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Chaos in Santa Cruz
Evergreen
Parkway
construction
underway:
Construction' has begun on the proposed
renovation of the Eve rgreen Parkway. The
construction will implement a controversial pla n to reduce the four-lane parkway
that feeds all main entrances to the college
to one lane in each direction.
Other provisi ons of the plan include a
roundabout to be added at McCann Plaza
Drive, the main entrance to the college,
as well as additional measures to make
the Driftwood and Overhulse intersec- .
lions safer.
Photo by Eva Wong
The stretch of road lies on Evergreen's
property and is owned and managed by Future Evergreen students check out the campus services information fair during the
the college. According to th~ college's Freshman Advising Day on Wednesday, May 4. Faculty, staffand representatives from
Communications Manager, Vicki Hanna, other offices and organizations were on hand to answer questions and provide more
the plan to renovate the road came about information about attending Evergreen in the fall.
after the college had ali-eady determined
the 30-year-old road was in need of resuryears and the need for a pedestrian and bike Point Journal before the plan got its
facing.
path, which is being added as well.
final approval by the Evergreen Board of
A proposal had already been made to
The main issue up for debate is whether Trustees in March, a group of neighborthe State Legislator for the 1.5 million
a two-lane. road is adequate to handle th e hood residents stress that they feel the
dollars required for the resurfacing and
current and future traffi c needs of the co llege was ignorin g the needs of nontraffic ci rcl es when it was determined
growing college and surrounding ne igh- college traffic.
that the road needed additi o nal safety
borhoods. Whil e the college has done a
"The plan to red uce th e Parkway arterial
preca uti ons.
thorough a nalysi s and determined that the to one lane in each direction ... ignores the
"We had a consulting firm come in
two-lane thorough fare will be adequate to f~c t that 70% of the arteri al use is through
and they determined the intersections to
handle the projected traffic needs of the traffic," stated the letter that appeared in
be unsafe," said Hanna. "That 's when the
area for the next 25 years, some members the March 10 issue.
.
plan was altered."
of the neighborhood believe it will slow
While the letter acknowledges the fact
Other factors for the changes include
down traffic on the road.
pote ntia l funds that would be saved by
In a letter submitted to the Cooper
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maintaining a smaller road in the coming
Student 'A dvocacy C~nter wants your
assistance with Evergreen help desk
By Kirsten Anderson
Kirsten Anderson is ajunior enrolled in Reality Check. She is studying creative writing.
We've probably all had a complaint,
issue or question regardi ng the administrati on, school policy, housing, parking or
any othe r area of our campus at one time
or another and had no idea where to start
to get it resolved. Have no fea r: There is a
group of stude nts worki ng together to put
together a soluti on to this often frustrating
problem .
The Stu de nt Advocacy Center (SAC)
is a new student group on campus working to create a type of " Help Desk" for
Evergreen. SAC is be ing orga nized to
work as a liaison between students and the
adm in istratio n so that the Evergreen community l11 ay wo rk togethe r more closely to
create a bette r campus environment.
Thi s orga ni zat ion wi II have ombudsl11a n-1ike fUll ctio ns, but rather than representing the stude nts, SAC will work to
inform and empowe r students to represent
themsel ves. The center is formulating a
be an inquiry about what's going on in
Olympia for something to do on a Friday
night. The online portion hel ps to cater to
students not on campus during office hours,
such cis a student only taking night classes
or studying away from the O lympia area.
We want to provide a centralized location
for students to go to so th at the Evergreen
community and policies are less frustrating
and confus ing and more accessible.
What 's in it for the administrati on? The
center provides a more direct connection to
the students they work for and allow them
to create a clearer picture of what students
find wrong and want to change about the
co llege . This creates active, civic engagement among all at Evergree n, which in tum
strengthens our sense of community.
A " How-To Guide" is bei ng put togethe r
to further assist students with even the most
basic questions about the college. This is
much like the Disorientation Manual,
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" Probl e m Ticket" online submission
application to allow students to submit
complaints, a nd th e n center volunteers
will work to send the complaint to the
specific ad min istrative staff for response
and resoluti on.
One of ou r goa ls is to set a pol icy
regarding the amount of time a person has
to respond to compl ai nts subm itted . Much
to o often does a st ude nt send an email or
ph one an adm ini strative staff member
about a problem they fi nd with the campus,
only to not be responded to for week s. All
issues and responses wi ll be recorded and
trac ked and filed as a resource for future
complaints. A student may a lso com e
directly to our c urre nt location in CAB
320 until the software is complete.
Why i's this center going to be he lpfu l
for the students? Students may not have an
issue but have a question regarding where
to go for class, what office to go to regard ing student accounts or any other general
question on campus or off. This may even
Issue ~ 'J.~
Volume 33
News In Brief
Next year's Greeners
cOl11e to visit .
The project includes
plans to take road
down to two lanes
By Christin Osgood
T
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Tuesday, May 10 will mark th e 15t "
anniversary of the Rachel Carson Forum
at Evergreen. Each year the Master of
Environmental Studi es students vote to
bring a prominent envi ronmenta l speaker
to the free event. Tuesda ' s speaker wi II be
ecological economist J sh ua Farl ey, Ph.D.
His speech, "The T agedy of th e NonCommons: When t~ sustai nable, just and
efficient allocation of resources demands
community ownership," will refl ect on his
experiences in a practical field workshop
in the Phillipines, in addition to discussi ng
the foundations of ecological economics.
Musica l guests Dana Lyons and Luke
Painter will ~Iso be performing.
The Foru'11l honors R ac hel Carson
(1907-1964), whose writing influenced
the philosophy of environmental protection . It is paid for by Student Activities
tees and is free and open to students and
community members. The event will kick
off at 6 p.m. this Tuesday, May lOin the '
Longhouse.
• • • • •
No Pants Day 2005! The
tradition continues ...
, Ftiday, May 6 is No Pan~ Day the world
over. What is No Pants Day? It's just what
it sounds like, a day dedicated to the joy
inherent in not wearing pants! How do you
participate? All you have to do is leave
ycrur pants at home. (Shorts, dresses, kilts
and other pants substitutes do not count
as "not wearing pants.") So please join in,
Greeners, and lose your pants for th e sake
of not having to wear them!
For more information, vi s it http:
//www.NoPantsDay.com!
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by Fred Blasdel
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Car seat check
If you or someone yo u know is a parent
of a small child, then you are probably
familiar with the importance of using a
car seat. There will be a free infant/child
car seat check at Titus Will Auto Mall this
Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m .
This is your chance to make sure th at yo ur
child's car seat is properly sec ured in your
vehicle, or to get some free assistance
installing one .
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Project Blowed
tici(ets
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Now is the time to buy t ickets for
the 10'" a nniversary of Project Blowed
at Evergreen. The a ll-ages show will
feature Aceya lone, Abstract Rude, Bus
Driver, Medusa, DJ Drez a nd more. The
show will take place in the Evergreen CRC
at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 13 . Tickets at the
door wi II be $ 15 for students and $20 for
everyone else . But you can save yourself
five bucks by picking up student tickets in
the bookstore for $1 0 or general ad m ission
tickets for $15 . You can also visit http ://
ticketwest.com, but student prices are only
available in Evergreen's bookstore.
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V~ofcotor
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Vox Populi
Incomingfreshinen: What's your name, where are you
from, what are your academic il!terests and what do you
think of Evergreen?
.: By Ivan Gonzalez
By Adrian Persaud, R. Yazmin Shah and Katie Thurman
" Beautiful place. Great people."
Nat Hagood
Spokane, WA
Sociology and Psycholog y
"I like the programs
and the scenery."
Nathan Greenebaum
Stillwater, MN
Creative Writing
Very open-minded.
Nick Rapp
Seattle; WA
Music
New Moon .... New Time .... New Mind.
The Eleventh Moon Is Here; This 13 Moon Cycle Is Fast Closing, But
Always Remember To Be In The NOW.
CREDITS: FLT
It looks really diverse and open,
with lots of interesting activities."
Tory Richart
Tacoma, WA
Linguistics
"The people seem really cool. The
community seems valuable, sup.
portive and nice."
Beck Nelson
Vancouver, WA
History and Art
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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 C%r, or to talk to an editor, :
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" I really like the way the programs
are set up, and the campus is so
heautiful. My mom likes the
educational philosophy."
Elysse Lightle
Bellingham, WA
Education
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Park\Nay
construction
that the college did, in fact, ' r· --~--------------------_ _ __ _ _~_
ask for community input,
it says that they were only
asked to choose between
three college-approved
plans.
In response to concerns
that the plan will slow
down traffi c, Steve Trottei", .
the co ll ege's Executive
Director of Operational
Pl anning and Budget, said ,
" The main co ncern was
sa fety. "
Trotter added that there
was al so a big emphasis on
consi stency. " Ri ght now
parts of the road are two
lanes and other parts are
four lanes, and the speed
limit is inconsistent as well.
This project will solve both
of these problems."
Trotter al so admits that
the college could have done
a better job communicating
with the surrounding community on the issue.
"The main lesson learned
is that this kind of process
requires more outreach,"
Photo by Eva Wong
he said .
He stressed, however, Construction on Evergreen Parkway continues. Plans f or this project include a traffic circle at the
that once the college main entrance, and a reduction to one lane in each direction for the rest of the road.
learned that the community wanted more input,
the college immediately
was originally intended to and that a fourEvergreen-related events.
began holding open forums.
lane road was not necessary fqr access to
"We need there to always be a dia- such a small school.
Communications Manger Hanna added
logue
between us and the community,"
that the college has gone as far as creating
" When the land was first purchased,
said
Hanna.
a Community Advising Board and sendthe plan was to build a regional state
Trotter also attributed some of the
ing out an Evergreen "Neig-hborhood
school called Sou1h-Western Washington
Newsletter" that updates the commu- confusion to the fact that the parkway University, and that is when the original
nity about the project as well as other currently handles much less traffic than it Evergreen Parkway was constructed,"
said Trotter.
According to Trotter, th.e plan was later
altered and plans were made for the state 's
first non-traditional public school. Trotter
stressed that although the college plans on
increasing enrollment in the coming years,
two lanes will be adequate to handle these
and other foreseeable traffic needs.
Evergreen alumna Martha
Auerbac'h offers free
permaculture workshops
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 CP1. 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.
Pa-pe r C ritiq ue
3:30 p.m. Thursday
Comment on that day's paper. Air comments,
concerns, questions, etc. If something in the
CPI bo~hers you, this i!l.t he meeting for you!
Friday Forum
3 p.m. Friday
Put your values to the test! Discuss ethics,
journalism law and conflict resolution .
All meetings are in CAB 316.
By Sierra Wagner
Do you want to help create a community space on campus? If you are
interested in gardening, permaculture
design or community spaces, please join
Marisha Auerbach for two workshops at
Demeter's Garden near the TESC Organic
Farm . The student activities group DEAP
(Developing Ecological Agricultural
Practices) has brought this permaculture
class to the scnool to celebrate the beauty
of~pring.
On May 13 , Auerbach will be having
her next workshop at the gard~n, focusing on the important elements needed to
make a garden pleasing for people and
animals. We will be exploring sustainable
greenhouse and tool shed designs as well
. a,s plant identification and uses. On Friday,
May 27, we will have her last workshop
at the garden looking at these placements
in the garden. It will look at pathways and
other transportation systems in a permaculture site.
Auerbach has been practicing, studying and teaching permaculture in Western
Washington. Marisha graduated from the
_Evergreen State ColI~ge in 1998 with a
Bachelor of Arts in which she focused on
ethno-botany, ecological agriculture and
sustainability studies.
A certified herbalist, Auerbach regularly
presents workshops on a variety of topics,
including ethno-botany, herbal ism, flower
essences, permaculture, edible landscape
design and organic gardening, among
others. Marisha creates useful items using
her resources: Queen Bee Flower and Gem
Essences, Herb'n Wisdom for permaculture consulting and herbal products, and
- Growing Greetings, which produces plantable greeting cards and other products. She
has a small plant nursery which focuses
on edible flowers and other gourmet specialty food items. She is also involved in
the creation of perennial forage systems
using perennial vegetables.
