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OURNAL

Abrasive graffiti on campus

the surrounding community
of Olympia, WA.

Police blotter:
A marijuana special.
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Jake's Mannequin:
An intimate rock star.
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Latent language:
Our bonds with advertisements.
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Bikes, cars and buses:
The calamities of transportation in Olympia.
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Letters & Opinions:
Time travel may be
possible.
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TESC sports:
Basketball coverage.
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Illustrations:
Giants, moons and
three-handed
musicians.

Back page

By Ian Humphrey
On December 8 last quarter, over a dozen acts of
graffiti were found in housing, including two swastikas, one painted on the back ofC dorm and one on
a vending machine outside of A dorm. Both are in
freshman only housing.
At 4:42 p.m. the same day, Art Costantino, Vice
President of Student Affairs, sent out an email to The
Evergreen State College community in accordance
with the Bias Related Incident Response Protocol. He
informed the community about the graffiti, assuring
them that the swastikas were gone and that "work
continued to remove the remaining graffiti."
He went on to offer the Housing staff as well
as the Student and Academic Support Services
staff as a place to talk for students who felt
"impacted by these events ." Crime Stoppers,
a community organization authorized tq give
financial restitution for information leading to
an arrest, put out a $400 reward regarding the
graffiti. A tip was given, eventually leading to the
arrest of two Evergreen students. The tip was anonymous however, and whoever gave it received no
reward.
The graffiti continued, and on January 14,
more graffiti was found in F parking lot, near
the child care center, near the CRP (Covered
Recreation Pavilion) and on C building.
Last Tuesday, on January 23, Costantino released
another statement. He said that "we have identified two students who we believe are responsible
for much of the graffiti, including the swastikas.
We are holding these individuals responsible for
their behavior and have already referred them to
our campus grievance officers for adjudication of
their cases." He also thanked Ed Sorger, Director of
Police Services, and officers Justin Cripe and Tammy
Stretch for their contributions to the investigation.
About the investigation process, Officer Cripe said
that the tip was where he started his investigation.
He pieced the case together from there, leading him
to one person.
The second turned themselves in not long afterwards, though according to Officer Cripe," It was me
coming to them or them coming to me." According
to Officer Cripe, these were first time offenders,
but officer Cripe was skeptical. "There are no prior
incidents that we know about. I can't charge on
assumptions. I can follow assumptions on a case,
but I can't charge for them." As far as being charged

goes, Cripe said, "We have years to file. That's not
to say that won't happen eventually." However, the
suspects have not been charged with any crimes.
Officer Cripe was clear that, "The Evergreen State
College is not the place to be doing graffiti anymore
because we are on top of it. We have zero tolerance
from this point."
Ed ~orger added that Sam Costell, an
Olympiadetective is looking into graffiti trends both on
campus and in Olympia to investigate into gang activity.
In an interview on January 29, Costantino said
that there were three suspects associated with the
swastikas, two of who had been caught by Officer
Cripe.
Costantino is confident they know which was
responsible for the swastikas but the grievance process is not over yet. One of the original suspects, RJ,
was brought in the night the swastikas appeared for
trying to paint them over. Later that night RJ was
heard to say, "I couldn't just let them sit there!"
When asked about how this year's graffiti compared to past years, Constantino could remember
last school year having to deal with one set of
"depicti.ons of stereotypes of a category of people,"
but that was it. This year, however, we've had
two serious incidents already, including the swastikas and the paintings on SEM II at the end of last
September, not to mention "thirty or forty other
minor pieces."
People seeking more information about these
pieces can ask at Police Services. Costantino mentioned that since the Bias Related Incident Response
Team has gotten involved, he's received three communications from the Washington State Human
Rights Commission praising the protocols they've
put to use.
"That's not so say it couldn't be better,"
Costantino said, adding that a public forum was
recently discussed by the Team in case something
of this magnitude were to ever come up again.
He was also pleased to report that the student population had responded to these incidents by getting active in the Diversity DTF
as well as the Bias Incident Response Team.
As to the accused, he would say very little beyond
that "having done harm to the community, it's now
your responsibility to understand what you've done
and why you may have done it."

Jan Humphrey is a freshman enrolled in Sign,
Symbol and Symptom.

Geoduck Union change liaison in midst of controversy
By Tori Needer
Representative Victor Sanders was appointed
as the official liaison to the Washington
State Lobby in the wake of accusations
against representative Asenka Miller. The
Union alleged that Miller was not sufficiently facilitating communication between
the Union and WSL. Representative David
Faber cited the pending state deadline to
propose new legislation as the reason why
the Union was obligated to change WSL
representation immediately. "The legislative
cut off is less than two weeks away" said Faber,
"which means the last chance Evergreen is
going to have to affect legislation this session is
going to be in the next week and a half."
During the February 14 public meeting the
Union discussed how Miller's actions have
impacted their ability to utilize their membership in the WSL to its fullest extent. "Their

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has been a lot of contact going on between the
Geoduck Union [liaison] and the WSL, and I
don't feel like I've been given information or
input," said representative Sam Green.
The Union cited several instances when
the lines of communication had been broken
between the GDU and the WSL. The Union
was not informed by Miller about the date of a
WSL board meeting at which TESC was entitled to voting rights. Millei:.'s handling of the
public information forum about the WSL was
also questioned because ofthe low student tum
out. Representative Kylen Clayton cited that
Miller had given a campus tour to a groups
of WSL representatives without the Unions
knowledge or consent. Millers actions as liaison
have come under observation before. Email
correspondence between the WSL and Miller
has yet to be submitted to public record despite
the fact that bylaw amendments have been
enacted that required GDU liaison communi-

cation transparency.
The motion proposed by Sanders appointed
himself as the official WSL liaison and temporary suspends the WSL committee in the hopes
that future WSL business would be discussed
during public GDU meetings. Technically the
motion did not remove Miller from any positions because she never held an official appointment. The motion passed with two stand asides
votes, one was by Miller and the other was
Representative Steven Engle.
Miller submitted herresignation as an Union
representative after her actions where called in
to question. Representatives urged her to reconsider. "[You can still offer] a lot to the Union,
and so much to the students" said Engle. Her
resignation was not accepted by the Union and
is under review as ofthe end of the meeting.

Tori Needer is a junior enrolled in Health
and Human DevelotJment.

Issue

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Volume 35
Feb. 15,2007

Aramark supports
Evergreen ip. boycott on
Del Monte produce
By Emily Johnson
"Recently Evergreen's union LocalS ILWU
asked Aramark to support us in a boycott of Del
Monte produce. Aramark has been completely
supportive," says Jens Eventyr, an Evergreen
Greenery employee. But why would Evergreen
want to boycott Del Monte produce?
On November 17, 2006, seven hundred
employees were cut off from their primary
source of income in Hawaii. On that day Del
Monte shut down all oftheir plantations on the
Islands. Del Monte had grown pineapple in
Hawaii for over 100 years, and for many of its
employees, pineapple work was the only field
in which they had experience. Del Monte left
Hawaii to take their operations to countries with
subordinate labor standards and where the cost
to pay workers is much lower. Costa Rica is one
of those countries. With them, Del Monte took
Hawaiian seeds for the popular MD-2 variety,
low-acid pineapple.
On February 1, 2006 Del Monte told its
worker that the company was going to shut
down in two years, 2008. The company offered
no extra assistance to its workers in the transition, such as severance pay. The catch was that
the workers had two years to make the transition. The huge problem for the Hawaiian
workers is that Del Monte told them the plants
wouldn't be closing down until 2008, then on
November 17, 2006 the company abruptly and
with out explanation, shut down, leaving all of
its workers jobless and bewildered.
Seven hundred workers on a small island
were, or are still, unemployed all at once. Del
Monte shares little resemblance to former companies in Hawaii that have shut down and given
their employees much deserved frnancial aid. It
is unlikely that Del Monte will give its workers
compensation for the sudden loss of their primary incomes.
Aramark contracts with Charlie's Produce
and Charlie's Produce delivers produce to
Evergreen. Evergreen andAramark have gotten
Charlie's Produce to agree to stop delivering
Del Monte produce to Evergreen.
Jen Eventyr articulates the importance of
Evergreens boycott, "We had a meeting to touch
base with management and we asked them to
support our boycott on Del Monte's produce.
One ofthe truck drivers from Charlie's Produce
was hostile about the request ofboycott, saying
"That's just the way things are! That's how life
works, why should I stop delivering Del Monte
produce?" Craig Ward, the director of food
services at Evergreen, stepped in and sought
out someone to talk to who had the authority
to stop the delivering of Del Monte produce
to Evergreen. Craig Ward has been great in
facilitating the boycott. Evergreen's union,
Local 5 got Aramark to agree to support our
boycott. Boycotting Del Monte makes a statement and strengthens Evergreen's union, Local
5 ILWU. It's success for our union because it
encoura~es good corporate citizenship." Union
workers at Evergreen were concerned about
the treatment of their fellow union members in
Hawaii and responded on a local level.
To find more information on this topic you
can go to the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union website,http://www.ilwu.
org/dispatcher/2006/11/iebpolicies.cfin, which
has the "Statement Of Policy To boycott Fresh
Del Monte Produce" posted.

