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COOPER POINT .JOURNAL

Issue 5
Volume 34
Oct. 20, 2005

ILWU prepares for upcoming
contract .negotiations with Aramark
By Tom Slater
Right here in the Evergreen
pocket of our Olympian community, there
are workers preparing to lead a boycott
of their employers and a multi-national
corporation ready to fight for it's right
to profit. Members of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union (Local
5), which includes foodservice workers,
will soon be negotiating their contract
with Aramark, the Official Foodservice
of the Evergreen State College. The standing contract was one negotiated with the
previous food service, Bon Appetit. When
Aramark came to Evergreen, they chose
to honor that contract in the interest of a
smooth transiti on. With their carried-over
contract about to run out on October 30,
the Union representatives are entering
negotiations with their new employers.
The union , acco rding to shop steward
and bargaining representative Paul Malleck, is seeking "a fair and just contract
with equitable pay and benefits for all
workers." Under the current contract,
full-time workers receive a healthcare
plan as well as paid sick leave and paid
vacation, but none of these benefits apply
to the majority of workers, the part-timers.
Currently, it is entirely at the discretion
of Aramark management what hours to
give and which hiring status to assign each
employee and there is no "just cause to
fire" -c1ause in the current contract. Partti me employees, in other words, are almost
entirely without protection. Malleck is
hoping to gain partial benefits for parttime workers as well as a seven-point cri-

terion for "just cause" that Aramark must
meet when discharging staff, as well as
higher wages for all union members. Malleck is hesitant to reveal too many of his
bargaining goals before bringing them to
Aramark and so was unclear about the
nature of the "partial benefits" he hoped to
obtain for part-timers. Supervisors, office
workers and management staff will all be
unaffected by re-negotiations.
Expelled from the Congress of Industrial
Organizations in the 1950s due to suspicion of communist domination within the
organization , the I nternational Longshore
and Warehouse Union has a seventy-five
year record oflabor activism. In the 1930s,
the union refused to load or unload ships
from fascist nations. During the Vietnam
War, with its accompanying increase in
seaport traffic, the I LW U made a conscious effort to recruit A frican American
workers who had until then been underrepresented in the union. In the eighties,
the ILWU refused to work with vessels
bound for or coming from apartheid-era
South Africa. Recent action includes the
Pacific Maritime Association's accusation
that the ILWU was staging a slowdown to
put heat under the PMA during negotiations. As a response to this perceived union
action, the PMA held a lockout, keeping
union members home and unpaid. President Bush requested an injunction-under
the Taft-Hartley act, federal government
can interfere with labor disputes so long
as it is a perceived national threaHo send
the workers back to thei r docks on October
10 of that year.

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Despite the leftward lean of the ILWU's
past, Malleck claims the Local 5 has no
broader agenda and is bargaining "exclusively to enhance our lives." He says
that like most jobs, conditions working
for A ramark are good but leave room
for improvement, and that if the ILWU
is not bargained with in a fair manner,
there is potential for a boycott. Not inexperienced in these matters, Aramark has
dealt with strikes at Yale, secondary
schools in Canada, and had a near-miss

with a strike at George Washington University--where all four of the local union's
proposals were rejected at the outset of
negotiations. Whether Aramark accepts
the new proposals in ·Iarge part depends
on their perception of risk, which Malleck
is hoping to intensify.

Tom Slater is in his third and final year
and is enrolled in Res Publica: Exam ining
the Body Pol itic.

Wheat gluten intolerance suspected to be the most
under-diagnosed condition in America
By John Morgan

By Veronica OhHappy
Veronica OhHappy is a sophomore enrolled in Sculpture: Site Specific as well as RA ofT and U dorms. She
enjoys playing in the mud.

"Shit was falling out ormy ass like water."
It's the midd le of th e night and A lanya
C ha rneski is fed up; she just wants to die,
be over with it. It is the third time this mystery illness has overwhelmed her, striking
like sudden , unprovoked food poisoning.
It started with a blinding migra ine, and
soon she was nauseated . Over the day,
the symptoms mount, and eventually she
can't deny that she needs desperate medical attention. Sitting now in the hospital
waiting for care, she is dehydrated from
hours of vomiting and diarrhea. She has
no idea what is wrong with her or how she
can get better.
Since this ordeal has begun , she can' t keep
on weight, her body wasting to a spindly
hundred pounds. A hellish scenario all
caused by the essential protein in wheat :
gluten. Charneski doesn 't know now, but
soon will learn that she-like an estimated
one in every 133 Americans- suffers from
gluten intolerance, a condition believed to
be the most under-diagnosed condition in
America.
For months, she has been told she probably has I rritable Bowl Syndrome (I BS) or