If you would like more information,
please contact the [)EAP coordinator, Sierra, at (360) 867-6493 or email
deap@riseup.net. This event is free to
students and $5 for community members.
Please come!
Sierra Wagner is a junior enrolled in
Farm to Table. She is the coordinator
of Developing Ecological Agricultural
Practices (DEAF).
J oe Jal cko is a junior e nrolled in
Democracy and Free Speech. He is the
News Coordinator althe CPJ and can be
reached at jatjos08@evergreen.edu.
Cycle beads workshop!
When : Thursday, May 5, 2005, 4:30 p.m.
Where : S&A Conferen ce Room , third
floor of the CAB
loin Student Medical Assistants from
the Health Center and the Women' s
Resource Center for a workshop on cycle
beads, a natural method offamily planning
that is now available at the Health Center.
Cycle beads, a string of colored beads, are
a way for women to track their fertility in
order to avoid or achieve pregnancy. The
beads offer a visual reminder of the days
that women can become pregnant and the
days when pregnancy is most unlikely.
This method is 95 percent effective when
used correctly. To learn more about cycle
beads and to find out if this method of
family planning works for you, join us on
Thursday, May 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the S&A
conference room on the third floor of the
CAB. Call the Health Center at 867-6200
for more information.
-Brief submitted
Postman
by
Rachael
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Ramtha workshop location change
If you are planning on attending the
" Ramtha 's Model of Science" workshop
this Saturday, May 7, please be advised that
the location has been changed to Seminar
II B1107. Registration will begin at 8:30
a.m. and will cost you $20. It is open to
Evergreen students only. More information
can be obtained from Danielle Graham at
458-944.6 or gradan25@evergreen.edu.
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Seminar II receives
award
Student
Advocacy
Center
Congratulations are in order to Seminar
II: Evergreen 's very own building has
been named one of the Top Ten Green
Buildings for 2005 by the Committee
on the Environment of the American
Institute of Architects. To read about
what makes Seminar II so green, visit
http://www.aiatopten.orglhpb.
CUlltinued fnllll Cll\ er
which most of us have probably read. We
want to be as accessible arid convenient
as possible to all students who attend
Evergreen.
. Furthermore, the most crucial aspe~t
of the formation of this center is student
input. We need as much as possible so
that the center is designed to take care of
students' specific needs. If you have suggestions or would like to get involved with
the Student Advocacy Center, we will be
having weekly meetings at 7 p.m. at Vic's
Pizzeria. You may also contact someone
at 867-6058 in our current location. Please
come and eat good food, meet up with
some cool kids working to strengthen the
Evergreen community, and have a hand
in starting this exciting movement on
campus!
Christin Osgood is a junior enrolled in
Approaches to Healing and is involved in
SOFA and the Student Advocacy Center.
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Ramtha students participate
in mind and consciousness
research at Evergreen
ence. Understanding mind and conscious phenomena are provocative enough to wardevelopment has a direct correlation with rant continued utilization of geomagnetic
experiencing mind.
monitoring in further research." In 2001,
Even though the "seeing through the Dr. Krippner presented "A Psychological
cards" demonstration did not possess the and Psychophysiological Study of Kunda lin i
cards, suit and number, from a 52-card deck· necessary controls for formal scientific Meditators" at the Society for the AnthroBy Danielle Graham
every day of the year, it would take about publication, it was definitely established pology of Consciousness sponsored that
On Saturday, February 12,2005, three 6500 years for someone to "accidentally" that, yes, training at the Ramtha School year at Bastyr University in Seattle, which
advanced students from the Ramtha School guess the top 17 cards correctly. Odds are produces genuine skills that are worthy included data that he had collected from stuof En lightenment (RSE) were invited to this advanced RSE student wasn't guess- of further investigation. Saturday's group dents, JZ Knight and Ramtha during 1996.
participate in a physic5-related mind / ing, as he could reproduce the experience moved on to several different experiments, "Throughout this conference, Dr. Krippner
and by the end of the day, Iight spectroscopy repeatedly suggested to the participants
consciousness experi ment on the Evergreen any time.
campus. I coordinated the experiment
The Ramtha School is a training ground as well as geomagnetic field data had been that RSE offered a great opportunity to
study the development of consciousness,"
with the assistance of my volunteered for the mind. Students are taught to con- collected.
In the week following, I was loaded reported Carroll Cobbs, another speaker at
consulting faculty, Don Middendorf and sciously and intentionally activate and then
Peter Robinson .
"move" to specific locations in the brain. up with computers, ring stands, light and the conference.
The potential research possibilities with
Robinson, an Evergreen instructor and Those location s are referred to by "fre- magnetic sensors and a force plate and
lab technician, sat across from one of the quency" names, like "infra-red" or "ultra- spent 10 days collecting even more data RSE mind-trained students are endless.
Ramtha students at a lab table. A deck of violet," that the RSE students are taught to during an advanced required training at Ramtha students also develop the capacity
cards was produced, inspected, thoroughly affiliate with specific areas of the brain. By RSE attended by over 1000 people from for long periods of focus. Some students
shuffled and placed face down on the table. activating these dormant areas of the brain, around the world. The data collected was have even developed the capacity to identify
One by one, the top 17 cards were accurately RSE students also activate dormant abili- so astounding that Robinson was called in specific neu ro- chem ica I freq uencie s
identified by the RSE st udent, both suit and . ties, which they perceive to be the natural to come to the Ramtha School to verify the during specific conscious states as well
data and methodology ror accuracy and as the associated neuro-chemical cascade
number, wh iIe the cards remained face birthright of every person.
from serotonin into melatonin and into
down. \'1e utili zed what he referred to as
Knowledge, and then the disciplines tech n ical efficacy.
Upon return to the Evergreen campus the fluctuation of the metabolites-betathe " infra-red" part of his brain to achieve to experience that knowledge, are given
this result.
to students at the Ramtha School. Working after having completed collecting data carbolines and pinolene-all without falling
Statistically speaking, if six billion those disciplines is like exercising a dormant at the Ramtha School, I was approached asleep.Neuro-chem ical/mindlconsciousness
people attempted to "g uess" the top 17 muscle. Yet both the knowledge and the dis- by intelligent, sincere Evergreen students research with such trained minds has not
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ing more than a sciousness work , who asked about doing
doorway into each research at RSE also. Mike Wright , an Danielle Graham is afirst-year senior regstudent's own per- appointed teacher at the Ramtha School, istered in Undergraduate Research wi/h Dr.
sonal experiences. was contacted to find out ifthere was a way . Belly Kutter.
to create a special event for those Evergreen
Accumulated
On Saturday, May 7, in Seminar II
experience is the students interested in research . Dates were
B
1107,
a day long workshop on "Ramtha's
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a
room
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Evergreen
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and
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developed mind .
those
Evergreen
students interested in
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research
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re searc h. Th e
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before.
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1996,
the
preeminent
paraciplines are done,
workshop
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to
Evergreen stupsychologist
Dr.
Stanley
Krippner,
along
the more experidents
and
faculty
only.
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with
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dozcn
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scholars
from
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an
RSE
instructor.
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• • • • •
Student Trustee looking for
students to speak to Board of
Trustees about Housing problems
By Joe Jar=-c
ck'-"o=---_ __ _ _ __
Stu de nt Trustee Dya m i A lien held an
op en t'o ruill la S! Wednesday for student s
who II' "hed to voice concerns about Evergreen hOU Sin g and to dl SC liSS raises in rent
for ne., t Y\?;Jr.
Though few studcnt s came to participate, the studc nt s who did were positive that
the problem s di scu ssed were not unique to
them .
Amon g the issues di sc ussed were
concerns ahout present and fUlure removal
of kitchen s. I:-Ie k of ,u pervision for student main tc' l1<l nce workers. unwarranted
charges su , tall1ed upon check out, health
and sakt y Issues, and a gcneral feeling of
complacence on all of th ese issues from the
housing offi le'
Additiona lly. proposed increases in
rent prices for the '05 -'06 school year were
di scussed . For example, the price for a single
room with a kitc hen, which previously cost
an ywhere from $4,035 to $4,235, now costs
a flat rate of $4,365. Students were generally concerned that while rent continues
Argentina's hardships
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reflect problems •'n the
By Ethan Schaffer
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Women in science
to get higher each year. not Illany tangible
improvements have become visible.
Alien sa id that the best ft rst step toward
getting student voices heard was coming to
the next Board of Trustees meeting together
when he wa s going to be talkin g about
housing . Th is mea sure has the potential
to be quite effective because the Board is
currently reviewing an allocation of funds
for housing.
Misiones ,
ArgentinaMy partner
Sarita and I
have been in
Argentina for
almost four
months now,
visiting farrnworker movements, organic producers and countless
activist groups. As I begin to understand
the history of the activist movement here,
I am becoming increasingly concerned
about my country's involvement in foreign
affairs. More importantly, I' m concerned
about what my responsibility is as a U.S .
citizfl;l1. My experiences here have helped
me start to understand the connection
between the U.S., the Argentina dictatorship and the Iraq war. It seems like a farfetched connection, bl1t let me explain.
Last week we visited the Agrarian
Movement of M isiones (MA M) . They
have been organi zing sma ll-sca le farmers in the M isiones province or Argentina
s ince 1971 . When we arrived at their
office, the first thing they did was point
to Ihe pictures 011 their wall and explain,
"That is our fo under, he was assassinated;
the lady next to him was disappeared and
never found; thi s other picture is of a
friend who was ex il ed for eight years,"
and so on.
I' m getting used to hearing these kinds
of stories as we visit activist groups. From
the m id-1970s to 1983, Argenti na was
under an oppressive military dictatorship.
During this time over 30,000 people were
ki lied or disappeared. It has left a deep scar
in everyone who lived through the period.
As MAM co-director Enrique Peczack
explained, it set the activ ist movements
back 50 years .
Enrique's brother was the MAM
founder \vho was assassinated. Enrique
was disappeared for a year and jailed for
eight. He wanted us to understand MAM's
history, so he brought Us to his brother's
grave. As we were driving out to MAM's
organic mate cooperative, we asked what
the difference was between being jailed
and disappeared . He stopped the truck in
the middle of the road and let us know all
the detai Is. When he was disappeared, he
was in the jungle somewhere in a Nazi-
'.
u.s .
style concentration camp and no one
knew where he was. Most of the time he
was chained up with a bag over his head.
He would go withol,1t human contact for
weeks. Sometimes he was fed, sometimes
not. He was beaten and tortured repeatedly.
When he was jailed, he was not treated
much better, but at least he knew where
he was . ..
When I hear these gruesome stories first
pany Repsol to become the second largest visit the U.S. again until its citizens liberate
oil company in the world. Where there is the country. I feel that challenge weighing
oil, there is oppression. Now Argentina is a heavily on my shoulders.
slave to the global free market economy.
However, it seems unlikely that the U.S.
I would also like to think that this is activist community will take the drastic
an isolated experience precipitated by actions necessary to overthrow a tyrannirandom events. But I know that every cal government. We don ' t feel the direct
country in Latin America has a similar effects of U.S. domination even if we are
story of oppression. Nor is this story lim- . opposed to it. We don 't have bombs falling
ited to Latin America. The same thing is on our cities and our fami lies aren't being
disappeared . Even though we are opposed
to global economic and military tyranny,
we are still the major beneficiaries. Since
we aren't feeling the brunt of the suffering,
we aren't able to take the drastic actions
that other oppressed people take.
In Argentina, when YPF was privatized,
massive groups of unemployed people
started using the tactic of blockading highways. When unemployment hit 40 percent,.
the widespread direct action started having
an effect. National strikes and protesters
raiding banks effectively shut the country
down . Then, on December 19 and 20,
200 I, massive protests in Buenos Aires
succeeded in overthrowing the president
and the next four that followed.