Emily Johnson is a freshmen enrolled
in Writing From Life and Afro-Brazillian
Dance.

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Cerise Palmanteer

"Waiting for the hot water.
When I have to take a
shower, I have to turn on
the water and let it run
for five, sometimes ten
minutes."

Assistant business manager
Carrie Ramsdell

"The lack of consideration in terms of noise
pollution."

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Christina Weeks
"The fact that everything
Closes early, I mean, we're
college kids, we don't go to
sleep at I I :30."

"Perez. No fucking joke,
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"The on campus
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Copy editor
Nicholas Klacsanzky
Copy editor
Lauren Allen
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Residential and Dining Services is currently taking
applications for Resident Assistants this fall. You have
to admit, the RAs have it pretty good: free rent, great
leadership experience, instant social network and a paycheck to boot. Look up this position online at www.
evergreen.edu/housing/employement. Application
deadline is 4:30p.m. on Friday. Feb. 16.

Women's Resource Center presents "Vagina
Monologues"
The Women's Resource Center will present Eve
Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" on Feb. 15, 16, 17 at 7
p.m. with a special matinee at 2 p.m. on Feb. 18. All
performances will be held in COM recital hall. This
program is also sponsored by The V-Day campaign,
which raises awareness and funds in local communities, and empowers women to create a world free
of violence. Tickets are $7 or the equivalent in tampons, pads, soaps and shampoos for all different types
of hair. Tickets will ONLY be sold at the door. No one
will be turned away for lack of funds. This year, proceeds will go to the YWCA, Safeplace and The Birth
Attendants. The box office will open an hour before
the show. Please give yourself ample time to get your
tickets. Questions? Please call the Women's Resource
Center at (360) 867-6162 or (360) 866-0681. You can
also email tescvagmons@gmail.com.

All students will be required to activate their
@evergreen email address
Beginning in March, Evergreen will use your college
email address (you@evergreen.edu) to communicate
with you. Important messages, which previously have
come by paper mail, will now come via email. These
include tuition billing notices, financial aid notices, registration deadline reminders and emergency updates.
Many of you have already activated, and now use, your
@evergreen email address. If you have not activated,
please do so at my.evergreen.edu. You may choose to
auto-forward mail from this @evergreen address to an
email address of your choice. If you choose to forward,
note that you are responsible for the ongoing viability
of the forwarding address.

A challenge to "green" Evergreen
In the winter of 2005 there was an election at
Evergreen, organized by a number of student organizations, regarding The Evergreen Clean Energy Initiative.
Ring a bell? Students decided to take climate change
issues into their own jurisdiction and voted to pay a
dollar extra, per credit, every quarter in order to get
Evergreen to purchase green tags from their energy
providers, Puget Sound Energy and Tacoma Public
Utilities. Did you know you paid a clean energy fee?
You did, indeed, and because of your contribution 100%
of Evergreen's electrical energy is green. The results of
our energy initiative even grabbed the attention of the
EPA. Last year they announced that Evergreen is the
8th largest purchaser of green energy in the country.
This truly does show Evergreen's leadership in making
improvements to the environment, and in working
towards a more sustainable campus.
Why stop there though? Evergreen is unique because
of every student that makes up this campus. We have
the ability and opportunity to make Evergreen a lot
"greener" than it already is. There are a lot of students
here who have knowledge about renewable energy, and
even more who have ideas and skills needed to make
Evergreen's energy consumption even cleaner.
Why should you take the time and spend the effort
to be a part of this? Let's try the easiest reason : you
don't need to worry about the costs. Included in the
Clean Energy Initiative was the creation of a Clean
Energy Committee, with a make-up of four students,
the director of student activities, the director of facilities and a faculty member. Now, when all of the clean
energy fees are collected from students, 90% of this
total amount goes towards purchasing green tags, which
has consistently been found to be enough to offset the
total amount of energy used on campus. The remaining
I 0% of the total amount of money collected goes into
a fund, which is under the jurisdiction of the Clean

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Energy Committee. This fund is for on-campus renewable energy projects. All one is to do is write up a proposal for a renewable energy project and submit that
proposal to the committee. The committee allocates out
money to these projects, just as the S&A Board does to
student organizations.
There is nothing to stop you now! Pick up a proposal form in the Student Activities Office, CAB 320.
There is money waiting for you to turn this campus into
a clean, energy efficient environment. It's never too late
to start making a difference.
For information on the clean energy initiative
and green tags , check out http://evergreen.edu/
group. greenfut/earnenergy.htm and evergreen.
edu/commitee/sustainablity.

The Dances of Universal Peace
On Feb. 22, 7 p.m. in the Rotunda, Evergreen's
interfaith ministry Common Bread will sponsor
The Dances of Universal Peace. It's a chance to
communally experience group energy in a safe,
friendly environment. The dances use simple
chants and music that evoke the spiritual essence of
each participant. They come from spiritual traditions
the world over, focusing on the collective experiences
ofhumanity. Samuel Lewis, a Sufi Murshid and Rinzai
Zen Master, began The Dances of Universal Peace in
1970s Berkeley. There he saw the hippie culture in
full swing and was inspired to become their guide.
Since then it has grown into a global movement, with
people teaching the dances in schools, prisons, hospitals and retirement homes . The dances are designed to
be simple enough to learn in a minute while working
to heal the global community. Jo Jibrila and Thornton
Curtz will lead the dances. They have been coming here
every quarter for a few years now and lead dances in
Olympia twice a month.

TESC-Tacoma hosts free presentation and dialogue with two eminent scholars
"The Long Road Towards Decolonization:
Indigenous Peoples of West Africa and the Pacific
Rim (Including US Tribal Nations)- A Comparative
Analysis" will be presented at TESC-Tacoma campus,
1210 6th Ave., Tacoma on Friday, Feb. 16 from 3 to 5
p.m. Dr. Hassimi Maiga holds a presidential appointment as Distinguished Research Professor of Education
at the University of Bamako, Mali (by Presidential
Decree, June 200 I). Dr. Maiga is also Professor of
Education (on leave) at L'ISFRA, the national higher
education institute at the University of Bamako where
MA and Ph.D. students are trained. At L' ISFRA he has
taught graduate courses in the "History of Education
from Antiquity to the Present," "Curriculum Design"
and "Research Methods." Alan Parker, J.D., is the
Director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research
Institute at The Evergreen State College where he also
has served as a member of the faculty since September
of 1997. A citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Nation,
Parker lived for many years with his family on the
Rocky Boy's Reservation in Northern Montana. Alan
graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1972 and
practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over twenty years
before joining The Evergreen State College faculty in
1997. While in Washington, D.C., he directed research
on tribal governments for the American Indian Policy
Review Commission and was the first Native American
to serve as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs.

Umoja to sponsor events at basketball games
this weekend
Umoja will be holding a Family Fun Night, Friday,
Feb.l6 and a Student Appreciation Night, in conjunction with Senior Night, on Saturday, Feb. 17 during
both the men's and women's basketball teams' last two
regular games ofthe 06'/07' season. Family Fun Night
and Student Appreciation Night are opportunities to
bring the community together through the celebration
of sports and fun activities; there wi II be lots of chances
to get involved in contests and win prizes. Rallying
around the basketball teams this weekend is another
way that Umoja supports and recognizes some of the
hard-working student athletes of color at Evergreen.
The events also represent the ways Umoja strives to
promote community involvement, support and togetherness. Umoja is an organization dedicated to fostering
a unified identity among Black, African American students and students of African descent, how ever one
' may choose to identify, at Evergreen. Umoja's vision is
to bridge generations and cultures by promoting diversity and unity through the inclusion of African/African
American based arts and activities, history and traditions. In addition, Umoja's goal is to uphold the spirit
of fellowship and contribute to an environment that
embraces cultural expression here on campus. If interested in being involved with this group, please contact
Danielle Keenan at keedan08@evergreen.edu.