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IBS is a poorly understood conditionopen ing th e door for more than few opportunistic charlatans to make wonder cu re
promises- marked by diarrhea, bloating,
abdominal pain and constipation. GERD,
likewise, is poorly understood, but is basically chronic heartburn . That may not
sound serious, but over. time, a consistent
backflow of stomach acid can lead to very
serious damage of the esophagus.
When Charneski 's doctor suggested gluten
intolerance, she admits "1 didn ' t know
what she was talking a bout ," thinking
" Why wouldn't I get sick right after eating
[wheat gluten]?" She felt angry, thought
this condition was " bullshit." "It didn't
make sense to me, it still doesn ' t now."
But the tests were conclusive: her body
was having a clear immune response to
wheat gluten . A gluten intolerant person
suffers damage to their villi when they
consume gluten. This causes malabsorption and thus poor digestion of nutrients
and water. An undiagnosed celiac unwitti ngly poisons themselves every ti me they
consume wheat, barley or rye. Over time,
this condition can even lead to intestinal
cancer.

Gluten intolerance is a genetic condition most often inherited by people of
Western European decent. That would
include almost every student who attends
Evergreen. First symptoms are often triggered by extreme stress, but can also be
provoked by a diet very high in gluten.
Vegans might want to remember this
before overindulging in the meat substituteseitan. Once triggered , the condit ion
is permanent, the only treatment being a
strict avoidance of all food s with gluten:
pizza, bread, any fried foods, beer or anything containing, dusted or processed with
wheat, barley or rye.
As Charneski describes the condition,
there's "basically no freedom. I have to

plan OLit everythi ng I eat, like I' m on a
constant diet." For her bitterness remains:
" ( still think, 'What if I don't have this?' ...
(' m still in denial." Thinking back to that
day, loosi ng her in sides from both e nd s.
wishing death for so lace, re membering when she was first diag nosed , s he
finds perspective: "The blood test said,
that 's what you are, and that's what I am
[gluten intolerant], proud and stron g." And
healthy, putt i ng on weight and free from
most of her sy mptoms, it might be hard to
adjust, but she knows that it is better than
the alternative.

John Morgan is a sophomore enrolled in
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Vox Populi

By Ryan Stephens

my life as average, as the ground zero of
experience. I don 't know how I would have
I thought I begun to ser iously challenge my world
was coming view if it weren't for the diverse group of
to Eve rg reen committed men and women that weekend,
to discover and the safety we c reated through building
what I want community.
to do with my
So, what am I all about? I have to seek out
I i fe, and now and help create environments where people
I realize that can be human, and challenge the social,
I've known it psychological and spiritual oppression that
L..----I all along. Back
makes this seem impossible. Supposedly
in the fall of 2000, I attended a workshop Joseph Campbell sa id that all we really
on building community, based on the group want is to be who we really are, and be in
process work of M. Scott Peck. I had read each others' presence. As Ani Difranco
Scotty's
book
puts it, ''There are
Th e Road Less
some things you
can' t know unless
Traveled-a .book "
about psychologiyou've been there
I had a hard time realizing
cal and spiritual
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that my experience of Ii Ie as
g rowth - while
we could go if we
a young, white, upper/m idd le attending a constarted to share."
class male was fundamentally
servat ive Baptist
That's what co mdifferent than that of other men
church in Colummunity mean s to
and women in my culture.
bus, Ohio. It gave
me : I ne ed you,
me th e cou rage to
and I think you
co ntinue thinking
need me t oo, to
for myself, and to
be real with eac h
eventually bre.ak
o ther, to share in
away from the oppressive e nvironme nt of our individu al exper ience of being a live.
fundamentalism. For me, spirit ual develThi s is an invitation ; thank s to the
opment no longer had a nythi ng to do with Healing Arts Co llect ive and Commo n
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right and wrong.
Bread, there w ill be a fa c ilit ated commuThen I went to thi s work shop, and the nity-building workshop at Everg re en thi s
goa l was for the group members to become weeke nd' Many or us are used to the word
a n "authentic community," to be in each "col11munity" as a reference to a bunch of
others' presence without pretendi ng to be people li ving in the same place or going
something we're not. You might say the to the same sc hool. I r you a re in terested
mantra for the weekend was ' No right or in an experience of building community in
wrong, only aut henticit y or inauthentic- terms of the way we relate with each other
ity.' It was in thi s gro up th at I first felt and the quality of th ose relationships, thi s
safe enough to let my guard down , to be is not to be missed!
The co st to student s is $ 10, and it
real and vulnerable with others who were
committed to validating me, rather than requires th at you attelld both Saturd ay and
converting and fixing me like I had expe- Sunday. To regi ster, drop off$ IOat St ud ent
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M atre and G li zza. Show starts at
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in downtown O lympia at Legion a nd Capital Way. Contact Drew Hendricks
at (360)870-31 27.
- Ferron will be performing at Traditions Ca fe & World Folk Art on 300
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Weekly Horoscopes