How many people in the U.S. are
ready to shut down highways or organize
national strikes? Who wants to ri sk their
jobs, families and freedom? Who is ready
to face down police with live ammu niti on?
Organizing a national strike would require
widespread cooperat ion between all the
major activist organizations in the U.S. Yet
Photo by Ethan Schaffer
major organizations fear public opinion too
much to take sllch drastic actions. Bush's
Enrique Peczack at the gi'a ve of his assasinated bra/her.
largest opponent, MoveOn,org, with three
million members, won't even issue a statehand I can only think how glad I am that happening in Iraq right now. However, in ment against the Iraq war. True Majority
this kind of thing doesn't happen in the Iraq, U.S. involvement is even more direct is a little more radical: They distributed a
U.S.But I know the U.S. is far from being and the massacre even greater. The website pen that shows how much money is being
disconnected from torture and massacre. It http://www.iraqbodycount.org now says at spent on the war. They even make activis widely known that the U.S. supported least 21,000 civilians have been killed. I ism easy for you: Click "reply se nd" and
can only imagine the kind of scar that will your representatives receive a form letter.
the Argentine dictatorship.
I would like to think that the dictator- leave in the people. And again this tactic Is that what activism has corne to in the
ship is over. However, I know the military of brutal destabil ization will leave an oil- US? "Reply send" activism?
dictatorship cleared the way for the glo- rich country a slave to the ftee market
I'm not angry at the activist community.
balized economic dictatorship: Had the economy.
I'm not ready to blockade the highways
activist community not been set back so
Yet what has been bothering me the either. That takes unity and confidence
far, there might have been a stronger force most is that I am some how implicated in that we just don 't have right now. It's just
to fight the privatization of the Menem all thi s. My friends in Argentina can't fight starting to feel like we've been put into
years . And what was the largest public the U.S . global empire. No matter how checkmate.
company sold off to the free market? many times they blockade the highways,
YPF, Argentina's national oil company. It ransack the banks and oust presidents, they
Ethan Schaffer is a senior enrolled in
was the largest initial stock sell-off in the still can't change their place in the global Patience. He is slUdying social revoluhistory of the New York Stock Exchange. economy. Last week, Venezuelan President tion.
YPF was bought up by the Spanish com- Hugo Chavez announced that he will not
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Letter to the Editor
Student forum will address accommodations
for students with disabilities
Joe .latcko is ajl/nior enrof{ed in Democracy
and Free Speech , He is the News COOl'dinator 0/ the CPJ
The Trustee invites all st udents who
have concerns they w ish to voice about
Housing to come to the meeting. People
can choose to speak or to simply show
that there are more than just a few people
who are concerned about this issue by
'showing up. The meeting will be held
at I p.m. in the afternoon next Wednesday, May II. A II students who are currently living in Housing and /or plan on
living there next year are encouraged
to come. For more information, email
jatjos08@evergreen.edu .
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Dear Students:
Photo by Eva Wong
The Evergreen Chemistry Club hosts a series of speakers for its Women in Science
event. These presenlations were open to all students and were arranged to encourage
and inspire wo"!en to pursue careers in the sCi,ences.
.
My name is Steven McCook. I am a man with autism
studying sustainability on campus. My experience, with
respect to gaining accommodation from Evergreen, continues to be most unpleasant. Life as an undergraduate has
been difficult for me. When I started at Evergreen, people
protested that I couldn't be a college student. They didn't
believe that I could type, or read, or write prose. Someone
who is " relatJded" cannot be intelligent. Let me decide if I can learn! My life experience is story after story in a life lived quietly and alone. Can I find an understanding
community before I graduate?
I·have organized a forum for students with disabilities to connect and ask questions
that figure into our creating and sustaining a diverse campus.
,
Listening to each other is the 1110st moving work we do as students and faculty to
build a foundation of trust and resist oppressive interactions. Much of Evergreen's
philosophy refers to diversity. "Learning across significant differences" and lovi ng to
collaborate openly is the very life of being an Evergreen student. My experience has led
to my understanding that Evergreen does not ye t learn across significant differences.
I would like to address issues of reasonable accommodation by Access Services, training for faculty and staff around the inclusion of persons with disabilities, and building
understanding of and respect for persons with disabilities on campus. I will continue to
work on my goal of making Evergreen a truly inclusive and intellectually cha"engi ng
inst itution of higher education. My fellow students with disabilities , please attend the
forum on Wednesday, May II at 4 p.m. in Lab I 1047. Tomorrow is a brighter day.
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Respectfully,
Steven McCook
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MAY 5,2005
MAY 5,2005
LETTERS AND OPINIONS
The, Curmudgeon:
HPV and cervical cancer:
Information all women should know
By Dolly England
'1 .
I was given
an
article
about
th e
connection
between cervica l cancer
and Human
Papillomavi ru s (HPY)
by my interns hip s pon sor Andrew Brabban- who
rock s, by thc way - and was completely
shoc kcd by what I rcad . Let's talk about
the basic s.
What exactly is H PV?
Although there are over 100 strains of
HPY, geni tal warts are the most commonly
known. Th ey are identified as stra in s
HPY6 and II . Genital warts are soft and
moi st. and arc flc sh-co lored. The usually
appear in the ge nital area within weeks
or months of infection. They sometimes
appear in clu sters that resemble cauliflower-like bumps, and can be raised or
flat , small or large. Genital warts can show
up in wome n on the vulva and cervix and
inside the surrounding areas of the vagina
and anus. In men, genital warts can appear
on the scrotum or penis.
While genita l warts are the most commonly known, many women are becoming
in fected with strai ns 16, 18, 31, 33 and
45 , which are associated with Ce rvical
Cancer. An estimated 5.5 million people
become infected with the HPY each year
in the Un ited States, and an estim ated 20
mi II ion Americans are current Iy infected.
In most cascs, the virus is harmless and
without symptom s.
What are the effects of H PY cervical
infections?
High ri sk strains of the vi rus are linked
to cervical changes in women and G.oyld
poss ibl y lead to cerv ica l cancer. About
14,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.
Over 5,000 women die each year of cervical cancer ill-rhe \) nited States. Cervi ca l
cancer most common ly takes between 10
and 20 years to deve lop; women who are
no longer sexually act ive should continue
to be screened . Ifan HPY infection is persistent past the age ofJO, there is a greater
ri sk of developing cervical can cer. If a
woman has regular pap smears, any cervi ca l changes that develop can be monitored
and treated if necessary, making cerv ical
cancer extrem ely rare.
How do you contract HPY?
It is estim ated that 80-8 5 percent o f
the populati on will contract HPY at so me
point in life, with a large porti on ofwomc n
contracting HPY by age 30 . Most I-IPY
infection is assoc iated with skin-to-skin
contact li ke the kind you may have under
the sheets; however, a study done in the UK
showed that seven percent of girls tested
between the ages of II and 12 showed
signs of H PY 16. These young girls aren't
having sex ; they ' re play ing with Malibu
Barbie and og ling ovcr Aaron Ca rter,
showing that there have also been cases
of HPY in virgins. Sk in to skin co ntayt is
the most Iikely way people contract HPY,
but research is inconclusivc.
How can yo u prevent HPV?
Ways that lower yo ur risk of getting
other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
may also work to lower yo ur risk of get1ing
HPY or gen ft al warts:
oAbstain from having sex . (Safe sex is
in the palm of you r hand, people.)
oAbstain from sex with a person who
has visible warts- although some infected
people may not have vi sible warts but can
still transmit the infec ti on .
• Monogamy .... (You + me = us)
oHave sex with fewer people. The more
people you have sex with , the greater your
chance is of gett ing HPY.
o Use a latex condom. Used consistently
and correct ly during every sexual act, condoms can decrease the ri sk of infect ion.
Although these methods can reduce
yo ur risk of contracting H PV, know that
it is a sneaky vi rus. If you have had more
than four sexua l partners you probably
already have it.
Sho uld you tell your partner?
oAll women should have regular pap
Here 's tlie deal : I'm just a student like smears.
the rest of you . In my opi ni on, you should
oWomen who smoke do not clear HPY
tell partners about yo ur infect ion. I would as quickly as non-smokers. Smoking itself
be pi sscd if I hooked up with someone is a risk factor for cervica l cancer as wel l
who had somet hing and d idn 't tell me. as many other cance rs.
However, I do think there are some excepolt is important for partners to 9ndertions when it comes to HPY. T he strains stand the entire picture about HPY so that
of H PY that can cau se cervica l cancer both people can make in formed deci sions
onl y affect women. Whil e wom en are the based on facts, not fea r or mi sconceprecipi ents of thc infection, men can al so tions .
be carri ers.
Will there be a vaccine against HPV
I-Iere's the catch: There are no symp- infection?
tom s and no test for men. So even if they
do havc it, there is no way of knowing There have been ongo ing vacc ine stud ies
for sure. Yes, if you ' re a female , you can for many years. It is anti cipated that a
pass thc virus on to your male or female possible vaccine will be available for the
PJlrtners, but the ri sks for your male partner ge neral publ ic in the future. One news
are alm ost nonexistent, with the exception report that I saw sa id that 10-to-12-yearof him becoming a carrier. But how do you old gi rls will be targeted for the vaccine
know that he's not already a carri er?
so as to reduce their risk of cervical cancer
If yo u just recently contracted HPY, I later in life .
.
don't th ink it's necessary to contact previThe more we know, the more informed
0us partners; however, it might be a good decisions we can make about our sexual
idea to tell future partners.
health. I f you are seeing someone and
What 'should sexually active people haven't already had a talk about your
understand about this virus?
sex ual health, yo u need to get on it. Be
oNearly three out of four Americans healthy, YO!
between the ages of r5 and 49 have been
infected with gen ital HPY in their Iifeti nies.
Dolly England is a senior doing an internoIt should be considered a chronic con- ship with th e Thurst on Coun ty Health
dition for which there is no cure but which Department. She is the coordinator of
may clear up on its own.
Umoja.
oRe-infection is possible.
The Rapscall.ion strikes again!
By Lee Kepraios
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I
A co upl e
weekends
ago I went
to a daylong
workshop
called "Being
the Change
Agent You
Wish to Be in
Your World."
The faci litator was Marshall Rosenberg,
author of Nonviolent Communication, a
book I' ve lea rned a lot from .
I grew up in a very passive-aggressive and , at times, violent household, so
I didn 't grow up wi th a great model for
communicati on. I learned a lot about how
to not comm uni cate with people and how
to dodge my parents' anger or run straight
into it ,yeehaw' For years my sister and I
had a sort of riva lry wi th each other that
sometim es led to violence. The biggest
thing I got out of reading the book for the
first time was how to li sten to and talk
to my si ster, which has bcen immensely
reward ing.
Marshall Rosenberg isn't yo ur average Ph.D. in Psychology: While he was
still teaching at universities, he stopped
giving grades and used'1a different evaluation system ; he now travels around the
world to give people in conflict training
in the language of nonviolent communication, and he says there's no such thing as
mental illness. Note: A chemical imbalance
is a physical problem , not a mental one.
Marshall has shown me a remar kably
effective way to view myself, other people
and life. He says, " When we understand
the needs that moti vate our own and
others' behaviors, we have no enemies."
Nonviolent communication is essentially
a way to communicate that will open
doors but doesn ' t require others to know
how to speak it or agree to speak it or
communicate, because eventually they
will respond to "nonviolent communication, the language of empathy... if you're
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For more information on HPV,
check out these websites:
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/
previous_issues/mtmay03 .cfm
http://www.metrokc.gov/healthiapu/std/hpv.htm
genuine. (Read the book.)
Anything you do is done in an attempt
to fill a need. For those things you do with
no good purpose: Sometimes you have to
g ive yourself empathy. "Observe without
eva luating." If you li sten to your internal
dialogue, you can find o&har is going
on with you. When you are young, you
learn language; eventually you develop
an internal dialogue, and you tell yourself
things, hopefully for the purpose of getting
your needs met more efficiently.
