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Issue 2
Volume 35
Sept. 28, 2006

By Galen Swift
Some housing residents were
exclaiming about a "river of sewage"
in Alphabet Soup early this week.
Fortunately, it was just water.
A leak from a main hot water pipe
for buildings N through U surfaced by
R building on the evening of Sunday,
September 24. Water reportedly gushed
out from just next to the sidewalk and
flowed all the way down over the path
between R and Q.
To alleviate the flood, housing staff
Steve Johnson and student housing
employee Sam Lacina patched the break,
said Johnson . This involved digging a
trench, approximately four feet deep
and twenty feet long, and shutting off
domestic water in buildings N through
U early on Monday.

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Recommendation to enforce
compulsory advising
By Charlie Daugherty
In an e-mail sent out last Friday, Vice
President ofStudentAffairs Art Costantino
urged students, staff, and faculty to give
feedback on two academic advising decisions to be made early October.
The first recommendation is that new
students of this year and beyond be held
responsible for attending mandatory advising workshops during orientation week. If
the first recommendation is adopted, new
students who haven't attended the workshops this year wiH have a hold placed on
their account. This means students would
not be allowed to register for winter until
they attended an advising session. In
addition, students in following years who
do not attend spring or summer advising
workshops would be unable to register for

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On Wednesday, September 27, many
students (maybe even you) found themselves
amidst a sea ofchaos, as alarms sounded from
Seminar II around 12:51 pm. It seems some
wise guy pulled the switch for kicks; but,
after being evacuated from Seminar II, many
angry students congregated in Red Square. A
religious group referring to themselves as the
Bible Believers caused an interesting distraction in the Square this afternoon. More attention was paid to them than last year, when
most students wandered by apathetically.
In retaliation to their rough, 'in your face'
dogmatic approach, Evergreen students rose
up with their own signs in opposition to the
protest.
Signs from the Bible Believers read
"Gennans were wrong for supporting Hitler
you're wrong for supporting abortion" and
''Prepare to meet your Lord or go to hell "
along with many others. One Bible Believer,
who referred to himself as Pastor Ford, said
that Evergreen students offer 'provocative cause, but just to let people know that there
debate topics' and that he saw Greeners as are more options out there, although most stubeing just as intelligent as the students in dents were amused and salted with disdain.
the rest of the colleges in the nation. Upon
Standing farther off in Red Square, one
closer inquiry, the consensus of the group could note a whole circle ofabsence between
was that their goal here on campus was to people just hanging out and the whole comeducate students on moral awareness and to motion. Many students stated that they held
each that all o the human race ,· I have to indifferent views between both sides and
answer to a dictating higher power.
didn't want to get involved. Among the
Various students reacted with their own opinions held were confusion aboutthe whole
signs saying "My body my choice", "God situation and the signs, thinking that it was
is gay", and of course, "Why is it that the Nazi propaganda. The general consensus of
people against abortion are always the people on-lookers was that the Bible Believers were
nobody wants to fuck?" Obviously, many of just here to piss people off. One student said,
these students were out there for humor "All of us have a choice and both sides are
and entertainment purposes, while others right, there's no reason to start a hate war
were trying to give insight and were much over it." Others stated that they thought the
appreciated by the student body. Kristi from whole thing was stupid and they were slightly
Common Bread also was in the area hand- afraid of the whole ordeal, and that at least
ing out flyers, they're a group organized to it was better than last year because of the
create space to honor the spiritual journey, . Jack of signs with graphic images of unborn
offering a non-dogmatic alternative by not fetuses.
condemning people for the path they take.
One student, who was supporting the "My
Victor-Ant. Ali is transfer student taking
body my choice" idea, stated that her main six credits.

There are hundreds of questions students
could ask Geoduck Union representatives.
The answer to most of them would
probably be, "I don't know yet. We'll be
deciding that soon."
Last spring, Evergreen students ratified
the Geoduck Union constitution and elected
twenty student representatives into office,
out of a total of21 places'. Now, in the first
week of the first year of Evergreen's new
student government, it faces the task of
inventing itself.
The first step, according to student government representative Brooke McLaneHigginson, is "making a space for student
government in ... an administrative sense."

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The representatives are currently "getting
organized" over their listserv, in two preliminary meetings and at an upcoming
weekend retreat.
McLane-Higginson also spoke to the
necessity of forming "internal processes"
for governing. She was referring to processes such as meeting protocol, methods
for discussion, avenues for communicating
with students and administrators, etc. (One
example of an "internal process" is using
Robert's Rules of Order, i.e. a widely used
set of rules for carrying out legislative
business.)
Having a solid process for decisionmaking has been shown to be a matter of

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hold, a letter would be sent, along with an
e-mail, to notify new students.
Although advising has been marked as
mandatory during orientation weeks in the
past, there are yet to be repercussions for
not attending.
Some universities in Washington,
including University of Washington and
Eastern Washington University, require
mandatory advising before registration.
When students cover a particular course
of study, some colleges require them to
participate in advising every semester.
Research nationwide and at Evergreen
have shown a positive correlation between
the number of students who stay in college and the number who have received
advising.
In focusing on an education pathway,
Evergreen can be daunting with the openness afbeing able to make your own path.

att mith writes in a paper on the history
of student advising that, "[m ]ore often than
not it is this freedom, this chance to make
their own way that attracts student to TESC
and leads them to drop out of the college
when the path becomes obscure or the goal
undefined."
These are some reasons why the need
for improvements in advising is being
discussed.
The second recommendation will be
decided upon by faculty memberswhether follow-up advising sessions
should be offered within core and all-level
programs. Faculty would be required to
put together their own advising workshop
or request advisors to perform one within
their class during the seventh or eighth
week of fall quarter.
In response to this recommendation,
Rita Pougiales, a faculty member and
Academic Dean, wants to "consider an
alternative to get to the same end."
"No one has to convince faculty that
advising is important." Rita said in a
Tuesday morning interview.
Rita is for additional advising within
programs but hopes the decision to make
a requirement wiH be taken more seriously,
"we have no requirements at this college
besides 180 credits ... I think when we
talk about requirements it's superficial.
Nobody wants to be told what to do."
Instead, by asking more questions and
getting faculty to think deeply about the
issue, Rita hopes that faculty would be
responsible and try to integrate advising
into their program's mechanics.
These two recommendations have been

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Wednesday Healing Space

What's the wierdest
thing you've heard
about Evergreen?

Touching other people's bodies is good for you

By Aaron Bietz and Charlie Daugherty
By Ari Moshe Wolfe
My basic premise is that we don't
touch each other very much and that in
the absence of human contact we begin
to lose ourselves.
This year every week during
Wednesday club hour there will be a
safe and comfortable place to touch
and be touched.
In
my

The person lying down is encouraged
to share with the group any restrictions:
"Don't touch me here," or "Don't give me
this kind of touch," as well as requests:
"Touch me here," or "Try this kind of
touch on me." Otherwise, all kinds of
touching experimentation and healing
are encouraged. Sexual intentions are
not welcome.
Each healing
person lying down is will take place
according to
touch in this encouraged to share with
culture
is
how
many
g e n e r a 1 1y
the group any restrictions:
people show up
experienced as:
"Don't touch me here," or (10-15 minutes
a
person,
1. An accident. "Don't give me this kind of
usually).
"Oh sorry for touch," as well as requests:
brushing
up
We are all
against you!"
"Touch me here," or "Try wounded as we
this kind of touch on me. )' have been born
2.Inappropriate.
(Imagine
two
-into a world of
people sitting
fear. We are also
on the bus, anxiously clenching their all healers as we all recognize within us
thighs as to not make contact with the the powerful and inspiring influence we
other person's leg).
have on each other.
3.Sexual.
We are wounded healers! I believe
4. Socially appropriate handshakes that by creating a safe, comfortable
and "patpat" hugs.
and nurturing space for touch, we
5. Healing spaces for touch: usually recondition our minds to overcome the
intentional therapeutic setting- debilitating reality of our wounds.
massage therapy, reiki etc ...
This is not yet an official club. My
Well, none of us need any training intent is to make it so.
in any healing touch modality to offer
Right now, we will meet at 1:20 p.m.
profound healing to each other. Touch is in the Rotunda (the octagonal room in
qualified purely by intention. So let me the middle ofthe lecture halls near Red
share my intention for this space.
Square).
I am calling it the "healing touch
No one who shows up is expected
circle."
to be comfortable with the experience.
At the designated time and place, Insecurity is heartfully welcome and
whoever shows up sits in a circle and truly understood!
each person will have a chance to lie
down in the middle of the circle and Ari Moshe Wolfe is a second-year junior,
receive healing touch from everyone enrolled in Awareness.
else.