The Definite Article:
Chork Soup for the Cainophobic's

ByR. Y Shah

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By Grant Gerald Miller
My close friend Archiba ld says I'm
"Ta llkward." It 's not th at I'm " Tallkward"
per se, it's just th at I suffer from kakorrhaphiophobia and demophobia. This is the
reason I slouch and stare at the grou nd when
I wa lk . But ca ll it what you will.
"Tall k ward" is a neologism conj ured up
by my friend Archibald. A neologism isa new
word or expression that worms its way into a
language. Generally, neologisms are words
that are introduced to define new tech no logies or inventions, new phenomena or old
ideas that have tak en on a new cultural context. A term such as "Tallkward" is obviously
a syn th esis of two words that a lread y ex ist,
which a re comb ined to tak e on new meaning:
fl111 + awkward = Tallhl1ard = a person who
is hOfh fall and awhl1ard. We see this all the
time with new words such as "videocassette"
or '·in te rnet. " " Kakorrhaphiophobia" means
" fear of failure" and "demophobia" means
"fear of large crowds ." Both are words that
were introduced, a long with an e ntire list of
phobias, to satisfy the needs of psych~lo­
gists. This sort of thing happe ns a ll the tlln e
in highly spec ialized fields where new words
are needed to describe new phenomena e.g.
difTerance, simulacra, etc.
But even the term neologism was itse lf
a neologism around 1800, when it was
introduced into the English language . In
fact, all words that exist in any language
were at one point neolog ism s. Let's look
at some common terms and see where they
come from.
Take th e word " laser, " for instance.
This term is common eno ugh these days,
but didn't ex ist until 1960. Laser is "Light
Amplification by Stimulated Emi ssion of
Radiation ", and if you look closely iif the
first letter of the last five words that aren't
prepositions, yo u' ll notice that " laser" :--vas
initially an acronym that has morp hed IIlto
a word.
All my internet searches of th e te rm
"bling" resulted in ads where I could purchase various "b ling" or " bling- bling." This
term feels onomatopoetic in nature, but it
isn't. The term " bling" resembles a visual

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Aries
... Words likel y to scream during sex: I am
Special body part you sho uldn 't fracture:
The head

phenomenon s uch as "sparkle" or "dazzle,"
and I'm not sure we have a word for thi s
phenom eno n, so for now we ' ll call it "videopoetic." This term has emerged as a noun
that s ignifies an ostentatious accessory, gene rally e ncased in some form of diamonds,
si lver or go ld.
Then there's a term s uch as "cell ," the biological building block oflife. This term was
coined by the sc ienti st Robert Hooke, the
inventor of the first microscope. He looked
throug h hi s new invention at a piece of cork
and noti ced that the rectangular sub- parts
looked like the little rooms that monks lived
in which were often referred to as cells. So
n~turally (I g uess), he called the microscopic
building blocks of life "ce lls." Of'course, cell
was a word that already existed, but in this
case, not only did the meaning of the word
sh i ft , an entire new sign ified was created by
an a lready existing sign ifi er.
But not only are new words perpetually
being created: old words that we use everyday are always shifting meaning. Take the
term " like," for example. My di ctionary 's
definition of " like" says " having some or all
of the qualities of another or each other or an
original; a like." But at some point , probably
in the 1960s, the term "like" began to suggest the philosophical inadequacies of language. As Thomas De Zengotita points. ~ut
in Mediafed, " It [like] conveyed the futlhty
of trying to put into words what could only
be known directly ... the constant implication was that one would ' get it ' only if one
were 'where it's at' already." So " like" goes
from describing the similarities between two
or more things to describing that which can't
be put into words: like, you know whaf I'm
saying? But now, in the twenty-first century,
the term " like" has shifted even more . All
' one has to do is sit in any seminar at this
institution to see that " like" has become a
phonetic representation of thought. "Like"
serves the same function that a simple " uh"
or even- god forbid-a split second of
silence used to fulfill : Like, 1 mean, look at
like, 1 mean, like, Adorno 5', like, Di a lectic
of Enlightenment, like, you know what I'm
saying?
So, words and th e grammatical prescriptions of language are always changing, always shifting meaning.' and alwa~s
coming into, and out of, eXistence. ThiS
is one of the beautiful things about language- it 's dynamic, not static- we create
it, change it and shift it to suit our needs as
we go along. You might be fully aware that
"Tallkward" isn't actually a word; at least
lingui sts haven't defined it as a word and
given it its proper slot in the dictionary-yet.
But if you're skeptical as to "Tallkward's"
inevitable inclusion in the Engl ish Lexicon,
just remember that "Lonely" wasn't a word
until Shakespeare thought it up .
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Y'know how everyone else is wrong but
you? Well for this week, pretend they don't
know that and exp lain it to them nicely.
This will help you somewhat avoid stirring
up negative feelings that you would have
otherwise plowed right into.
Taurus
Soothing man tra whispered at night:
have
Special body part th at explains why all
your turtlenecks must be cashmere: Throat
and neck
Expect to be really, really bored this w~ek.
Then when things turn out to be so-so bortng,
you'll be enthralled.
Gemini
Words on a t-shirt of yours somewhere:
I think
Last places you want dissected via laser
beam: Hands, arms and lungs
No horoscope for you. Ha ha hal
Cancer
Words shouted to an ex over the phone:
I feel
Special places you worry about the most:
Breasts and stomach
This week you're going to be hyper-emotional. In light of this, map out a few areas
around campus to fl ee to so you can ~ry
in relative peace. Try to feel less . Imagme
your metaphorical heart as a big ice rin.k wi!h
nothing underneath but concrete. ThiS Will
help greatly in financial and legal matters,
but not so much with rel at ionships.

