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Issue 24
Volume 35
May 3, 2007
Bike Shop educates
student cyclists
By Tori N eeder
Eggplant faces budget setbacks
By Jordan Nailon
After more than two years of planning
the ever-aspiring organizers of The Flaming
Eggplant Cafe have encountered another roadblock. After submitting a funding proposal for
$91,991 to the Student Activities Board for
the fiscal year of2008, The Flaming Eggplant
Cafe's hopes fizzled when the totality of their
allotment came to a mere $90.
Proposa ls for funding were due to the S&A
Board during the last week of winter quarter.
Prior to the deadline, the S&A Board offered
a workshop that helped interested applicants
understand the proper format, presentations,
and what should and should not go into their
proposal. The S&A Board dedicates the first
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actual group proposals.
S&A Board reserves are accumulated from
student funds. A full time student will pay
approximately $152.50 per quarter, or ten percent of their tuition towards these non-academic activity fees.
"We make our decisions based on the merit
of each proposal," explained Utah Newman,
the S&A Board Coordinator. "If a group
wanted money for an event in the fall we
would consider; how planned out is this and
how likely is it to succeed?" The allocation of
funds by the S&A Board is not the final step
however. First there is an appeals process with
the Board, and then the Board ofTrustees must
approve the suggested numbers.
A budget hearing for The Flaming Eggplant
Cafe was held on April 18 in the Solarium of
the CAB. An overflowing crowd of excited
students looked on as organizers presented
future menu options and discussed the final
details of the business plan.
Flaming Eggplant organizer, Kate Morgan,
had a good idea of why the funding didn't go
through. "The Board saw that we had adequate student support and that we were prepared. The thing that was lacking was the
money to support it." "The Student Activities
Fund balance is as low as it has been in seven
years," divulged Andy Corn, the Assistant
Director of Student Activities. Much of the
money from that fund has gone to pay for
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equipment upgrades at KAOS and towards a
loan for the Child Care Center. Money channeled to pay off the loan over the last four years
has dwindled the S&A Boards reserve account
from one million dollars to approximately
$300,000. The last payment on the loan was
made this year, at a cost of $250,000.
Another factor that may have been detrimental to the Cafe's chances is that it is a Tier
II group, meaning it receives funding after the
bulk of funds have already been distributed
to Tier I groups. Tier II groups, which must
submit for funding once a year; consist of student organizations such as the Evergleaners,
Writers Guild, Geoduck Union, and Common
Bread. The Tier I groups such as KAOS radio,
The CPJ, and the CRC must submit proposals
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The S&A Board's decision was not a total
loss for The Flaming Eggplant Cafe. Utah
Newman recalls, "My impression of the deliberations ... Was that The Board did allocate
a $10,000 reserve for the student run cafe."
These funds however, will not become available to The Flaming Eggplant Cafe until much
more progress has been made on the CAB
Redesign project, and the Cafe has a permanent location.
Appeals to funding decisions are due to
the S&A Board this Friday. Flaming Eggplant
Cafe organizers plan on meeting with the
Board on Monday, May 7 to appeal their
budget allocation. The Cafe will appeal for
a smaller budget by offering a smaller menu,
and planning for less volume, but still clinging
closely to their original plan. T-Ciaw, a leading
student involved with the Cafe lamented,
"My fear is that, if we don't start something
now, that this group of students who have
been doing monumental work on this student run cafe will not be able to ensure a successful and organized cafe in the future. It's
a lot of work."
"They are a very creative and resourceful
group of people," said S&A Board Coordinator
Utah Newman. "So if anyone was going to
get it going, it would be them."
Jordan Nailon is a junior enrolled in an
Jndependant Learning Contract.
Ten students gather around two bikes
lifted and clamped in place. "What you're
looking at here," says Bike Shop volunteer
Rowan Mcsweeny, "is you don't want the
lever to pull all the way down. If handle is
going all the way down there isn't enough
tension in the brakes." He is instructing
students on the basics of brake adjustment
and maintenance.
Other bikes are stacked up in various
states of repair. Some students work alone
among the stacks of spare bike parts and
others are assisted by one of the shop's
several volu nteers.
The Bike Shop has been hosting classes
on and off over the years. The most rece nt
series of classes began in March and will
continue through the end of the quarter.
Topics have ranged from adjusting head
sets to fixing gear shifting problems.
The Bike Shop, which was originally opened in 1987, is inte nded to be a
reso urce fo r cyc li sts in the community and
to educate bike ride rs abo ut bike repair.
The shop is free of charge and open to all
students. With the exception of two coordinators the entire staff is made up of volunteers. Funds for operation are provi ded
thro ugh the S&A board budget.
"We can teach people about bikes when
th v come in " save; Mcswernv "hut th is is
a way to educate the community."
7im Needer
Until now the classes have been taught
by in-shop vo lunteers but in the near future
a profess ion al bike mechan ic wi ll conduct
three works hops. "The stuff these workshops teach is stuff that an average rider
might encounter," says Luke Turner, a volunteer from the community and a TESC
almunus. "The classes that will be run by
the professio nal mechani c w ill deal w ith
problems that more advanced riders will
face." Turner will be instructing the M ay
30 cl ass on how to adjust and ti g hten
peda ls.
Classes are every Wednesday at 3 p .m.
in the Bike Shop. The shop is located on
the basement leve l of the CAB. The May
9 wo rkshop w ill address cable and cab le
housing replacement.
To1: Needer is a junior enrolled in
Health and Human Development.
lncrease i
By Alexandria Valin
After long deliberations about the
funding of ongoing campus organizations,
also known as Tier I organizations, the S&A
Board made the decision to increase student
fees next year by 5.0 percent. The justifications for the raise lie in the commitment
to sustain groups such as the CPJ, KAOS,
and the chi ldcare center.
In past years the childcare center had
been under funded and unable to operate
properly. An increase in student fees is
nothing unusual; however, the goal of the
S&A Board was to keep the increase as
low as possible. Currently, full-time students are paying $475 per year (three academic quarters).
This will increase to $497 per year to
guarantee not only the success of Tier
I groups, which also include the CRC,
Student Activity Administration, and S&A
Productions, but also all other registered student groups on campus, referred to as Tier
ntfees
II groups. Student groups have a Special
Initiative Budget and an Operational Budget
composed of the remainder of student fees
after Tier I has been allocated funds to
operate for two years.
Student fees do not increase the following year, hence the biannual funding.
The S&A Board is composed of nine students, who through a process of consensus
decision making, serve as an advising body
to the Board of Trustees in order to allocate
student fees to Tier I and II groups.
The meetings are open to the public
every Monday and Wednesday from three
to five. We encourage anybody to come to
the Open House on May 9 at three o'clock
in CAB 320 to voice their concern about
the increase in student fees or to contact
us with any questions (SABoard@evergreen.edu).
Alexandra Valin is a sophomore enrolled
in Writing Beyond Language: L iterature of
the Gods.
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Graduating senior passes away
Senior Tyler James Carr died unexpectedly on Thursday, April 26. He was 21 .
The funeral and burial services were held
Monday, April 30, in Carr 's hometown of
Amarillo , Texas. Carr was enrolled in the
Alternatives to Capitalist Globalization
program last fall and winter, 2005-2006.
According to the obituary in the
Amarillo Globe-News, Carr's interests
included philosophy, nature and the outdoors, the Chicago Cubs and playing
guitar. Counseling Center services are
available to lend support to students.
The 17th Annual Rachel Carson
Forum comes to the Longhouse
Now is the chance to hear keynote
speaker Denis Hayes , President of
the Bullitt Foundation and one of the
founders of the very first Earth Day, talk
about solar power and catch some lively
entertainment.
The title for Hayes' talk is "Taking
Sunbeams Seriously: The Role of
Solar Energy in a Healthy, Prosperous,
Sustainable Future." Hayes will be
joined by local Planet Percussion Band
singer-songwriter and Greener grad Hank
Waite.