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''That mushrooms grow
wHd here."
Andrew Olmstead, senior
Postmodernity and Post modernism

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Student Group Meeting
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All meetings are in CAB 316.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Open meeting times with the
President of the college

Calling all those interested in
sustainability at Evergreen!

President Les Puree is avai !able for
informal, open discussions with members
of the campus community near the Market
in the CAB, during the times listed below.
He invites students, staff, and faculty to join
him to share concerns, ask questions or get
acquainted. There may be occasions when
last-minute scheduling conflicts prevent him
from being available. In this case, calf his
office at x6100.
Come talk to Les Puree on: Monday
October 2, 4-5 p.m., Monday November 6,
4-5 p.m., and Wednesday December 6. 1-2

Planning for the Sixth Annual Synergy
Sustainable Living Conference has been
underway since this summer. Members
of Synergy are beyond excited for the new
quarter and the upcoming year, and are
looking to expand student participation
and involvement with the conference. On
Wednesday, October 4 we will be having
an Open House in the Solarium (Student
Activities Office - CAB 320) from 1-3
p.m. This is your first of many chances to
come and get involved with this unique,
student-run conference. Bring your ideas,
bring feedback, bring questions. Any and
all contributions are welcome. Healthy
snacks and beverages will accompany
your presence. Can't make it, but you
want to be involved with Synergy? E-mail
or call at synergy@evergreen.edu or at
(360)867-6493. Hope to see your smiling
faces there!

p.m.

Reproductive Freedom Summer:
Takin' It to the Streets in Jackson,
Mississippi
Raeyven Rasheed, an African American
feminist, will present an eyewitness account
of the successful multi-racial grassroots effort
this July to defend the last abortion clinic in
Mississippi from attempts to close it down by
anti-choice groups.
This event takes place Saturday, September
30 at 7:30 p.m. at New Freeway Hall, 5018
Rainier Ave. S., Seattle. Door donation is
$2. Southern-style dinner is served at 6:30
p.m. for a $8 donation. Sliding scale or work
exchange available. Hosted by Radical Women.
For more information, rides or childcare, call
(206)722-6057 or 722-2453. Everyone welcome.
Wheelchair accessible.

e Now?
multicultural approach to
up-front communication and
leadership skills for women
This weekly seminar is hosted by Radical
Women. Ten weekly sessions will combine
feminist theory, writings by activists and
practical training. Topics include overcoming
gender, race and sexuality stereotypes;
confronting racism in the women's movement;
managing conflict and teambuilding; and other
skills needed for effective leadership. Sessions
are on Mondays, beginning October 9, from 7
p.{Tl. to 8:30p.m. atthe University ofWashington,
Ethnic Cultural Center, 3931 Brooklyn Ave NE,
Seattle. Free. Everyone welcome. Wheelchair
accessible. For more information, call (206)7226057 or 902-7420.

The Tacoma Concert Band
announces its return to Olympia
for a spectacular "Encore"
performance
Following the warm reception it received in
its first-ever Olympia concert last February, the
TCB returns to the Washington Center for the
Performing Arts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October
1 with a program ofexciting classical works and
familiar popular melodies, as well as a rousing
march or two. Composers ranging from Dmitri
Shostakovich to Stephen Foster and John Philip
Sousa will be featured in this family program
designed to delight audiences of every age and
musical preference. The concert will have an
international flavor, with composers and music
representing America, Russia, Western Europe
and Asia.

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Bent Mentor Showcase 2006
features Dorothl:, Allison
Bent, the nation's only "little queer
writing institute that could," is proud to
bring to the Seattle stage an incomparable
queer artist who can and who has: Dorothy
Allison, heralded as "one of the finest
writers of her generation" by the Boston
Globe. The showcase is Friday, Oct. 13
and Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Seattle First
United Methodist Church, 811 Fifth Avenue.
Doors at 7:30 p.m., curtain at 8 p.m.
Also, Allison will facilitate a writing
workshop on Saturday, October 14 from
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Seattle First United
Methodist Church. This exclusive offering
is an intimate environment for community
members to interact with Allison.
Participants will receive advice about their
own works as well as insight into the subject
of writing itself. Tickets available at www.br
ownpclpertickets.com and more information
can be found at www.bentwriting.com.

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Police Reports
Case Number 06-1610
Case Number 06-1639
09/10/2006 at 1636 09/11/2006 at 2159
hours
hours
Two officers were called to
the Soup apartments by housing
personnel to recover drug
paraphernalia found in the course
of cleaning out a dorm. The officers
were presented a plastic bong and
told the rest was under the TV.
They pulled out a wicker basket
from under the TV stand and found
in it a glass bowl that smelled of
marljuana and appeared to have
some residue in it. They also found
a second bong that had a 110-volt
power cord coming out ofit and had
a switch on the side. Lord knows
why. After the officers left they
were called back to collect some
additional paraphernalia. Turned
into them was a multicolored glass
pipe in a black nylon bag. Tune in
next week when they check the
records to find out who used to
live in that dorm, and where they
are now.

An officer observed a vehicle
fail to stop at a stop sign before
making a right- turn onto
Overhulse Road. The officer
followed the vehicle and activated
the emergency lights. The driver
was contacted and asked for
her license, registration, and
proof of insurance. A check
was run of the suspect through
dispatch, and the report came
back showing the suspect had a
3rd degree suspension of license.
She also had no insurance, and
was arrested.

Anew feature! An ongoing tally, starting from September
16 and continuing through the end of the year, will give a
detail of how many of the most common infractions have so
far occurred. Enjoy these several scandalous statistics!

Seattle Shakespeare Company
to conduct two-week residency
TESC is proud to announce the Seattle
Shakespeare Company will be conducting a
two week residency on campus in October
and will premiere their season opener, "The
Winter's Tale," for four performances, Oct.
19-21 in the college's Experimental Theater,
before moving the production to their home
theater at the Seattle Center.
During these two weeks, besides
performing, The Seattle Shakespeare
Company will be conducting workshops and
post-show discussions and interacting with
students and staff both on stage and off.
Tickets are $25 for general admission and
$15 for students and are available at Rainy
Day Records, online at BuyOiympia.com,
at the Evergreen College Bookstore or the
Box Office in the Communications Building.
Credit card phone orders can be placed by
calling the college's Box Office at (160)
867-6833.

Traffic stops

12

Traffic infractions issued

1

Minors in possession of
alcohol

6

Possession of illicit drugs
or drug paraphernalia

3

Bike thefts

11/2

Cars booted

4

Cars jump-started

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

New student workshop absentees
may face account holds

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brought forth by the Disappearing Task
Force. Made up of 17 to 18 faculty and
staff members, the DTF is co-chaired
by Holly Colbert, Special Assistant
to the Vice President of Finance and
Administration, and Sherry Walton,
Director of Masters in Teaching.
The DTF was formed specifically to
"[e]xamine the freshman student experience at TESC and determine what we
are currently providing that supports
and engages students as well as what
we could improve."
. Excluding academic advising, the
DTF came up with recommendations

for other improvements for the first year
student experience, dividing into three
groups overlooking faculty, curriculum,
and programs and services.
The details of these recommendations
will be revealed in a meeting later this
week with the college community.
Art Costantino has received 35-40
responses as of Wednesday, September
27. Nineteen in favor of advising and 16
were opposed. With Costantino being the
one making the decision on the first recommendation, he made it clear that the
responses were not a vote.
As of today, there are only two days

left to respond to the recommendations.
The e-mail states feedback needs to be
sent by September 30. If you have anything to say, e-mail Art Costantino at
CostantA@evergreen. ed u.
What is a Disappearing Task Force?
A DTF is a group of faculty, student,
and staff members that have been formed
to answer a question involving the governance of the college. The goal of the
DTF is then to find a possible solution
while taking into account Evergreen's
values and guidelines as well as state
regulations and guidelines. When a task
force comes up with a recommendation

Split pipe soup

it is often presented to faculty, staff, and
students for feedback. If the recommendation is unclear or in need of reworking,
the DTF meets again. When a recommendation is adopted or when the DTF is
no longer needed, the Disappearing Task
Force disassembles or "disappears."