Pain, anger and depression are all things
you feel when your body is trying to tell
you to change or adjust something. There's
a high cost for repressing these "bad"
feelings, just as there 's a high cost for n0t
expressing feelings we associate with vulnerability. They are feelings for a reason,
but instead of getting a diagnosis or telling
yourself, "This is who I am (I am angry and
depressed, etc.!)," it's much more effective
to listen to yourself. "Distinguish feelings
from thoughts." For example, notice what
you are saying to yourself. Be aware of
what yo u say to yourself in any given
situation. A lot of depression may resu lt
from you unknowingly beating yourself
up about something. It 's the way you've
learned to think . Distinguish how you
feel and how you think others react or
behave toward you. What others do may
be the stimulus of your feelings, but not
the cause. Why would you give yourself
"
~
a hard ti me?
Once ypu've connected to your internal
dialogue, ask yourself what needs you are
trying to fulfill by saying what you say to
yourself. You may find that you have an
incredible habit of saying things to yourself that are self-defeating, rude, mean or
otherwise unhelpful. Then get in contact
with what your needs actually are. Listen
to them and acknowledge them wi1hout
telling yourself unhelpful things. Empathy
will solve more of your problems than pills
or drugs can block: Giving yourself empathy with allow you to empathize with and
connect to others, something everybody
needs.
In one
of my jauntier, more
loquacious
moods,
I
would have
had
the
"patience ,
even a kind
of serenity,
to deal with the torrent of petulant dialectic a propos to the frothing sham that
is Earth Day. But I was not in a patient
mood as of that morning when I'd spilled
tangerine juicl! on my tweed trousers and
my Alphabets cerea l very curtly told me
to go fuck myself.
But Earth Day came and went as usual ,
and when it left, I cou ld r--- -:-·--."'""',,r·- -- - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - r
not have been happier.
,> . .1
I wanted to scream out
to al l I saw that day.
cheerfully and dutifully
separating plastic from
al uminum. Sty rofoa m
from paper, that they
were doi ng harm to the
e nviro nm ent and the
economy, that, in fact ,
recycling is the sing le
most wastefu l act go ing
on in America today.
Huh') You weren't sure
you'd read that ri ght. But
it 's true. Remember, this
is the Rapscallion talking.
I' m just two people short
of a menage a trois.
Recyc ling is indeed
ga rbage, as it is more
harmfu l to tile environment and costly to the
state than merely throwing someth in g away.
The rec ycling industry
uses the same machinery
to recycle as most polluting, smoke-belching
facto ri es do to produce
their goods. Therefore,
roughly the same leve ls
of toxicity are goi ng to
Photo by Eva Wong
emit from each indi- The Rapscallion, though he believes it is wasteful and wrong,
vidual recycl in g plant. recycles by manually making the recyclables himself.
Take paper for example,
or the percentage of it
that doesn't just go straight to the landfill meets demand.
And what of the cost of recycling? It
anyway.
" Paper must be bleached in a chemi- costs more to recyc le-with the excepca II y i nten s ive process that generates tion of aluminum- than it does to
a great deal of toxic waste as opposed landfill. Former EPA official J. Winston
to the beni gn form of waste that results Porter admitted, "Trash management is
,
Depression: It's probably the way you think
By Caroline White
from simply throwing something away,
something they don't tell you in school.
We're so afraid to use too much paper, it's
kind of scary.
What morons like us who've been
indoctrinated to believe that all recycling
is good and happy forget is the little
unchanging cycle of supply and demand.
They don 't clear-cut rainforests to make
paper, okay? There are more trees on Earth
now than there were a hundred years ago.
The pulp used to make paper comes from
tree farms which are created in response to
the amount of paper purchased each year.
In the paper industry, 87 percent of the
trees used are planted to produce paper.
For every 13 trees "saved" by recycling,
87 will never get planted. The way The
Rapscallion figures it, the more paper you
use. the more trees there will be. Supply
!f".
becoming much more costly due to the of whom can see past a neurological con
generally high cost of recycling." Local job like reli gion, which is something else
governments are being financially crippled that 's instilled in the heads of children
by the provisions of recycling facilities and before they are old enough to question its
services. Subsidization for nonsense like possible erroneousness, can't do likewi se
this from local and federal governments with recycling.
is why taxes are so
high. Your money is
go ing into this. The
air pollution from the
extra trucks- twice as
many- needed for the
specia l trips required
for
recyclables
should be persuasion
enough.
You dratted fools!
Does it take a dastardly rogue like me to
explain thi s to you?
Land fi lis are more
nonsense. You hear
that Americans generate 8.5 billion tons of
waste a year and you
start to pan ic. I f all
the so lid waste for the
next th ousand years
were put into a si ngle
space, it wou ld take up
44 miles of landfill, a
mere .01% of the U.S.
land space. Have you
ever been to a landfill?
Land fi li s are bui It far
away fro m public
notice, have cut down
on grou ndwate r polPhoto by Eva Wong
lution by placi ng the
refuse on layers thick The Rapscallion celebrates Earth Day by carving "Save the
arti ficial turf and have Planet" into an old fir tree.
reduced air pollution
from the gas em itted
Why is this? Because recycl ing makes
by non-biodegradable trash by pump- us feel good. It gives us good feelings ,
ing the methane emitted by things like levels the karma, feeds the chi or whatever.
Styrofoam through pipelines to nearby Sure, that 's reason enough to do anything.
gas compani es.
One ofthe Rapscallion 's favorite pastimes
Are Americans wasteful? Absolutely. is sitting pn the washing machine with no
The Rapscallion is no exception. I never pants on. But I see no reason to participate
eat the outer two slices of a loaf Of bread. Is in what I think is an arbitrary, wasteful,
our environment screwed up? Indubitably. make-work, ineffective and yes, harmful
But I do not have a problem with this. charade.
Human beings are si mply the latest term of
But one good thing about Earth Day:
a preceding sequence, which at one point The buses run for free.
included the dinosaurs. It is ludicrous to
believe that as a species, we will be around The Rapscallion's Latest Statute of the
forever and ever or that we deserve to be Half-Fortnight:
around forever and ever.
Stop describing things as "Ghetto! "
But try telling that to the narrow, Ghetto is a noun , goddamnit! You are
sunshine-y, environmental tub-thumpers butchering the King 's Engli sh!
spouting the same unenlightened, illinformed twaddle we were all subjected to
Lee Kepraios is a senior taking an indeby Ms. Hobbes in the third grade. I cannot pendent contract on standup comedy.
understand why Evergreen students, many
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Continued from pre\ itlll S page
There's a lot more to nonviolent com' munication; this is just a snippet of how
it can be used. I think it's important to
debunk the myth that you have no control
of how you feel. When you hear that the
symptoms you have are a disease or a disorder that has a name, you can get caught
up in making your problem not your own
unique reaction to your lifestyle, and you
can believe that it's something you can do
nothing about besides feed it pills. I have
a hard time with classifying certain things
as diseases: I know they ' re dis-eases, not
diseases. They are symptoms, but certainly
not the underlying issue(s).
Communicating with yourself i,s just
as important as your communication with
others. Communication isn't something
that is often taught, nor is the ability to
empathize. Nor is every counselor, psychologist, and therapist trained in how
to empathize with clients in a way that
facilitates positive change.
Obviously I have no idea how the reader
feels. I don't mean to tell you that drugs
a psychiatrist prescribes won't help cer-
tain issues or"" certain individuals, because Compassionate Communication (PSNCc'
they can. But if we keep going at this pronounced peacenik) at
rate, we're going to have the majority of http://www. psncc.org.
people doped up on substances, whether
through prescription or self-medication. Caroline White is a senior enrolled in
Forty percent ofthe profits "Big Pharma" So You Want. to bea Psychologist. She
generates are from selling anti-depressant has combated depression and sometimes
drugs. Instead of changing the systems we debilitating aniiety through staying away
live in or under, we are going to tell our- from drugs, moving away from home, lisselves that we have to change to fit these " tening to herself, modifYing her behavior,
systems. Our systems shouldn't oppress finding the appropriate substaute mom,
us, but should be used as our tool to make learning, and making exercise and eating
life better for' ourselves.
mostly healthy food part of her lifestyle,
For workshop times or to connect with as well as hugs, using herbs instead of
people in the area teaching, using and allergy or cold meds ... and stopping to
practicing nonviolent communication, smell the flowers.
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The Curmudgeon:
HPV and cervical cancer:
Information all women should know'
cancer most common ly takes between 10
and 20 years to develop; women who are
I was given no longer sex ually acti ve should continue
an
articl e to be screened. If an HPV in fect ion is perabo ut
th e sistent past the age of30, there is a greater
co nn ec tion
ri sk of developing cervical cancer. I fa
betwee n ce r- woman has reg ul ar pap smears, any cerv ivica l ca nce r ca l changes that deve lop can be mon itored
a nd Human and treated if necessary, mak ing cerv ical
Papi Ilol11acancer ex tremely rarc.
virus (HPV)
How do yo u contract HPV'!
by my internIt is estim ated th at 80-85 percent of
ship spon so r An drew Bra bban- who the population will co ntract IIPV at some
rock s, by the way- and was comp letely point in li te, with a large porti on ofwomcn
shocked by what I read. Let's tal k about contracting IIP V by age 30. Most HPV
the basics.
infecti on is assoc iated with skin-to-skin
What exactly is HPV?
contact li ke the kind yo u may have under
Although there are ove r 100 strains of the sheets; howcver, a stud y done in the UK
HPV, genital wan s arc the most coml11only showed that seven percent of gi rl s tested
known . They are identifi ed as stra in s between the ages of II and ·12 showed
HPV6 and II. Gen ital wal1s are soft and signs of HPV 16. These young girl s aren't
moist, and are nesh-co lored. The usually having sex; they 're playi ng with Malibu
appear in the genital area within weeks Barbie and og l ing over Aaron Ca rter,
or months or infecti on. They sometimes showing that there havc also been cases
ap pear in cl usters that rese mbl e caul i- of HPV in virgins. Skin to sk in contact is
nower-like bumps, and can be rai sed or the most likely way peopl e contract HPV,
fl at, small or large. Gen ital warts can show but research is inconclusive.
up in women on the vulva and cervix and
How can you prevent HPV?
inside the surrounding areas of the vag ina
Ways that lower your ri sk of getting
and anus. In men, genital wal1s can appear other sex ually transmitted di seases (STDs)
on the scrotum or penis.
may also work to lower yo ur ri sk of getting
While ge nital wal1s are the most com- HPV or genftal warts:
monly known, many women are becoming
oAbstain from having sex . (Sa fe sex is
infected with stra ins 16, 18, 31, 33 and in the palm of your hand, people.)
45, whi ch are assoc iated with Cervical
oAbstain from sex with a person who
Cancer. An cstim ated 5.5 million people has visible warts- although some infected
become in fected with the HPV eac h yea r people may not have vi sibl e warts but can
in the Uni ted States, and an estim ated 20 still transm it the in fec ti on.
million Ameri ca ns are currently infected.
oMonogamy . ... (You + me = us)
In most cases, the virus is harml ess and
oHave sex with fewer people. The more
wi thout sy mpt oms.
people yo u have sex with , the greater yo ur
What are the cffccts ofHPV cervical chance is of geHing HPY.
infections?
oUse a latex condom. Used consistentl y
Hi gh ri sk strains of the virus are linked and correctly during every sex ual act, conto cerv ical changes in women and could doms can decrease the risk of infection.
poss ibl y lead to cervi ca l cancer. About
A Ith ough these methods can red uce
14,000 cases of cerv ica l cancer are di ag- your ri sk of contracting HPV, kn o~ that
nosed in th e United States each yea r. it is a sneaky virus . If you have hild more
Over 5,000 women die each year of cer- than four sex ual partners yo u probab ly
vical cancer in the United States. Cervical already have it.