Compiled by Curtis Randolph

Case Number: 07-0050
01/09/2007 at 2319 hours
An officer and RA knocked on a door inC dorm. The door
was opened approximately.two inches and the resident peeked
through the crack. He was told that his music needed to be
turned down. Suspect said okay and closed the door before
either the RA or officer could say anything about the strong
odor of burning marijuana coming from his room. They
knocked again, and once more the door was opened approximately 2 inches. Suspect was told to open the door the rest of
the way, and complied. Suspect was told that they needed the
pipe or bong or whatever he was smoking his marijuana out of
and the rest of his marijuana. Suspect complied. While information was being obtained from the suspect, the officer noticed
what looked like a switchblade knife in his drawer. The knife
was seized and suspect was told that it was illegal in the state
of Washington to possess it. Suspect stated he did not know
that. Suspect then stated it was no different than any of the
other knives in the drawer, and began to open the blade of a
leatherman-type tool. Suspect was advised that opening knives
around cops was a good way for someone to get hurt. Suspect
then put the tool in the drawer and took a few steps back. At
that time suspect was told to turn arouncj and was placed into
hand restraints, and was taken back to the office. Back at the
office, suspect stated that he did not know that the knife was
illegal in Washington or anywhere else, and that he used it for
opening mail and boxes. He stated he paid about $10 for it in
Mexico, and had not intentionally broken the law. Based on
this, and the fact he had no prior police contacts, police services decided to turn the case over to the grievance process.
Suspect asked what was going on and if he was going to jail,
and the officer stated that he was being un-arrested. Suspect
said he didn't know that could be done. Officer affirmed that
it could. Suspect was issued a Required Grievance Meeting
form, which he signed. Nothing further.

Case Number: 07-149
01/22/07 at 2321 hours
An officer knocked on the door of a room in D-Dorm which
was emanating a strong odor of marijuana and loud music. The
officer knocked on the door and the residents greeted them .
Also greeting the officer was the strong odor of marijuana as
smoke wafted out the door. Officer observed that the inside
of the residence was thick with smoke. The residents denied
smoking marijuana and stated "We were smoking outside and
it followed us in." This was not a very good excuse, and the
residents soon admitted to smoking marijuana in the room.
They stated that they had only a roach and already smoked
it all. The officer informed them that the smoke present in
the room was not consistent with smoking a roach, and it
appeared to him that they had been smoking a blunt. They
admitted that this was 100% correct. (A roach is the thickly
packed butts of a marijuana cigarette that must be smoked
with a small clip to avoid burning oneself. A blunt is marijuana wrapped in cigar paper, sometimes along with tobacco,
to appear to be a cigar. How was the officer able to tell the
difference between the two based solely on the consistency
of the smoke? Extensive training, of course.) The remaining
marijuana was seized and the residents were issued Required
Grievance Meeting forms.

Case Number: 07-0170
01/25/2007
On the aforementioned date an officer was contacted by a
suspect and asked if he was busy. At the time the officer was
responding to a broken window and injury in A-Dorm. Officer
asked what he needed and stated he had missed the bus and
needed a ride into town. Officer stated that he could not do
that, as he was in the middle of something else. After dealing
with the broken window the officer was notified by an RA
that the suspect had been contacted a couple days earlier, due
to his.erratic behavior and talking to himself, and that he was
now in the men's restroom on the second floor of A-Dorm.
When the suspect was asked what he was doing and if he could
present some identification he immediately became defensive
and stated he did not commit any crime. During the course of
contact the suspect continually made unkind comments about
the officers and police officers in general under his breath,
as well as many other comments that could not be discerned.
When asked what he had just said he would state that it was
nothing important. Su_spect stated he was not a student, was
a transient, and was playing pool because he had missed his
bus. The RA exited the scene and the suspect made a comment about her figure. The comment was difficult to discern
so the officer asked what he had said, and he stated that it was
nothing. Suspect was issued a criminal trespass citation, and
was given courtesy transport to the Harrison Avenue Safeway.
When suspect was asked if he had any weapons prior to letting him into the patrol vehicle, he stated that if he had a gun
he would have pulled it on the officers when they first contacted him. Suspect was asked why he would do that. He said
something that wasn't discernible, and then that he was just
joking. End of report.

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The Phrontisterion's ''Lysistrata'':
an anti-l'Vhat? sex-comedy
By Jais Brohinsky and Micah
Slawinski-Currier
Heard about the strip tease, full frontal
nudity and enormous black erections?
Bear with us -we'll get there. First, we
examine the responsibility of theater before
approaching the spectacle that was this
production.
An individual's interpretation of reality
is formed by imposition through social
institutions such as education, religion,
government and entertainment. 1 However,
an individual's interaction with these social
institutions can effectively transform them,
thus changing a social interpretation of
reality (manifested through organization)
and its impression on the individual. 2 This
capacity to transform is agency and is constantly actualized through reiteration of language, performance and daily actions- no
matter how mundane. 3 With agency comes
responsibility. Therefore, if every spoken
and written word, every gesture and ritualized movement either reinforces or destabilizes social norms, 4 these words and gestures ought to be held accountable. There
exists a direct proportion between public
availability and a greater possibility for
change. That is, the more public a word
or gesture, the greater its agency, and, we
argue, the greater its responsibility.
Theater combines word and gesture
through the act of public performance
and thus has a responsibility in production. The extent of this responsibility is
debated. Should theater provide an insight
into the human condition? Should theater
be didactic, cathartic, mobilizing, absurd?
While we make no claim to expertise, we
agree with Theodor Adorno when he asserts
that an artwork's social import and function
must be understood in relation to each other
and with Bertolt Brecht who argues that
theater must not be self-evident - it must
present a situation to an observer who must
then draw his/her own conclusion. 5 Indeed,
in an instantaneously interconnected world
in which social norms are in constant flux,
the unavoidable ignorance of every person
should not be furthered by fantasy, misrepresentation or spectacle. Instead, theater should approach performance aware
of its agency and its responsibility, transferring the former to the audience while maintaining the latter. Sound boring? Perhaps
a viewing of the Phrontisterion's production of Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" would
change your mind.
As advertised, this production of
"Lysistrata" was to be an anti-war sexcomedy. Historically, "Lysistrata" has been
a provocative play challenging ideas of war
and gender and the interaction between the
two. As the Athens and Sparta enter their
twentieth year of war, they are running out
of warriors. With men in charge of government, Lysistrata and her Greek sisters
see no end in sight and, taking matters into
their own ... hands, swear an oath to abstain

Jack's Mannequin:
a compassionate
rock star
By Alyssa Coker
While the businessmen are heading home
and the Pike Place Market is closing their
doors, I st Avenue is buzzing with excitement. With a line rounding the block, the
Showbox was about to open their doors to
hoards of Jack's Mannequin fans. Maybe
you've never met one of these devotees, but
if you have you know quite well that they
are a committed, enthusiastic, group of teens
and early twenty somethings, many of which
had been waiting in the cold since ten in the
morning to catch a glimpse of their piano
hero, Andrew McMahon.

from sex until peace is declared. Women
turning sexual objectification into power
great enough to end a war seems groundbreaking- anti-war and empowerment messages are especially important in these times
of middle eastern occupation and resurgent colonial feminism. Truly, an appropriate lens through which to view this situation and the play would start with Cynthia
Enloe's question, "Where are the women?"
which is not to ask, as an audience member
did, "Where's the pussy?"
What happened between discussing
war and female empowerment and the catcalls for 'pussy'? Perhaps an investigation into the idea of the spectacle will help.
The concept of the spectacle "represent[s]
an effort to theorize the implications for
capitalist society of the progressive shift
within production towards the provision
of consumer goods and services, and the
accompanying 'colonization of everyday
life. "' 6 In other words, the characteristics
associated with late-stage capitalism (e.g.
consumerism and the society of leisure 7 )
become ingrained in social norms, which
manifest through specific works of individuals. However, these internalized symptoms serve to distract and insulate, in that
they reinforce the status quo without adequate analysis. In this case, commoditized
sex and sexuality divert attention from the
play's inherent messages, namely opposition to war and the challenging of gender
roles.
When questioned about the spectacular rendition, the person responsible for
the adaptation explained that "Lysistrata"
is historically anti-war before sexualized,
but that the impetus behind this version
was entertainment. It was further clarified that while Aristophanes wrote fortyone comedies, only seven survive - that
in fact most Greek comedies performed
in competition have been lost- and while
this may have been a good time to emphasize the anti-war message, wars are always
happening so ... entertainment was chosen
instead? While a 1950s erotica in which
women's only powers come from their
bodies and flailing dildos may be entertainment to some, it's certainly not ubiquitous. One young man thought the play·was
"great," another - biting his lip -said, "it
was okay;" a woman behind me - before
leaving during intermission - used the
words crude and crass to explain why the
stripping and dancing eroded all respectability; and one young woman thought that
they shouldn't have half-assed a burlesque
show under the guise of"Lysistrata," especially with S&A funds.
One might argue that the anti-war line
at the end, "let's not make the same mistake twice," was sufficient in challenging
the audience. However, out of ten spectators asked "what mistake were they talking
about?" only one answered, "war?'' The rest
may have missed it between the gyrating,
garter-belted, Beyonce-bouncing booties