The Annual Rachel Carson Forum
is a community event sponsored by
the Masters in Environmental Studies
Graduate Student Association . This year's
event is Tuesday, May 8 at 6 p.m. in the
Longhouse. This is a free event, open to
the public .
How to Do Things with Books
The Phrontisterion purposefully presents How to Do Things with Books, a noholds-barred lecture panel that will knock
your eyeglasses off. Three of Evergreen's
most dangerous faculty will tell you how
Sophocles can change your life, how
reading He gel will make you hot, and how
to fall in and out of love with Shakespeare
in just one hour.
Elizabeth Williamson, Kathleen Eamon
and Nancy Koppelman, Evergreen's most
dangerous faculty, will tell you how they
learned to become serious academics and
how you can become one too . How to Do
Things with Books will make you want
to flip pages until your fingers go numb .
This event is Monday, May 7 at 6 p.m .
in SEM II , E II 05 because the word is a
rou gh master.
Long time Evergreen supporter
passes away
Don Miles, who represented Olympia in
the state House of Representatives and was
a staunch advocate for the 1967 legislation
that authorized the building of Evergreen,
died the night of Monday, April 30. He
was 87. Miles was a diehard supporter of
Geoduck sports teams until his health took
a turn for the worse in recent years .
"Chernobyl: Twenty Years, Twenty
Lives" exhibits through May 2
On April 26, 1986, reactor number 4
at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in
the former USSR had a catastrophic accident. A test of its emergency shut-down
devices led to an explosion that destroyed
the reactor and blew its radioactive contents over large areas of what are now the
independent countries of Ukraine, Belarus
and Russia.
Additional areas in Western Europe
were also badly contaminated. Mads
Eskesen, a Danish journalist, has developed an emotionally gripping remembrance of these terrible events.
Photographs and texts explore the meaning
of the Chernobyl accident to individuals involved directly and indirectly. This exhibit
is a powerful reminder that technology
can have unfortunate and long-lasting
consequences . Exhibition continues
through Wednesday, May 2 in Evergreen
Galleries, Gallery 4, LIB 4th floor, open
Monday through Friday, l 0 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Green Party Convention slated for
May 12 at Evergreen
The Green Party of Washington State
(GPoWS) will hold its Spring Convention
on Saturday, May 12 from 9 a.m . to 5 p.m .
in LH 3. Headlining the event will be
Elaine Brown, a former national chair of
the Black Panther Party and current candidate for the Green Party nomination for
President.
Other speakers joining Brown include:
Malik Rahim, co-founder of the Common
Ground Collective and a former Green
Party candidate for the New Orleans City
Council; Aaron Dixon, GPoWS 2006
candidate for U.S. Senate; T. J. Johnson,
Green Party member and current Olympia
City Councilor; and Dr. Muhammad Ayub,
an area physician and active member of
the Green Party of South Puget Sound.
Registration gets underway at 9 a.m. Dr.
Ayub will start the festivities at 9:30a.m.
with an opening address, "A Muslim
Perspective of Green Party Organizing."
The morning session will include work
on party business. Starting at 2 p.m., the afternoon session, which is free and open to
the public, will feature speeches and panel
discussions with Ms. Brown providing
the keynote address. For more information, visit www.wagreens.us, email info@
wagreens .us, or call (360) 532-0949 .
Final week to declare candidacy
for Geoduck Union representative
Are you interested in being a Geoduck
Student Union representative next year?
This is the final full week to declare your
candidacy. Forms are due Monday, May
7 by 5 p.m. by either emailing it to elections@evergreen.edu or dropping it off in
CAB 320 .
Representatives are charged with improving the quality of student life at
Evergreen. Together and in committees,
reps work with students, the administration, and other entities in the College to
provide input and solutions on issues that
are immediate or ongoing.
Issues this year included transportation,
finance oversight, CAB redesign, anti-oppression, student safety, food service and
a wide variety of other concerns that students have.
The Union is also interested in working
at the state legislative level on bills that
directly affect higher education. Being a
representative is a great opportunity for
you to make change happen and be a voice
for students.
Union representatives meet every week
for two hours, as well as additional hours
, during the week for committee meetings
and office hours .
Twenty-one representatives are elected
every year, including one student from the
Tacoma based campus , and one student
from the Tribal Based programs. To down-
load the candidacy form, visit: www2.evergreen.edu/studentgovernment and click
on the Candidacy link. Questions? Reply
to geoduckunion@gmail.com
MindScreen free movie
Wednesdays
Have you been going to the free movies
on Wednesdays? If so then you know how
cool it is to get something back from your
student fees! A free film and popcorn is
offered by MindScreen every Wednesday
at 6 p.m . LH l. This week is a classic,
"Pocket Full of Miracles," followed by
Week 7, "Coffee and Cigarettes," featuring several stars including Tom Waits,
lggy Pop, Bill Murray, GZA and RZA,
Cate Blanchett, White Stripes Meg and
Jack White, Roberto Benigni, and more .
Weeks 8-10 have yet to be announced and
since the local mega-plex wants nearly
thirty dollars just for popcorn a drink and
some Goobers, come over to LH I. Bring
your own Goobers or win some in the
give-away drawing, and enjoy a free film
and free popcorn. It's your student fees,
enjoy them.
Where is the student-run cafe?
Due to recent funding difficulties, The
Flaming Eggplant is putting a call out for
letters of support, donations, and help with
fund raising. The Flaming Eggplant has
come far in acquiring a space, submitting
a budget, and writing a business plan.
The Flaming Eggplant's goal is to provide cheap food options and use healthy
ingredients that are grown locally and organically. The first face of the cafe will be
through an outdoor vending cart.
When the CAB is redesigned it will
include a space for the cafe. Instead of
waiting until the CAB is rebuilt in 2010
to get started, it is time to get the falafel
balls rolling. lfthe cafe doesn't get started
now, a successful! operation in the new
CAB can not be ensured.
You can contactthe group to get involved at
theflam ingeggplant@riseup.net or call
their office at (306) 867-6636. This can be
your cafe too, so if you feel passionately
about it, make your voice heard!
Got a Stafford or Perkins loan? You
may need exit counseling.
If you have a Stafford or Perkins loan
and are graduating or leaving school,
you may need to complete exit loan
counseling.
The Stafford exit counseling schedule
for spring quarter is Mondays and
Wednesdays at noon. The last session will
be Wednesday, June 6 at noon. On Friday,
May II a presentation of loan consolidation will be offered at noon. The presenter
will be from the Northwest Education
Loan Association. Sign up for this session
by contacting Financial Aid at 867-6205.
This session should be of high interest
to any student with loan indebtedness of
at least $7,500. Interest rates are low and
the loan consolidation program may offer
student the opportunity for considerable .
savings over the life of their loans.
Listen to the expert and get answers to
your questions before you make a decision.
One of the requirements of the Stafford
and/or Perkins loan(s) you have received
is that you participate in the completion
of exit counseling during you last quarter
prior to graduation or leaving school.
Sign up for a session by contacting
Financial Aid at 867-6205 one day in advance to have a copy of your loan history
available at the session. Please bring the
names, addresses and phone numbers of
two references and one family member
to the session. Perkins loan borrowers
must also schedule a separate exit coun seling session with Student Accounts at
867-6440.
Call for talent for Swap-0-Rama
Olympia 2007
At a clothing swap and reconstruction,
revive, augment, alter, and transformation event, people bring their unwanted,
unloved, never fit right, Aunt Margie's
gift you "just loved," tired old clothes and
leave with a new wardrobe of fab finds
they've altered themselves. Inspirational
sewing machine instructions via workshops and demonstrations areas encourage
clothing metamorphosis. Swap-0-Rama
will be held Saturday, May 19 from 2 to 6
p.m. in CAB 320.
Volunteer, talented fiber artists, fashion
designers, screen printers, seamstress,
catwalk divas, sewing kings are needed.
A person who owned "How to Make 101
Things From aT-shirt" and tried them all.