By Dolly England
Should you tell your partner?
oAII women should have regular pap
Here's the deal : I' m just a student like smears.
the rest of yo u. In my opinion, yo u should
• Women who smoke do not cl ear HPV
tell partners about yo ur infection. I would as quickly as non-smokers. Smoking itse lf
be pissed if I hooked up with someone is a risk factor for cervical cancer as we ll
who had someth ing and didn ' t tell me. as many other cancers.
Howeve r, I do think there are some excepolt is important for partners to undertions when it comes to HPY. The strains stand the entire picture abo ut HPY so that
of HPV that can ca lise cervica l cancer both people ca n make informed dec isions
onl y affect women. Whil e women are the based on facts, not fea r or mi sco nceprecipient s of the infecti on, men ca n al so ti ons.
be carri ers.
Will there be a vaccine again st HPV
Here's the catch: There are no symp- infection?
toms and no test for men. So evcn if they
do have it, there is no way of knowing There have been ongoi ng vaccine studi es
fo r sure. Yes, if yo u' re a fcmale, yo u can for many years. It is anti cipated that a
pass the virus on to yo ur male or female . poss ibl e vacci ne wi ll be ava il able for the
p.flrtners, but the ri sks for yo ur male partner general publ ic in th e future . One news
are almost nonex istent, with the exception report that I saw said that IO-to- 12-yearof him becoming a carri er. But how do y'ou old gi~ls wi ll be targeted for the vaccine
know that he's not already a carrier?
so as to reduce their risk of cervical ca ncer
If yo u just recently contracted HPV, I later in Ii fe.
don 't think it 's necessary to contact previ·The more we know..the more inform ed
ous partners; however, it might be a good deci sions we can mak e about OUI sexual
idea to tell future partners.
health . If you are see ing som eone and
What should sexua lly active people haven 't already had a talk about your
understand about this virus?
sexual health , yo u need to get on it. Be
oNearly three out of four Americans healthy, YO!
between the ages of 15 and 49 have been
infected with genital HPV in their lifetimes.
Dolly England is a senior doing an interno It should be considered a chronic con- ship with the Thurst on Co unty Health
dition for which there is no cure but which Department. She is the coordinator of
may clear up on its own.
Umoja,
oRe-infection is possible.
For more information on HPV,
check out these websites:
http://www.metrokc.gov/healthlapu/std/hpv.htm
Depression: It's probably the way you think
By Caroline White
A coup le
weekends
ago I went
to a day long
workshop
called "Being
the C hange
htgent You
Wish to Be in
Your World ."
The fac ilitator was Marshall Rosenberg,
author of NOl1 vio/enl Communication, a
book I've lea rned a lot from.
I grew up ina very pass ive-aggressive and, at times, violent household, so
I didn 't grow up with a great model for
communication. I learned a lot about how
to not communicate with people and how
to dodge my parents' anger or run straight
into it, yeehaw ' For years my sister and I
had a sort of ri va lry with each other that
sometim es led to vi olence. The biggest
thing I got OLit of read ing the book for the
fi rs t time was how to li sten to and talk
to my sister, which has been immense ly
rewarding.
Marshall Rose nberg isn't yo ur ave rage Ph.D. in Psycho logy: While he was
still teaching at univers ities, he stopped
giving grades and used a different evaluation system; he now travel s around the
world to give people in conflict training
in the language of nonviolent commun ication, and he says there's no such thing as
mental illness. Note: A chemi cal imbalance
is a physical problem, not a mental one.
Marshall has shown me a remarkably
effective way to view myself, other people
and life. He says, " When we understand
the needs that motivate our own and
others' behaviors, we have no enemies."
Nonviolent communication is essentially
a way to communicate that will open
doors but doesn 't require others to know
how to speak it or agree to speak it or
communicate, because eve ntually they
will respond to 'nonviolent communication, the language of empathy... if you're
The Rapscall.ion strikes again!
By Lee Kepraios
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http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro _ today/
previous_ issues/mtmay03 .cfm
genuine. (Read the book .)
Anything you do is done in an attempt
to fi II a need. For those things yo u do with
no good purpose: Sometimes you have to
give yourself empathy. "Observe without
eva luating." If you listen to your internal
dialogue, you can find out what is going
on with you. When you are young, you
learn language; eventually you develop
an internal dialogue, and you tell yourself
things, hopefully for the purpose of getting
your needs met more efficiently.
Pain, anger and depression are all things
you feel when your body is trying to tell
you to change or adjust something. There's
a high cost for repressing these " bad"
fee lings, just as there's a high cost for not
expressing feelings we associate with vulnerability. They are feelings for a reason,
but instead of getting a diagnosis or telling
yourself, "This is who I am (I am angry and
depressed, etc.!)," it's much more effective
to listen to yourself. "Distinguish feelings
from thoughts." For example, notice what
you are saying to yourself. Be aware of
what you say to yo urse lf in any given
situation. A lot of depress ion may result
from you unkn'owingl y beating yoursel f
up about something. It 's the way you 've
learned to think . Distinguish how you
feel and how you think others react or
behave toward you. What others do may
be the stimulus of your feelings , but not
the cause. Why would you give yourself
a hard time?
Once you've connected to your internal
dialogue, ask yourself what needs you are
trying to fulfill by saying what you say to
yourself. You may find that you have an
incredible habit of saying things to yourself that are self-defeating, rude, mean or
otherwise unhelpfuL Then get in contact
with what your needs actually are. Listen
to them and acknowledge them without
telling yourself unhelpful things. Empathy
will solve more of your problems than pills
or drugs can block. Giving yourself empathy with allow you to empathize with and
connect to others, something everybody
needs.
See " Ikpre ss illll ." Page 7
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from simply throwing something away, becoming much more costly due to the of whom can see past a neurological con
something they don't ·tell you in school. generally high cost of recycling." Local . job like reli gion, which is something else
In one We're so afraid to use too much paper, it's governments are being financially crippled that's instilled in the heads of children
of my jaun- kind of scary.
by the provisions of recycling facilities and before they are old enough to question its
tier, more
What morons like us who've been services. Subsidization for nonsense like possible erroneousness, can 't do likewise
loquacious
indoctrinated to believe that all recycling this from local and federal governments with recycling.
moods,
I is good and happy forget is the little . is why taxes are so
would have unchanging cycle of supply and demand. hi gh. Your money is
had
the They don 't clear-cut rainforests to make goi ng into this. The
patienc.e ,
paper, okay? There are more trees on Earth air pollution from the
even a kind now than there were a hundred years ago. extra trucks-twice as
of serenity, The pulp used to make paper comes from many- needed for the
to deal with the torrent of petulant dia- tree farms which are qeated in response to specia I tri ps requi red
lectic a propos to the frothing sham that the amount of papefJiurchased each year. for
recyclab les
is Earth Day. But I was not in a patient In the paper industry, 87 percent of the should be persuasion
mood as of that morning when I'd spi lled trees used are planted to produce paper. enough.
tangerine juice on my tweed trousers and For every 13 trees "saved" by recycling,
You dratted fools!
my Alphabets cerea l very curtly told me 87 will never get pl anted. The way The Does it tak e a dasto go fuck myse lf.
Rapscallion figures it, the more paper you tardly rogue like me to
But Earth Day came and went as usual, uselt the more trees there will be. Supply ex plain thi s to you?
and when it left, I cou ld r--.,.....,,""f'''''
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Landfi lis are more
not have been happier.
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non se nse. You hear
I wanted to scream out
that Americans generto all I sa w that day,
ate 8.5 bi II ion tons of .
cheerfully and dutifully
waste a year and yo u
separating plastic from
start to pani c. If all
a luminum , Sty rofo a m
the solid waste for the
fro m paper, th at they
next th o usand years
were doing harm to the
were put into a single
e nvir o nm e nt and th e
space, it would take up
eco nomy, that, in fac t,
44 miles of landfill , a
recycl in g is the si ng le
mere .0 I% of the U.S.
most wasteful act go ing I
land space. Have you
on in America today.
ever been to a landfill ?
Huh?You weren ' t sure
Land fi li s are bui It far
you 'd read that ri ght. But
away fro m public
it 's true . Remember, this
notice, have cut down
is the Rapsca ll ion talking.
Photo by Eva Wong
on groundwate r poli ' m just two peop le short
lution by placing the
of a menage a trois.
refuse on layers thick The Rapscallion celebrates Earth Day by carving "Save the
arti ficial turf and have Planet " into an old fir tree.
Recyc lin g is ind eed
ga rbage, as it is more
reduced air pollution
harmful to the environfrom the gas emitted
Why is this? Because recycling makes
me nt and cost ly to the
by non -biodeg radab le tras h by pump- us feel good . It gives us good feelings,
state than mere ly throwing the methane emitted by things like levels the karma, feeds the chi or whatever.
ing so methin g away.
Styrofoam through pipelines to nearby Sure, that 's reason enough to do anything.
The recycling industry
gas companies.
One of the Rapscallion 's favorite pastimes
uses the same machinery
Are Americans wasteful ? Absolutely. is sitting pn the washing machine with no
to recycle as most polThe Rapscallion is no exception. I never pants on. But I see no reason to participate
lutin g, smok e- bel ching
eat the outer two slices ofa 10afOfbread. Is in what I think is an arbitrary, waste ful.
fac tories do to produce
our environment screwed up? Indubitably. make-work, ineffective and yes, harm ful
their goods. Therefore ,
But I do not have a problem with this . charade.
ro ugh ly the same levels
Human beings are simply the latest term of
But one good thing about Earth Day:
of toxic ity are going to
a preceding sequence, which at one point The buses run for free .
Photo by Eva Wong
emit from eac h indi- The Rapscallion. though he believes it is wasteful and wrong. included the dinosaurs. It is ludicrous to
vidual recyc ling pl ant. recycles by manually making the recyclables himself
believe that as a species, we will be around The Rapscallion's Latest Statute of the
Take paper for example,
forever and ever or that we deserve to be Half-Fortnight:
or the perce ntage of it
around forever and ever.
Stop describing things as "Ghetto!"
that doesn't just go straight to the landfi II meets demand .
But try tell) ng that to the narrow, Ghetto is a noun , goddamnit! You are
And what of the cost of recyc ling? It sunshine-y, environmental tub-thumpers
anyway.
butchering the King's English!
costs
more to recycle- with the excep- spouting the same unenlightened, i11Paper l11ust be bl eached in a chemica ll y intensi ve process that generates tion of aluminum - than it doe s to informed twaddle we were all subjected to
Lee Kepraios is a senior taking an indea great deal of toxic waste as opposed landfill. Former EPA official J. Winston by Ms. Hobbes in the third grade. I cannot pendent contract on standup comedy.
to the beni gn fo rm of waste that results Porter adm itted, "Tras h management is understand why Evergreen students, many
Depression
Continued from pre\ iOll s pa ge
There 's a lot more to nonviolent communication; this is just a snippet of how
it can be used. I think it's important to
deb~nk the myth that you have no control
. of how you fee l. When you hear that the
symptoms you have are a disease or a disorder that has a name"you can get caught
up in making your problem not your own
unique reaction to your lifestyle, and you
can believe that it's something you can do
nothing about besides feed it pills. I have
a hard time with classifying certain things
as diseases: I know they're dis-eases, not
diseases. They are symptoms, but certainly
not the underlying issue(s).
Communicating with yourself is just
as important as your communication with
others. Communication isn 't something
that is often taught, nor is the ability to
empathize. Nor is every counselor, psychologist, and therapist trained in how
to empathize with clients in a way that
facilitates positive change.
