, but I've never pursued any further.
As far as I can tel l, it doesn't seem to be a bad
place to be, and maybe the conflict between
Alicia and Xtina was just an isolated incide nt : I can never say for sure. Finally, I am
slill curious as to the ot her reasons Xtina
wanted to meet me, besides the fact that we
were both Virgos . I probably shou ld have
asked about the dram a and found out Xtina's
side of the issue. Alas, I doubt she would
have wanted someone who was goi ng to
lit era lly change her/himself once again to
be a part of her bu siness.
Then aga in , I should have asked about
thi s, too.
Bus Driver,
Abstract Rude
showers" have more hook s than a tackle
box, and if left unsupervised have a nasty
tendency to leap out of speakers and kick
my ass into something resembling dancing.
I don 't know anyone who's heard it and
doesn't Iike it.
reviewer under 50 loves it.
It's unlikely that Foer set out to throw
Step one: M . I.A.-Arular (XL
down a generational gauntlet, but that's
Records)
exact ly what has happened . And fuck 'em:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is
I'm not sure when I listened to this album
a novel for the twenty-first century that
for the fi rst ti me, but I know that it was about
absolutely keeps pace with hi s first, an
two hours before I li stened to it for the third
Step two: Jonathan
em pathet ic ,
time. Arular is quite possibly the best debut Safran Foer: Extremely Loud
funny, heartrecord since The Clash (or at least Supa Dupa and Incredibly Close (Houghbreaking and
Fly) , a deft pasting and recontextualizing of ton Mifflin Publishers)
staggeri ng
hip-hop , reggae, dancehall , Baile funk,
book and a
and British grime and garage. M.f.A . is the
For those of you (Eva) who
virtuoso perdaughter of a famed militant for the Tamil don't know, Foer's first novel
formance.
Tigers (whom the record is named for), a was 2002 's EverY lhing is
He employs
param i Iitary/terror ist/freedom- fighter orga- I//uminal ed. He began draftseveral
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narrative
undergrad at Princinvention seton Uni versity, and
photo s of
when it saw publicaIights, letters
tion he was 26 yea rs
marked with
o ld . It a lso rule s,
red in k. a
an often hilarious
fl ip book of
meta-'nonfiction that
a man fa ilis equal parts Dave
ing from the
Eggers and Gabriel
top of th e
Garcia Ma rqu ez.
World Trade
The novel won him
Cen ter but
the National Jew ish
reversed, as
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if he's being
kind of attention
lift ed to the
typically reserved
Copyright Houghton Mifflin roo f- that
for peopl eli ke
are absoJoyc e Carol Oate s
lutely essenand John Updike. (The book was tial to the deve lopme nt and tone of th e
recentl y made into a movie set for book. It is unapologetically intense, visrelease this summer.)
ceral and incredibly close, and the 'deviaUI.A
Part of the furor is over hi s tions for form add to the novel rather than
Copyright XL Records age, and that part iall y exp lai ns distract from it.
the backlash aimed at hi s new
ni zation in the internecine Sri Lankan civi l novel , Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
With these two simple t-he-fh purwar. The record is deeply politically engaged, Updi ke, in a review fur Th e New Yorker, chases, you are one step away from hipster
which has earned her so me flak in some sou nds like he's critiquing a creative writ- nirvana:
circles. Still , M.I.A., who isn' t pro-Tiger, ing st udent ratherthan an established novelbut not exact ly anti-Tiger either, deserves ist. Vivian Gornick was far more crotchety
Step three: Stop shaving.
cred it for making a political pop record in ill The Nalion, ludicrously comparing the
this clim ate.
author to James Baldwin and dismissing Christopher Alexander is a senior enrolled
The songs are pretty good, too. Actually, him for being in suffic iently critical of U.S. in Patience and is the A& E coordinatorfor
Cameron Anderson is a senior taking an the songs are flick ing amazing: singles like foreign policy. This set s the pattern: No the CPJ, and some weeks, his lije is really
independent contracl. He is a writing lutor "P ull Up the People," "Galang" and "Sun- rev iewer over 50 seems to like it, and every not thaI exciling.
al the Tacoma call/plls. Comments :) Wri te
Cam eron al al1dcam20lci)e verRreel1. edli.