Charlie Daugherty is a sophomore
enrolled in Images of Women: Changes
in Japanese Literature.

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The pipe patch was effective in stopping the flow of water, said housing
facilities lead Katie Taylor, but further
work needs to be done to actually fix
the problem. That work will be done
Thursday, Sept. 28. Domestic water
will be shut off from I 0 a.m. to 4 p.m.
to allow students to shower in the morning and come home to running water.
Johnson and his staff will need to enter
third floor apartments in order to drain
the pipes on that day.
According to Taylor and Johnson ,
the leak was most probably caused by
a weight impact on the ground above a
bunch of pipe junctions. According to
Johnson, the pipe in question pulled
out of an elbow joint by a half of an
inch. The pipes are fairly far below
the ground, so while it took significant
weight to cause leakage, it also took as
long as a week and a half for the water
to surface, said Taylor.
There certainly has been much recent
pressure on the ground throughout housing, and not only from new students
moving in. All of the roofs in the Soup
were re-done over the summer, which
Taylor said created enough damage that
the college had to replace "five or six"
sections of sidewalk and re-seed some
lawns just before orientation. According
to Johnson, the most likely cause of the
pipe separation was the cement truck
that came in to pour those sidewalks.

Calen Swift is a junior enrolled in
Memory of Fire.
A backhoe hangs oer the trench dug by housing staff in order to patch a leak next to R building.

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importance at Evergreen: our last student
government collapsed over a decision on
how to run itself.
McLane-Higginson suggested that
developing these processes will be a
focus of the fall retreat. She also looked
forward to next week's meeting, a three
hour anti-oppression training with Maria
Pena of Olympia's SafePiace.
Student government had their first
meeting of the quarter on Wednesday,
September 27. It wasn't designed specifically to be an open meeting because
it's so early in the game; agenda items
included negotiating their listserv, finding a common meeting time, the logistics
and agenda of their retreat, creating a
new logo, deciding the formal (possibly
temporary) process for making decisions, etc.
At least three representatives felt optimistic after the meeting, though mindful

Photo by Lindsay Adams.

Student government plans
for the future

of all that needs to be done. "Everybody
really cares," said Stephen Engel, of the
representatives at the meeting. He was
looking forward to the retreat, however. "I'm putting all my eggs in that
basket."
The representatives will be attending
a retreat October 6-8, for "training,"
goal-setting and to set up preliminary
processes for governing. The training
includes consensus decision-making
(facilitated by Grace Cox of Olympia's
Food Co-op), team-building activities,
and a conflict resolution communication workshop.
The representatives will be selfdirected in developing their processes
for governing. Most representatives seem
to have strong opinions on what these
processes will look like. As yet, they do
not have a unified vision.
This fall retreat is being paid for out

of funds awarded to student government
by the S&A Board last year. The total
amount awarded is $11,040: over half of
this ($6,602) will be used for travel.
The total cost of the retreat is $4,338.
The remainder of the $6,602 will go to
other travel expenses, particularly gas
reimbursement and van travel to meetings in Tacoma and at the Reservationbased Program.
Abe Scarr, project director of the
Student Empowerment Training Project,
will also attend the conference. Scarr will
lead workshops on the history of student
governments, various models of student
government, and campaign strategies,
and will work with them as they make
decisions about student government.
Scarr has worked with Evergreen
students before: he helped now-alums
Jayne Kaszynski and Brad Bishop (of
the former group Greeners for Student

Government) write the constitution of
the Geoduck Union.
Kaszynski was instrumental in designing the tentative agenda for the fall
retreat. She will most likely be present,
playing a supportive role, along with
advisors from Student Activities-in
particular Andy Corn, assistant director of Student Activities. The student
government is getting its advising support from the staff in Student Activities:
Corn, Mary Craven, Ann Shipley, and
Tom Mercado.
L According to McLane-Higginson,
the unfilled space is reserved for a
student from the Reservation-based
Program, which will be filled as soon
as possible.

Calen Swift is a junior enrolled in
Memory of Fire.

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REFUGEE CAMPS ON

HOW I'M LIVIN':
AND OFF CAMPUS

By Aaron Zanthe
A couple of greeners were projecting an
old racist cartoon caricature onto a screen
at Monday's academic fair. It's a clip of a
long-nosed Arab dude barking in the highpitched manner of Pluto with the caption
Ali Baba: Mad Dog of the Desert. This
toon is seen staring into binoculars, which.
when lowered, turns out to be empty bottles
labeled "BEER." In the next scene, Ali
Baba is crawling on the ground, one hand
in the air grasping a disproportionately
huge knife. He's getting ready to pounce
on a very scared pig and a double humped
camel. The viewer is spared, however, and
a larger camel comes out of nowhere and
knocks Ali Baba off his feet.
Take a deep breath. The Minutemen
have not set up a projector on campus.
But two student activists from Students
Educating Students about the Middle East
(SESAME) have set up a mock refugee
camp and are showing Planet of the Arabs,
a compilation of Hollywood movie clips
depicting Arabs as backwards, ultra-violent
and otherwise ridiculous. Meet my friends,
Anna Marie Murano and Alex Becker.
Both have traveled to Israel and Palestine
and they speak about the Middle East with
much conviction.
"It has not been a good summer for
Lebanon," explains Anna Marie. Twelvethousand Lebanese were killed during the
recent fighting, she says, giving the digits
provided by the United Nations. "George
Bush gave the absolute green light to Israel
on this one; he even expedited a shipment
of weapons directly to Israel during the
bombardment."
Just outside of the CRC building,
amongst all the colorful tables promoting
clubs and causes, the letters U.N. stood out
distinctly in large print on the side of a
blue tarp. This refugee tent looked at least
a little out of place, littered deliberately
with children's toys, Arabic coffee cups,
dishes and other instruments of daily life.
Signs placed in front of the tent read: "Is
it Lebanon? Is it Iraq?"
I'm inclined to respond that the symbolic mess is really just my extreme
coffee addiction. If you could still frame
my coffee habit, it would look like broken
children's toys. Having some history in
refugee camps of the Palestinian variety
myself-[ have a lot to say about coffee
and cigarettes that would put even Jim
Jarmusch in perspective.
In June, I had a private balloon party
with a British woman and her Palestinian
husband in a little place in the northern
West Bank, which directly resulted in a
lot of cursing and chain smoking. It was
a refugee camp appropriately named, "the
rock" or in Arabic, "Salata."
We bought a bag of balloons from a
generic comer store for two shekels and
wound through the tight alley roads back
to our apartment, which characterize
overcrowded ghettos. When blowing up
the balloons, they formed into distorted
shapes. When we took to tossing the balloons, they popped. There's a lot to be said
about these self-destructing Palestinian

balloons. So even the balloons are shit in
Balata, a camp resident complained, lighting a rolled cigarette.
The previous night, there had been a
loud gun battle following an Israeli incursion into Salata. My way of dealing with
it was to stay up all night smoking. My
sleepless friend, Mohammad Aloush,
called me past three in the morning to say,
"let's have a cigarette together." We did,
over the phone.
In the late morning, we got together
for the strongest coffee imaginable. The
point is that almost everybody in Balata
is a serious stress case of the worst kind.
It's a community of some 25,000 residents,
most of them descended from families that
fled their homes as a part of a wave of
forced migration by the early Zionist settlers. Their lives have since progressively
worsened. The youngest children are more
prone to mental retardation, physical deformities and even basic malnutrition than the
older kids.
In the same vein, the mainstream of the
Palestinian movement now lacks a certain
degree of intellectual vision that it used
to possess. This is one of those places
wherein the story of Israel-Palestine gets
very complicated and it's an issue that critics of Israeli policy, including myself, are
usually hesitant to talk about for fear of
being taken out of context.
One organization that reflects the
worst kind of black hole where the vision

Himself no stranger to violent death,
Magen recently lost a family friend to the
summer war in Lebanon. His name was
Mike Levin and he had moved to Israel and
enlisted in the army instead of attending
college in the States.
Alex Becker at the SESAME tent, however, says he identifies as an anti-Zionist
Jew: "I don't agree with the Jewish state
any more than I agree with a Christian state
or a Muslim state. My place in the conversation is opening up a dialogue about
peace, but not just on Israeli terms, or just
as long as Palestinians have no say in it."