Someone who can help put on a workshop/
demo or just want in on the inside act\on
of planning and organizing such a cool
community event. Call (360) 867-4612 or
email: eeaa@evergreen.edu Include your
name and contact info, either a phone
number or email address with a quick description of what you can do.
Do you like clean forests?
Come to the Forest Clean-Up Action
and help remove trash from the Evergreen
woods. There will be a gathering on Friday,
May 11 from 12-3 p.m. and Thursday May
17 from 4-6 p.m. starting at the F-Lot
trailhead.
The trash will be used in an eco-art installation on Red Square during week 9,
which will be addressing land stewardship, forest ecology and land use policies
of the campus.
It is recommended that you bring
gloves, boots and a water bottle. Be a part
of something bigger! For more information
contact: sierrawagner@hotmail.com.
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T hi s weekend is anoth er opportunity,
following the Procession of th e Species, to
catch a displ ay of art in motion. In Olympi a
on Saturday, May 5, The All Nation s I vI
Breakdance Competit ion is calling the
Evergreen Library Bu ilding home for the
eveni ng, br inging together some of the
best dancers on the west coast Thirty-two
competitors will battle it out for a chance
to compete this coming October at The All
Nations Final in Chicago.
The All Nations tour is a nationwide
brea kdance competition . It is visiting
Mi ami , New York, San Francisco, Chicago,
At lan ta, Ho uston an d Las Vegas in the
coming month s. Compared to cities li ke
th ese, the natural question is " Why would
an even t like thi s be held in Olympi a, why
not Seattle?" Organi zer Eddie Sumlin commented , "Everything is always in Seattle,
Olympia is neutral territory to all competitors in the northwest It will be a nice
scene change."
The event has been in the works since
January. The excitement within the b-boy
community has grown ever since its conception. "I've gotten people registered from
Seattle, Portland, Vancouver B.C ., Los
Angeles and even as far away as France.
This is really going to be a special night,"
Eddie stated.
Since the stakes of the event are so high,
the judges reign as members of the elite in
the global break dance scene.
Orb, a founding member of the internationally known Circle of Fire crew based
in Seattle laid foundation for Seattle break
dancing throughout the mid '90s. Orb,
along with Circle of Fire, were pioneers
in the art of freestyle and improvisational
dance, being one of the first to successfully
incorporating those styles to the traditional
b-boy form. In the beginning of June, Orb
will be embarkin g on a trip to Chi na to
teach hi s uniqu e sty le to the up an d coming
scen e of dancers overseas.
Jo R a w k along with his crew the
Mass ive Monkees took home the World BBoy Championships in 2004 at Wembley
Arena in London . Jo Rawk currently organizers community events for at-risk youth
in Seattle and teaches classes with his
fellow Massive Monkees crew member
"Iron Mike" Brysen at the Project FRESH
Dance School. In addition to competing
g lobally, the Massive Monkees are the official Seattle Super Son ics Dancers performing at every home game.
T hen there's Fever!, a member of the
pioneering b-boy grou p the Rock Steady
Crew based out of the Bron x, New York.
He started dancing back in 1982 after travel ina the world sharing his love for thi s
b
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culture, as well as lecturin g at prestigious
colleges like Yale , Princeton and Rutgers
Universities. Currently, Fever! teach es
classes at The Steps School of Dance on
Broadway in Manhattan . He has also choreographed routines for "Invasion of th e
B-Girls," a Seattle production designed to
promote the contributions of women to hip
hop culture.
The All Nations I vI Competition will be
held this Saturday, May 5 in LIB 4300 of
the Evergreen Library building. The battle
starts promptly at 7 p.m.
In addition to the competition, I learned
that there would be some surprise attractions for those in attendance . I can't reveal what, but don't miss your chance to
see these world class athletes going head
to head .
Brandon Custy is a sophomore happily enrolled in Illustrative Narrative and
Matters of Life and Death, and appreciates
all submissions for the A&E page.
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Cooper Point Journal
5
May 3, 2007
Theatre shock treatment
By Bert Bertelstein
I have a problem. Today's successful
American theatre is pop theatre. It is a deranged game ofhouse that transcends cooking
meals, working nine to five, paying taxes and
doing laundry. In playgrounds across the nation, games of house idolize shiny plastic
Hollywood dolls, violence and reality T.V.,
justifying the absorption of money into cinematic explosions, while the theatre is denied the slightest financial backing. What's
worse is that in an effort to make rent, draw
audiences and keep up with such a competitive and enrapturing spectator experience,
the theatre is forced to present fantasy and
spectacle for entertainment's sake.
This struggle has turned theatre into a
novelty in an attempt to plug the flow of audiences streaming away from the stage towards
television and movies. Attention spans are
shorter, lacking time for the poetry and intellectualism of classic American dramas.
The objectivity of the stage experience is
rejected in favor of the subjectivity of the
camera, which carefully narrates the viewer's experience, chooses what 'reality' deserves focus. The overwhelming economic
powerhouse of Hollywood has forced great
American dramas to be adapted and relegated
to the screen. The shifting status of great
plays leaves regional theaters and Broadway
struggling for audiences, allowing the kitsch
to take the spotlight.
I see it all around me. Its roots reach
deep into the earliest years of the American
experience. Today's childhoods are spent
dancing in imagined MTV music videos,
masquerading as movie stars, or shooting
make-believe guns while the truths of bullets generalization. Theatre, through such a pre- the mass exploitation required in produc- sentation, becomes a living screen, a realer
tion, the mass extermination in their usage- reality show to get lost in, to forget, to reare never realized. The realities of life fade linquish all responsibility for life through vicompared to glorified violence, glamorized carious existence. Such fantasy and internalfame and a garish society of leisure. These ized social symptoms promote complacency
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Bert Bertelstein is a character in
pop u Iat ions
up and mature
into zombieinto modern
the musical "RooseveltElemenlike trances.
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tary." Bert's Voice was brought to
comedies and
dramas; dragyou courtesy of
Brohinsky.
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dren's plays; 'mocumentaries'; and anything
hailing a title like, "The Lady in Question is
Charles Busch."
The theatre of today is entertainment for
entertainment's sake. It is spectacle. It seeks
to pass time through pleasure or humor or
awe - to elicit Response X for Response
X's sake. Emotions are consumed and fulfill the desire of experience, yet do nothing
to address, and effectively distract from,
the imposition of interpreted reality. One
leaves full of whatever exacted response horror, pity, empathy, yearning- and is content with this and nothing more. This consumption is an extension of consumerist
culture, a byproduct of a system that objectifies and exploits everything in search of
accumulation.
The world is becoming an amalgam of
things to be only perceived and consumed,
not meditated upon or viewed as anything
beyond the surface- a world sucked dry of
its life and agency. It lacks abstraction and
Snap out of it.
The theatre
of distraction
rejects a role in
contributingto
both social and individual reality. However,
this trans formative role is not chosen, it is inherent, and when theatre shirks this potential it moves into a realm of falsehood. It attempts to ignore the political nature of existence by disguising the necessarily consequential as inconsequential fantasy or play,
effectively insulating its audience from areality in constant flux, a reality which they
are subsequently compelled to believe is
beyond their control. Such theatre creates
the illusion of inconsequence, of static ex istence, and breeds complacency, apathy and
idleness. It lulls us into accepting socially
imposed realities as insurmountable absolutes without question or participation. It invites us to sleep through our own lives on a
pillow of caprice, covered with a comforter
of ignorance that insulates as thoroughly as
it suffocates.
Today's theatre needs shock treatment,
needs defibrillation. Today's theatre needs
Superman Theatre, a theatre that is epic in
proportion and character. The Superman
Theatre relates an event instead of replicating it on stage. The Superman Theatre
transforms the audience into critical observers, rather than emotional participants.
It arouses action, compels decision-making,
confronts its viewers with argument, choice,
and investigation. It presents people and the
world as changeable, not static, and focuses
on human motive and agency. The Superman
Theatre actively engages an interpretation of
reality and seeks to address it, recognizing
and using its transformative capability. The
Superman Theatre presents social import and
function in relation to each other in a manner
that is not self-evident. It presents a situation to an observer who must then draw his/
her own conclusion.