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Libra
Words you would dance a little jig to:
balance
The special body parts that require store
assistants to ask for your removal from the
massage chair on dis play: Lower bac k, butt
and kidneys
This'w eek you'll be an ass. But you'll pull
this off with charm that would make anyone
smile whilst you insult their grandmother.
With this power you can charis~ati.cally
invade the UN. Act coy when they mSlst on
giving you your own country. When the week
is over and your planetary forces become
misaligned again, plunge into depression and
bore peopl e by recounting how yo u once had
everything.
Scorpio
Words that ~ave made the rest of your
seminar group un comfortable while listening to your introduction: I desire
The special reaso n why you hate/ love
riding bicycles : The genitals
This week you'll scare peopl e by looking
all intense like you normally do. Friends will
think you want your " me time" again. You
don't. Try to cut down on your intimidating
intensity by wearing a pink bunny outfit.
Don 't worry; no one will beat you up once
they meet your daunting eyes amongst the
fluffiness.
Sagittarius
Word s often declared without irony: I
see
Why you will never wear b?y sh~rts
unless alone in your bedroom: Liver, hipS,
and thighs
This horoscope will make sense two weeks
from now.

Leo
Words taped to yo ur bathroom mirror :
I will
Special body parts you boast about more
than others: Back, spine and heart

Capricorn
Words you shouldn 't include in your personal ad: I use
Why growing old will especially suck: The
joints, bones and knees

Okay, so, everyone loves you as usual ,
then you ' re going to be all like, ' Wait, I'm
going to be distant to pond(~r about everyone
loving me .' Then you'll stop and everyone
will go back to loving yo u. Try not to catch
anything.

Don't miss life's little detail s, but don't
forget the grander scheme of things either. If
you do, you'll explode.

Virgo
Words you ' ve attempted to sed uce so meone with: I analyze
Reason s why you des ignate a s pecial
" bathroom hour" for yourself: The nervous
system and intestines

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goddamn rest!
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Rest. Pretend you're dead. What's it like
being dead? I dunno . What the hell are you
doing thinking about it? Didn ' t I just say you
should rest?! And why are you reading? Do
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Aquarius
Words you say despite whether you do or
not: I know
Special reason why you shouldn 't get a
blood clot: The circulatory system
You 're going to have a good think. ~hi s
week on such abstract notions as politiCS,
musings about people, where your middle
school crush is right now and how to cook
bacon. (Apparently you don't know.) This
will be interrupted occasionally by that fantasy of Susan Sarandon riding a pony.
Pisces
Words you've begun many Sta~e of
the Union addresses in your. head With: I
believe
Special body part you sniff when no one 's
looking: The feet
Don't let people push you around this
week: you've got shit to do. Forg~t ~hat
you're a sentient being- you're on a mission .
No one's gonna walk all over you or make
slight comments to keep you up all night, sick
with anxiety. Not this Pisces! You believe?
ERRRCK! Wrong! You know! Next week,
claim your consciousness was overtaken by
a monstrous force: make comparisons to Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Ask for a hug, smile
.
'
evilly over shoulder.
R. Y. Shah is an Aries enrolled In Behef and
Truth.