Obviously I have no idea how the reader
feels. I don't mean to tell you that drugs
a psychiatrist prescribes won't help cer-
tain issues or certain individuals, because Compassionate Communication (PSNCC,
they 'tan. But if we keep going at this pronounced peacenik) at
rate, we ' re going to have the majorit~ ,of http://www.psncc .org.
people doped up on substances, whether
through prescription or self-medication. Caroline Whi te is a senior enrolled in
Forty percent of the profits "Big Pharma" So You Want .to bea Psychologist. She
generates are from selling anti-depressant has combated depression and sometimes
drugs. Instead of changing the systems we debilitating anxiety through staying away
live in or under, we are going to tell our- from drugs, moving away from home, lisselves that we have to change to fit these tening to herself. modifYing her behavior,
systems. Our systems shouldn't oppress finding the appropriate substaute mom.
us, but should be used as our tool to make learning. and making exercise and eating
mostly healthy food part of her lifestyle,
life better for ourselves.
For workshop times or to connect with as well as hugs. using herbs instead of
people in the area teaching, using and allergy or cold meds .. . and stopping to
practicing nonviolent communication, smell the flowers .
contact the Puget Sound Network for
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Cartoonist Day: Comics
aren't just for the .funny
pages anymore
By Chelsea Baker
Wh eth er it 's The Simpson:>, SllIggy
Freelull ce o r The SIII t:!1 uf Wonderland ,
nea rl y everyo ne reads comics. Whcn many
peop le pi ck up a newspaper, the first thing
they do is turn to the comi cs page . Though
some read com ics eve ry day, they ma y not
know that there is a national holiday to
honor the peo pl e who strugg le hard to
get their reade rs to laugh uproariously.
Cartoo nist Dny, created by
the Na ti o na l Cartooni sts'
Soc iety (NCS), comm emorates cart oo ni sts of a ll
ve nucs every yca r on May
5. Profess ional ca rtooni sts
and web cartooni sts nlik e
see this littlc- known holiday
as a reason to ce lebrate.
"It's important to rea li ze
the hard work that so many
arti sts are go in g thro ugh
for so littl e compensation
nnd to do what yo u can to
encourage its growth . But
we all have di shes to do
and Easte r cggs to hunt on
the other days, so we limit
our whining to o ne day a
yea r," sa id Darren Bleuel
. of Berk e ley, Ca l i fo rni a, creator of the
webco mi c N ukees. "The ho i id ay isn' t
reall y ililrortant to me ye t. Howeve r, I
look forwn rd to a day whe n it wiII bc.
Thc clay when I clo n't fec I the need to
remind peo pl e of our hard wo rk will be
the impo rtant day."'
Somc co mi c arti sts fec i th e ho lid ay
nced s more suppo rt and publi ci ty. Fo r
yea rs thc NCS encouraged its members
to let reo pl e know abo ut th e holiday by
incorporating the day into thei r co mi cs as
much as poss ible. Ma ny ca rt oonists find
ways to s lip it into their co mics by writing
and insight ca rt oo ni sts brin g int o the ir
li ves .
"Eve ryo ne has individual ski ll s, contac ts and abiliti es," said Bleuel. " 11' yo u
ca re ab o ut so methin g- if yo u e'nj oy
someth i ng- yo u sho ul d enco urage its
continued ex istence any way you cnn. If
yu u work for an ent ertainm ent company,
enco urage th em from within to advert ise
or sponsor a major webcomi c conglomerate. I I' yo u have fri ends who don't read
I'h olo COlirle.IY o/hllp://w\Vw.reliben.org
wc bco mi cs, make thcm. If yo u live in a
smnll hole on a roc ky hill side, te ll Thag I
sa id hi . I absolutely thin k people sho uld get
mc fl owers and take mc out for icc cream
un thi s holid ay, because I like fl owers and
icc cream." Cartoon ist Day is not always a
we lco med eve nt for all cartooni sts. Some
say th nt to promote the eve nt, they have to
work harder, whi ch defeats thc purposc of
hav ing the hoiiday.
"Last year, we we re all supposed to
dmw a spec ial ' bonus Cartooni sts' Day'
strip on May 5," sa id Bleuel. "That's kind
ofobnox ious for us, isn't
it? I-Jere it is, our spec ial
day, and wc havc to wo rk
harde r for it? J was n't
abl e to , simpl y because
I am so overworked, so
I put up an essay on who
we are and what we do
The holiday is only five years
and why we are so overold.
wo rked and don' t have
It was created by the National
tim e to put up spec ial
bonus strips."
Cartoonists' Society (NCS).
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COOPER POINT JOURNAL
On ,t h e
movies to shame . I've seen all of C how 's
directorial efforts and many of hi s other
fi Im s, probably more than anyone I know.
A nd I'm proud to say that I own a rare DV D
It t ook American audiences lon g copy of the origi nal cut of hi s Shaolin Soccer
eno ug h to recog ni ze the genius of Stephen before it was dubbed and then un-dubbed
C how. He's appeared in numerous film s and and cut by 20 minutes for th e 2004 Ameridirecte d seven of his own, a ll atthe age of can release. So I'm a fan.
on ly 4 1. Hi s fi Im s are uproariously funny
Chow writes, directs and stars in hi s
an d s urpri singly violent and utilize special film s, which combine cartoony slapstick
effects in ways that put American action with martial arts scenes which, like those
of Jackie Chan,
have
been
inspired
by
the silent comedies of Buster
Keaton
a nd
Harold Lloyd.
Chow uses the
same ac tors in
each movie.
His
utilization of special
effects is endlessly imaginative. The CGI is
fake-looking ,
but is funny
becaus e it's
fake look i ng,
Kung Fu Hustle
and it knows it,
© Copyright Sony Pictures Classics
often poking
By Lee Kepraios
Kung-Fu Hustle
MAY
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S}tl11bolic Reasoning Challenge
Screen
fun at itselfby going completely over the top.
The effects serve the purpose of humor more
than they do of action, giving audiences a
g limpse of the wonders that movie spec ia l
effects are capable of. To use effects in this
c leve r way is a del ight to see on screen.
C how also utilizes wire-fu for the
gravity-defying martial arts scenes, which
are choreographed by the veteran Yuen
Wo Ping. Ping also worked on the Matrix
movies, but unlike The Ma trix, which Chow
cheerfully pokes fun at, Kung Fu Hustle uses
its fight scenes for the purpose of aid ing the
story instead of becoming it. None of it is
grounded in any sense of reality, unlike the
recent Ong Bak. The Th'ai Warrior. The
effects are as over the top as The Matrix,
but they know it, and they exploit it. It's a
unique style, sure to spawn many American
rip-offs.
In front ofth~ camera, Chow steps out
of the spotlight a bit as Sing, a nogoodnik
who wanders into a decrepit apartment
complex called Pig Sty Alley, lorded over
by a despotic crab of a landlady (Yuen Qiu)
who wa lks around in slippers and hair curlers. Pig Sty A Iley is about the last place that
hasn 't been terrorized by the Axe Gang, the
members of whom dress in black suits and
top hats and dance with their axes like canes.
They've enlisted the help of a lithe master
called The Beast (the great Leung Siu Lung)
to terrorize the Pig Sty res idents.
Chow piles cleverness and hilarity on top
of cleverness and hilarity in a movie that just
keeps gett ing more e ntertaining. He seems
to have endless originality and invention
with gags that go right to the gut. There's a
kind of exuberance at work here. The overthe-top gags and effects reach a Tex Avery
level ofzan iness. Consider a scene where the
landlady and her lover team up against The
Beast in a casino. She turns out to be one
of the most fearsome fighters in the movie.
Her superson ic scream into a hollowed-out
funeral bell shatters glass, cracks the floors
and tears the clothes off anyone in the way.
Or how about the part where two musicians
with a killer Koto shoot inv isible swords that
turn into medieval demon ghosts at the Pig
Sty fighters? Or my favorite part, when the
landlady chases Sing roadrunner-style down
the street to the tune of a string quartet?
There will be a tendency to give this
film more praise than it deserves . It's great
entertai nment, but for Chow, it's a minor
achievement. Just another notch on his belt.
At least American moviegoers now know
the name.
Rating:
11
5,2005
The Evergreen Tutoring Center (ETC)
invites you to challenge your quantitative
and symbol ic reasoning skills by solving
our puzzle of the week . Each week we will
present a new puzzle for you to challenge
you. 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 .
Answer to last week's puzzle (Balancing scales)
There were a lot of answers to th is challenge. One answer is to assign the following
values:
* = xx
xxx = 00
I \\as s urpri sed to di scove r that Rich ard !II is the most widely presented play
in th e world . Shakespeare's protagonist is
pe rhaps the s ingle-most un sy mpathetic
charac ter in dramatic hi story, the quintes senti a l anti-hero. All of the heroic qualities
a re grotesqu ely inverted: He is duplicitous
where he s hould be honest; his goals are
cynical and immoral where they should be
noble a nd sel fles s; perhaps most obviously,
he is crippled where the hero shou ld be virile
and strong.
He also happens to deliver some of the
best dialogue of the Bard's oeuvre, which
perhaps explai ns its ubiquity. The first line of
the play is his soliloquy: "Now is the winter
of our di scontent/ Made glorious summer by
this sun of York." These two lines perfectly
capt ure the vi lIai n's bloqdlust, com pari ng
peace to the chilly and barren winter, and
a Hobbesian view of war as utopian and
idea l. It 's a lso a clever double meaning,
with Shakespeare alluding to Richard being
a "son of York," who will later set England
on fire during the last days ofthe War of the
This means that XXXXOOOO =
*****
Congratu lations to our winners: Jenni Walsh,
Uriah Watkins and Amari Dolan-Caret.
Add the numbers
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9~100
Using only + and - signs, change th e spacing between the numbers on
the left side of the equa ls sign without changing the order of th e digits or
the res ult in order to make the equation equal 100.
Example: 123+45-67+89=100
There are at least six more patterns. You wi ll need to find only one
answer for a prize.
This Middle Eastern treat combines
chopped vegetables with bulgur wheat for
a fresh and healthy salad-esque side dish.
Serve it with olives, hummus, falafel and
plenty of pita bread.
regains hi s composure, motions for
the portentous music to resume, and
marc hes agai n. T he audience howled
with la ughter; I shook my head that
the production turned Richard from
a conniver one minute into a buffoon
th e next.
The stage and the screen are different beasts, though, and part of me
adm ires the absence of nuance in the
cast's delivery. Shakespeare wrote
for the groundlings, after all, and
the audience-mostly comprised of
high school drama students- ate it Copyr ight 2005
Up. Physically, Newcomb is superb. James Newcomb in the title role of Richard III.
He has a spidery mobility on his
metallic crutches, props he will use
as weapons later in the play. He's a natural at Olympia (though it's often beautiful, in and
it, doubtlessly because he's been playing the of itself). My advice would be to head to the
role for going on three years now. (He played library and take out the 1995 film, and watch
the same role in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and what is in my opinion one of the all-time great
Henry V, the OFS' last productions.) Visu- performances.
ally, the play is very well done. The lighting
and mise-en-scene are as flawless as I've Christopher Alexander is the A&E Coordiseen in modern readings of Shakespeare.
nator of the CPJ He is a senior enrolled in
Still, I can't recommend the OFS, or at Patience and is giving up writing clever bios
least I can't justify a six-hour drive from for Lent. So he's a little late, big deal.
The
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30 minutes. Rinse with cold water.
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2. Combine the parsley, tomato and onion.
Mix.
of
the
3. Combine the lemon juice, olive oil,
garlic, salt and pepper. Mix .
4. Add the lemon mixture to the parsley
mixture and make them one.
Olle large bunch finely minced parsley
5. Refrigerate for a while, like an hour or
(roughly 7 cups)
more.
2-3 finely minced tomatoes
3-4 tablespoons finely minced red
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1/4 cup bulgur wheat (you can find it at mation and recipes, check out http :
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the co-op)
112 cup fresh lemon juice
I 112 teaspoons salt
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and Tasly is written by Sam Goldsmith,
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who can often be complicated and testy.