By Christopher "Crazytopher" Alexander
The Weekly Quantitative and
Symbolic Reasoning Challenge
Taj Schade
and Dan Thompson
featuring
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Answer to last week's puzzle (Add
the numbers)
We simply used trial and error.to find
our answers, Come on in and we will show
you some of the patterns that show up when
doing the math. Congratulations to Mac
Jones, Uriah Watkins and Cody FentonRobertson for completing the puzzle.
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This Week's Puzzle
The fork in the road
You are looking for the QuaSR Center
in CAB 108 to get help with your chemistry homework . You come to a fork in the
road guarded by a pair of identical twins that
are indistinguishable and always dress alike,
The only difference between them is that one
always lies' and the other one always tells the
truth. You have no idea which twin tells the
truth and which one lies. You need to ask one
fthem which fork in the road to take to get
to the QuaSR Center. What single question
ou a that will help you find your way
aSR Center in CAB 108?
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Friday, May 13
8 p.m. at the CRC
Tickets: $10 at the
TESC Bookstore,
$15 at the door.
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our pu zzle of the week. Each week we will
present a new puzzle to challenge you.
When you come up with an answer, bring
it to the ETC in CAB 108. (fyou are one of
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MAY 12,2005
Co_o_P_E_R_P_o_IN_T_J~O_U_RN
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Evergreen baseball:
Oscar saves the day
?
II
By Kip Arney
AndlOr
Then you should apply for
Ad Representative or
Assistant Business Manager
and get
erlence.
Come and learn in a fun student environment, full
of opportunity and real world experience. Train
in the fascinating world of ad sales, or even learn
how to manage a business!
Come on up to the CPJ office, CAB 316, and pick up an
a pplication, orcall us at (360) 867-6213 ore-mail us at cpjbiz@evergreen.edu.
Have a chat wi th the Business Manager, and learn more about YOUR
student newspaper's business department!
Dorms c10singt Nowhere to landt
We can help take care of your housing needs.
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details. We had found the Oscar Mayer
Weinermobile. Thanks to some crafty
driving in the Sprinter by Sean Presley,
we were able to catch up to it and get some
pictures. Never have I seen something so
beautiful as a weiner driving on 1-5 .
The season left Evergreen winless yet
again, but I wouldn't trade my experience
with these guys for anything . Nex t year
the bulk of the roster will return, meaning the team chemistry will already have
been formed . What we reall y need is you
closet baseball fan s to com e out and s upport us. I know people read these things
and s hake the ir heads in di sgust. I was one
of the m last year, and I dec ided to take
acti o n. So now it 's on you. Because it 's
not reall y fair for someone to judge our
ta lent when you've never seen us play in
person. The only ones who can are Jani ce
and Hannah, our two most loyal fans. So
I say tha nks to th em 1'01' watching, thank s
to my teammates for embracing me into
thi s brotherhood of base ball , and thank s
to Ill y readers wh o have stayed with me
throughout my sports re porting duti es . 1"11
see ya nex t year. Break!
Kip Arney is a j unior enro l/cd in Ficti o n
and No nficti on and Quirk y C haracters. HI'
is s tudying creati ve writing .
Evergreen Men's
Basketball Coach
Barbee Resigns
By Jim Beaver
Olympia, Washington- The Eve rg reen
State College's Athletic Director, Dave
Weber, has accepted th e resignati o n
of Men 's Head Basketball Coach John
Barbee. Barbee stepped down after potential violations of college fi scal policy were
di scovered . The college has re ported th e
potenti al vi o lations to th e state audit or,
who will conduct an investigation .
Barbee had coached th e men 's team
s ince the program's inception in 19971998, completing eight season s fo r a
record of I J 2-11 2. Und e r Barbee , th e
Geoducks reali zed a Cascade Confere nce
Championship, a National Association or
Intercollegiate Athl eti cs (NAIA) Nation al
To urn ament berth a nd a #6 nation a l rankin g. In 2001-200 2 Barb ee was na med
Cascade Confere nce Coac h of the Year
and Northwest Sma ll Coll ege Coach or
th e Year.
Web e r, a fo rm e r co ll ege bas ke tbal l
coach, will ass um e the dut ies and responsibiliti es o f head coac h until a replacement
is named. The search for a new coach wi II
beg in imilledi atel y.
.lim Bl'aver is th e Di rectu r uf Cn llege
Relatio/1.I·.
T h e N a la n da In sti tute
Call Cooper's Glen, (360) 866-8181
or Rock Maple Village, (360) 866-8807
5-0n
.