CD Review
By Colin Reis
I've been a music connoisseur since
I picked up my first CD, Eric Clapton
Unplugged, at age eight after hearing "Tears
in Heaven" on MTV Especially recently,
it's been difficult to let a day go by without
searching the depths of this planet for new
aquisitionable artists. Hip-hop is my passio~,
but my interests spread as far as NatalIe
Merchant to Bela Fleck. With that said, I'd
like to exhibit my five favorite CDs to date
in no particular order:

Deadringer
Rjd2
Definitive Jux Records
Released July 23, 2002
I've introduced this cat to so many people,
various friends associate me with Rj. This is
definitely the album to get. Compiled with
soulful instrumentals with a few MC appearances every fifth track or so, some may find a
couple of the MCs hard on the ear with Jakki
screaming, " Fuck hip-hop," but the secret
song, "Here's What's Left," makes up f~r
any possible inadequacies throughout thiS
record. Blueprint displays some nasty flows
over "Final Frontier", the track which created
Soul Position-pick up 8 Million Stories to
Tell, if you've slept on it. "Ghostwriter" is
the classic Rj track with enough horns and
melodies to satisfY your inner soul.
A/liens
Outkast
La Face Records
Released August 27, 1996
If you're an Outkast fan and don ' t own
this album , you need to check yourself,
because this was Outkast at their best. Not
to say their new shit's wack, but ~tliens'
beats and lyrical content are·so consistently
on point, I find it difficult to listen to any
other album from start to finish. Next chance
you have, get in your car, bump the track
"Atliens" as loud as your ears can handle and
enjoy an insanely energized three minutes
and fifty seconds.
Woman King EP
Iron & Wine
Sub Pop Records
Released February 22, 2005
This is definitely a change of pace from
the first two, but more than worthy enough
to make the list. My sister introduced me
to Sam Beam and his deliciously audible
Iron & Wine. It was difficult to choose an
album, but this one has three songs that give
me chills when listening to them. Before
"Woman King," most of their songs were
merely acoustic guitar with a banjo every
now and then, but they have stepped it up
to whole new level with percussion, violins
and various other instruments I couldn't
even pick out. All six songs are beautifully
written about women, and his love for them.
Weird ...
Animal Magic
Bonobo
Ninja Tune Records
Released November 13,2001
Whenever I'm feeling like something
mellow and organic, this album never lets
me down. When I first heard them, I thought
their music was made inl!"studio from samples and electronic beats, but I realized that
they ' re a full-on orchestra once they came
out with their Live Sessions EP. The whole
album is orgasmic to the ear, but Track 6,
"The Plug," steps it up to a whole new level.
I haven't heard a single Bonobo track yet that
I didn't like. "M" is for Monkey is also an

More CD Reviews
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Poncho Sanchez
Concord Picante
Rel eased August 9, 2005
4.2 /5 Stars

By Michael Treadwell
Blackalicious
The Craft
Anti Records
Released September 27,2005
2.8/5 Stars
Anyone who liked the first two albums,
N.IA (2000) or Blazing Arrow (2002),
knew it would be difficult to top th e latter
of the two. Blazing Arrow was so good,
in fact, that their three-year hiatus made
some sense.
While Th e Craft starts out on a high
note with the opening track " World of
Vibrations," the rest of the album- with
four exceptions- has the so und of radioready hip-hop.
The two-piece San Francisco outfit that
makes up Blackalicious must have been
slightly irritated that they were always
just below the radio-play level of popularity. They swept the underground aild then
some, but one has to wonder how much
this inOuenced their sound . The world of
hip-hop is cruel: if you aren't played out
by your second record, only then can you
stick around. The beats on The Craft tend
to be far simpler than what Blazing 1rl'OW
showcased, and the songs don't have that
positive feeling that other Blacka~icious
EPs and albums had . The accompalllments
use way too much piano and things that get
washed out from the production . There a re
four standout tracks in the entire album.
The only thing that that is consistently good
is the vocals. The overall feeling is a lot
bleaker and thi s doesn't work out with the
Blackalicious portfolio. Or maybe the chief
problem is that they simply ~et th~ bar too
high with Blazing Arrow. Stl.lI, wlt.h .t hree
years to come up with somethlllg, thiS IS not
terrible, but certainly is a di sappointment.
Worth getting used for under $10.

excellent album, slightly more upbeat, with
even funkier sounding instruments.

The Cold Vein
Cannibal Ox
Definitive Jux Records
Released May 15, 200 I
When I first heard this album I couldn't
even describe it as music- the beats are
that abstract. Now I look at Cold Vein
as masterpiece . I will say that some of
the beats-produced by EI-P, Def Jux
founder- are still too heavy and intricate,
but others take my breath away. "A B-Boys
Alpha," for examp~e, displays a pian~ that's
delicate and engaglllg With a percussion set
to blow the speakers. Not to mention the
two MCs- the uniquely voiced Vast Aire,
plus the more subtle and thoughtful Vordul
Mega. They paint a picture o~ the ghetto
lifestyle without using guns, bitches, benjam ins or bling, but rather insightful metaphors to capture the living conditions of a
couple of NYC ghetto survivors. "Li!e's
at a standstill, dangerous cuz man kills,