No longer can we sit hypnotized by fantastic reproductions distracting from truths
like stricken Constitutional Rights, bullied
redefinitions of'torture' and ballistic dodgeball games. Theatre demands transformation. People need representations of reality.
They need cognition and clarity. They want
to feel excitement in their own lives, not
just through those of celebrities. A theatre
which makes no contact with the public is a
lie. People want to see tattlers tattling, bullies bullying, and sluts slutting. They want
the truth. They want the dirty truth.
Bert Bertelstein is a character in the musical "Roosevelt Elementary," which was
written by seniors Jais Brohinsky and Cohen
Ambrose and will be performed May 11 and
12 at the Midnight Sun as well as May 15
at TESC 's Recital Hall. Bert's voice was
brought to you courtesy of Jais Brohinsky.
"Rachel Corrie" poised for deeper meaning
By Gar Russo
The Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of" My Name is Rachel Corrie" was performed three times last weekend on campus
at the Experimental Theatre. It is a 90 minute,
one-woman play and Marya Sea Kaminski, as
Rachel , showed impressive powers of memorization. The staging was a weathered, pockmarked stone wall forming an 'L' shape that
suggested that it was a part of a house and
Rachel was living inside. The set did not
change throughout the play except for variations in lighting and Rachel's rolling up
her mattress, packing her things and moving
cinder blocks around the stage. She stayed
on the floor of the stage except for a portion
where she climbed the wall and continued her
monologue. The production featured shocking
audio elements of rocket blasts, explosions,
grinding metal wheels and background voices.
Rachel Corrie was a student at Evergreen
and many people in the audience were friends,
acquaintances or relatives of her. In March
2003, she went to Rafah in Gaza which was
very near the border with Egypt in an area of
tunnels used for smuggling. Many of these
tunnels were hidden by houses in the area.
She was a member of an organization that recruited Westerners to serve as 'human shields'
against Israeli military activities. Rachel
Corrie was killed in a tragedy for her parents
by material dislodged by an Israeli bulldozer
that tumbled onto her according to an autopsy
reported at Rache!CorrieFacts.org. The bulldozer was variously described as targeting an
innocent pharmacist's house, as destroying
tunnels in the area, or as moving towards
a house covering the entrance to a tunnel.
The play was a patchwork of Rachel
Corrie's blog-style writings from journals,
diaries and emails that were compiled by
playwright Katherine Viner and actor Alan
Rickman. The play was performed in London,
New York, Seattle and at TESC and was met
with reviews of widely varying enthusiasm
that seemed to be based in the various disparate opinions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Politics were inevitably part of this
play. Like the Great Rift that runs south for
4,500 miles thru the Jordon River Valley and
the Dead Sea to southern Africa, the politics of the Middle East also split the world.
In my opinion, the play has a problem in
separating itself from the current moment and
the Middle East conflict. If the play is to have
any continuing artistic and human merit beyond that of the splash of a rock thrown into
a quiet pond, it must be separated from the
continuing Middle East blood-feud. It needs
a human core and human meaning beyond
the play's one-sided progandistic value. "All
Quiet on the Western Front" is a great work
not because of description of transitory political reality, but rather because of its description and connection with the human predicament. Likewise, "My Name is Rachel Corrie"
needs an insight into a generalized view of
the human condition. The concept of a meaningful human view was suggested by Rachel
Corrie in the play: "Nothing could have prepared me for the reality of the situation here."
The should-be, want-to-be world of altruism, self-sacrifice, commiseration and
caring versus the real politic of violence, pragmatism, destruction and lies begged to be developed in "My Name is Rachel Corrie." The
compilers of the long monologue of the play
failed in their artistic due diligence to create
a generalized human predicament out of the
writings of the former Evergreen student.
The human conflict between idealism
and the real world in Rachel Corrie's thinking
jumped out in the final element in the play.
It was a video of Rachel Corrie as a ten year
old giving a speech in her school's 'Fifth
1
Grade Press Conference on World Hunger.'
In it she forcefully articulated the idealism
which may have been the chains of her fate
and the trap of her life. "I'm here for other
children," she says, "I'm here because I
care." She repeats in sentences four times
"We have got to ... ,"and continues into four
sentences beginning with "My dream ... .
My dream .... My dream .... My dream .... "
She was 23 in 2003 and idealism was
her purpose in life. "There are no rules ... no
fairness ... no guarantees. No warranties on
anything. It's all just a shrug .... And I knew,
back then, that the shrug would happen at the
end of my life ... Who cares? Now, I know
who cares. I know if! die ... That's my job."
The play runs in Seattle at the Seattle
Repertory through May 6.
Gar Russo is a senior student studying
communications.
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poetry
May 3, 2007
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Robin Rapuzzj
I I I I I I I I I I I.Jacob Salzer I I I I I I
Untitled #1
Compassion is the Wqy
Miss, Miss
I fucked your blue eyelidded
piggy yesterday
beneath the glow of Mother Moon
and the Deep Dark Skylark of Naughty Night
He screamed so once I remarked upon my kissing you
the morning before,
in the midst of Fall's hailing rain in light sprinkle and chine
You and I, we glimmered
oh yes our bodies and emotions glimmered
We never danced, but we still felt the moment's liberated
romance
I know I cannot move
without my Hearts content,
and when i don't resist its power,
the doer finally sits at rest,
as the "me" losees its grip
upon my shoulders
and drops silently to the floor
as large, dirty puddles of guilt
evaporate and vanish to dust,
invisible, you cannot see anymore.
Individuality loses its
grasp upon my being,
when old clocks crack
the rigid, black arrows become stiff
and motionless, as the eyes in my back
blink several times.
Didn't we?
Didn't you?
Who were we? For I am too far gone now beneath the shadow
of Shame's elegance and
cry.
What does life feel like
without walls?
without floors
or ceilings
to compress yourself?
As free as birds fly together,
wrapped in clean clothes;
as light filters through rough sand,
each speck is a prism
to reflect wrinkled wisdom .
I am sorry, deeply sorry.
Miss, is there any way I can ever forgive myself?
Untitled #2
At the bottom
Of each spirit's well,
There are screams
Screams of servitude to no one
"Freedom at last!
By god, we are free at last!"
no longer afraid to die,
no longer afraid to live:
Compassion is the Way home
as the path is the goal,
show me your footsteps,
as open Eyes can only see themselves.
And off the beach shores of wisdom walking?
Individuals float down smooth shallow currents
Sinking deep in though
And letting out notes of melodious chanting
"I see the open road! I've always known it and do walk it!"
Compassion continues to emerge
from deep within my being
as my willingness grows
to give up all my dirty clothes
and bathe in the immaculate purity
of the unseen.
Amidst the buzzing drone of worker men and women
On city sidewalks and long stretches of highway, one is
Roughly aware of the sickness, the spill of ache and bone
sinew
Across sickly pale worlds, and landscapes gone dreadfully
wrong, filled to the brink with
.
.
ghosts swallowing their souls over and over agam, chokm on
epiphany like
confusions ...
Never going anywhere a new off of them
Was this world meant to turn undead?
Or are we just leaving our soulful books unread, to turn into
dust, and blow off like
nothing ever was or ever came?
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on lucidity, irifinity (shoot endangered birds).
it's okay to be the boss, if you've got lucidity.
it's okay to decide,
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who dies, who did it, &
what
what means.
or to paint kiss portraits out of unicorn blood,
or to spread disease like wings.
/Am Lost
it's okay
to shoot endangered birds, to be endangered, you
it is our tongue's duty to smile,
the make of grass to burn,
are being shot by other infidels.
my pause is due to a river's substance,
the blanketing rapture,
it's okay to sing other people's songs & say that you belong
inside the song, in side the other people's
voices
oh my hips naming the grounds
with fingers laid out,
when you don't.
here and scream, the dust away.