IfEvergreen falls, and no one is around,
does it make a sound? The last weekend of
baseball for Evergreen ended in implosion
at Bucknell Field. Frustration finally got
the better of the team, and the lack of caring
resulted in two blowout losses on Saturday
to Western Washington University. Western
easily tallied at least 20 runs in both games
while the Geoducks were held scoreless.
In the second game of the double header,
Western Washington pitcher Matt Richards
threw a no-hitter, and ifnot for Evergreen 's
Justin Porter drawing a walk in the final
inning, Ri chards would've had himself a
pe rfect game.
" Be nic e." The players know I write
the articl es, a nd wh e n I asked them what I
could poss ibl y write about, alii heard was,
" Be nic e." Be nice about the Evergreen
pl aye r ge tti ng ej ected di s puting a close
call. Be ni ce about the player that wa lked
out o n hi s tea m in the middl e of the gam e
because he fe lt he was n't gettin g playing
tim e. Be ni ce a bout a ll th e errors that were
commit ted in bo th games by just about
eve ryo ne, includ ing myself. Had you actuall y cO lll e to th e ga me, you would ' ve seen
these occurrences were unavoidable . The
frus tration was bo und to boil over. A ft er
the game teammates were arguing with one
another and it just felt like people wanted
the season to end right then and there. But
it couldn't. We had a doubl e-header the
next day in Eugene, Oregon.
Our first trip down to Eugene resulted
in rainouts that needed to be made up. And
because regional playoffs start next week
in the National Club Baseball Association,
it was now or never to get those games in .
We actually returned to the sce ne of the
crime where my cell phone was dropped
in the toilet, but this time I was more careful. The weather seemed promi sing when
I looked out the window Sunday morning, but once we arrived at the field , th e
rain gods unleas hed their fury. The games
were cancelled, which prematurely ended
a nother Evergreen baseball season .
With no games to be played , we still
weren ' t ready to go bac k yet, so we hit
up the Goodwill where I personall y came
across with som e ge m findin gs like th e
99-ce nt poster of Mary-Kate and Ashl ey
Ol se n. A ft e r finall y hitting the road back
to Ol ympi a, it was a relativel y qui et trip
until som ethin g in th e di s ta nce c aught
o ur eyes . It was bi g. it was bro wn, it was
moving, it was an autom obile and it was
in the shape of a hot dog. No w onl y one
thin g ca n co me fro m th ose desc ri pti ve
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Film Festival
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fghanistan Unveiled
ar Takes
animal rights in CAB 320.
I p.m. Evergreen Queer
Alliance, Seminar II C2107.
1-3 p.m. Dodgeball in the field
Dreams of Jagodina
Highway Courtesans
day
2-7 p.m. Come to the 10th Annual
Community Showcase and Resource
Fair, titled Strategies for Renewing &
Restoring Community. TESC Tacoma
Campus, 1210 Sixth Avenue.
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Keep N ot Silent O r th o- Dykes
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Pas hke and Sofi a
Senorita Ext rav iada , Missing Youn
oman .
Tuesday, May 24
6-7:30 p.m. Grant Writing Workshop
at Art House Designs, 420 B Franklin
Street SE
Thursday, May 26
Super Duper Events
Thursday, May 12
6-10 p.m. Dot the Landscape, the
artistry of Terrance Stearns, will
be presented in the Lecture Hall
next to the HCe.
I :30 p.m. Environmental
Friday, May 13
8 p.m. Project Blowed includes
Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Bus
Driver, Medusa, DJ Drez, Hip Hop
Klan, CVS Tah Orah and Customer
Services. The groups will perform
in the CRe. Tickets are $10 presale
and $15 at the door. Available at the
TESC Bookstore.
Saturday, May 14
tiber Weekly Events
7:30 p.m. Andrew Desmond
O'Rourke, Professor Emeritus of
Agricultural Economics at Washington
State University, will speak on
Globalization: Implications for
Agriculture and Food Supply. Olympia
Center, Room 101 .
Organizing Group meets in th e
I :30 p.m. Radical Catholics
meet in CAB 320.
S&A office.
I :30 p.m. Native Student
Alliance meets in CAB 320,
base ment of the Library Building.
A ll are we lc ome and drums are
prov ided I
Wo rkstati o n 13 .
2 p.m. Evergreen Capitalists
Organization, Libr ary 1308.
2 p.m. VOX - Communities
for Choice, CAB 320, Cubicle 17.
Office hours: Wednesday, 1-2 p.m.,
CAB 320, Cubicle 17.