Alex Becker introduced himself to
Jonathan at the JCC table. The pair got
along cordially and the conversation ended
with Magen extending something of an
informal invitation for the groups to talk
more. "This is Evergreen," says Jonathan,
"collaboration to dialogue about Israel is
what we want to be fostering."
There are no plans. But the two groups
should take a cue and agree to speak, with
black coffee and cheap cigarettes.

should be is the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
In Balata, they're mostly a bunch of very
tragic looking young men brandishing
Aaron Zanthe is a first-year transfer stuweapons and romantic slogans-almost
dent, and is enrolled in Pillars of Fire.
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revolutionaries gone awry.
Just days before this year's Legislative
Council elections in June, I happened
to witness guerillas associated with the
al-Aqsa Brigades parade down the main
street in Salata camp shooting at posters of candidate Dr. Mustafa Barghouti,
declaring the guy an enemy of Salata and
the refugees. It's fair to say that the Salata
militants haven't learned to take criticism
lightly. But they're a product of a heavy
situation that involves the longest running
foreign military occupation in modern history. When I first visited Salata camp in
2004-during the heat of the intifada-the
place was under attack more times than
there were days in the week. It was a
state of siege that strengthened retaliatory
Chapman University College's Washington campuses
feelings for the already destitute camp
dwellers.
is now accepting applications for the upcoming session.
"Oversimplification is the real crime," or
Chapman University College, one of Washington's mo5t highly
so says Jonathan Magen, a super articulate
respected universities for adult learners, is also the perfect transfer choice.
coordinator of the Jewish Cultural Center.
New sessions start every lO weeks and our exceptional programs are
Jonathan was tabling almost directly across
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Advetttures abroad-wittter/sprittg 2006
By Bob Spilsbury
This past winter/spring as an Evergreen
junior, I studied literature and film at
SACI (Studio Arts Center International),
in Florence, Italy. During this unique
experience, I kept a travel journal, for on
weekends many study-abroad students
like myself throughout Europe traveled to
other towns and countries discovering new
places. For the Cooper Point Journal, I've
excerpted portions of my travel log to share
with other Greeners, hoping to inspire some
of them to study abroad. During my own
experience, I quickly found out that travel
helps you Jearn about life and the world in
an entirely different way, one in which you
meet people of diverse backgrounds and
nationalities within an international context. It may be difficult to adapt to a new
environment at first, but I found that once
you make a few good friends who also like
to travel and explore new sites, the truly
memorable adventures begin. The entries
I have chosen to share include places that
fascinated me most: Venice, Cinque Terre,
Switzerland, Elba, and Spain. My excerpts
use my friends' first names only.

Cinque Terre
On a misty spring afternoon, Matt,
Estie and I arrived in Cinque Terre (Five
Lands). Located on the Ligurian coast
near Genoa, Cinque Terre is a National
Park made up of five small fishing towns
and was all but unknown to foreigners
until recently when it became a park.
Beautiful, lush green mountains surround
the Mediterranean Sea where these scenic
villages dot the coastline. The beaches are
mostly covered in hard, jagged rock, and
there is no sand in any of the five towns
except for the fifth, Monterosso al Mare.
Visitors purchase either a three-day pass
for six euro or a two-day pass for four euro
in order to hike from town to town. Trains
also run between towns for sightseers who
don't want to hike the extremely steep and
rocky trails connecting the towns.
Upon arrival, Matt, Estie and I bought
a two-day pass and hiked up to Manarola
from the town Riomaggiore, where we
were staying. It was about an hour-long
hike, but we kept taking side trails down
to the beach, mostly because Matt was so
obsessive about taking pictures of obscure
plants. If I had brought my camera along,
I would have taken pictures of the landscape, showing the beautiful mountains
coming out of the Mediterranean, but
Matt was more mesmerized by images of
an old rusted gate or a rare type of plant.
Manarola was the largest of Cinque Terre's
five towns, and it was built on a large cliff
out of stones. The Clrchitecture was incredible, shooting straight out from the stone
cliffs, then ascending upwards to form a
pyramid-like structure. There were many

tourists in Manarola, and surprisingly a lot
American students backpacking around for
the weekend. We even saw middle-aged
Italians looking for a spot to vacation.
Next we hiked Corniglia as the mist
began to blend with the hazy blue of the
sky and then fade to a murky gray dusk.
The temperature rapidly dropped, but we
were hiking so fast uphill that it didn't
affect us much. Our legs had that old,
rubbery, worn-out feeling, but our bodies
felt healthy from all the uphill exertion.
We stopped at a steep, rocky cove, sitting
peacefully for a while and listening to the
sounds of the sea. The waves in Cinque
Terre were gigantic, and when they hit
those cliff rocks, they sometimes shot up
over ten feet. The sounds of waves crashing
into rocks and mixing with boat horns in
the distance was like music to our ears.
Once we got to Corniglia, it was already
dark outside and we were fairly worn out
from the three-hour hike, so we decided
to take the train back to our hotel in
Riomaggiorie. The train was delayed.ab?ut
half an hour and the cold started catchmg
up with us now that we weren't hiking.
Finally, back at our hotel we discovered
our room had a kitchen, so we bought food
at a nearby supermercato and saved money
by not eating out. We made pesto and drank
boxed wine. Matt was a damn good cook
adding onions, garlic and red peppers to
the pesto mix. We talked over our plans
for taking the train back to Corniglia in
the morning and then hiking to the fourth
town, Vernazza. We turned in early, resting
tired legs that could barely support us by
the end of the night.
The next morning, we took the train to
Corniglia and spent most of the day hiking
to Vernazza. We stopped twice along the
way to check out the beaches. First, we
took a long flight of stairs that spiraled
downwards and ended at an abandoned
dock with boats sitting on it. We climbed
over all the boats to get to the cliffs. Then
we climbed up more of the steep rocks to
get to the top of the cliff. The whole time I
was following Matt, hoping I wouldn't fall

nude beach down a steep path off the
main trail. There was even a rope handrail
fastened to the ground that we could grab
onto, as this trail was by far the steepest we
had tried. As Estie and Matt wanted to go
skinny-dipping, we grabbed onto the rope
and began descending downwards. I knew
the water was going to be freezing, despite
the fact it was a sunny, 80-degree day. We
were in Northern Italy in springtime, and
the Mediterranean is usually cold until the
summer. Once we got down to the beach,
we noticed two middle-aged Italian men
lying naked on white towels. They were
both balding and one of them had a gray
mustache. Their dog was running on the
beach nearby. I stood up on some rocks that
were high above the waves and looked out
into the endless blue abyss of the sea. The
sound of the waves crashing hard on the
rocks touched my ears and I began to sing
a Jimi Hendrix song to myself:
"A life of war is here to stay, so my
love Catherina and I decided to take a walk
to the sea. Not to die but to be reborn in
the world of earth so battered and torn.
Forever. Every inch of earth is a fighting
mess. The art it stains from blue to bloody
red, as my feet feel the sand and see the sea
straight ahead." (From "1983-A Merman
Should I Turn to Be")
We began to sunburn, lying exposed for
too long. Estie and Matt decided the water
was too cold for swimming after dipping
their feet in, so we dressed and hiked back
up to the main trail. We got to Vernazza
around 5 p.m. and were extremely hungry,
having eaten nothing since breakfast.
Vernazza had a great seafood restaurant,
where we ate calamari and pasta aile
vongole (clam sauce). We had to leave
early the next morning for Florence, but
all three of us agreed that we could have
spent a whole month in Cinque Terre by
the sea and it would have been a miracle
dream come true.

If you are a
smoker, please
be responsible
By Andrea Seabert-0/sen
Welcome to your non-smoking
campus.
Smoking has been an on-going topic on
campus and on TESCtalk for years. It has
and may continue to be a topic to argue
about, but now change is in the windliterally. The standard that was set by
campus policy states that campus is nonsmoking except in designated smoking
areas. This means that you no longer can
smoke on Red Square or the paths. The
campus safety committee designated
areas on main campus, and the folks in
Residential and Dining Services set the
buildings and areas in housing. Currently,
you should not have to walk more than
about fifty feet from any building to be in
a designated area. In Housing, those areas
are at the tents in the Courtyard and the
Soup Loop, as well as near the Mod Social
Space. On main campus, most spaces are
marked with a tent, or an ashtray.
If you are a smoker, please be
responsible by smoking in the designated
areas and put your butts into the garbage. If
you are a non-smoker, please be kind when
asking smokers to use designated smoking
areas, and avoid the designated areas if
you don't like the smoke. This is a matter
of respect-let's not make it a crusade on
either side. If we atl work together, all
people's rights can be assured.
If you have questions, you can contact
Police Services at 867-6000 or Andrea
Seabert-Olsen, at 867-5113.