It seems unreal that I am,
anything is possible when it isn't.
you can go anywhere you want when you are stuck.
unwound that I place myself down
under rocks above my head,
don't believe anyone when they tell you that they love you,
because they do.
where the eagles catch my tail,
I dive for nothing but the wind.
don't believe anyone when they say they'll save you fro.m
this spell.
because they Will.
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Cooper Point Journal
May 3, 2007
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The Language Symposium:
The language of self-indulgence
By Grant Miller
this weekend, it must be known that Grant Miller
has worn deodorant on two different occasions
in the past ten years. But his vile nature doesn't
stop there. Are we really supposed to believe that
Grant Miller has an array of black button-up shit1s
and black pants? Like some Pee Wee Herman
character that never varies in decisions of style?
Absolutely not. One need only stand within a
few feet of Grant Miller and sniff the foul space
he occupies to know that he never changes his
clothes. So, if you go to Spring Writes, I would
recommend sitting as far away as you can from
Grant Miller.
There is a specter haunting Evergreen . No, it is
not communism , nor is it postmodernism (?). This
specter is much worse. It is the specter of Grant
Miller. This is not the Grant Miller you think you
might know, but a different one. This weekend, on
Saturday, in the Organic Farmhouse beginning at
I 0 a.m. there is an all day writing workshop and
gathering called Spring Writes, and Grant Miller
will be there. Ifyou see him beware: he will steal
your ideas like he does mine.
In fact, all of Grant Miller's ideas are stolen
from either myself, or some other unassuming
individual.
But this is not all. The space in which this article you are reading right now was originally intended for a different article, written by the likes
of Grant Miller. This article was smutty, incoherent, and completely devoid of content, much
like Grant Miller himself. In fact, Grant Miller
often indulges in syntactical nonsense. For example, he may employ sentences such as this one:
Andfurther still a subtle universe ofcosmic pinball where people made ofmetal circle the sun in
tiny ellipses of expectation. I rest my case. And
when asked why he employs terms such as "teleological" instead of simply "goal-oriented,"
Grant Miller shrugs his shou lders and offers no
response, relying on his poor posture and silent
demeanor to intrigue the questioner (in this case
me) into believing that Grant Miller is actually
intelligent and actually has good reasons for employing such pretentious utterances when it is obvious that he does not.
Further, if you plan on going to Spring Writes
I
If one has a bruise,
Grant Miller will inevitably poke it. Grant
Miller refuses to pop
his blackheads.
Now, allow me to indulge in my lengthy
laundry list of valid complaints against Grant
Miller: He paradoxically goes to the bar on occasional Friday nights so he can "be alone." If
he can't find the dog food bowl, he often pours
the dog food right on the kitchen floor. He refuses to sit outside or to go on walks on even the
most beautiful days. If a TV is on, he will watch
it without fail, and when asked to stop, he'll say,
"I can't help it," as if he has no agency. He often
urinates and does not flush the toilet afterward.
He sets his alarm for hours before he actually in-
tends to wake up. When asked a question, Grant
Miller wi II stare off into space, feigning contemplation when he is really thinking about something else, or worse, Grant Miller will reply with
a question. If one has a bruise, Grant Miller will
inevitably poke it. Grant Miller refuses to pop his
blackheads. The list goes on and on.
And finally, who else but the self indulgent
Grant Miller would go so far as to write a narcissistic article where he is both the author and the
subject of the article, in order to assert his selfish
desire that you attend Spring Writes- a day long
gathering of writers, this Saturday beginning at 10
a.m. in the Organic Farmhouse, with workshops
led by Sandy Yannone and Steve Hendricks,
snacks provided, and an evening reading by a
number of wonderful writers- especially given
the fact that this type of self-deprecating metawriting is done much better in the prose of Ben
Marcus and the poetry of Patrick Lawler, two
writers who Grant Miller consistently steals ideas
from for his own purposes that obviously never
leave the circuitry of self.
Only Grant Miller would force a reader to sit
through a sentence as long as the last paragraph.
And only Grant Miller would write aggressive
sentences such as "you should attend Spring
Writes, this Saturday in the Organic Farmhouse
at 10 a.m.," despite his training in non-violent
communication.
A questionable character indeed.
Grant Miller is a senior, a tutor at the Writing
Center, and is enrolled in an Independent
Learning Contract.
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The Weekly Quantitative Reasoning Challenge
The Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning Center (QuaSR) invites you to challenge your quanti..
tative 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.
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The final shape must be a rectangle
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The water level in the lake should fall
when you throw the block in.
While in the boat, the block's weight
pushes the boat down. This displaces
its weight in water.
When thrown in, the block can simply
sink to the bottom, displacing only its
volume in water. Gold is almost 20
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many other contributors have been working on
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On this particular day a coalition of over
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May 3, 2007
Tree free
Tenino quarry?
By Lynn Oha Carey
Plans by the Weyerhaeuser Corporation to
log 70 acres above the quarry pool and along
the nature trail in the Tenino City Park opened
many eyes to the vulnerability of the town 's
icon and the natural beauty we too often take
for granted.
When Weyerhaeuser requested a temporary Use Permit to develop a logging road
through the western edge of Tenino 's city
park, The City saw an opportunity to remove
some trees above the pool that could be dangerous. An arborist hired by the City identified around I 0 trees with root rot on the thin
soils of the steep slopes. He recommended
they be removed . If the top of the hillside is
logged as planned, the arborist recommends
removal of a total of 41 trees on City property above the quarry, to prevent winds from
blowing them down the cliff and possibly
into the quarry.
If the hill is logged and 41 trees on City
property are removed, the park - and especially the quarry - will lose much of its natural
beauty. Meanwhile, wild cherries, big leaf
maples, and rhododendrons are blooming.
We may never witness this icing-on-the top
beauty again. The quarry begs to be celebrated. Now!
Hence, The Tenino Quarry Amateur
Photo Contest, supported by Tenino patrons
and businesses. There are no entrance fees,
only beauty to be noticed, hundreds of dollars
worth of prizes, and an awards party at a great
pizza place with some fine piano playing.
Hundreds march through
downtown on May Day
Tumwater, Aberdeen and Lacey to join in
a celebration of International Workers' Day
and petition to the authorities that no more
· families be broken because of raids against
·people who are not committing a crime but
doing an honest job and contributing to
U.S. society in great measure as well.
A diverse group of all ages congreBy Laura Sandez
gated at Sylvester Park at approximately 4
p.m.
Around two hundred people marched
Kids were present and enjoyed an imto the Capitol on Tuesday May First as part perialist "piftata" hanging from a tree
ofthe nationwide effort to call for immigra- around Capitol just before coming back to
tion reform and stop the increasing number Sylvester Park where the meeting ended
of raids against immigrants.
with public speeches.
The march was organized by Poor's
People Union of Olympia, United
Laura Sandez is a member of Latin@s,
Immigrants of Shelton and ESL students a student group on campus that seeks to
atCIELO.
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Participants call for
policies more hwnane
towards immigrants
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and human dynamics and post-graduate
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May 3, 2007
Annageddon, apocalypse
By Silas James
Lots of things scare me,
like overcooked asparagus,
dirty baby shoes, and tape
with hair stuck to it. But my
most bizarre fear is of the
words "Armageddon" and
"Apocalypse." I'm afraid that
people are using them to make something sound
scary but inadvertently they are making it sound
like it's part of a pre-ordained plan.
The prophecy of the Apocalypse goes something like this: the Antichrist will start a huge war,
then there will be plague and famine that cut the
world's population by two-thirds.
Then Christ, wearing a blood soaked cape, will
ride out of heaven on a white horse and vanquish
the Antichrist; finally there is a judgment, and "the
righteous" are rewarded with pound cake. To me
the whole thing sounds scary.
Maybe it's because I don't believe that there is
a pound cake but it could just be my extreme fear
of horses. Presumably, the people who do believe
in pound cake think they'll get some; to them I'm
guessing the story sounds pretty awesome.
