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View the full survey results at
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by MADELINE BERMAN
74.7% of students are opposed
while 25.3% are in favor. 81.1 %
of staff are in support while 18.9%
are opposed. 40.9% of faculty
are in support while 59.1% are
opposed.
These are the results of the
survey conducted in order to
gauge how the members of the
campus community feel about
the Police Services proposal to
receive rifles, body armor and
yearly training in order to respond
to a first person shooter situation
on campus.
The survey was conducted by
the Police Services Community
Review Board (PSCRB), the
body that has been delegated with
gathering information about and
making a recollUllendation about
c r or not olice Services
should receive rifles in order
to respond to an active shooter
situation.
According to Andrea Seabert,
staff representative for Student
Affairs and board member, the
PSCRB had initially decided to
not release the results until all
members of the board had time
to see the results and decide how
to formally present them. The
original release date was slated
for April13 , the date of their next
official meeting, but because of
a public document's requests for
the results, the release date was
pushed forward to April 6, this
past Monday.
"There was never any question
of the results being released," said
Seabert during an interview on
April 6, and again during a follow
up interview on the 8th. "Because
the PSCRB was sponsoring the
survey, it was important for them
to determine and decide how to
present it and when."
The survey is a public document
because the college computer
system was used to conduct it.
Any public document can be
requested. According to Seabert,
there are no laws about the amount
of time taken before releasing
a document before it has been
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ARTIST AND ACTIVIST BASIA IRLAND'S EXlllBmON "A GATHERING OF WATERS: THE NISQUALLY
RivER, SOURCE TO SOUND" CENTERS AROUND OF HUMAN CONTROL ON RIVERS AND STREAMS AND
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Special'&ustees
meeting
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budget
To our readers and contributors
The CPJ will not be accepting
opinion articles about the Israel/
Palestine conflict for the remaindering of the quarter. This was a
hard decision to make, and it was
the last thing that we wanted to do.
However, this decision is in the
interest of maintaining productive
and inclusive discourse in the CPJ.
This decision was preceeded by
several discussion between the
Letters and Opinions coordinator,
Managing Editor, and hours of
working with contributors during
week 10 of winter quarter.
The Israel/ Palestinian conflict
by BRIAN FULLERTON
Wednesday, April 8, School
President Les Puree and the
Evergreen Board of Trustees
held a special 30 minute Board
of Trustees meeting to approve
the administration's recommendations regarding the Campus
Activity Building (CAB) Renovation Project. The Board unanilmously approved the budget of
$19,741,875, nearly $13,000,000
of which will be paid to Seattlebased Panattoni Construction
Inc. to do the construction. The
rest of the budget is set aside for
Washington State sales tax, project management costs, project
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is something many students feel
passionately about. Many students
have strong personal and cultural
ties to this region and its citizens.
And it became harder to distinguish the subject of the discourse
and the attacks of the identities and
beliefs.
At the CPJ we also have publication criteria policies that outline
what we can cannot print and when
an article must be revised. The
policy can be found at http://cpj.
evergreen.edu.
We found that were were having
to work with more contributors
not only because of the tone of the
discourse, but because our policies
required revisions.
During that week, the Letters and
Opinions coordinator and myself
spent hours working with contributors on both sides of the issue.
It is wasn't an easy decision to
make, but the CPJ will still strive
to provide Evergreen students with
a forum for expression.
Jason Slotkin
Editor-in-chief
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GSUupdate
Issue of rifle statement left
unresolved
by MADELINE BERMAN
At the end of fall quarter, the Police Services
Community Review Board (PSCRB) first
approached the GSU, seeking feedback
about the proposed rifle purchase. It is now
over four months later and they still have yet
to present a stance, even though a significant
amount of their meetings have been devoted
to the subject.
Originally, what prevented the GSU from
passing a statement was a divide between
members based on whether or not it was the
GSU's responsibility to make a statement at
all. Former representative Alexandre Chateubriand was present at this week's meeting
and voiced his continued opposition to the
GSU's planned statement.
"If[the statement] were to pass, it would be
an abuse of the power vested in this body,"
said Chateubriand, "It's a misuse of student
voice. Don't represent it as consensus,
because it isn't."
Since the resignation of several representatives at the end of last quarter, the majority
of remaining representatives are in favor of
making a statement. The new reason the statement has yet to pass is based the differences
in motivation for making a statement against
the rifles and to what degree the purchase is
acceptable. At this point, three separate statements have been brought forward for discussion and approval, each of which address
different aspects and levels of opposition to
the purchase.