McMahon started his reign as a modern
piano rock king when he started the southern
California band Something Corporate in
1998 and after years of success and touring,
in 2004 decided to take a break from the band
to start a deeper, darker solo project known
as Jack's Mannequin.
The crowd packs into the tiny venue stopping to buy overpriced t-shirts and make
sure their Converse are tightly strapped to
their feet. After three opening bands, endless set changes and mounting anticipation
suddenly, the lights dim and the beginning of
"Holiday From Real" begins to play out of
the massive stacks of speakers hanging
vicariously from the ceiling. The
crowd begins to push as far forward
as possible, demanding for the band to
grace the stage. Finally, out of the darkness
the band members appear, McMahon coming
out last, and getting a deafening welcome.
With only one album under their belts,
Everything in Transit, the set list was creative
and included all of their debut songs, but also

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and the self-proclaimed, dildo-sucking
'sluts'. While not a statistical certainty, this
seems to point the befuddlement of themes
due to the girl-on-girl groping and the men's
heavy-breathed groans throughout the more
important dialogue, as noted by Afsheen
Fatemi's comment, "It's weird how they
associate freedom of speech with nudity."
Perhaps our investigation should be
as critical of an audience that can't glean
pro-woman, anti-war significance over tits,
dicks and ass. Perhaps we should adopt a
Freudian lens connecting the uproarious
laughter when the Commissioner grabs
the Herald's cock or when the Spartan and
Athenian delegations bemoan the possibility of "falling back on loving boys" to
disguised aggression against homosexuality
-more specifically, male homosexuality, as
Kleonike and Myrrhine were cheered for
fondling and making out. Perhaps. But we
prefer to consider David Wolach's observation: "Lysistrata" lends itself to a regressive reading. The challenge now is to turn
its normative standard on its head." We
posit that this challenge is in fact a responsibility - to be at the very least attempted.
In the words of Adorno, "A work of art
that is committed strips the magic from a
work of art that is content to be a fetish,
an ideal pastime for those who would like
to sleep through the deluge that threatens
them, in an apoliticism that is in fact deeply
political." 8
Ultra-sexed comedy, in and of itself,
is not irresponsible. However, when such
sex is so removed from its transformative
potential that it loans itself to the sole service of entertainment for entertainment's
sake, it has entered the realm of spectacle
and functions to reinforce an insulated
interpretation of reality. This spectacular
removal ensures a lasting impression - if
nothing more- and thus is more an advertisement for the Phrontisterion 's annual
play than it is theater. It is this spectacular
removal and concomitant reestablishment
that we find irresponsible, tasteless and
thoroughly disappointing.

Jais Brohisnky is a senior enrolled in a
contract studying theater and is writing/
producing a musical. Micah SlawinskiCurrier is a senior enrolled in The Art of
the Book.

I. Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning, 1980
2. Michel Foucault as cited in Saba Mahmood,
Politics of Piety, 2005
3. Judith Butler as cited in ibid
4. ibid
5. Bertoli Brecht, 'Theatre for Learning', The Tunlane Drama Review, 1961
6. TJ. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, 1986
7. ibid
8. Theodor Adorno, 'Commitment', Aesthetics and
Politics, 1977

tossed in a few oldies. Midset McMahon
revived "Punk Rock Princess/ Heroine" from
Something Corporate~· Leaving Through the
Window album. Instead of playing the popular rock version, McMahon played the original form of the song as a ballad leaving many
of the female fans swooning for more.
He later played "Arizona Last Straw"
which was an online release and after hearing
lyrics like "How did he become the president? And I stayed awake for a day or two
I thought about the world drank gin and
watched the news," it quickly became clear
why this politically charged song never saw
the store shelves.
Following a fully energized set, the band
exited the stage, but the crowd wanted
more. They chanted for a few minutes and
McMahon made his return, front and center,
completely solo. However, instead of playing
a song, he took a few minutes to address the
fans. Most bands will take a minute to say
something like, "Seattle is the best town! We
love our fans here!" and continue with their

The mother of
Mexican poetry
By Grant Miller
"I was at the university on the eighteenth of September when the army occupied the campus and went around arresting
and killing indiscriminately. No. Not many
people were killed at the university. That was
in Tlatelolco. May that name live forever in
our memories!"
This is Auxilio Lacouture, "The mother
of Mexican poetry," and the protagonist of
Roberto Bolaflo's "Amulet," hiding in a bathroom stall during the Mexican army's occupation of the National Autonomous University of
Mexico in 1968.
The Tlatelolco massacre was the result
of student demonstrations in Mexico City, a
slaughter by the Mexican army that ended
with the estimated deaths of over a thousand
people.
Bolaflo uses the demonstrations of Mexico
in September 1968 as the fuel for his novel-a
somewhat vague and hallucinatory account of
the events of'68 and the literary movement of
poets and writers that hung around the Mexican
bars and cafes.
"Amulet" is a dreamy monologue by
Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan poet who
moved to Mexico City and hung around the
writers of the National Autonomous University
of Mexico. On the day the army occupies
the university, Lacouture is hiding in a bathroom stall on the fourth floor of the Faculty of
Philosophy and Literature department, waiting
to be apprehended. During the occupation, this
bathroom stall becomes the focal point for
Lacouture's narrative. It is from this point that
her past, present and future dance across the
pages of" Amulet" and whisk the unassuming
reader through 184 pages of what seems like a
well-recollected daydream.
There is a haze in Bolaflo's work, a sort of
hallucination that hinges on prosaic vision,
a thread of thinly veiled prose that barely
obscures the truth that hides behind narrative. Bolaflo writes: "Maybe it was madness
that impelled me to travel. It could have been
madness. I used to say it was culture. Of course
culture sometimes is, or involves, a kind of
madness."
And "Amulet" is a novel that presents
itself as it is: madness. A work of horror that
doesn't appear to be so. In the opening paragraph, Lacouture states: "This is going to be a
horror story. A story of murder, detection and
horror. But it won't appear to be, for the simple
reason that I am the teller." Although the book
reads nothing like a Dean Koontz novel, it
does recount horrol'- not ghosts and monsters,
rabid dogs, or netherworld clowns, but rather
the book recounts power, ideology, repression
and the bloody truths of state sanctioned violence. All of which get left out of horror novels,
because they can be found in newspapers,
everyday, tucked away in the forgotten pages
of a collective superego of amnesia.

Grant Miller is a senior enrolled in a contract about the weather.

show, but no, McMahon did something most
rocks tars wouldn't dare to do. He poured his
heart out.
With tears in his eyes and adoration in
his voice he thanked everyone in the crowd
for supporting him, as a person and musician, and that each and every fan in the room
played a huge role in his life. This impressive
gesture was stridently applauded and given
a proper encore, which included a cover of
The Police's "Message in a Bottle."
The concert ends with McMahon
using the top of his piano as his stage and
exiting valiantly ready to take on the next city
on the West Coast Winter Tour. The crowd scatters onto the streets, bearing the cold, but still
wishing this night would never end.
Engines start, headlights fade, but the
sound of Everything in Transit continues to echo through the dark, empty
streets.

Alyssa Coker is a senior enrolled in evening and weekend classes.