A 2002 CNN/Time poll revealed that 59 percent of Americans believe that this Apocalypse
prophecy will come true. This means that today
about 174 million Americans believe in what to
me sounds a lot like the Easter bunny in a bloody
cape. But within the secular community there are
people like me. We do not believe that humanity
would survive an Apocalypse-like event, decreased
in numbers but shiny like a new penny.
We do not eagerly anticipate the effects of global
warming or a nuclear event; we understand that a
major disaster has no silver lining. We are at ideological odds with the first group; they think that the
Apocalypse will be totally awesome and we think
~~ ..then
Christ, wearing a blood
soaked cape, will ride out of heaven on a white horse and vanquish
the Antichrist; finally there is a
judgment, and"the righteous" are
rewarded with pound cake. 11
that if it happened, it would totally suck.
Despite the fact that the secular community doesn't buy the myth of the Apocalypse or
Armageddon, the terms have slithered into the lexicon of secular culture. For example, Geoffrey Lean
warns of the danger of ignoring climate change in
a prophetic article titled Apocalypse Now: How
Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth,
published February 2005 by The Independent.
Or Heather Wokusch who writes "Such sheer
ignorance and blind denial would be laughable if
it weren't marching us into Armageddon," in her
poignant critique, Easter Surprise: Attack on Iran,
New 9111, or worse ... published March 2007, by
commondreams.org. Using language like this is unwise because people who respond to the religious
undertones of "Apocalypse" and "Armageddon"
believe that it is preordained and will end positively. Instead of sounding scary, calling something
the Apocalypse just makes it sound unavoidable;
rather than making people want to act, it encourages fatalism and apathy.
As the climate change situation becomes worse
and nuclear war becomes more likely, I expect that
there will be increasingly more religious literature
pretending to be academic. It's important that the
two sides of this growing ideological conflict remain discernable from one another. To this end
I encourage academics, instead of saying, "This
could be Armageddon," to scare people by saying
"This is really bad shit that could wipe out huge
numbers of people, leaving only scattered groups
of humans who will be forced to scavenge for food
and clothing while trying to avoid the giant insects
who will likely become earth's dominant species." I
know it's a mouthful but that's what I'm afraid will
happen if we don't stop making catastrophe sound
so awesome by calling it "Armageddon."
Silas James is a senior doing an independent
learning contract called Better Know a Ninja.
With Republicans, every day is opposite day
By Jan Tangen
Though there are a
few schools of thought
regarding Opposite Day,
there are some widelyknown rules which have
never been open for
debate.
First, Opposite Day is never on
Wednesday-Wednesday is Wedding Day.
Everyone knows that.
Second, Opposite Day must always be
announced. In my school days, this meant
the task fell to whichever kid announced it
with enough confidence to get the rest of the
class to go along with it- as in: "Jan, I don't
think you're stupid ... on Opposite Day!"
"Jan, will you be my friend ... on Opposite
Day!" and, "Jan's a really great name for a:
boy ... on Opposite Day!"
These rules are set in stone, but our country's Republican leadership has ignored them
on a daily basis. It's as if, automatically,
every day is Opposite Day for Republicans.
The ongoing scandal over World Bank
President Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's former
Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the
$60,000 promotion he gave his girlfriend, has
delivered a perfect example. Mr. Wolfowitz's
stated goal in his new post has been to crack
down on corruption at the World Bank. Then,
forgoing rules and procedure, he granted the
unprecedented pay raise. Clearly he wants
to crack down on corruption at the Bank ...
on Opposite Day.
This administration has since its inception, in fact, regarded every day as
Opposite Day. Let's look at a pair of classic
catch-phrases:
Compassionate Conservative.
Conservative: Our national debt, which leveled off at $6 trillion under President Clinton,
has seen a mercurial rise to near $9 trillion
under the guidance of George W. Bush and
his Republican Congress. The budget deficit
in 2006 had increased 8 percent from 2005's
all-time record of $791 billion, to $856 billion. Compassionate: In a January I, 2006
visit to the Amputee Care Center at Brooke
Army Hospital in San Antonio, Bush joked
to Iraq War veterans: "I have an injury myself. Not here at the hospital, but in combat
with a cedar. .. The cedar gave me a little
scratch... I was able to avoid any major
surgical operations here, but thanks for your
compassion ... "
Culture of Life: Almost 4,000 U.S.
military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
According to The Lancet, between 400, 000
and almost 800,000 Iraqi civilian deaths since
the invasion. The appropriate catch phrase
should be: Culture of Lile ... On Opposite
Day.
Making every day Opposite Day is not
limited to Bush. It's become a way of life
for Republican leaders across the country.
Remember Representative Mark Foley
of Florida? Apparently, he'd been furtively observing Opposite Day for years as
Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing
and Exploited Children, while pursuing teenaged House-pages with sexually explicit emails and text-messages. (When Republican
leaders could no longer hide Foley's pedophilia from the public, he checked himself
into an alcohol treatment program. Which
makes perfect sense -because it's his drinking
that's the problem ... on Opposite Day!)
You see, when every day is Opposite
Day, they can say one thing, but do just the
opposite. Like the Reverend Ted Haggert,
former President of the National Association
of Evangelicals and once-prominent proponent of Republican-style "family values" and
anti-gay legislation. Turns out, every day for
him was Opposite Day, because his actual
idea of family values is supporting the manufacture of methamphetamine in our neighborhoods and habitually cheating on one's
wife with a prostitute.
I often get irritated when I hear TV shows
throw the word irony around. In the Oxford
Dictionary, the third definition of irony is
"the use of language with one meaning for
a privileged audience and another for those
addressed or concerned." The American
Heritage Dictionary gives its second definition as "Incongruity between what might
be expected and what actually occurs." So
it's ironic, then, that George W. Bush- arguably our first semi-literate president-should
have such mastery of the word. Since I'm
attempting to use it correctly, it's not ironic
that he takes tricks directly from Orwell's
"1984": "I just want you to know that, when
we talk about war, we're really talking about
peace," he said on June 18, 2002. All he did
was flip to the third page. It's right there, in
all-caps.
Even adept as he is, he sometimes slips,
forgetting it's supposed to be Opposite
Day:
"The best way to defeat the totalitarian
of hate is with an ideology of hope- an ideology of hate- excuse me, an ideology of
hope." (Jan. II, 2007)
" ... the United States Congress was right
to renew the Terrorist Act-The Patriot Act."
(Sep. 7, 2006)
And who could forget the classic: "You
know, one of the hardest parts of my job is
to connect Iraq to the war on terror." (Sep.
6,2006)
Condoleeza Rice is even better at it. She
wrote an entire editorial in 2002 entitled,
"Why We Know Iraq Is Lying." Chevron
Corp. named a new tanker after her, but the
invasion had nothing to do with oil ... on
Opposite Day.
Even Colin Powell decided to give this
every-day-is-Opposite-Day thing a try when
he went before the UN Security Council on
February 5, 2003. He stated: "My colleagues,
every statement I make today is backed up by
sources, solid sources ... What we're giving
you are facts and conclusions based on solid
intelligence." (Note how he skillfully left out
the phrase ... on Opposite Day.)
We learned long afterwards that
"solid source" was an infamously du-
bious agent named Curveball. C'mon,
Colin-Curveball?
Powell resigned in shame, ridden
with guilt, and slunk off into the shadows;
Opposite Day is not always a pleasure to
play.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
has no qualms about making every day
Opposite Day, though. Remember when he
refused to recuse himself from the trial regarding his good friend and hunting buddy
Dick Cheney's Energy Commission, because
he honestly saw no conflict of interest ... on
Opposite Day.
And remember when Cheney shot Harry
Whittington in the face, causing him to have
a heart-attack in the hospital, and then neglected to visit him? I've got nothing to add
here regarding Opposite Day-! just wanted
to remind everyone about when Cheney shot
his friend in the face, and then neglected to
visit him. Also, that Whittington apologized
to Cheney afterwards, saying he was "deeply
sorry for all that Vice President Cheney has
had to go through this past week." (Feb 17,
2006)
Not to say Cheney isn't a daily practitioner of Opposite Day. Just after the first
Gulf War, when asked if the United States
should have gone into Baghdad to topple
Saddam Hussein, Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney responded: " ... it's my view that ...
it would have been a mistake for us to get
bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq."