The initial statement, written by representative Shyam Khana, addresses structural
racism, police brutality, and neglect of other
safety issues in order to build an argument
against the rifle purchase. The second statement was drafted by representative Tez Stair
and focused on the need for a disappearing
task force in order to examine current threat
assessment structure as well as a plan for
preventing a first person shooter situation,
and that because these concerns are not
addressed in the purchase proposal, the GSU
must recommend against the purchase.
Both statements mention the argument that
having the guns won't necessarily make a
difference in the event of a shooting.
At this week's meeting, representative Josie
Jarvis initiated discussion about drafting yet
another statement. Though this version was
not written at the time of the meeting, Jarvis
talked about rejecting the proposal on the
philosophical basis that "it distracts and takes
away from a collaborative community based
already offset any of the currently proposed
tuition increases for the 2009-2010 school
year, the Board expressed concerns about
the 2010-2011 school year, because as of
now, the State Need and Pell grants would
not be able to offset that cost. As Washington
State legislature has not finalized the state
budget at the time of the meeting, neither the
Board nor Les Puree felt the need to include
more specific discussion on the agenda.
No action towards expected spending cuts
will be implemented until June 11-12 at the
earliest.
Brian Fullerton is a senior enrolled in
Mediaworks.
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Madeline Berman is a sophomore enrolled
in Image and Sequence.
Starting this summer, students looking for
cigarettes will have to go somewhere besides
the campus bookstore to buy them. However,
they will not have to go further than a store in
housing.
This was the decision made by a small
campus working group of staff members,
students, and faculty whose purpose was to
review smoking on campus.
According to Colin Orr, chair of the working
group, a faculty vote from last year proposed
that the bookstore stop selling cigarettes. The
group was formed to address and seek input
on it.
Orr said the group chose to not make a decision about the cigarettes sold in housing.
According to Orr, members of the housing
community felt that decisions to sell tobacco
on lower campus should be made by the residents ofhousing.
Orr said that the store in housing served as a
"convenience store" for the students who live
on campus.
The group met for three months, using two
forums to gauge student opinion.
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requested. According to Seabert, there are
no laws about the amount of time takenl
before releasing a document before it has
been requested. She explained further
that an impromptu meeting was held via
e-mails, phone calls and conversation~
in order to decide that the PSCRB would
release the results before their originally
scheduled date.
Though Seabert specifically stated on
Monday that the results would be poste~
to the PSCRB website by the end of th
day, the results do not appear to be online.
If they have been posted, they are not in
readily apparent location.
Madeline Berman is a sophomore enrolle~
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it is important that the GSU make a statement
because "this is the one issue we've received
more feedback on than anything else. The
vast majority of what we hear from students
is, 'I want you guys to make a statement
against rifles'; that's why we need to make
a statement."
"We need to make a statement before a decision is made," says Jarvis, "It is a key issue
for the GSU to at least make a statement."
By the end of this week's meeting, the
proposed statement still had not passed. The
union agreed to go to two-thirds vote. Five
representatives voted yes, but six were needed
to make it pass. A similar vote occurred at the
April 1" meeting a week before.
Though the meeting was mainly focused on
the anti-rifle statement, the GSU did discuss
other topics. Representatives agreed on
involvement and promotion of the Food Bank
food drive as well as making an appointment
to the Clean Energy Committee.
The weekly meeting space has been moved
to Cll05.
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fewer places to buy
cigarettes on campus
CAB REDESIGN,jrom cover
contingency, architect and engineering
cost, and art to be installed in the renovated
CAB.
The CAB Renovation will be paid for
by $4,900,000 set aside in the 2007-2009
Capital Budget as well as a fee of$5.75 per
credit per quarter which was voted on by
Evergreen Students in May 2006. Construction begins at the end of Spring Quarter and
will not be fully completed until December
of2010.
While approval of the administration's
recommendation was the only item on the
agenda, most of the thirty minute meeting
was spent on a general discussion concerning Governor Chris Gregiore and some
four-year public schools' suggestions that
tuition be increased up to 14% over the next
two years. Given that the already approved
Pell and State Need grant increases would
model" for finding solutions to community
problems in a way that integrates all members
of the community on a balanced level.
Representatives are feeling frustrated at how
difficult the process of passing this statement
has been.
"What's it going to take to get this thing
passed?" asked Khana towards the end of
this week's meeting. "I've tried to work
with everyone for months now and nothing's
gotten done. ...All this is showing is that
certain members of the union aren't respecting what students have to say. ...My time
has been completely wasted through these
meetings."