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February 15, 2007

THE LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM

Advertisements and unspoken language
ByJais Brohinsky and
Monear Fatem..i

which itself will point to the larger, cultural
system of meanings directing the creation of
individuals.
While Greenblatt accepts, and uses, society'S' molding of an individual, he avoids
approaching the individual's effects on the
society. This view is limited in that it doesn't
allow for change and transformation, in
which individuals necessarily pm1icipate. We
diverge from Greenblatt in redefining the selffashioning of an individual as involving an
interaction between the internal self and the
external world. This external world is comprised of the various social structures forming
society (e.g. religion, politics, family, civil

norms and formations are constantly being
either reinforced or undermined.
The result is what Foucault calls the paradox ofsubjectivation, in which "the very processes and conditions that secure a subject's
subordination are also the means by which she
becomes a self-conscious identity and agent"
(Mahmood, 17). The paradox of subjectivation views power as an omnipresent, strategic
relation of force and understands that it is the
power dynamics themselves that create subject and dominate. Applying the idea to the
interaction between individual and society,
the paradox of subjectivation suggests that
the social interpretation of reality that shapes

We live in a nation where the average
American is bombarded by thousands of
advertisements a day. From billboards and
television commercials, to magazines and
dancing hot dogs, the ads we see often promote more than the product being displayed.
Does a slim, airbrushed woman wiping sweat
from her brow as she poses, head back and
chin up, in her brand new pair of running
shoes sell the sneakers as much as an ideal of
beauty, strength or even lifestyle? Does the
war-painted Richard Gere fingering prayerbeads above the blue-lettered caption 'I am
African' promote AIDS awareness as much as
Bonds based on consumption are created while
project pandemics of disease, race and class
across an ocean?
camped outside of malls in line for a Tickle Me Elmo
What we endeavor here to do is analyze the
or while ordering the new Bacardi mixer at a bar.
authority within visual advertisement and its
interaction with social norms that con~ibute
to cultural identity.
ordinance, pop culture, etc.), other autono- an individual's interpretation allows that indiStephen Greenblatt, in Renaissance Self mous selves, and the events, ideas, and rela- vidual the possibility of affecting the social
Fashioning, pulls from Geertz's idea of the tions manifested by the interactions of the interpretation of reality that created it.
impossibility of human nature independent former with the latter and vice versa. In other
Greenblatt notes, as one of ten common
of culture in defining self-fashioning as "the words, while we agree that individuals are governing conditions in self-fashioning, that
cultural system of meanings that creates socially created, that one's personal inter- one must submit to "an absolute power or
specific individuals by governing the pas- pretations of reality are necessarily formed authority situated at least partially outside
sage from abstract potential to concrete his- within the confines ofa social interpretation of the self' and that "self-fashioning is achieved
torical embodiment" (3). Self-fashioning is reality, society is at the same time maintained in relation to something perceived as alien,
employed by Greenblatt to "grasp more sen- and changed (or, to borrow from Judith Butler, strange, or hostile" (9). Therefore, in order to
sitively the consequences of [language as a established and destabilized) by the individ- create a conscious identity, one must fashion
collective construction] by investigating both uals within it.
an interpretation of reality that stands as an
the social presence to the world of the literary
This notion of individuals affecting society authority against another interpretation, an
text and the social presence of the world in the . at large hinges upon Saba Mahood's butler- alien. It's as if the self is a lump of clay with
literary text" (5). That is to say that by ana- heavy idea of agency as determined through no form except that which authorities and
lyzing the language of an author, one may reiteration; i.e., repeated enactment creates aliens mold - like a relief cast, with authorarrive at an interpretation of that author's cul- social norms; social formations are repro- ities defining positive space and aliens the
turally influenced perspective of reality. By duced through the reenactment of social negative, the two working together insepaanalyzing the structures and transformations nonns; and within each individual reenact- rably to create shape. The paradox of subof an author's language, one may arrive at an ment exists the possibility for failure. Agency, jectivation applies to these meta-dynamics
interpretation of that author's self-fashioning, therefore, permeates every action since social of self-fashioning, as well the overarching

implications on society. By submitting to an
authority, be it an institution, a book, another
person or an idea, one positions one's self
as a subject. However, this identity is not
static, and the resulting self will change. The
authority that molded an individual will be
subverted, and another will take its place.
Advertisements are viewed by millions of
people whose identities are formed and
shifted in relation to culture and society. In
this growing consumerist nation, advertisements have become one of the main mediums
from which social norms and societal expectations are presented.
The advertisements that line the inside of
subway cars are those of products pressuring
us to conform our identities in exchange for
promises of better bodies and jobs, purer
water and women, and a safer, AIDS/guilt
free America, all while we equip ourselves,
our children, and our accessory poodles with
objects we buy based on our desire to connect
to a consumer community.
Bonds based on consumption are created
while camped outside of malls in line for a
Tickle Me Elmo or while ordering the new
Bacardi mixer at a bar. The socially established visions of reality that are the ingredients of a Super Bowl advertisement result in
a society that fashions itself and its relationship to issues of class, gender, race and beauty
based on the common desire to obtain commodities. Thus, such a society is controlled
by those who sell.
There exists a responsibility for establishing norms and we seek to hold each image
accountable. Interested? Want to hear more?
Contact us at adsevergreen@gmail.com.
Jais Brohinsky and Monear Fatemi
are seniors producing a book about the
relationship between advertisements and
identity

A Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center Puzzler

The Weekly O.uantitative Reasoning Challenge
The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) invites you to challenge your
quantitative reasoning skills by solving our puzzle of the week. Each week we will present a new
puzzle for you to solve. When you come up with an answer, bring it in to the QuaSR Center in
Library 2304. If you are one of the first three with the -correct answer, we have a prize for you.
Solution to last week's challenge:

How many squares can you make by
connecting the dots?

If you consider height or age
only: A girl and a bov
If you consider sports only:
Two girls

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February 15, 2007

Who put cars in charge? Winter blues busters
By Gar Russo
Riding a bike is like taking a vow of
poverty. The biker could always get a cheap
car like everybody else or at least ride the
bus, but coasting through the falling flakes
of new snow on a bicycle is like rocketing
through the stars on an intergalactic journey,
and feeling the sting of the freezing rain is
to know one is alive. Riding a bike is the
closest thing to flying that is commonly
done since people stopped riding horses. A
biker has to be aware of the natural world
and plan for the changes. Life is too easy
and bikers gain strength and creativity from
adversity -like great art tends to come from
great suffering.
A peddler can't get through the winter
with a windbreaker, sandals and an umbrella
running from building to car and car to
building in <lilY weather. Stopping at the
quickiemart, the bicyclist looks odd bundled
up for weather colder than it is, but the wind
chill while rolling through space easily drops
the temperature five or ten degrees. Wetness

The drivers can adjust the volume of the
voice high or low. ~ne driver told me that
she has been ' called into the office' twice
because her volume was not set high enough.
She said that she was turned in both times by
a rider who was a member of the eight person
Intercity Transit board that brought about the
screaming buses. He is a blind rider, she said,
and "thinks the world should be built around
him." She continued: "All any blind person
has to do is to tell the driver where he wants
to get off. That's what we got drivers for."
The rider and his dog are now being used
on the cover of the 2007 bus schedule as
warm and fuzzy propaganda, but the talking
buses may be more about building the surveillance society and the socialization of the
public for further changes than f,or helping
blind friends .
My theory is that the internal voice feature is more about crowd control than doing
anyone a favoc Notice how the voice always
starts with "approaching?" It is like ringing
the bell for Pavlov's dogs: 'Listen up!' Woof1
It stops the riders' thinking and gets them

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By Amanda Helser
If you didn't already know about
gray winter days, you surely know
by now. The lack of sunshine can affect your
energy as well as your mood. Not to worry!
You can take control of your health with the
aid of herbal remedies, proper diet, exercise
and sleep.
Herbs hold complex healing properties in
their simple, natural form that aid in healing
and prevention. The great thing about herbs
is that most are easy to find, and look and
smell interesting. When using herbs as a tea,
tincture or topically, I feel more comfortable knowing that my body recognizes herbs
and knows how to use them because of their
familiar plant form that makes up a large part
of the human diet. Used in its whole form,
herbal treatments rarely have side effects due
to their naturally balanced properties. Herbs
can help to restore overall health, instead of
just treating the symptom, as a lot of drugs
do. Each herb has a variety of healing properties that can be used in conjunction with
other herbs, or on its own. Most herbs are
gentle on the body, but don't make the mistake of underestimating the power of herbal
medicine; it should be respected and practiced with care. Herbs can be used to treat a
variety of conditions and symptoms such as
women's health issues, antiviral aids, inflammatory reducers and mood enhancers for
mental health.
Sometimes a little winter blues buster
is necessary to keep your spirits up and
get through the "cave days" of a northwest
winter. Here are some herbal treatments that
might help turn your day around:
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St.John's Wort (Hypericum Perforatum)

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increases the wind chill. Plastic grocery bags
taped over the biker's shoes with grey duct
tape are a survivalist's secret and will prevent wet, frigid feet. Shoestrings wrapped
around the pedals can cause a catastrophic
fall, but plastic grocery bags rip away when
they get caught in the crank. Some bags are
better than others.
Babylon has no use for bikes. It would
sell us square wheels and then make us buy
the upgrade to round ones if it could. Bikes
don't need oil changes, good gas mileage is
thirty miles on a gallon of beans, and when
theE-bombs pop off in the upper atmosphere
they will be the only things rolling. Bicycles
haven't changed much in a hundred years
and thus bike riders haven't been socialized
to desire the latest add-ons. Trendy changes
don't go much beyond fat tires to skinny ones
and skinny ones to fat ones. Nice fenders
and baskets don't turn heads except maybe
in the Last Friday Critical Mass Parade and
Bike Show.
Camille says that "the bike Nazis won't
talk to you anymore if they see you riding
in a car," so the ideological purity of bus
riding may be in doubt. But life is a compromise and the bus ride is a perk of the student ID. The latest thing on the Intercity
is the talking buses. They started showing
up last November and have since become
the screaming buses with both internal and
external speakers. Citizens who live near bus
stops must be crazy by now because of the
loud beeping and announcing every time the
bus shows up.