(Apr. 29, 1991, Seattle) Later, while still
Secretary of Defense, Cheney approved the
deal between Halliburton and the Pentagon
that granted the company exclusive first
rights to U.S. military contracts. Then he became the company's CEO. Now his view is
it would have been a mistake not for us to get
bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq.
Let's see-! think that's just about it ...
on Opposite Day.
Jan Tangen is enrolled in the Masters in
Environmental Studies program.
letters & op_inions
Cooper PoinL Journal
Things that are worse
than Starbucks
By Casey Jaywork
This is blasphemy,
stick with me. There '
are worse things than I
Starbucks.
Like favoritism.
While bleeding-heart
commies and bloodyknuckle capitalists can disagree about class ism in itself, there is little debate that unqualified family members of the boss getting special treatment in the workplace
is, y'know, bad. This is where the whole
·'Corporations Bad, Small Business Good"
dogma breaks down: whether from the top
down or on equal footing, people will always find ways to be shitty. Sometimes,
working for the underdog just means there's
no pol icy to keep the under-underdog from
getting screwed. I know this because I spent
fall quarter earning minimum wage at a
job I hated, only to lose it to somebody's
brother when money got tight.
Like not having health insurance,
which the 'Bucks gives you if you work
over twenty hours a week.lfyou don't live
in Canada or San Fransisco, this comes in
handy.
Like campus coffee, which is not so
much stale and watery as paralyzed and
oceanic. I can hear you snooty barista kids
out there already stuttering about how godawful Starbucks coffee is. Stop chanting
long enough to taste it, it's not that bad.
Decent, in fact. True, any widely standardized product will have a quality ceiling that
indie shops can easily surpass; but that
same standardization is what let Starbucks
become what it is- because it's better than
average.
Not great, but good.
There are worse things than
Starbucks.
Like discrimination: "Swear to God,
man, when I started here, there was nothing
but lesbians. Fuckin' bitches need some
cock, dude." This from my next boss, again,
somebody's brother. This is the job where
I stayed in the closet for $7.50 an hour,
plus tips.
Like training. Starbucks puts an absurd amount of this into their new hires, unlike the aforementioned eatery, where my
training in its entirety consisted of "Look
at the menu behind you; you'll figure it
out."
Starting at Starbucks was more like a
two credit class, and it's not because they're
nice. Nice businesses do one thing: go out
of business. Expecting any player in the existing system of economics to be nice, or
socially responsible, or anything less than
an amoral profit-monger is absurd; roughly
comparable to hoping sharks become vegetarians out or the goodness or their hearts.
Businesses are organisms created for the
purpose of making money; their "corporate
responsibility" programs are either PR or
idealistically-na'lve mismanagement.
So don't misunderstand me: I know that
Starbucks doesn't give two squirts in a colostomy bag about me or any of their other
employees, except in how we can generate
profit. The reason l favor them over Mom
& Pop McGee is the ll'ay in which they use
me: as a valuable investment, not a re-usable band-aid.
Really, part of the motivation for this
rant is just that l want a Starbucks, or any
real caffeine joint, on campus, because
I'm tired of long lines and shitty espresso.
I know this won't happen because of the
administration's blood-pact with Aramark,
but it's frustrating to know that even if a
Starbucks were to open up on campus, it
would likely be boycotted to bankruptcy.
Not because it's a bad company; not because it would be driving out some helpless, lovable Mom & Pop joint. No, it would
be demonized because we, the leftist radicals, have chosen Starbucks as a cultural
scapegoat. Hating Starbucks is a ritual by
which we can cement our identity in solidarity against an Other.
It's an immaturity I'm tired of, so now I
work for them, and so far, it's great.
Casey .Jaywork is a sophomore enrolled
in Life and Consciousness. He can be
reached at hurch_ 9030@yahoo.com.
May 3, 2007
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Join the Geoduck
Union
By Brooke McLane-Higginson
Hey you: run for student government.
The Geoduck Union needs 21 representatives for next year, and you could be
one of them. As an Evergreen student,
you've probably found something about
Evergreen that you'd change if you could.
Now you can-for the sake of all our current and future students. As the mission statement states, The
Geoduck Union works to improve students' quality of life by
advocating for students' rights and needs, facilitating communication among students, and ensuring a fair balance of power
among faculty, staff, administration and students.
What can you do as a representative? You could help make
late-night transit a reality. You could investigate Evergreen's
investment practices and help make them more socially responsible. You could lobby in the legislature for lower tuition.
Perhaps you have other issues in mind- you could tackle those
with the power of all Evergreen students behind you. And you
might even be able to get us better food.
If you're curious about Union meetings or want a better idea
of what it's like to represent, come to any of the Union's regular meetings, Wednesdays I to 3 p.m. in SEM II D II 05. The
Union is composed of21 representatives who make decisions
by consensus-and this is easier, I promise, than it sounds. One
representative seat is reserved for a Tacoma campus student,
one seat is reserved for a Reservation-based representative, and
the Union can provide gas reimbursement or conference calls
for non-Olympia-based representatives. Ifyou're elected, plan
to spend a total of 6 to 8 hours per week on Union business
through regular meetings, committee meetings, office hours,
or whatever projects you choose to take on.
To declare your candidacy for the Union, pick up a form in
CAB 320 from the front desk or the Union mailbox, or find
the form online at www2.evergreen.edu/studentgovernment.
To submit the online form, or if you have any questions, email
elections@evergreen.edu. Forms are due this Monday, May
7 so hurry!
Regardless of whether you run, remember to vote. Next
week, the CP J will publish a voter's guide of candidates and
their statements, and the Union will make this information
available on its website. You can also meet the candidates at
the Candidate Fair on Wednesday, May 16, outside the academic fair in the CRC. You can vote on campus or online
anytime during weeks eight or nine, and results will be announced Week I 0.
Brooke McLane-Higginson is a senior enrolled in Mind.
What is community?
By Haley Carpenter
I have been struggling with this
question over the past few weeks. As
both a co-coordinator of the Women
of Color Coalition, a student group,
and an RA it is my job to create space
for community to grow. I cannot help
but feel as if I have failed, on one if
not both of those fronts. I find myself revisiting this
question of community, wondering what is it and how
I can help foster it. I feel like "community" and "safe
space" are words that are thrown around Evergreen like
flowers-pretty and useless. Yet I seem to have made it
my current life's goal to work towards a more healthy
community, both for women of color and for the larger
campus community.
I feel that I have finally come to a conclusion, be it
correct or not, about community. To me, community is
intentional. People come to this campus because they
choose to. People participate in student groups and activities bec,ause they choose to.
Community is intentional, it is not accidental.
Community happens when its members participate.
Community is involvement. Community is not formed
by one person, community does not happen between
two or three people. Community is formed by a group
of people, who come together intentionally to create a
space for themselves and others. Community can not be
created by one person for other people. The members of
the community have to want community and actively
participate in it in order for it to happen.
I, as an RA, cannot create community for my residents if they don't want it, if they don't participate in
it for themselves. I, as a co-coordinator of The Women
of Color Coalition, cannot force constituents to hang
out and like each other. They have to be involved themselves, they have to participate in planning, organizing,
and attending events and meetings. I cannot do it for
them, and I'm not going to try to any more.
So tell me, what do you want out of your community? What do you think your community should look
like? What do you want from us? Do you want a certain person to come and speak on campus? Do you have
some fantastic idea for an event or program?
To me, community is intentional.
People come to this campus because they choose to. People participate in student groups and
activities because they choose to.
Or do you just want someone to hang out with? Do
you want a group of people to complain about seminar
to? What are your needs?
How can you make some of this happen? Get involved! There are a ridiculous amount of ways that you
can participate in the larger community at Evergreen.
First and foremost, participate by attending the numerous events that happen almost every day.