Shakespeare Festival
Roses . All of thi s in the first two lines '
Thanks in no small part to Ian McKellen's sublimely sini ste r performance in th e
1995 fi 1m adaptat ion, Richard II! turned me
from begrudging res pecter to unqualified
admire r of Shakespeare's work. The film is
my only experience with the drama prior to
attending the renowned Oregon Shakespeare
Festival in Ashland, OR. The OSF, the largest Shakespeare festival in the United States,
accords itsel f a great deal of renown and
g ives the town of Ashland a surefire source
of tourism revenue. Corny banners with a
regal lion and the word "Shakespeare" line
the streets of the small town, and the loca l
Best Western has a wooden sign declaring
itself The Bard's Inn . All of this puts a bad
taste in my mouth before the cu rtai n even
rises.
McKellen leaves big footprints to fill ,
and it's perhaps unfair to criticize James
Newcomb's undersized feet in such a light.
Newcomb is something of a ham, though:
During .R ichard 's coronation, which begins
Act I V, he lunges down the aisle to sinister
music. Suddenly, he falls flat on his face,
and the music stops. After a moment, he
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By Sam Goldsmith
Lee Kepraios is a senior doing a contract on
stand-up comedy.
Richard III at the Oregon
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Shakespeare and Loathing in Ashland:
This Week's Puzzle
Week
By Paul C. Whitney, a.k.a. Cap'n Lexicon
Punctilious (punk-TILL-ee-us), adj.
Marked by or concerned about precise
exact accordance with the details of codes
of conventions.
Definition from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
"Evergreen students must be punctilious in forming their argume nts for their
papers and sem i nar, because a slopp i Iy
constructed line of reasoning will be cut
to ribbons here."
Synonyms include carefu l, meticulous , pai nstak i ng, conscient ious and
thorough.
Don't miss the Writers' Guild , every
Wednesday, 3-4 p.m ., Seminar II A 11 07.
Write on, friend s!
Brought to you by the Writing Center,
CAB 108,867-6420.
Palll C. Whitney is a senior enrolled in an
independent contract titled Ink Slingers.
Workshop Wednesdays for next
week in Seminar II A2109:
Grammar Rodeo: Commas 101,
May 11, 2-3 p.m.
Academic Writing: Revision
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p.m.
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MAY 5,2005
Colloge #22
Velvet Revolver at Portland
Memorial Coliseum
By Sebastian Oerlieu-Schulz
By BoP Spilsbury
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language into new forl11 s. The author does
all arrangelllent purposefull y. Often other
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worel s out or a hat.]
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Portland , Oregon, April 2 1- 1 drove
down to Portland from Olymp ia to catch
ro c k n' roll 's new super gro up, Velvet
Revo lver. Thi s recently formed band consists of ex- Stone Temple Pilots lead singer
Scott Weiland and a few old faces frolll the
original Guns N' Roses lineup, including
Slash on lead gui tar, Dufr McKagen on
bass and Matt Sorrum on drum s.
When I first ar ri ved at Portlan'd
Memo ri a l Co li se um , I was s urprised
at how corporate the sho w was. The re
was a big- sc ree n TV by the side of the
sta ge broadca stin g th e sign VELVET
REVOLVER over and over aga in . That
was not all- as the li ghts dimmed and the
crowd began to cheer, thin king the band
was abou t,to come on stage, a motorcycle
com mercia l for veteran motorcyc li st Evi I
Kneive l ran while the band's music played
in the background.
I had purpose full y arri ved over an hour
One as pect of the show worth mentionlate to mi ss the opening band Hoobastank , ing is that a lot of the audience wasn't there
who are a bunch of corporate, alternative- to see Velvet Revolver, but rather the legrock, MTV se ll- out s with littl e to no ends of Guns N' Roses and Scott We iland
musical talent. Now Velvet Revolver burst him self, who, as one spectator commented,
onstage wit h fiery energy, open ing with " is amazi ngly still alive," There were more
"C rackerman. " Scott Wei land proved he people wearing old "G uns N' Roses- Use
still'has that unden iable onstage power and Yo ur Illu s io n Tour" shirts than ac tu al
charisma for whic h he is famou s. Watching Ve lvet Revo lver tees.
hinl cover "Crackerma n"- an STP classic
The hi ghli ghts of the show we re when
off their debu t album Core, released all the band roll ed through old-school covers
the way back in I992- was an incredible of G uns N ' Roses and when Slash put on
experience. Throughout the show Wei land hi s bad-ass top hat, with hi s trade mark
used a huge mega phone as he shouted in to . cigarette in mouth, and gall oped across
the mi c, which caused strong reverbera- the stage like a wild horse. The GN'R
tions in the PA system. Velvet Revolver's tunes covered included " It 's So Easy," a
performance of "Crackerrnan" brought song about drunk dr iving, " I Used to Love
back great memories of seei ng Sto ne Her" and "Mr. Brownstone," a song about
Temp le Pilots for the first tim e in 2000 at heroin addic tion. These songs all have an
Washington, D.C.'s Fed Ex Ficld .
element of the reckless life in them , the
Wei land had e merged onstage wear- kind of life ex-Roses members used to
ing hi s s ig nat ure Ver sace -e sq ue s uit lead before they parted ways wi th Ax l
with tie , but by th e time the band had Rose in order to get clean. The chorus to
launc hed into it s third so ng of the nig ht "Mr. Brownstone" goes:
he was already shirtl ess, with hi s giant
red-and-b lack dragon tattoo on his arm
I used to do a little, but a little wo uldn 't
shining wi th th e stage li ghts. With his do it, so a littl e got more and more. I just
thin serpent-like body and Shama n-like keep trying to get a little better, said a little
dan ces onstage- eer il y remini scent of better than before, We 've bee n dancing
Jim Morri son- Scott Weiland proved he wi th Mr. Brownstone, he's been knockcan rock out lik e no other voca list when ing, he won 't leave me alo ne,
the li ghts arc down and the music is loud .
"We're Ve lvet Revolver and we're here
Although Weiland and hi s band mates
to bring yo u so me motherfuck ing, bad ass are now sober, yo u get the feeling they
rock n' ro ll toni ght," Weiland yelled at
the crowd. " It 's good to be home," said
bass ist Duff McKagen, who is origina ll y
from Seatt le but now cons iders Portland ,
Oregon hi s home.
When de sc ribin g o ne of Ve lv et
Revolver's hit singl es " Fall To Pieces,"
Scott Weiland sa id , " I don't kn ow if I
wrote thi s so ng abo ut my relati ons hip
w ith wo men or my re lat ions hi p wit h
drugs. Ma inl y I thin k it 's the drugs talking." Weiland has been a know n heroin
addict who has ofte ntim es bee n forced off
tour wit h STP in oreler to attend drug rehab.
T hus, throughout hi s co untl ess re hab and
jail stint s, it seems he fin all y reali zed that
hi s Ii fe was fall ing to pi eces and he had to
do someth ing abo ut it.
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are trying to live up to their reckl ess and
rebellious bad-boy im age of before,
Velvet Revolver closed their set with
their biggest hit single to date, "S lither."
The song actually so unds a lot Iike old
Stone Temple Pilots, with We iland singing in his old gruff voice that was once
his trademark before he developed a much
higher voice. Slas h's amazi ng mid-tempo
so lo made the song even more spec ial.
Along with their "Sex Type Thing" (an
STP cover), hearing "S lither" at the end of
the ni ght was as good as the music got.
Velvet Revolver has the potential to be
a great band in the next coup le of yea rs, as
long as its members can continue to steer
clear of drugs. One other thing that may
hau nt this band is that fans may perceive
them as tryi ng to play in the shadows or
old-school G uns N' Roses, es pec ially since
the fans seemed to prefer the GN' Rand
STP covers to the newer Velvet Revolver
tunes . The band 's name impli es that they
intend to keep the Guns N' Roses spirit
alive and not try to create their own new
so und, wh ich is probably fin e with o ld
GN'R fans who are look ing to come to
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.MAY
5,2005
Evergreen baseball:
Presley and Stippich make
a formidable 1~2 Punch
By Kip Amey
"I keep reading your articles about the
tca m. God, it 's just embarrassing now. "
f hat 's a direct quote from a student who
"rossed m~ path a few days ago. He went
1m to say, " I'll come out next year for you
guys and we' lI be better." I don 't think
people reali ze that hitting a baseball isjust
:loout the hardest thing to do in sports, far
and away. Ever see LeBron James swing a
hat') Pathetic. The athletes on the baseball
team are putting themselves out there on
the diamond week in and week out, not
to impress people but to play and to win.
However, when your squad is limited and
you still have to throw players with broken
bones in their hands, bone contusions, and
throwing arms so painful that they throw
with their off hand while playing in the
fi e ld , yeah. it 's going to be an uphill climb
fro m the start .
Thi s we e kend was no different. A
scheduled do uble - he ader on Saturday
J!-!a inst [ astern Washington was put on
a two-hour delay for the lack of umpires.
Ilowever. once the game did get underway,
it was thc ~ amc ll id story. Our pitching
co uldn't ho ld up to their offensive fire
powe r. and once again. due to our lack
0 1 able bodies. we co uldn 't bring in fresh
arn1 S. so our pitchcrs got tired and the game
J US t got awa) . result i ng in an 12-1 loss.
Tha t one run camc otT the bat of senior
playe r/coach Sea n Pres ley as he belted his
tirs[ home run ill hi s three-year tenure in
the tirst illlllll g dow n the right field line.
I' was the pi nnacle moment for a weekend
, nere Prcs Icy wcn t 5 for 9 at the plate and
pitc hed a total of 10 innings, including a
cOlllp lete gam e on Sunday.
Il eca usc n ( the ump ire 's tardiness.
wili ch was of unknown reasons, only one
game could be played on Saturday due to
d,lri-; ness. so :1 do ubl e header ensued the
Il e, t day. I don ' t know what happened
th;1[ Saturda v nig ht after everybody left
tnt' lield. but \liC came ready to play on
Sunday. A I U a.l11. start with the umpires
sh ow ing up on tim e started off with a
ba ng. After relinqui shing one run in the
top of the tirst inning, Evergreen struck
back fast and hard, capped by a three-run
bo mb over the ce nter field fence by James
Stirpich. It was Stippich's second home
ru n or the season. and his 5 for 9 weekend
stats added on to his batting average, which
stands well over .500 on the season. The
early 3-1 score in Evergreen 's favor held
pat for a few innings bt:fore the Geoducks'
signature se lf-implosion , after which they
began finding themselves trailing 6-3 . The
game ended in 9-4 loss, which up to this
point has been their most competitive
game all season .
In tlie tinal game of the series, controversy struck early when, in the top of the
second inning with a runner on first base,
an Eastern Washington batter smashed a
Iine drive into the right center field ga p
and the ball trickled through a small gap
at the base of the wall, but the umpire
standing 200 feet away from the play sa id
the ball went over the fence, making it a
home run . Had the play been considered
a ground-rule double, the runner on first
would have only been allowed to move to
third base; therefore, two runs would've
been wiped off the board.
I caught up with outfielder John Each
and asked what happened . "1 didn't see the
ball when I chased after it .. . next thing I
knew, the ball was on the other side of the
fence and I noticed a gap at the bottom of
the fence. So I threw my hands up. But
do n't blame the umpire. He didn 't contemplate it. he made the quick decision,"
I tried to catch the umpire alie r th e
game , but he declined the interview.
The bad ca ll111essed with the psychc of
starting pitcher Eric Smi th and the game
wen t downhill from there. end ing in a 17o loss and Evergreen remaining winless.
A co uple rainout s earl y on in the season
are scheduled to be made up, including a
double header thi s Friday against Western
Washington Univers ity. The field has yet
to be determined but look for fl ye rs around
campus, and/or it yo u can' t find an y. yo u
can email Sean Presley at
seanpaulpre s ley@yahoo.com for more
information. It ' ll be fan appreciation day.