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anticipating what comes next. The technique
on the buses can help stop troublesome nonconformist thinking and will keep us all more
cow-like. Moo!
Another element of the talking buses is the
surveillance of the drivers. Talking buses are
hooked up to the global positioning satellite.
That is how the voice from space knows what
is 'approaching'. The talking buses are for
headquarter's surveilling convenience and
to track the drivers' location and activity:
speed, braking, doors opening, stops, starts,
waits, everything.
Beyond crowd control and the surveillance of the drivers, the screaming buses
are pregnant with the future. Already at the
downtown bus station, video surveillance has
been installed. They gave up trying to chase
away undesirables with classical music running through tin speakers, and instead joined
the mainstream of the expanding surveillance
society. The downtown bus station is downtown suspect nation. Everyone is watched all
the time. ~neofthe 'security' guards investigates every bus that arrives and sometimes
even boards the bus and checks out every
single face.
The inhuman, innocuous, placid presence
of the voice from space is socializing riders
to the next step in the brave new world of
surveilling convenience: video cameras on
the buses linked up to face recognition technology. The only way to avoid that will be to
get on your bike and ride for the hills.

St. John's Wort, commonly used for mild
to moderate depression, works a lot like other
anti-depressant medications that raise serotonin (a natural chemical in the brain that
releases endorphins into the bloodstream)
levels by inhibiting monoamine oxidase.
It doesn't cause a lot of the unpleasant side
effects of prescription anti-depressants like
headaches, anxiety, insomnia or heart problems, but it can take a month or more for
the effects of St. John's Wort to kick in.
According to David ~verton, PA-C, R.N., a
physician's assistant and expert on brain biochemistry, "(St. John's Wort] is specifically
used concurrently or transitionally with antidepressant drugs to help patients taper off the
drug ... [He] suggests that two can be used
safely together in this manner if your practitioner has experience handling both prescription drugs and herbal medicine" (Landis,
292). St. John's Wort should be taken with
food and some people experience hypersensitivity to sun exposure. St. John's Wort can
be taken as tea, tincture or capsule at a recommended dose. If you are taking oral contraceptives, St. John's Wort has been known
to decrease the birth control's efficacy, so it

is recommended that you check with your
doctor prior to taking this herb.

Ginko (Ginko Biloba)
Ginko, believed to increase blood flow
to the brain, increases the rate of nerve cell
transmission. Depression is influenced by
these neurotransmitters (Landis, 293). Ginko
is primarily used to improve mental clarity,
but has mood lifting benefits as well.
Specific nutrients are beneficial to mental
health, for example, B-complex vitamins
are sometimes referred to as "brain nutrients" (Landis, 294). Interestingly, B vitamins are synergistic, meaning that one B
vitamin relies on the presence of another
B vitamin to be optimally effective, for
example B6 and B 12. Some studies have
shown a direct link between depressed people
and B vitamin deficiencies. "The processing
of food destroys B vitamins, so the typical
highly processed diet may well be a factor
in the ever-increasing spiral of depression in
out:culture" (Landis, 294). Unfortunately,
coffee, alcohol and cigarettes all deplete B
vitamin absorption, and vitamin C (which is
also linked to depression).
There are "comfort foods" like mashed
potatoes and chocolate, and there are foods
that provide nutrients that effect mood. Here
are some foods you can try incorporating into
your diet that may boost your mood:
Chilies release endorphins into the bloodstream, which are the mood-regulators that
control sleep, appetite and cognition.
Celery, particularly the juice, aids in
relaxation and is high in B I and vitamin A,
and also contains potassium, sodium and
magnesium.
Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) are important to the synthesis of messengers in charge
of cell instruction (i.e.: "Release more serotonin!") and "anti-stress hormones" are created by EFAs. EFAs are "good fats" that are
used to make cell membranes, which help
in the neurotransmission of serotonin. EFAs
are inevening primrose, borage, flaxseed or
black currant oils.
For more information on herbal remedies, check out "Herbal Defense: positioning
yourself to triumph over illness and aging"
by Robyn Landis and Karta Purkh Singh
Khalsa. It is my favorite herbal reference
because it always explains why. Dr. Weil's
website, www.drweil.com has helpful articles of herbs and how to prepare them. Also,
spend an afternoon exploring Radiance's wall
of glass jars filled with herbs, spices and
teas. They have a wonderful library of wellness books and very knowledgeable, helpful
staff. Ifyou're interested in seeing a licensed
herbalist, come into the student health center
where we can give you a list of referrals.
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Cooper Point Journal

To Valentine or
not to Valentine?

Post-its
By Casey Jaywork
My w a II i s a
giant wing of Post-Its,
reminding me : "Fill
Fluoxetine prescript
(i .e. Prozac)," " Center
for Counseling: 94 33227 ." For my longer
trails of thought, wall
putty adheres cutouts
of typewritten mind-puke. "I just saw my
face for the first time in months; white-collar
slavery carries the smooth touch of shaving
gel." Etc.
This, I'm writing in Substance Free
housing, which I totally obey.
I swear.
"Student Counseling services: 360867-6800." B~llow that: "NO SPACE. Crisis
Hotline: 360-586-2800." This is all stuff I
need to not forget.
In my desk are even thicker piles of blah,
notes from spring semester at U. Delaware.
"In nature. man has unlimited fonnal freedom
but extremely limited practical freedom, as
this inevitably creates a war of all against all.
Social contract theory is based on the idea
of enlightened self-interest; that is, people
recognizing that cooperating towards mutually beneficial goals achieves more for each
individual than constant infighting. In effect,
the social contract (and therefore modern
society) is essentially an extremely refined
agreement among people not to kill each
other."
This is the same school of thought that
ultimately produced "Give me liberty or
give me death," American democracy and
Walmart.
Logical conclusions can be so
depressing.
This is in Substance Free housing,
because college is full of choices. Me, I got I)
pay money I don't have to cancel my housing
contract and move off campus, 2) live in filth,

noise and an endless parade of alcohol and
addicts in the Soup, or 3) hole up on the first
floor offreshman housing and pretend not to
mind when the RA keys into my room to tell
me I can ' t burn incense or candles.
" I need to die!" In my high schooljournals, all the memos say the same thing,
more or less. I keep them around to remind
myself that even if I haven't discovered my
own logical conclusion, at least it's not all
downhill.
Silver lining sucks without the contrast
of old storm clouds.
This is in Substance Free housing, so it
didn't happen here, but some places, sometimes, marijuana is my anti-drug. The way
heroin and crystal meth addictions make life
insane to the breaking point, ganja does the
opposite for me, turning down the volume
on a malfunctioning fight/flight response.
Maybe there are better ways to cope, but my
Post-its don't know any. "NO SPACE. Crisis
Hotline: 360-867-6800."
•
And yeah, I totally understand why
Housing insists on treating me like a child,
with it's force-fed meal plans and enthusiastic invasions of privacy, because the sad
truth is that most of the lost boys and girls
around me couldn't- scratch that, can~ be
trusted to remove their own garbage or position themselves face-down when they pass
out from alcohol abuse.
Just like I understand treating all convicts like animals, or all queers like nancyboys; you can't argue with evidence that's in
front of your face.
"Enlightened self-interest dictates that
when a society fails to provide a net gain
for any individual participant, the individual 's obedience to that society's laws becomes
illogical and immoral." U. Delaware again.
"There's no point in agreeing not to shoot if
you still end up with a face full of lead."
I could fake a suicide note to get into
counseling, beating out the other crazies with
desperate ingenuity (assuming I don't pro-