Blackalicious © MeA

711af~' Whaf I Say. John Scojield plays
fhe Music o/Ray Charles
John Scofield
Verve Reco rd s
Released June 7, 2005
4.3 /5 Stars

John Scofield may be an acquired taste.
Along with Pat Metheny and Bill Frisel, they
were the giant jazz guitarists of the 1980s.
Metheny was definitely the most popular,
but Scofield had the experimental t~ling
down. Jazz snobs always had a problem Mi c ha el Tre adwe ll is in Asian Art &
with Scofield because they weren't sure Culture.
where he was going with the next album.
Scofield's pre-Blue Note recordings were
something guitarists who like experimental
stuff would listen to, but they weren't any thing close to traditional formats for jazz
snobs to appreciate.
Jazz aficionados-I ' m one myself- may
have a hard time with thi s album, and even
though it is far more commercially oriented
than anything Scofield had done pre-200a,
it is still tastefully done. This album not only
covers Ray Charles' work in a transformation format, it blends R&B, funk and some
traditional non-fusion jazz together. You can
always tell that it is Ray Charles' work, but
New gently used,
the musicians featured on this album do a
and consignment
good job of transforming his work. i~to their
~.-aItI...
style by adding some new stuff. ThiS IS worth
checking out. Rest in peace Ray Charles.

fUl'o\ture WOrKs

And still cats visualize life ghetto like born
mind, sdmetime these cats see life, Street
life incomplete light, and be like I' m a live
life after this. "
Ifyou're still looking to find more quality
music, there will be plenty mor: albums to
be reviewed. Until next week, enJoy the new
sounds 'til I get back for a 2nd round .

Colin Reis is ajunior in Reconciliation.

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I' m guilty of being a huge Poncho Sanchez
fan . He is si mply a huge influence on me as
well as legio ns of other percuss ionists. Tito
Puente may have got th e mambo(!) thing
down in the 60s, but Sanchez got the crossover-genre called A fro-Cuban jazz down to
a science. It all started when Afro-Cuban
beats were mixed with a traditional form of
bebop in the 60s. Lots of Greeners love the
Afro-Cuban label but have no fucking clue
what they are talking about when it comes to
this music form . Actually, this app lies to their
knowl edge of every music besides bluegrass,
classic rock and hip-hop.
Sanchez just works as hard as he can on
hi s conga drums. S ince making albums for
Concord Picante since 1982 and recording
s ince 1979, Poncho has made a name for
himself by just constantly rec lining hi s art .
Although so me of th e earlier albums had
far more energy than the later ones, Do If'
contains a lot of high e nergy performances.
There are some s low num bers a nd some
fa st ones and everything in between. Plus,
besides havi ng the classic Sanchez ensemble with him on this album , there are guest
appearances by funk icons Tower of Power
as well as African singer Hugh Maekel a.
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have been doing for years and now even
better than before, it 's a good thing for us
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LEITERS AND OPINIONS _ _ _ _CO_O_P_ER_PO_I_N_T:......JO_U_R_NA_L_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
OCTOBER

Theatre is a powerful force
I was cast in my first major theatre production when I was 10 years old. I was
excited to play a toy soldier in the annual
production of Babes in Toyland at the
Goodyear Theatre. Driving me home from
rehearsal one day, my mother opened up
to me on how she truly
felt about my involvement in the theatre .
She said , "Th ea tre
is devil:S work." My
mother continued to
drive me back and
forth to rehearsal s,
and sti II went. to see
me in every production she could, but how
I was able to continue
working in the theatre
without my mother 's
emotional support,
I' m not sure.
15 years later, this statement still
remains with me . While not being able to
share my mother's reasoning, I do believe
she was touching on something vital.
The theatre is a juggernaut of a force.
Upon entering into the theatre for a ny
reason, it imm ed iately does nofhave time
for all the things that Ii fe does not want
to deal with. Your personal worries are
left at the door, and at once it becomes
a community of people working forward,
whether to put on a production, rehearse,
send a message out, teach or discover.
Whatever your reason for entering in ,
whether active or passive, you are there
. for the theatre alone. Most of the time, the

theatre requires that you stop whatever you
are doing to go to it.
So don 't let me inconvenience you.
The name of theatre has been spoiled
long enough by stal e productions that
spend too much money to produce grand
spectacle si mply for the sake of elitist
entertainment. ,
. But let me remind
you that the theatre
may be the mo s t
effective vehicle we
have now for social
change , because it
requires communal
effort, because it
does not discriminate,
becau se it not only
allows, it encourages
free speech.
The doors are open
to you.
And while you are
thinking about this ,
go see a fantastic production of one-act
plays. There's one right here in your
neighborhood , and it 's coming up very
soon. A motley community of Evergreen
students is eager for yo ur attendance at
Uber Theatre: a festival of one-acts confronting control, lies, manipulation, deceit
and ignorance. This eve nt will take place
Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October
29 at 7 p.m., in the Communications building on campus, Room 209.
Be there. It 's free.
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doesn't tell full truth
By Ryan A. Tompkins