Come get a high five from yo ur favorite
player and be a gue st public address
announcer. It's going to be a party.
Kip Arney is CI j unior enrolled in Fiction
and Nonfiction ClndQuirky Characters. He
is sllIdying crealive Ivriling.
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La Push, WA:
Mother Nature's prized aquarium
By Meredith Lane
and most of the real-live-nine-to-five
grownups aren 't quite ready to brave the
rain. They're missing out. Even though
the lowest tides happen in the month of
July, late spring and early summer are
quite possibly the best times to spend
on Washington 's coast. Because of such
a temperate climate, and less than a 10degree change in surface water year round,
oceanic life in Washington has already
started growi ng. However young said life
may be, it 's still hearty, so when you get
to this part of the beach, be sure to wear
sturdy, waterproof shoes, or have a great
insurance plan. Muscles, oysters and other
Saltwater. It's the spice of the beach.
Nothing quite replicates the feeling of viscous ocean air whi'pping texture through
your tresses, brackish sand exfoliating your
toes, and a little bit of- OUCH! Stupid
crabs. The beach may not be perfect, but
it's pretty darn close.
Espec iall y a little beach we like to ca ll
Rialto. It 's a little peace of oceanic heaven
located outside of La Push, right past the
point where the Sol Duc and Bogachiel
rivers merge into the Quillayute River,
becoming one with the Pacific Ocean.
This time of year, the
thousands of miles of
coastline in our great state
are teeming with Ii Fe. With
the Strait of Juan de Fuca,
the Puget Sound and the
Mighty Pacific providing
us with multitudes of outdoor activities, Washington
is full of at least twice as
much flora and fauna as
yo u could possibly explore
in a lifetime. Specifically.
the Olympic Peninsula.
If yo u haven 't taken time
to dally around in its tide
poo ls , I hi g hly recomme nd it.
T hough most of the
pools are only access ible
via more than a few miles
'o f hiking, it's nothing that
yo u can't accompl ish in a
day. or, if yo u havc more
time, a weekend, Boasting
five leve ls of federal and ,
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Sanctuary (T he only
one north of California), The O lympic shellfi sh do wonders to bare flesh.
A little common se nse helps when
Peninsula is one of the most pristine places
exploring these pool s, so you can enjoy
in the world .
It 's also o ne of the wettest. T hank s them the next time yo u come back. And
to mother nature- a nd the Hoh Rain yo u will. Oh , yo u sure wil l.
Try to step on bare rock whenever posForest- Rialto Beach, near La Push, WA,
co llects nearl y 200 inches of rain annu- si ble. You can 't ki II it, and it can't kill yo u.
nlly. If yo u' re there early enough and Not only could the pretty shell you're pickyo ur friends are still asleep, take a walk ing up look great on yo ur mantie, it might
by yourself. The morning fog leaves YOll have something poisonous inside. An old
fee ling comfortabl y alone, surrounded by park ranger adage states "Assume it 's illea lush rainforest and slate gray sand that gal to remove anything except garbage."
we lcome s footsteps like a carpet with Even though picking up shells and other
select ive memory. Add a minus tide to the dead beach things is fun, try to abstain, not
weekend and you might have to call in sick only to leave it for others to take pleasure
in, but so you have both hands free if you
on Monday ... Make that Tuesday ...
La Pu s h is about 180 miles from fall. The rocks are slippery, and even the
Evergreen . Getti ng there can take any- most agile person can slip. Usually this
where from three to five hours, depending is because of an errant wave sneaking up
on road conditions and who is behind the on yo u from behind. Keep an eye on the
wheel. (I hope campus police aren ' t read- waves and know the tide sc hedule so that
ing this. 'cause I' ve safe ly made the trip in yo u don't get stuck. The sand becomes
under two and a hal f hours. Those of you quite absorbent with the incoming tide, and
who have ridden in the passenger seat of doesn 't recognize the difference between
alSO Ib person and anything else putting
my Explorer can attest to this.)
If yo u' re go ing for the day, prepare to weight on it.
Bring a camera. There 's nothing like
be disappointed. There's way too much to
explore and not enough time to explore it the first time you explore La Push. There 's
all with the ebb and flow of the tides. Pools something about seeing a glassless aquarin the rocks exposed during low tide extend ium that makes each of us turn into an
well into the ocean just north of Hole-in- eager five-year-old , pulling on mommy's
the- Wall , a locally famous landmark cre- arm and saying "LOOK!"
Just don ' t pull too hard, or you'll
ated by ancient water-flow. The low shelf
both
end up in the Emergency Room. I
continues nearly five miles out to Cape
know
from experience; it 's about an hour
Johnson. While this may not seem like
away.
a long distance, it's dangerous to try and
explore it all due to the twice-daily tidal
cycle. This said, plan for a weekend, and Meredith Lane is in the fourth year of the
bring the necessary camping gear times BAS program. When her little sister was
two, 'cause you'll get wet. Ponchos were five years old, she waded into a tide pool
and sliced her foot on a shell containing a
invented for places like La Push.
sea creature. Her family spent
poisonous
Local campsites are rarely packed this
the
rest
of
the
day listening to a screaming
early in tJw season. KiQdies are still in
school, college students are struggling child get 1 7 stitches.
through midterms and final projects,
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For 2005-2006!
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Applications are available now!
Contact us for more info!
CAB 316, (360) 867-6213, cpj@evergreen.edu
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Evergreen Herbal Fair
Food As Medicine
Friday, May 6-Sunday, May 8
5,2005
10 a.m.-2 p.m. A free infant/child
car seat check or assistance in
installation at the Auto mall, Titus
Will. \
in the organization and the planning
of the newspaper.
6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the
CRC.
7 p.m. Improvisational Theater,
Seminar II C1105 .
Friday
Tuesday, May 10
10 a.m.-Noon. Sustainable
Health and Community
iHerbalism with Wild Roots
IJ-Ierbal Alliance. Longhouse.
4-5:30 p.m. Study Abroad
Workshop, Seminar II E3109.
1-5 p.m. Qi Energy in Foods:
.!Presentation and Cooking
lDemonstration, with Yanling
~ohnson. Longhouse.
6-9 p.m. Dietary Seaweeds
Iror Optimal Health with Ryan
IDrum.
Saturday
10 a.m.-Noon. Slow Medicine:
Relishing Our Medicinal and
Ancestral Roots with Sequoia
Ladd.
1-3 p.m. Nourishing Herbal
Brews: I nfusions , Beer, Wine,
Soda, and more with Linda
Conroy.
]-5 p.m. Eating Better for
Bctter Male Hea lth with Ryan
Drum .
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p.m. African Cooking
Iwith Christopher Scipio.
4 p.m. Come share your ideas to
create an Evergreen pagan group
that explores and welcomes all
forms of paganism. CAB top floor.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. A full day of
wild herbs and edibles foraging
with Ryan Drum, Linda
Conroy and Sequoia -badd.
ITESC Woods and Beach.
Meet at Longhouse. Space is
limited so contact the Healing
Arts Collective at 867-6134 or
hac@evergreen.edu.
Exceedingly Cool Events
Friday, May 6
7 p.m. Evergreen will host three
award-winning Arab women
writers at United Churches,
Olympia. Authors who will be there
are Raja Alem, Suheir Mammad
and Ibithal Salem .
6 p.m. 10shua Farley will speak
at the 15 th Annual Rachel Carson
Forum. He represents The Gund
Institute' for Ecological Economics.
His talk is titled The Tragedy of
the Non-Commons: When the
sustainable, just and efficient
allocation of resources demands
community ownership. Longhouse
Cultural Center.
Friday, May 13
8 p.m. Project Blowed includes
Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Bus
Driver, Medusa, OJ Drez, Hip
Hop Klan, CVS Tah Orah, and
Customer Services. The groups
·will perform in the eRe. Tickets
are $10 presale and $15 at the door.
Available at the TESC Bookstore.
Tuesday, May 24
6-7:30 p.m. Grant Writing
Workshop at Art House Designs,
420 B Franklin Street SE
Writing Center Wor sops
9 a.m.-5 p.m. A day long
workshop, " Ramtha's Model of
Science" will be held in Sem II
81107. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. '
and is $20. For more information,
email gradan25@evergreen.edu or
call 485-9446.
Tuesday
4 p. m. Prison Action Committee
meets in CAB 320, Workstation 10.
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5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse.
5-7 p.m. Scrabbelicious presented
by the Writing Center in CAB 108.
Coffee, treats, and prizes!
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7 p.m. Advanced Poetics poetry
readings in Sem II AliOS.
7 p.m. Student Advocacy Center
meets at Vic's Pizza.
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9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at
the CRC. Come join in late-night
activities like Badminton, PingPong, Basketball, Volleyball and 4Square.
4 p.m. Racquetball in the CRC.
5 p.m. Soccer in the Pavilion.
Thursday
7 p.m. Students for Christ, Seminar
II E1105.
4 p.m. Carnival, Seminar 11 D1I07.
5 p.m. Gaming Guild, CAB 320.
4 p.m. Women's Resource Center,
CAB 315.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse.
6:30 p.m. Hunger and
Homelessness group meets in S&A
office .
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at
the CRe. Come join in late-night
activities like Badminton , PingPong, Basketball, Volleyball and 4Square.
Wednesday
8-9 a.m. Swim Club
1 p.m. Evergreen Queer Alliance,
Seminar 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.
I :30 p.m. Native Student Alliance
meets in CAB 320, Workstation 13 .
-3 p.m. Grammar Rodeo:
ommas 101 , Sem II A2109
2 p.m. Evergreen Capitalists
Organization, Library 1308.
-4 p.m. Academic Writing:
evision Strategies, Sem II
2109
2 p.m. VOX - Communities for
Choice, CAB 320, Cubicle 17. Office
hours: Wednesday, 1-2 p.m ., CAB
320, Cubicle 17.
-5 p.m. Scientific Writing:
etermined by the needs of
tudents, Sem II A2109
3 p.m. Jewish Cultural Center,
Seminar II E2105.
-6 p.m. Creative Writing:
reative Nonfiction , Sem II
2109.
3 p.m. Women of Color Coalition ,
CAB 206 .
3 p.m. SEED, Seminar II E3109.
3 p.m. Writer's Guild, Seminar II
AI 107.
3:00-5:00 p.m. Soccer
Monday
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6-8 p.m. Racquetball League in the
CRC
7:30-9 p.m. Ping Pong in the CRC
Tubular Group Meetings
Saturday, May 7
9:30-11:30 p.m. Late Night at
the CRC. Come join in late night
activities like Badminton, PingPong, Basketball, Volleyball and 4Square.
4 p.m. STAR, Seminar II B2109.
Sunday
CALENDAR
3:30 p.m. Environmental Alert,
CAB 320 on the couches. Help
defend Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.
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 .
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse .
6 p.m. EARN meets to discuss
animal rights in CAB 320.
6 p.m. Men's Center meets in CAB
320 in Workstation 2.
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of the Library Building. All are
welcome and drums are provided!
7 p.m. Geodance meets in the
bottom floor of the Library.
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3 p.m. CPJ Friday Forum. Come
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about journalism , and discuss issues
in journalism and group dynamics.
5 p.m. Electronic Music Collective,
Seminar II C2107.,
7 p.m. Giant Robot Appreciation
Society, Sem inar II A 1105.
5 p.m. Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse.
8-9 a.m. Swim Club
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 315 .
4-6 p.m. The S&A Board meets in
CAB 315 .
4 p.m. EPIC, Seminar II A2105.
Sunday
5 p.m. 'Evergreen Kung Fu meets in
the Longhouse .
4 p.m. CPJ production night . Come
participate in putting together your
student newspaper.
1-3 p.m. Ultimate Frisbee in the
Pavilion.
5 p.m. The Cooper Point Journal
meets in CA B 316. Come participate
4 p.m. Evergreen Irish Resurgence
Element meets in CAB 320,
6:30 p.m. Common Bread,
Longhouse Cedar Room.
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