duce a real one first).
I could boycott my meal plan and
blockade my doorway against nosy RAs,
nobly cleansing my hands of a Stalinist-ish
status quo .
But I've learned in my older age that
altruism is just synonym for delusion or good
PR. Hobbes and Rousseau were right: it all
comes down to self-interest.
In comic books and Jerry-Bruckheimer
movies, all the villains who irrationally hurt
people for the sheer hell of it, and all the
heroes who labor to rescue a never-ending
line of civilians in distress: Why? For
what?
You give me the ability to climb walls and
shoot webs, I'll probably help folks too, but
I' II damn well get the girl first.
Here in the real world, there are no villains, just competing heroes with differing
agendas. We don't like to think of it this way,
but Hitler (and Alexander Graham Bell and
Winston Churchill, by the way) was trying to
do a service to humanity by creating mortal
godliness out of racial cleanliness.
No villains, no heroes . "There's no justice; it's just us." Just me. Sitting at my computer, recalling the week over which I've
written this piece: the tears and the drugs
and the staring at my reflection in disgust
and fear, the cigarettes, the mornings that
start at noon and take an hour to get out of
bed because why the fuck should I bother?
and the answer, on the lips of someone !love
or the ink on a rediscovered Post-It, written
to-and-from myself, saying, "I love you and
I'm proud of you . Things will get better."
lfthere's any truth to be found in this, it's
that life lessons can't always be packaged
into fortune-cookie theses.
Sometimes, all you get is to be heard.

Casey Jaywork is a freshman enrolled
in Tradition and Transformation. He can be
reached at burch_9030@yahoo.com.

nme travel: is it possible?
By Danny Siegel
Don't panic! If you
are one of those extraordinary few inclined to
travel backwards in
time in order to kill
your grandfather in his
infancy, according to
some theoretical physicists, it would not destroy the universe as
we know it. Whew! Unfortunately, suggests
Ronald L. Mallett Ph.D., you would not be
able to travel farther back in time than the
point in which you powered up your time
machine. Assuming of course that your
infant grandfather owned and operated a time
machine, you would still not have any affect,
at all, on the grandfather you leave behind
or yourself. It is my understanding that Dr.
Mallett's view oftime, grounded in relativistic and quantum theory, most closely resembles the paper on which you draw a timeline
than the timeline itself.
Dr. Mallett is currently in the planning
stages of demonstrating the principles of a
proposed time machi.ne. Working closely
with Dr. Mallett is an experimental physicist with an expertise in laser technology.
The much anticipated machine utilizes the
theory that light creates gravity, which can
in turn slow time. By getting a beam of light
to travel in a circle, according to his calculations, would create a doorway to that
point in time and space. Funding required
for this experiment is estimated at or around
one quarter million dollars for which he has
received offers several times over, but always
with the stipulation that his research be classified. As an avid proponent of the freedom

of information, he has denied these offers in
hopes of finding investors with more philanthropic intentions for which he has found
at least one.
Although my own views on space and
time don't lead me to believe that traveling
to a point in which we once belonged would
lead us to believe that we had in fact done
so as the subatomic particles which make up
matter are already known to travel backwards
and forwards in time whereas consciousness, in my muddled view, moves sideways,
leaving the past in the wake of the present,
the experiment would be in a position to give
credence to the philosophical standpoint of
a predetermined fate bound by some hidden
formula that defines the actions of quantum
mechanics or that we are predetermined to
act in every possible way simultaneously as
quantum theory suggests. Exciting! A fascinating article, "The Conceptual Possibility
of Time Travel" written by George Berger
in The British Journal for the Philosophy
of Science, Vol. 19, No . 2. (Aug., 1968),
pp. 152-155, is a worthwhile read for those
inclined to do so.
Beliefs aside, I've listened to and read
about reported events that give reason to
pause and consider the possibilities. One
story with details of a machine that somewhat resembles that of Dr. Mallett's involves
a man, Michael Marcum, who was subsequently arrested for his nefarious apprehension of the materials for his contraption.
One of six unused transfonners stolen from a
Missouri power station was used in conjunction with a modified laser extracted from a
CD player created, as he described, a circular
vortex. The configuration was originally
designed to establish the proper environ-

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mental conditions to operate a Jacobs Ladder.
A screw thrown at the vortex reportedly disappeared then reappeared half a second later.
His arresting officer commented on another
creation of Marcum's, a microwave oven
converted into a cigarette lighter.
Now, John Titor's story, albeit incredible, is either true or, at the very least, an
amazing piece of well researched and historically accurate science fiction. His tale,
as told in 2000-200 I, involves the utilization of Kerr micro-singularities created at
CERN's LHC facility in 2036 to bring back
an IBM 5100 which has the hidden and
subsequently confirmed function of emulating and debugging mainframe systems
(systems running UNIX will face similar
threats of Y2K proportions as their clock
ends in 2038). Micro-singularities (tiny black
holes) are a theoretical product of the high
energy collisions only capable at the LHC
facility. Creating a stable singularity, however, is not only difficult, since it requires
being soaked in energy resembling that of
the core of our sun only billions of times
hotter, but would also be pretty dangerous
if dropped. Good news though, we may all
share a micro-grave yet! The Z machine at
Sandia National Laboratories has been able
to produce temperatures reaching two billion Kelvin and pressures that can and have
melted diamonds.
Speculation suggests, if all goes well with
Mallett's experiments, we would see his technology at work within our lifetimes. So, time
travel anyone?

Danny Siegel is a junior enrolled in
Awareness.

By Alexandra Tobolsky
Exactly what the
origins of Valentine's
Day are remain a mystery. It almost doesn 't
matter.
Whatever it started
as was certainly not
intended to end up the
way it is now, which
(I think) is a perfect example of commercialization . It was not until the 1840s that
Valentine cards were produced.
Creator Esther Howland sold $5000
worth of cards, which at the time was a staggering amount. In the 160-something years
since, the number of cards sent has increased
to over one billion each year in the United
States alone.
A typical holiday card is generally
between two and five dollars. That's not
at all factoring in the chocolates, flowers,
balloons, teddy bears and engagement
rings or the countries Canada, Mexico,
the United Kingdom, France and Australia
that also celebrate Valentine's Day. That
amount of money is unfathomable to
me, not to mention totally unnecessary.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
begins with the diary entry "Random
thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004. Today
is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." For a
good percentage of us, it's true. It's Hallmark
and American Greetings' genuine and successful effort.
For others, it's a day invented by nonnal
people to make others feel loved. A lot probably fall in the middle and either don't care,
straddle the fence, want to believe one side
but actually believe the other or lie to themselves or others about where their affinnations really I ie.
Some go all over the map year to year,
depending on whether or not they have a
Valentine.
While I'm not against Valentine's Day,
I don't support it either. Hypocritically, I
consistently and predictably buy into the
excuse to give lovey-dovey presents and
candy to my friends, family and Valentine.
I support the idea of expressing love.
But what I hate and don't support about
the holiday is that it's the only day of the
year when giving love is expected. Every
day should be Valentine's Day. Love is
something that should and needs to be
expressed as often as the words are thought.
The pressure and anxiety of one little
word leaves many people, myself included,
paralyzed to trust it. The expectation that
goes along with it is daunting.
Everyone has or at least has heard a
horror story of the words "I love you" not
being returned, laughed at, run away from
and/or ignored. In some ways, that makes
Valentine's Day the most likely day of the
whole year to not say it. Would love be so
intimidating if there weren't billions upon
billions of dollars, television commercials,
magazine advertisements, MTV specials and
movie stars associated with the word?
How would the world and the relationships in it be different if we were taught
from the day we were born that love is
the most important thing we can give?
So then what's the point? Why did I
spend hours deliberating over what to give
my Valentine and stand in front of aisles
and aisles of cards ready to have a nervous
breakdown?
Why is there so much pressure to love
some one more on this one random day than
any other of the year? Why do I feel like a
failure on the years when I don't have some
one to have an aisle-three-panic-attack o.ver?
Why is it not enough to just love ourselves?

Alexandra Tobolsky is a second-year
transfer enrolled in Russia and Eurasia,
Thucydides and Democracy, Understanding
the Legislative Process and Evergreen '
Singers. 'She is also the CPJ Letters and

Opinions Coordinator. She welcomes submissions, comments and questions at
TobAle2 4@evergreen. edu.