7 p.m . Geodance meets in th e
bottom floo r of th e Library.
7 p.m . Juggling Club, Sem inar II
BII07.
9:30·11 :30 p.m. Late Night at the
CRe.
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center,
3 p.m. Women of Color
Coalition , CAB 206.
3-5 p.m. Soccer.
Friday
8-9 a.m. Swim Club
3 p.m. CPJ Friday Forum.
Come put your ethics to the test ,
learn about journalism, and discuss
issues in journalism and group
dynamics.
Alert, CAB 320 on the couches.
5 p.m. Electronic Music
Collective, Seminar /I C2107.
Help defend Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge .
meets i'n the Longhouse.
in CAB 315.
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets
7 p.m. Giant Robot
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
in CAB 315.
Appreciation Society, Seminar
meets in the Longhouse.
4 p.m. EPIC, Seminar II A210S .
II AII05 .
5 p.m. The Cooper Point
Journat meets in CAB 316.
4 p.m. CPJ production night .
Come participate in putting together
your student newspaper.
8-9 a .m. Swim Club
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League
in the CRe.
7 p.m. Improvisational
Theater, Seminar II C1105.
4 p.m. Evergreen Irish
Resurgence Element meets in
CAB
Workstation 4.
9:30-11 :30 p.m. Late Night at the
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
CRe.
meets in the Longhouse.
:no.
5 p . m. Evergreen Kung Fu
Sunday
1-3 p.m. Ultimate Frisbee in
the Pavilion .
6:30 p.m. Common Bread,
Longhouse Cedar Room .
5-7 p.m. Scrabbellcious
Tuesday
4 p.m. Prison Action
Committee meets in CAB 320,
Wor kstation 10.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
presented by the Writing Center in
CAB 108. Coffee. treats , and prizes!
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League
in the CRC
7 p.m. Advanced Poetics
poetry readings in Sem II A1105.
7 p.m. Student Advocacy Center
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRe.
meets at Vic's Pizza .
5 p.m. Soccer in the Pavilion.
9:30·11 :30 p.m. Late Night at the
5 p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB 320.
CRe.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
Thursday
6:30 p.m. Hunger and
Homelessness group meets in
7-9 p.m. The Olympia Movement
for Justice and Peace will present
a forum on the potential for a U.S.
attack on Iran, which could occur as
soon as June. Olympia Community
Center, Room B.
7 p .m . Perc u ss ion C lub,
Seminar II E2105.
3:30 p.m. Environmental
meets in the Longhouse.
Friday, May 20
6-8 p.m. Olympia Men's
Project meets every second and
fourth Thursday at UCAN . For more
infor mation , call (360 ) 352-2375 .
7 p.m. Clean Cars Legislation
II A1107.
6 p.m. American Sign Language
meeting at Apollo's ,
Thursday, May 19
CAB 320 in Workstation 2.
Resource Center, Seminar II
3 p . m. Writer's Guild , Seminar
Monday
6 p.m. Men's Center meets in
E3105 .
3 p.m. SEED, Seminar II E3109.
10-11 a.m. Corrine Fitzpatrick and
Bethany Spiers will present Peter and
Therese, a collaborative performance
of experimental poetry with musical
accompaniment. This takes place
at the Tacoma Campus, 1210 Sixth
Avenue, Room 105.
meets in the Longhouse.
6 p.m. EARN meets to discuss
8-9 a.m.' Swim Club
Saturday, May 21
e
Wednesday
Tickets are $15.
May 17-20
6:30 p.m. in Lecture
u
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu
8 p.m., but doors open at 7:30
Old Blind Dogs play at the Capitol
Theater.
he Women of Color Coalition
presents their annual
S&A office.
7 p.m. Students for Christ,
Seminar II E1105.
7:30-9 p.m. Ping Pong in the CRC
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.
4 p.m. Carnival, Seminar 1101107.
Show your Evergreen student 10 wnen
you hoo an IT bus and ride free
I['s that easy l Ski p the pa rking hassles.
save some cash . and be earth-friendly.
IT is your ticket to life oH campus'
For more Info on where I. T can take you.
pick up a Plac2s You'lI Go' brochure
and a Transit Guide at the lESC
Bookstore . Or call 1.T Customer Service
at (360) 786·1881 or visit us online at
www.intercitytransit.com.
4 p.m. Women's Resource
Center, CAB 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 conference room.
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