Pay attention to the flyers and banners and various
advertisements that surround you. I know it's a lot of
information to take in, but something's bound to catch
your eye, and when something does - go! Give the
people who sponsored the event a pat on the back- community is hard work. And if you find yourself wanting
more, you can participate on a whole other level. Join a
student group, any one that suits your needs. Participate
in the Geoduck Union . Join one of the many DTFs
(Disappearing Task Force) that desperately need student
input. Help the Diversity Fund decide how to spend their
money next year! Help Housing spend their money by
joining the Greener Organization (GO).
If that's still not enough, participate in planning next
year's Day of Absence and Day of Presence events. That
committee meets every Thursday at 3:30p.m. in LIB
2204. Anyone can come, if you can make it only once
or if you come every week, your voice matters.
Do any one of these things, or something I didn't
mention, and you will be well on your way to creating
community by participation.
If you want to reach me directly, my email is
carhal05@evergreen.edu. I'd be happy to hear your suggestions on what community is or what you want to see
in this community. Also, I'd love to talk about what we
can do fall quarter to jump start a community with our
new Greeners.
Haley Carpenter is a junior, is co-coordinator of
the Women of Color Coalition through an internship,
is enrolled in an Independent Learning Contract, and
Evening and Weekend classes Autobiography, and The
Practice of Professional Tutoring.
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On Campus
Club
Meetings
THURSDAY,3
5 to 7 p.m. Multimedia Lab workshop:
Photoshop for Video. LIB 1404.
------------------------------------Fashion Club
Mondays, noon
CAB 2nd floor
6 p.m . Vipassana Meditation.
Longhouse. Hosted by Common Bread.
TESC Democrats
Mondays, 3:30p.m .
CAB 3rd floor
tescdemocrats@gmail.com
FRIDAY,4
9 to I 0 :30 p.m. lmprov War, see who can
perform the best unscripted scenes. LH I.
Hosted by Evergreen Spontaneity Club.
Prolegomena to a Future Poetics
evening literary reading series
Mondays, 7 p.m .
SEM II A 1105
Healing Arts Collective
Tuesdays 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Info Shoppe, 3rd floor Library
Evergreen Spontaneity Club
Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m.
SEM II Dll05
All experience levels welcome
Student Video Garners Alliance
Tuesdays, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
CAB TV lounge
SEED
Wednesdays, I p.m.
CAB 3rd floor pit
Chemistry Club
Wednesdays, I to 2 p.m.
LAB I 1037
Geoduck Union
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m.
SEM II Bll05
geoduckunion@evergreen.edu
Students In Action workshops
Wednesdays, I to 3 p.m.
SEM II E2125
Students for a Democratic
Society
Wednesdays, 2 p.m .
SEM II E3105
Society for Trans Action
Resources
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
SEM II D3107
Writer's Guild
Wednesdays, 3 to 4 p.m.
SEM II C building lobby
Synergy
Wednesdays, 3:45p.m .
CAB 320
Alcoholics Anonymous
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
LAB I 1047
Fridays, noon and 7 p.m ..
LAB 11047
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Open Mic Poetry Reading
Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
vox
Thursdays, 2:30 p.m.
CAB 320 solarium
lnfoshoppe and Zine Library
Thursdays, 4 p.m. LIB 3303
TESC Chess Club
Thursdays, 4 to 6 p.m.
SEM II Cll05
A ll skill levels welcome .
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Evergreen Animal Rights
Network
Thursdays, 4:30 p.m.
CAB 3rd Floor
WashPIRG
Fridays, 4 p.m .
CAB 320 conference room
7 p.m. Preview screening of PBS documentary on America's first prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief. COMM Recital Hall.
Hosted by Evergreen Expressions.
4 to 5:30p.m . Academic advising festival. HCC.
5 to 6 p.m . "Elements of Alchemy" creative writing workshop . LIB 2304.
SATURDAY,S
9 a.m . to 4:30 p.m. The National
Organization for Women annual state conference . Longhouse.
WEDNESDAY, 9
3 p.m. Bicycle mechanics workshop on
changing cables and cable housing. Bike
Shop, basement of CAB.
6:30 to 9 p.m. Gypsie Nation free spirit
dance. SEM II, EII07.
3 to 5 p.m . Pre-Med/Pre-Health academic advising workshop . SEM II, B II 07.
I0 a.m. to I 0 p.m . Spring Writer 's
Conference, a day-long event of writing
workshops and discussions. Organic
Farmhouse. Hosted by Writer's Guild.
TUESDAY,B
4 to 5 p.m . "Grammar Rodeo" grammar
skills workshop. LIB 2304.
3:30 to 5:30p.m. Hip Hop Congress
meeting. SEM II, A 1305.
7 p.m. All Nations I vi Breakdance
Competition. LIB 4300. Hosted by
Expressive Arts Alliance.
6 to 9 p.m. Rachel Carson forum.
Longhouse. Hosted by Masters in
Environmental Studies.
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Saturday, May 12
9 a.m. to II :45 p.m. LAN
Party. SEMI! CII05 and 1107.
Sponsored by Student Video
Garners Alliance.
8 to I 0 p.m. Speak Easy open
mic event. Lll 5. llosted by
Umoja.
Thursday, May 17
7 to 9 p.m. "Post Traumatic
Slave Syndrome" lecture by Dr.
Joy DeGruy Leary. Lll!. llosted
by Uoja.
Friday, May II
9 to 10:30 p.m. The Harold: a
long-form improv theater performance. Lll I. Hosted by Evergreen
Spontaneity Club.
6 to 7:30p.m. Fossil fuel resistance slideshow and lecture. SEM
II, D II 05. llosted by ERC.
6 p.m . Mindscreen movie night: "Pocket
Full of Miracles." LH I.
Special Announcements
Thursday, May 10
6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m .
talk. Understanding Islam with Dr.
Ayub Muhammad . Longhouse.
llosted by Common Dread.
Saturday, May 19
6 - 2 p.m. Swap-0-Rama
clothing swap and transformation.
CAD 320. llostcd by Evergreen
Expressive Arts Alliance
Special announcements
Remember to check out the 4'" Annual TESC Science
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.
Be on live community TV! Dance 0' Dance is a public access TV show, shown live every first Friday of the month. It's
free and open to the public. The show features dancers shimmy
shaking to all styles and sounds. This month's play list includes
songs from the Spiderman 3 soundtrack and by bands playing
at Sasquatch. Show up at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 4 at TCTV
Studio A, 440 Yauger Way SW.
Campus.
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Thursday, 3
I p.m. Olympia Farmer's Market
Lijie
Friday, 4
6 to 9 p.m. The Black Front Gallery
Word Space opening reception and
readings
Saturday, 5
Noon to midnight, Eagles Hall
Free Radio Olympia 98.5 benefit
Sunday, 6
7 p.m. Manium
Food Not Bombs
Tuesday, 8
6:30 p.m. Olympia Free School, 808
Jefferson
Improvisational Acappella Music
Monday, 7
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Corner of Black Lake
and Cooper Point Blvd
Activate West Olympia: Mondays for
Peace vigil
Wednesday, 9
7 to 9 p.m. The Olympia Center
Olympia Movement for Justice and
Peace bimonthly meeting
Answer key to last weeks crossword
The Outdoor Adventure Club
Wednesdays, 4 p.m.
CRC rock climbing gym
Meditation workshop
Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Cedar Room Longhouse
6 to 9 p.m. Root Force Roadshow :
puppet show, lecture, slide show and
movie. SEM II, Bl105 . Hosted by ERC.
6 to 9 p.m. "How to Do Things with
Books" panel discussion . SEM II , E II 05 .
Hosted by The Phrontisterions.
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Narcotics Anonymous
Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
LAB I 1047 and SEM II 3107A
Sundays, 6:30p.m.
CAB lounge
MONDAY,7
3:30 to 4:30p.m . Open discussion
time with Thomas L. Puree, Evergreen
President. Near the Deli, CAB .
Send your calendar events
to Calendar
Coordinator
Lauren
Takores at
cpj@evergreen.
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