Andrea Seabert-0/sen is a greivance
officer here at the college.

Bob Spilsbury is a student enrolled at
the Evergreen State College, and is studying philosophy.

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and kept thinking: If I fall, I'm doomed.
Matt could tell I was a bit shaky from the
height, and we descended down at a slower
speed, to make sure we didn't slip on loose
rocks. Once more I was following Matt's
lead with Estie behind both of us, but it
wasn't working because Matt kept stopping to take pictures of the waves crashing
into the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. I
tried not to look down in fear I would lose
control of my footing. After what seemed
like an eternity, Matt put away his camera
and continued our descent, making it back
to the beach in one piece.
We continued hiking towards Vernazza,
and passed many other American students
hiking and looking red in the face while
breathing heavily. Estie saw signs for a

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Artsy apartments
lf:\ with dazzling
~ IJ decorations
When I arrived at Evergreen last
Saturday for the beginning of freshman
orientation, I was overjoyed to be in
my own apartment for the first time.
Unfortunately, I wasn't informed that
every single wall in my new and wonderful
living space was a particularly oppressive
shade of white. With the exception of a
gift-wrapped closet and a state-of-the-art
weather prediction station, there wasn't
any decoration.

Penny Arcade Expo 2006
By Peter Gudmunson
Last month, Washington experienced
a phenomenon known as the Penny
Arcade Expo (PAX). Nearly 20,000 nerds
stumbled over to the Meydenbauer Center
in Bellevue to talk games, play games, and
live games for an entire weekend. The
event was sponsored by several juggernaut
companies such as Nintendo, Microsoft
and nVidia, bringing PAX 2006 national
exposure to rival that of the Electronic
Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.
PAX offered free game rooms with
fully-loaded LAN boxes, a wireless lounge
with dozens of beanbags to chill on, free
panels such as Red vs. Blue, a table selling
$1 bottles of Bawls, and an exhibition hall
with hundreds of new games to try out. But
the event was more than a corporate circle
jerk: its community was the real treat.
When I booted my OS Lite up for the
first time to experience Pictochat in the
midst of thousands of garners, I wasn't
surprised to see a penis drawn every
couple of minutes.
It was hardly shocking, for the
convention was born from an Internet
web comic that blends cognitive thinking
with satiric immaturity. Yes, PAX had a
peculiar atmosphere, as if everyone was

in on a joke that outsiders could never
understand. I cannot tell you why one of
my biggest joys all weekend was from a
beach ball bouncing over the heads of a
chanting crowd, but it captured the cult
spirit of the event. As I watched massive
lines sprawl far outside the building itself
and wrap around the block, I began to
realize how much Penny Arcade had
grown since its debut in 1998.
Tournaments were being held for games
of all types, including on PCs, consoles,
handhelds, tabletops and Japanese rhythm
arcade machines. The winner of the annual
PAX mega-contest, the Omegathon,
received a Scion xB decked out with XBox 360 modifications. Lucky asshole.
But even with such a huge event to
oversee, creators Jerry Holkins and Mike
Krahulik often mingled with the crowds as
fellow garners rather than the omnipotent
owners of a web site that receives two
million hits a day. To those who did not
realize that they looked nothing like their
cartoon's alter egos, they were simply two
more faces in the crowd who autographed
shit people gave them for some reason.
I would like to point out that at a
convention, the geek hierarchy is nullified.
Casual garners are no better than people
who write erotic versions of Star Trek

where all the characters are Furries-like
Kirk is an ocelot or something-and they
put a Furry version of themselves as the
star of the story, because both parties are
attending the same event.
Geekiness is averaged out amongst
everybody, so your typical John Doe who
walks through the convention doors will
essentially be a pale anime fan with a
slight lisp.
We were all the same at our core, and
everybody knew it. There was a familiar
sense of camaraderie between people who
had probably killed each other in CounterStrike at some point. It didn't matter which
video game character could kick more ass,
Link or Cloud, but we argued viciously
because someone might have actually
argued back .
But there was one thing we could all
agree on. In fact, the PA guys decided to
give anti-game attorney, Jack Thompson,
a call on his personal line during a
panel, and the entire crowd roared their
disapproval into his voice mail. Now that's
a community.

Peter Gudmunson is a junior enrolled
in A Project Studio Environment (APSE).
He is also coordinator Student Video
Garners Alliance.

Write. Think. Grow.

Since painting the walls wasn't an
option and I am gifted with a particularly
fantastic batch of apartment-mates, a trip
to the Dollar Tree was soon planned. With
a "Finding Nemo" kite and a pair of blue
fairy wings (among other things), our
walls soon looked much wackier.
Then there was the "Extreme Makeover:
Dorm Edition" later in orientation week,
where various craft supplies were provided.
My apartment-mate and I showed up a bit
later and were only able to nab a picture of
Ralph Nader, some feathers, foam letters
and a tube of glitter glue, but we made
do. A trip to the Farmer's Market added
some houseplants to the common room and
flowers in the bathroom, and a local fairtrade store provided some affordable (and
colorful) decor. I'm certainly not ready for
my own decorating show and definitely
won't be writing any style guides in the
near future, but I'm doing my best with
the space I have.

Noreen Duffy is a first-year student
wait listed for Memory of Fire.

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newspaper off
right with a
side of info!

How to·get involved
There are many levels of involvement with the CPJ. The primary goal at every level is to
learn.
COME TO A MEETING
Here are all the important regular meetings as listed below in weekly
events.
Paper Critique
Give feedback about the current weeks paper

Hey kids! Welcome your friendly school newspaper, affectionately
known as the CPJ. This is not just your average school paper- any
student can contribute to the content and production. No hoity-toity
too good-for-you newspaper on this campus. Students actually have
priority over the staff when it comes to what is printed. The Evergreen
community at large decides the direction and tone of the paper,
based on their submissions. You'll find new and varying voices in
the paper week to week.
Whether you're into writing articles, drawing a comic, advertising
or taking photos, the CPJ has a place for you. Through submitting
your work, not only will you interact with your editor, making you a
stronger writer, but you also have the unique opportunity to introduce
yourself to the Evergreen community and make your views known.
You can send an article by e-mail to cpj@evergreen .edu without
even putting on pants to leave your bedroom!
The CPJ is staffed by students whose goal is to learn by producing a weekly newspaper. These aren't just folks focusing on journalism- people studying a wide range of subjects work on the CPJ to
strengthen their community and grow academically. Experience is
not necessary, just a willingness to learn and be an active part of
our fabulous school.

Student Group Meeting
Need something to write about or have a story idea to share? Just want to
find out what is going on for the CPJ that week? This meetings for you!
Thursday Forum
Interactive discussions about such issues as Journalism ethics and the first
amendment
CONTRIBUTORS
Any Evergreen student can contribute to the CPJ newspaper. Submissions by
students are always first priority. Students who wish to contribute on a regular basis, such as with a column, should consult with the editor in chief and
the managing editor.
MEMBERS
Becoming a member of the CPJ student group is as simple as attending
meetings on a regular basis and participating in activities that support the
organization, such as fundraising and passing out the newspaper.
POSITIONS OF EXTRA RESPONSIBILITY
Members who wish to become more involved at the CPJ apply for positions
of extra responsibility. Positions range from section coordinator to ad/page
designer, and from copy editor to assistant business manager. All students in
positions of extra responsibility are first and foremost members of the CPJ
student group.

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Open Positions
•

These are currently all of the open positions to be filled. The most significantly
needed positions are in bold face and underlined .

The deadline for comics is Mondays at 3 p.m.
Comics can be submitted in person at CAB 316 or by email at
cpj@evergreen.edu.
EMAIL
All emails should be sent to cpj@evergreen.edu.
Attach your comics as a JPG file. Images must be their actual size: we will
not resize them.
Please include the following information in your email:
-full name
-phone and email
-what issue your submission is for
IN PERSON
Drop off your comic in our office in CAB 316.
Every comic submitted in person must have a submission form attached,
with your name and contact information.
Forms are available in CAB 316.
When providing your contact information, please keep in mind that
fake "pen" names are not accepted. This is for accountability issues,
and to prevent comics fraud.