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If you visit
www.coke
facts . org ,
you wi II find
website
a
devoted
to
telling " th e
truth about
Coca-Cola
............._ ..... around th e
globe." The website, which is owned by
the Coca-Cola Company, highlights its
corporate citizenship in India, Colombia
and around the world. In India, the website
will tell you Coca-Cola is committed to
the environment by working with communities and local government to "combat
water scarcity." Coke is also campaigning
to promote recycling awareness is cities
and schools in the country as well.
The website makes it clear that CocaCola is a good corporate citizen and that it
is doing its fair share to take care of people
and the environment.

Two
other
ways
of
getting to www.cokefacts.org is by
going to www.killercoke .com or
www.killercoke.net. These sites are set up
to divert you frOiTI www.killercoke.org. a
website running a campaign aga in st
Coca-Cola's abuses against workers and
watersheds around the world. The main
focus of the website is on Colombia, where
Coca-Cola bottlers have "contracted with
or otherwise directed paramilitary sec urit y
forces that utili zed extreme violencc and
murdered, tortured , unlaw full y detained
or otherwise silenced union leaders." The
crimes comm itted by the company stretch
much farther than this though . In Indi a,
a water-stressed country, Coca-Cola has
entered communities and pumped water
out of the ground at astounding rates.
Water pumping by Coke has caused serious problems with wells, leaving many
people without immediate access to water
and causing serious problems with pollution in the water supplies.
As if stealing water were not enough for
Coca-Cola, scandal has emerged out of the

How many times do we have to
tell them? NO MORE WASTE AT
HANFORD!
By Blair Anundson

Graduate

13, 2005

has stored radioactive waste improperly at
Hanford for decades, proposed to import
Remember more. Bush's DOE made it clear that it
when you were had no intention of stopping its effort to
little and your add radioactive waste to already-leaking
Mom made unlined pits at Hanford. It also had no solid
clean plan to clean up the existing contamination
you
up your toys before adding more nuclear waste .
In spring 2003, the State of Washington
before you
went outside filed a lawsuit against the DOE to halt
to play with shipments until the federal government
L--:j. . .-.I your friends .
issues a written guarantee that it will clean
Sure it sucked to have to spend an extra up Hanford. The lawsuit also accused the
10 minutes inside, but Mom was trying to DOE of trying to turn Hanford into the
layout a pretty simple principle: You have nation's low-level nuclear waste dump.
to clean up your messes before you make More importantly, WashPIRG, Heart of
America Northwest,
any new ones. Well,
and a coalition of
apparently Barbara
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rent administration's
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the cleanup of con"make a mes s now,
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should
be
back
taminated sites like
make a mess later"
by 9:00 - 10:00 PM. To sign up call
Hanford before more
policy than their han360-867-6058 or e-mail blair@was lo w- level radioacdling of Washington 's
hpirgstudents.org
t i ve waste can be
own Hanford Nuclear
added,
ends the use
Reservation .
of Hanford as the
The history of the
Hanford waste dump is marked by viola- dumpsite for the rest of the nation's lowtions of indigenous rights and destruction level radioactive waste, and prevents lowof the national environment. In the early level nuclear waste from being dumped in
1940s, the federal government decided in unlined soil ditches.
1-297 passed with nearly 70% of the
that it needed a waste repository for its
latest mad science project, the US nuclear vote last November, which was more than
arms program. And , following a long tra- any other candidate or initiative on the
dition of complete disregard for the rights ballot. Despite this overwhelming show
. of Native Americans, the site was placed of public support, Bush's Department of
on the traditional hunting, fishing and Energy has been trying to overturn the inispritual grounds for the Yakama, Umatilla, tiative for nearly a year. So far they have
failed, but what they can't do through
Wanapaum and Nez Perce tribes.
Since then, the Hanford Reservation lawsuits they may be able to do through
has become one of the most polluted the advisory process.
On November 2 of this year, the state
places in the Western Hemisphere. II)
and
federal government are holding a
2000 alone, Hanford imported 232,000
cubic feet of radioactive waste for burial " Meet the Decision Makers Reception"
in unlined soil trenches--enough to cover to allow the public to meet the folks who
a football field 13 feet deep. Yet in 2003, will be overseeing Hanford's cleanup .
the Department of Energy (DOE), which WE NEED TO SHOW THE DECISION