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sports

February 15, 2007

Evergreen basketball still strong

EVERGREEN BOX SCORES

By Arland Hurd

Men's basketball

Evergreen hosted men and
women's basketball Friday
night at the CRC, where
both teams played Northwest
College . The women beat
Northwest College with a
score of 77-66 .
The women's momentum
gave the Geoducks a healthy
lead with six minutes left in
the game. Joy White # 10 had
some impressive rebounds
and got the women started on
the roll.
Ultimately, Northwest ' s
team brought their own rally
but not enougn to take the
lead from The Evergreen State
College . The women host
·c ascade College on February
16 at 5:30p.m. in the CRC.
The men took to the court
at 7 p.m. and got their routine in gear, with some of
the pass plays and free throw
practices.
The men have lost four athletes this
season and their defense showed the
strain. However, Geoduck men did
manage to rally an 8-point run in the
first half, showing off their offense as

TESC vs. Northwest College
February 9, 2006
Attendance: not given
Total by period
I st 2nd Total
TESC
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25 28
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Northwest College
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Women's Basketball
TESC vs. Northwest College
February 9, 2006
Attendance: not given
Total by period
I st 2nd Total
TESC
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77
Northwest College
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66

they normally do .
The dynamics that have resided in
the team were alive and robust and
when Howard #I passed around two
defenders to Green #24 who assisted
Moore #5 for a two point lay up; the
crowd knew that the team was still

playing the way they n,eed to.
The men's next game is also on
February 16, starting at 7 p.m.

Arland Hurd is a senior enrolled in
Mind and the World.

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calendar

February 15. 2007

Off Campus

On Campus
Thursday, 15
12 to I p.m. Cultural Anthropology faculty
candidate Patty Kelly, "Modern Love: Sexual
Commerce, Public Health, and the State in
Urban Mexico." SEM II, C2107.
3 p.m . EF Student Cultural Representation:
Japan. LJ-1 I.
3 to 5 p.m. SESAME Film Festival:
Screening of"Arna's Children" followed by
presentation by Palestinian teenager. LH 5.
5 to 7 p.m. Multimedia Lab workshop: Peak/
lntro Soundtrack. LIB 1404.
6 p.m. "Whe n the Levees Broke" film
screening. LH 3. Hosted by WashPIRG,
Mindscreen, VOX, Carnival, PAC, &
EPIC.
6 to 7:30 p.m. Soul food potluck:
celebrating Black History Month
in CAB 110 from. Hosted by Umoja.

Saturday, 17
I 0 a.m. to II :30 p.m . LAN party. SEM II,
E II 05. Hosted by Student Video Garners
Alliance.

7 :30 p .m. Men's Basketball game.
Geoducks v. Warner Pacific College. CRC.
Sunday, 18
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Non-violent communication
workshop. SEM II , Dll07. llosted by MIT.

7 p.m. Dr. Maya Angelou to speak. CRC.
Students $12 in advance at Bookstore, $17 at
the door. General admission $20 in advance
from Tickets West and various locations, $25
at the door.

7 p.m. "The Vagina Monologues" hosted by
WRC. COMM Recital Hall.

Tuesday, 20
5:30 to 10:30 p.m. "When the Levees
Broke" film screening. Lll 3. llostcd by
Mindscrecn.

6 to 9 p.m. Non-violent communication
workshop. SEM II, 01107. Hosted by MIT.
7 p.m. "The Vagina Monologues" hosted by
WRC. COMM Recital Hall.

Tuesday, 20
Jacob And Lily, The
Hemlock Society,
Le Voyeur, 404 4th Ave E
Free, 21+

Evergreen Recreation

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Club Meetings

Evergreen Spontaneity Club
Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. SEM II , Dll05
All experience levels welcome

TESC Democrats
Mondays, 3:30__p.m. CAB 3'd floor
tescdemocrats(g)gmail.com

Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesdays, 8 p.m., LAB I, 1047 and SEM II,
3107A
Sundays, 6:30 p.m. CAB top floor lounge

Gyspie Dance Nation
Mondays, 5 to 10 p.m. SEM II, Ell07

Student Video Garners Alliance
Tuesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. , CAI3 TV lounge

Prolegomena to a Future Poetics evening
literary reading series
Mondays, 7 p.m. SEM II, A II 05

Meditation workshop
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. CRC 116

Healing Arts Collective
Tuesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m. Info Shoppe, 3rd floor
Library

Geoduck Union
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m . SEM II, B II 05
geoduckunion@evergreen.edu

Winter 2007 Schedule
CRC Building

March 2 to 4, Women in Capoei ra Angola
Conference, Longhouse. Friday from 7 to I 0 p.m.,
Saturday from I 0 a.m. to I 0 p.m., Sunday from
I 0 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free to students, $20 general
admission.

Monday
Racquetball, 12 to! p.m.
Basketball, 3 to 5:30p.m.
Late Night, 9:30 to II :30 p.m.
Tuesday
Racquetball, 12 to I p.m.
Indoor Soccer, 5:30 to 7:30p.m.
Late Night, 9:30 to II :30 p.m.

Special announcements

Remember to check out the 4th Annual TESC
Scicnc.: Carnival on Friday, June I and Saturday,
June 2 from I 0 a.m. to 4 p.m. It 's free, fun, hands
on, and welcome to everyone. There will be
student demonstrators about all aspects of science
at all levels.

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Wednesday
WallcybalL 3 to 5 p.m.
Late Night, 9:30 to II :30 p.m.
Thursday
Racquetball. 12 to I p.m .
Late Night, 9:30 to II :30 p.m.
Friday
Racquetball, 12 to I p.m.

Send your events to:

Calendar Coordinator Lauren
_2,akores via cpj@cvcrgrcen ._c_.c_IL_I._ _

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Wednesday, 21
7 to 9 p.m. Skate land Dollar Night
2725 12th Ave. NE
$1 w/ skates, $2 without skates.

Upcoming events

Wednesday, 21
Day of Presence
3 p.m. Bike Shop bicycle maintenance
workshop: "Adjusting Breaks." Bike Shop,
CAB 001.
6 p.m. "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" film
screening. Lll I. llosted by Mindsereen.

$5

Sunday, 18
I to 4 p.m. Capoeira Angola Pal mares
Midnight Sun, 113 Co lumbia St.
$10 drop-in

7 p.m. "The Vagina Monologues" hosted by
WRC. COMM Recitalllall.

6:30 to 8 p.m. "Got Spirituality?" with
special guest, Rabbi Seth Goldstein.
Presented by KEY Students Services
and Academic Advising. Prime Time,
Housing, "A" Building, Room 220.

$10

Saturday, 17
I 0 p.m. They Shoot Horses Don't They, Son,
Man Plus
Le Voyeur, 404 4th Ave E
Free, 21+

6 to 9 p.m . Non-violent communication
workshop. SEM II, D II 07. llosted by MIT.

2 p.m. 'The Vagina Monologues" hosted by
WRC. COMM Recitalllall.

Monday, 19

8 p.m. Ether, Generation Unknown, Kelvin
Charlie's Bar & Grill, 620 4th Ave. S

Friday, 16
9 p.m. Sweet City Slang
Eastside Club Tavern
$3

5 to 9:30 p.m. Family Fun Night
& Student Appreciation Night.
CRC lobby . Hosted by Umoja.

6 to 9:30 p.m. "Rise Up! Anti-Oppression:
Intersections, Relationships, and Allyship"
training. I-ICC.

Friday, 16
Day of Absence
5 to 9:30 p.m. Family Fun Night
& Student Appreciation Night.
CRC lobby. Hosted by Umoja.

Thursday, 15
8 p.m. Jim Malcolm
Traditions Cafe, 300 5th Ave. SW
$15, student/low income

7:30 p.m. Men's Basketball game.
Geoducks v. Cascade College. CRC.

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Wednesdays, I p.m. CAB 3'd lloor pit

The Outdoor Adventure Club
Wednesdays, 4 p.m. rock climbing gym

Students for a Democratic Society
Wednesdays, 2 p.m., SEM II, E31 05

Open Mic Poetry Reading
Wednesdays, 8 p.m .

Society for Trans Action Resources
Wednesdays, 3 p.m. SEM II, D31 07

lnfoshoppe and Zinc Library
Thursdays, 4 p.m. LIB 3303
Students In Action workshops
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m. SEM II, E2125

Writer's Guild
Wednesdays, 3 to 4 p.m. SEM II , C building
lobby cha1rs
Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesdays, 4 p.m. LAB I, 1047
Fridays, 12 noon and 7 p.m. LAB L 1047

Evergreen Animal Rights Network
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m. CAB 3'd Floor
TESC Chess Club
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Illustrations
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Jesse Nkinsi

Contribute
It's easy to contribute artwork to the Cooper Point Journal.
Email your work to cpj@evergreen.edu or drop by the
office, CAB 316.

Jesse Nkinsi is a freshman enrolled in
Creating a Conceptual Framework of
Images.