A+E coordinator
Briefs coordinator
Calendar coordinator
Comics coordinator

Copy editor
Letters + opinions coordinator
News coordinator
See page coordinator
Sports coordinator
Page 2 coordinator
Reporter

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Pistrjbutjon
Circulation

For info on position descriptions visit us in CAB 316 or
contact us at cpj@evergreen.edu

Don't know what to write?

Printing Standards
VISUAL CLARITY
You must type, draw or write in dark ink that is big enough to read. If
the text or the picture is too light or too small, we'll ask you to redo it
so that people can read it.
CONTENT
Comic submissions are subject to the same publication standards as
written work. If the comic is unclear or appears to be expression that
is not protected by the First Amendment, the comics coordinator will
consult with the editor-in-chief and managing editor and contact the
contributor so that the issue can be resolved.
SIZE
-Maximum size: 38 square inches
This is to preserve equity of space in the comics section.
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ARTS

& ENTERTAINMENT

The language symposium:
Something or other by way of an introduction
By Grant Miller
On March 20, 2003 the United States of
America invaded Iraq under "the pretense
that Iraq was in violation of UN Security
Council Resolution 1441 regarding
weapons of mass destruction (formerly
known as "nuclear weapons") and had
to be disarmed by force." At the time the
"war" started, 70 percent of Americans
believed there was a link between Saddam
Hussein and al
Qaeda.
Now, three
years
and
thousands of
corpses later,
we know there
were no nuclear
weapons in Iraq,
and there is no
evidence that
Hussein had or
has anything
to do with al
Qaeda. Yet the war goes on.
How can so many people die, lose
loved ones, and lose their homes based
on something that isn't true? How can
politicians gain support for a war that is
unnecessary and lies on a foundation of
falsehoods?
The answer lies in language.
You see, it started somewhere between
fifty to one hundred thousand years ago,
duri ng the period scientists and historians
call "The Great Leap Forward." It was
a great leap. Perhaps not a great leap in
terms of forward being "better," but it was
a great one nonetheless.
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growled, or bellowed to ward off
predators, mark territories, or signal to

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the rest of her tribe, the voice box and
throat replied by anatomically evolving
into a tool with which the apes could
begin to make very distinct sounds,
which of course came to be words. Hence
language evolved like the lips and tongue
of its P.redecessor and became a tool- like
the bone used to slaughter the Iion, or the
stone and wood used to manipulate the
first spark.
Language then evolved into writing.
First carved
into stone,
then clay,
then written
on papyrus,

is through language
that we communicate,
attempt to share our
experiences with each
other, to understand and
empathize and. grow with
each other.

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recorded and
preserved
on
paper.
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serves the
future
by
recording
the present.
Language creates meaning, language
invents gods, and language secures
power and creates social structures for
subsequent generations of humans to
reference, elaborate on, use and abuse.
Welcome to the Language Symposium.
This is a series of articles brought to you
by the Writing Center that deals both
specifically (and not so specifically)
with language.
Noam Chomsky suggests that
language is what human beings do, that
language is an innate biological function
wired into our brains. Martin Heidegger
suggested that "language is the house
of being," and many thinkers have said
that the limits of what we can know
rest on the limitations. of our language

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to describe these things. It is through
language that we communicate, attempt
to share our experiences with each other,
to understand and empathize and grow
with each other. It is through language
that ideologies and preconceptions come
into being. It is through language that
everything from love to power to violence
to mythology to meaning is mediated, set
in motion, and claimed as true or false,
fact or fiction .
But language is like knowledge itself,
always shifting, changing and evolving
to meet the needs of its speakers. In this
series of articles, we will be dealing with
this complex system of symbols and all of
its beauty, absurdity and power. But when
we speak oflanguage, we don'tjust mean
spoken or written language. We will be
analyzing everything from punctuation to
words and sentences, STOP signs, bumper
stickers, all these rules and meanings and
who creates them and where they come
from, and other philosophical issues
that deal with everything from human
knowledge to politics to everyday
interaction between humans within the
medium of language.
Because every human being living
in the context of other human beings
is an authority on language, we at The
Language Symposium would like to open
up the floor to the larger community.
Send your questions, answers, thoughts,

any manner of linguistic conundrum, or
even your own articles to languagesymp
osium @ gmail.com, or just come by the
Writing Center.
Our hope is that this series of articles
will keep you stimulated, entertained, and
importantly- asking questions.
Next week: An article about the nature
of something's only feature being its
featurelessness .

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By Casey Jaywork
A week I've been at this party we
sniggeringly call "School," and already
I've danced in the hypocrisy of suburbs
meeting reggae, landed a job for long
enough to hate it, and groped for a heart
hard enough to find titties. I've seen more
drugs than Johnny Depp, smoked more
than the "Dude, you've got a Dell" guy,
and wasted more time like a homicidal
stopwatch. I've recently taken to writing
postcards to my family back east, where
the roads are clumped and pollution less
serious (humor being our only defense),
and while I'm not sure if this is because
I'm getting smarter or dumber, they're all
the same:

Dear Blank,
You should really change your name.
School is good, like the Berkeley oflegend
with cell phones. I'm getting stoned like
an Old-Testament fornicator, but don't
worry about my grades- I haven't got any.
Frisbee and Birkenstocks have replaced
football and Nikes, but my new beard
can't hide the fact that I accomplished all
of jack and shit to be the change in the
world this week.
Love,
KC.
I don't know how I'll leave this place,
but I'll never forget opening night. We
circled the campfire like film edges,
transforming our mouths into SO-proof
yelps. Hair grew on faces and legs like
acidified werewolves, cart-wheeling
curses muddying the ground.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
We were doctors and lawyers and
dreams unfulfilled. There were nymphs
in the woods trading stories with Peter
Fonda, watching our carousing arousal
of sex, drugs, and ... that other one. I was
staring at the pinpricks of God's messy
needlework above me, spine snapped
parallel to dusty, trampled glass and
ground. My Iips tasted cobwebs, and my
feet tapped Morse code.
They call us Green, like money and
marijuana, the color of Bob Marley's
scowl as he licks the blues through iPod.
We carried bungee cords for our spirits,
glue for our feet; marshmallows above the
blaze telling us we were roasted, toasted,
high like jet-pilot penguins. From the redfaced cacophony of embers and beer cans
behind me, I glimpsed three million years
of evolution, forty years of revolution, and
four years of inspiration and endurancebetween forest and concrete boxes- to
become ourselves. These aren't the
greatest days of our lives; this is just
character development.
This is accumulation of the stories,
STDs, and tattoos that will wallpaper our
souls. For my part, I plan on equal parts of
neurotic dysfunction and reckless abandon,
balancing textbooks on my bong so I can
further clutter my dorm in an epileptic
symphony of existential development.
My junior year, I will lead a mindbogglingly ironic revolt which will exile
any person found in possession of Che
Gueverra paraphernalia who cannot
name the mountains he hid in during Ia
Revoluci6n, then crown myself dictator
all that begins with the letter "X." I'll
graduate with honors, just to show up my
dad, then complete two terms with the
Peace Corps promoting capitalism in the
Antarctic.

When I return home, after changing
my name to Nicholas and masturbating to
Jesus every Sunday for a month, I will sell
Coca-Cola and small Columbian children
out of a burlap sack between Thanksgiving
and New Year's. At forty, I will retire as
a history teacher to a house with a white
picket fence, a rainbow flag, and a couple
of Asian kids. Though my Evergreen

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my unbridled enthusiasm for teaching
and poetry will win me the job.
As you can see, I've given this a lot of
thought. I suggest you do the same.

Casey Jaywork is a freshman enrolled in
American Experiences.