company 's 'charity' in India. In the communities of Planchimada and Mehdiganj ,
Coca-Cola distributed free "fertilizer" to
farmers in the area. A study by the BBC
found that the " fertilizer" had no value for
growing crops and was actually solid waste
that carried toxins such as cadmiulll and
lead. Coca-Cola India 's vice-president,
Sunil Gupta, stood by the sludge, say ing
that it is "absolutely safe" and "good for
crops," even after the report came out.
Coca-Co la 's crimes cannot be ignored.
The people of Indi a arc demanding that
Coca-Cola clean up its act by shutting
down bottling facilities and by compensating and cleaning up affected comlllunities. In Colombia, people have filed a
lawsuit asking that Coca-Cola denounce
anti-union violence and take responsibility
for its involvement with the paramilitary
aggression. Recently, people in Guatemala
have experienced threats to their person
or their family because of union activity at Coca-Cola bottling plants. People
there would like to see Coca-Cola cease
its involvement with violent anti-union

groups. People all over the world would
like to see the Coca-Cola Company
change.
We at Evergreen should act in so lidarity with the people of these communities
and boycott Coca-Cola, alongside asking
our campus to do so. Numerous campuses
around the United States have already recogni zed the atroci ti es committed by CocaCo la all around th e world. Coca-Cola
products include Minute Maid , Odwalla,
Nestea, Dasani , Ev ian, Powerade, Sprite
and many more. A list of all their products
can be found at their company website. A
simple action anyo ne can take is to write
a suggestion to Aramark in support of getting rid of Coca-Co la from food se rvices.
If you would like to become involv ed
with the campai gn un campus, e-mail the
Evergreen Politi ca l Information Club at
epic@ri seup.net.
Ryan A. Tompkins is a third-year student enrolled in Introduction to Natural
Science.

Take Back Your Time Day:
Community even.t on
October 22
Ever feel
like you don't
have enough
time for everything you want
to do? Wish
you
could
take some of
it back? That's
the concept
behind a bluegrass organization called
"Take Back Your Time," founded by
Seattle ·filmmaker John de Graaf, author
of "Affiuenza" and director of the documentary of the same name.
de Graaf got the ball rolling with the
Take Back Your Time movement in March
2002, and it started as a tangent drawn
from the Simplicity Forulll. The movement
is gaining momentum; a recent national
conference in Seattle drew guests from
across the country, as well as a few from
Europe, and the movement has popped
up in hundreds of stories in newspapers
and magazines across the country, including Time, Newsweek and the New York
Times.
But for everyone who hasn't heard
of Take Back Your Time, the concept is
simple: America is suffering from time
poverty, and it affects many aspects of
life including community, personal health,
environment, family, worker satisfaction
and even house pets. de Graaf is trying
to spread the word about "The European
Way," a system in which nearly all residents are guaranteed 4-6 weeks of vacation
per year through means such as job sharing
and avoiding overtime. According to de
Graaf, this system increases worker efficiency and job satisfaction by adequately
resting employees to avoid burn out.
"As an activist, half the battle is getting people to understand the issue, but
MAKERS THAT THE PUBLIC IS
PAYING ATTENTION AND CARES
ABOUT THIS ISSUE! Join WashPIRG
and other students and concerned citizens from across the state in Seattle on
November 2.

with this one we've really seem to hit a
nerve," said Gretchen Burger, National
Staff member and Program Director for
Take Back Your Time. "This is an issue
that people really geL"
de Graaf and Evergreen faculty Nancy
Parkes are currently teaching the Haste
Makes Waste program that, among other
things, explores the mission statement
and ideals of the Take Back Your Time
movement. The students of Haste Makes
Waste will be hosting the annual Take Back
Your Time Day this Saturday, October 22 .
The local outlet for this national program
is the Olympia Center in downtown
Olympia, and the event runs from II a.m.
to 3 p.m. Parkes said that the perks of the
event include a community slow-food potluck and a talk from key speaker John de
Graaf. Since it is a potluck, all planning to
attend should also plan to bring something
to contribute.
The day chosen for the event is no
coincidence. Every year, Take Back Your
Time Day takes place nine weeks before
the end of the year to represent the nine
weeks more an average American works
compared to the average European ,
through means such as overtime and lack
of vacation and sick leave used. Imagine if
you didn't have to work again until 2006.
What woul~ou do?
If you feel like taking back your time
and making a statement against time poverty, mark your calendars for this Saturday.
Even if you choose to stay home and relax,
make your time count. Take it back.
For more information :
www.timeday.org.

vi s it

Alex Busack is a senior and she is studying
creative writing. She is doing an internship
with Take Back Your Time.

Blair Anundson is WashPIRG J' Campus
Organizer and loves Ace ofBase s old stuff,
back when they were underground.

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