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As if we could define
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To leave their own behind
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Haiti & Canadian horrors
By Jacob Stanley
Haiti
has
been
in political
turmoil for
the
past
decade
or
more
because of its
integration of
democracy and the resulting coup attempts
by foreign and domestic parties trying to
recapture the government. During the
1990s the country of Haiti went back and
forth between democratic elections, which
started off rather fair and ended up quite
fraudulent. A man by the name of JeanBertrand Aristide won the elections in
1991 and was overthrown the same year
in a violent coup because of his populist
policies by a general of the Haitian
army. There was a military regime for
a few years, then mainly just haphazard
government legislators that did nothing
but deadlock and secure power for the
incoming presidents of the late 90s. In
2000 Aristide was elected president again,
this time with fraud riddling his election to
pieces instead of his fair election a decade
prior. Nations of the world disagreed with
his re-election and so did the people of
Haiti, so a rebellion rose up when he
wouldn't give up power.
The real interest begins when he did
one of two things: Aristide either resigned
and was exiled, which has happened before
with his approval, or the U.S. government
kidnapped him to remove him from power,
which Aristide has told news agencies
actually happened. Of course the United
States denies any hand in the mess. Oddly
enough there is precedent to suggest a U.S.
coup via NGOs funding rebel forces from
countries such as France, Canada and the
United States, as well as the International
Republican Institute. The Rebel Leader
Guy Philippe was even trained by the
CIA and has been accused of leading
deadly attacks on non-military targets
since 1998.
Canada has taken a greater role in the
Haitian conflict and has been attempting
to secure the country since September of
2000. It created a report for the United
Nations presented as "The Responsibility
to Protect" and later advocated world
leaders to endorse their new doctrine in
2005. It asserts that where gross human
rights abuses are occurring, it is the
duty of the international community to
intervene, over and above considerations

LETTERS & OPINIONS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

of state sovereignty. In 2003, the Canadian
government organized the "Ottawa
Initiative" where U.S. and Canadian
officials met to decide that Aristide should
be removed from office because of their
doctrine of Responsibility.
The real trouble begins when Canadian
intervention, via command of U.N. forces
in Haiti, resulted in 8,000 people kilted
in 22 months while toppling Aristide's
government. Nearly half of those killed
were murdered by the government or antiAristide forces and the rest were killed by
demobilized soldiers, National Police and
gangs of the area. Canada had a 1,600member U.N. contingent to command and
oversee the Haitian National Police. While
under the Canadian force's watchful eye
the pol ice attacked peaceful demonstrators
and carried out massacres on an epic scale.
There were an estimated 35,000 acts of rape
and more than half of them were under the
age of eighteen. In one case a woman was
denied service at the local hospital when
she told doctors that she had been raped by
a police officer. She eventually found care
in another hospital, but the damage had
been done without anyone being charged
responsibility.
Canada needs to be held accountable
for what it believes is proper governance
of a new regime, seeing as it gave over
$200 million to the regime used to oppose
Aristide's re-election. The former president
may not have been a fair leader, but the
regime change that Canada has attempted
to enact is not in the best interests of Haiti,
nor of their doctrine of Responsibility to
Protect the citizens of Haiti. When the
Canadian government is as corrupt as
the coup-frenzied American government,
there are serious problems in the military
leadership of the West. The U.N. rnust
reprimand Canada for this failure to follow
through with their doctrines and stop this
coup-centric imperialism that has been so
pronounced in Central America for the past
thirty years. In April of 2006, Secretary
of State Rice praised Canada for playing a
"very important role in Haiti." Apparently
she hadn't read up on the facts or paid any
attention to the failure within Haiti by the
Canadian government, but then again, who
can blame a woman so shortsighted that the
Iraq war is seen as a symbol of democracy
and peace in the Middle East by her and
the U.S. legislators?

Jacob Stanley is a junior enrolled in
Postmodernity and Postmodernism.

National
progress comes
only through
dialogue

Teen

By Sky Cohen
By Emily Uhlig
I t ' s
time that
the silent
majority
speaks out
and
lets
our voices
be heard.
Fact:
the
information
that was given to the U.S. Congress and
to the American people that justified
our invasion of Iraq was completely
wrong. Iraq had no WMDs, Iraq had
no relationship with AI Qaeda, and Iraq
posed no imminent threat to the United
States. The argument that we need to
"stay the course," because if we left
Iraq would fall into total anarchy and
chaos, is Orwellian double speak. This
line of reasoning that we must fix the
mess that we created (Pottery Barn logic
-you break it, you own it) is insane. The
world would have been better off if we
had never invaded Iraq and 2,600-plus
Americans, 50,000-plus Iraqis and a
couple of hundreds of bi II ions of dol Iars
would not have been wasted.
What we are doing (very successfully)
is giving every disenfranchised Muslim
a reason to commit "jihad" against the
West. Instead of engaging governments
in dialogue, our current administration
believes that unilateral invasions and
verbal threats is a better policy. Since
we have no diplomatic relations with
North Korea, we have no dialogue with
them. The same is true with Iran, Cuba,
Hamas and Hezbollah. If we can't have
a discourse with our enemies, what
course of action do you think that leaves
us with?
If we don't speak out now, we become
part of this administration's insane
foreign pol icy and god only knows
what's waiting for us around the next
corner.

Sky Cohen is a freshman enrolled in
Culture in the Public Sphere.

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Boobies!
By Erin Rashbaum
Well now
that I have
your attention,
Hi I'm Erin.
I'm currently
coordinating
the Letters
and Opinions
section which,
as you can see,
is pretty damn empty. Sky's the limit as far
as what you can write here. Seriously. I

used to write about blow jobs and butt sex
and they actually printed it. You can write
about your thoughts on news at the campus,
local, national or international level. You
could tell your fellow Greeners how much
you wish you'd actually voted in regard
to the CAB redesign (Psst! They're taking
your moo-lah to fix up a building which
won't be completed 'til you're long gone!).
Why not pen a piece which would introduce yourself and your thoughts to the
Evergreen community? Learn something
way cool in seminar? Let us know! This
paper is here for you, the students. It's
pretty neat to see your name or the names
of your friends in print. The submission
deadline is Monday, but if you can submit

A tribute
to the WB
from a WB

by Friday, I'll read through your piece and
make suggestions on how it may be tightened and spiced up. You can bring a hard
copy of your piece to the CP J office located
on the third floor of the CAB in room 316
or just e-mail it to cpj@evergreen.edu. I
often bop around campus, so feel free to
introduce yourself and chat with me about
your ideas. That's me in the above photo. I
also have bright red hair, soya can't miss
me. Hooray boobies!

Erin Rashbaum is a third-year student
and is the interim letters and opinions
coordinator

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September
17, 2006,
the
WB
television
network
closed
forever and
for the first
time I felt
twenty. I didn't feel sixteen anymore,
not eighteen, not even twenteen, just
twenty-childhood is over and there's
no going back.
The WB was where I grew up.
Other networks were too adult or too
childish. The WB was the awkward
adolescent-not mainstream enough
to be mainstream and not enough of
an outsider to be an outsider. The WB
was a true teenager and so became the
voice of an entire generation-we were
WB teens.
Everything about being a teenager
was on the WB. Always overlooked
and underrated, the WB shrugged off
major network adulthood and forever
established its place as The Teenage
Network. Its signature hits Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek,
Felicity, Charmed, Angel, 7'h Heaven,
and later hits Gilmore Girls, Everwood
and Smallville were the shows we grew
up to. They were our teenage culture.
No other network understood what it
was like to be a teenager- they didn't
remember. If we ever had problems we
turned to the WB. We knew all we had
to do was turn on the TV and someone
somewhere would be growing through
the same thing. If that fictional character
could make it through it, we knew we
could too. They weren't just characters,
they were friends and role models. We
knew their names and secrets. We were
never alone on the WB because we were
all growing up together.
It's not the same now. The ·wB along
with UPN has merged into a new network
called the CW. They have carried over
the same shows and we still watch them.
But it's not our community anymore. It's
just a television show, it's just two or
three television shows on a network that
have no connections to each other or to
our generation. The CW doesn't have a
history, it doesn't remember. This isn't
what growing up was like. It has big
and flashy gimmicks and lots of hip
catch phrases. It's the voice of a new
generation-not ours. Our childhood
is over, it's gone and it's never coming
back. It's time for someone else to grow
up. Thanks WB for Jetting us.

Emily Uhlig is a junior enrolled in
American Literature.

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13

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Becoming crew . •
By Maren Olsen
This is what you need to know: practice
starts at 6 a.m. The boats are so thin we
call them shells, and we carry them on our
shoulders to the water. You have one oar; it's
twelve feet long and on your hands it's going
to leave some marks. You get in facing the
stern-the back of the boat-and you row this
way, facing backwards. The coach drives
after you in a motor boat referred to as the
"launch," and from this launch he yells things
that would hurt your ears if you hadn't just
become a sailor. The seat you're sitting
on slides back and forth, but your feet are
anchored because there are shoes fastened to
the boat for you to putthem in. You come up
the "slide," put your oar into the water, you
pull on it and then repeat. And when you get
tired, the coxswain seated in the front will
scream to you that she doesn't care, and to
make sure that you can hear this, her voice
is piped into speakers spaced evenly along
the boat. The races are two kilometers long,
and this will often translate into a mile-long
sprint. It's going to hurt, and you are going
to like it.
The desire to join crew begins much
earlier than the act. The thought of doing
something so insane has to fester for a while
before it seems attractive. Yet when I talk
to the women of our team and watch them
row, I realize that crew held something that
they had been searching for-a change their
lives had always needed, a form of catharsis
maybe, or a rite of passage. Crew had been
waiting for them, like a boat tied up at shore
for the necessary journey out to sea.
"When I started crew, I had really low
self-esteem," said Kathryn Garcia, rower in
'04-'05, '05-'06. "I was friendly but kind
of meek at the same time. I had seen crew
practicing out on the water and I heard it was
hard core. I've been through a lot in my life.
I thought I could take it."
"When I first started I had no idea why
I was doing it," said Irene Bixler, '04-'05,
'05-'06. "I didn't do clubs, I didn't do sports."
Kayla Humiston, '03-'04, met her in class
and, Irene remembers, "She said, 'Hey, you're
nice and tall."' A couple of days later, Irene
showed up at practice, but because of the
weather the boats couldn't go out. "They
said, 'We're going to the gym,' and I said, 'I
don't know where the gym is.' I showed up
in my jeans and sweater, and I worked out
in my jeans and sweater. It was terrifying
at first."
"I never thought I would do a college
sport," said Alaina Helium-Alexander, '05-

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'06. She saw crew posters hanging on the
walls at Evergreen and wanted to join, but
was afraid of being the worst one there. "I
wanted to be able to pull my own weight,"
she said, "which I'd never been able to do
in a sport."
Alaina took the summer to decide. She
had always played sports growing up, but
dropped out of them in high school to give
herself more time for drugs and booze-and arrived at college overweight. After
weight-lifting took off sixty pounds, she
began asking people what they knew about
women's crew.
"They told me, 'You know it's a big
commitment, don't you? There's no way
you can keep everything up."' Alaina knew
she would have a full load ofclasses and a job
to match. "Half of my brain was telling me
they were right," she said, "and the other half
was telling me to just go fucking do it."

school with elite, scholarship athletes, and it
seemed a waste to arrive at Evergreen, with
teams closer to being within my grasp, and
not join anything at all.
According to Weber, Evergreen has
a small athletic program for a college its
size, and other than track and field, no
intercollegiate spring sports at all. Cross
country seemed the most accessible, but my
knees protested against that. I couldn't see
myselftrying out for basketball, volleyball or
soccer when I didn't know how to play, but
everyone learns how to row in their first year
of crew. You even get to compete in a novice
category. (After their novice year, rowers are
designated as varsity).
"It's one of the few sports that you can join
at the collegiate level without having done it
in high school," says Dale Thompson, '04'05. ''As long as you're willing to work hard
and accept that you might not earn a seat in
the boat then you can be part of the team."
Women's Crew is one ofthree club sports
rounding out the Athletic Department. The
other two are baseball and kung fu, but crew
has always been the most adept at catching
female athletes that would otherwise fall
through the cracks. To me it seemed like a
gift. I don't think I even realized that I was
signing up to row a boat.
"Evergreen's crew competes with and
wins against nationally ranked NCAA
Division one, two, and three schools," says
Starks. "While I maintain a clear vision
for the future of our team ... [o]ur biggest
problem is the current financial obligation
on the rowers to pay for the operations and
maintenance of the team."
The financial strain on the team would be
alleviated were Evergreen to raise crew from
a club sport to intercollegiate status. Official
TESC teams receive funding for uniforms

Women's crew began as a club sport
at Evergreen in 2000-2001, but as with
ourselves, the desire for it began much earlier
in the mind of our coach, Aaron Starks.
"The current team started when I finished
grad school at Washington State University
(where I coached rowing) and moved to
town looking for work," he said. "One of the
reasons for moving to Olympia was the hope
of starting a program at Evergreen." Former
Evergreen VP Les Elridge met Starks though
the Olympia rowing community and set up
a meeting with Evergreen Athletic Director
David Weber. "In short, we came and asked
permission to start the program. The school
was not looking for a program, but it now
had one."
Four years later I joined this team. We
were still a little ragtag then; we kept our
boats, a couple of race worthy "eights" (a boat
holding eight rowers) and non race worthy
"fours," in the Swantown Marina parking
lot, surrounded by a chain link fence. I
don't know why I joined. My feelings were
similar to those of Rita Manley, a third year
rower ('03-'06) who said that before coming
to college, she had begun learning how to
exercise and be fit, and was afraid that when
she got to college she would lose that. I had
done sports before, playing tennis for my high
school, but was a college student now, doing
my stint in all-nighters, cigarettes, Aramark
food and booze. One night, I realized that
drunken ping pong at The Eastside was no
longer going to satisfy my athletic urges.
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coaching salaries and access to a physical
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left paying or raising money for these items
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intercollegiate funding and club funding is
a large one, says Weber. Though this may be
due to the fact that most club sports come and
go, he admits that crew has been an exception
to this rule, staying firmly in place and doing
extremely well. Despite the fact that Weber
sees crew as an attractive way for Evergreen
to "get into spring sports," he declares it a
funding issue, and one that would require a
decision on a higher level. Unfortunately,
he says, the poor economy and lack of funds
have coincided with TESC crew "exploding
as a club sport."
While the college drags its feet, crew
has gone ahead and institutionalized
itself. We train and compete like any
other TESC intercollegiate team. We have
a strong returning varsity, a boathouse
and a competitive race schedule. "After
the first time we beat nationally ranked,
funded teams with scholarship athletes like
Washington State University and Gonzaga,"
notes Starks, the other colleges of our region
began taking us seriously-perhaps more
seriously than our own. "That we have been
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2006
Thursday 28
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
CISPES Movie Night: "Berkeley in
the Sixties."
Lecture Hall 5.
Discussion to follow film screening.
7:30p.m.
Neoliberal Destructions, featuring P.
Sainath: "The Body Count in India,"
and Alexander Cockburn: "The
Counter Attack."
Seminar II Dll05.
Free Admission.

Sunday

Friday 29
5:00p.m. to 7:00p.m
The Art of Louise Williams
Opening Reception.
Evergreen Galleries, Gallery 4.
Fourth floorofthe Library Building.
Phone: (360)867-5125.
Information: www.evergreen.edu/
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Monday

6:00p.m.
The Alliance for Democracy
presents Steven Hill's "Fixing
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America's Winner-Take-All
Elections."
Traditions Fair Trade Cafe
and World Folk Art, 300 Fifth
Avenue, Olympia.
Discussion to follow film
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Next Week:

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3:00p.m.
CAB 320
Carnival, Evergreen's
political arts collective
will have a "non-meeting."
Following this is a "nonmeeting" of Canrival 's
Radical Marching Band.

Saturday30

7:30p.m.
An Evening ofPeace With Entertainment
By Rhythm and Spice. A benefit for post
war relief and documentary efforts in
Lebanon.
United Churches of Olympia, 11th and
Capitol.
$10-25 sliding scale donation.

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7:30p.m.
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Hosted by Radical Women at New
Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S.,
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Door donation $2.00. Southern-style

7:30p.m.
Bo Diddley & Friends with Alvin
Ymmgblood Hart & Ruthie Foster.
The Washington Center for the
Performing Arts, 512 Washington St.
SW, Olympia. (360) 753-8586.
Tickets $36-40 Adults, $34-38 Students
and Seniors, $18-20 Youth.

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Wednesday

5:45p.m.
Library Loop
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Discussion 7:00 p.m. at the
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Synergy Open House in the Solarium,
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6:00p.m. to 7:00p.m.
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4:00p.m.
SEM II A2105
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7:00p.m. on Thursday
Lecture Hall I
Movie - "Loose Change 2nd Edition" screening

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