Because of the large percentage of time
being devoted to this topic, other agenda
items are being neglected, some of which are
crucial to the GSU's continued existence. For
example, at this week's meeting, time had
been allotted to discuss the GSU's budget
that was to be presented to the S&A board at
3:00 that afternoon. The statement continued
to be the subject of conversation right up
until3:00, causing the GSU to be late to their
presentation. The subject of coordinating the
election for next year's representatives wasn't
mentioned beyond an overview of the day's
agenda. The GSU is already a week behind
in this process.
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Edible Forest
Green gardens make happy people•••
self-renewing and diverse, using natural
symbiosis that occurs between organisms to produce food and other products
for use by community members. Using
You know the location.
a woodlands model causes minimal
You've almost certainly passed through disturbance to the naturally-occurit.
ring landscape and creates less need
You might even live next to it.
for constant upkeep and intervention.
Maybe you've noticed the infinite poten- Though Western culture is dominated
tial for life and learning that currently by mono-cropping and intensive agrilies dormant in the area directly to the culture, edible forest gardening is a
left of the Housing Community Center on widespread practice in many countries
lower campus. Maybe not. In a survey globally, and has been around for thouof community member perceptions of the sands ofyears in tropical areas.
site, one student identified it as "a vortex
In the 1990s Robert Hart brought
that you sometimes walk through."
forest gardening to temperate climates
For the past few months, the patch of with the publication of Forest Gardenland bordered by the HCC and housing ing, and the past two decades have
buildings E, F and G has been carefully been marked by continuing exploration
observed, mapped out and analyzed. The and implementation of the practice.
alders, maples, cedars, ferns and other Traditionally, edible forest gardens use
plant species that already make the area native species that are well adapted to
a sort of forest anomaly in the midst of the region's growing conditions. Ever- LOWER CAMPUS WILL SOON BE HOME TO AN EDIBLE FOREST GARDEN
typical campus-scape have been taken green's garden will feature many native
into account and plotted. And a plan has plants in combination with species from
emerged.
other regions to specific groups will perform different the area, and on April II there will be
As part of her master's
THE GARDEN WILL provide a diversity tasks to ensure that as people who have one big happy garden-making party.
thesis project, Natalie
of edibles and other dedicated time to the garden move on Stop by to get your hands dirty and learn
Pyrooz, graduate student PROVIDE A PLACE OF forest products for and as newcomers get involved there is more about edible forest gardens and the
and Sustainability Coorthe community.
some overriding stability. Sustainability creation of this area. For more informadinator for Residential
At its core, Ever- housing residents will take on the role of tion on the project, or to find out how you
UNITY, TO LEARN
and Dining Services, is
green's garden is primary guardians, and will be responsible can get more involved email pyroozn@
leading efforts to create
FROM AND WORK of the people, for for providing guidance and cohesion for evergreen. edu.
an edible forest garden
the people, by the the garden. RAD Services have already
on lower campus. The
people.
Any and assisted with mulching the area, and will
ON TOGETHER
Abi Marshall is a sophomore enrolled in
garden will provide a
all students who are play a part in general upkeep of the site. Living in the Sacred Garden.
place of unity, to learn from and work interested in continual involvement with Student groups Developing Ecological
on together. The bounty of plants and the project can help decide what should Agricultural Practices and Community
fungi to grow there will be accessible to be planted, and the garden is open for the Gardens, as well as local non-profit Terra
anyone, providing free food, medicine, entire Evergreen community to enjoy its Commons, will partner to bring workand beauty through biodiversity.
offerings and ensure that it is cared for. shops and educational opportunities for
The central concept behind edible forest In addition to the collective responsibility caring for the garden.
gardening is to design an ecosystem that is that falls on anyone attending school here,
March 6 marked an initial planting of
by ABI MARSHALL
Be a part of it, Evergreen!
Olympia community connections
by HILARY HACKER
Welcome to spring quarter here at Evergreen! Are you looking for ways to be
involved with your community? Wondering
how you'll be able to put theory to practice
once you graduate? Searching for opportunities to be a part of the movement for a more
fair and just society? Come visit the Center
for Community-Based Learning and Action
(CCBLA) in SEM II E2125. The CCBLA
strives to support community organizations
by connecting and mobilizing students and
faculty on campus and visa versa. We seek
to address social issues, while strengthening and enhancing student experience, by
supporting our community's ability to meet
critical needs.
Help us to build stronger community partnerships while meeting the needs of our
community! Be a part of it, our community
is asking for your help!
Action Days
Saturday, April 11 between 11a.m. and
4p.m., head over to the housing area on
campus and check out the Installation of
the Edible Forest Garden Workshop, which
will transform the area next to the Housing
Community Center into a diverse perennial
polyculture of food-producing species! An
edible forest garden borrows principles from
forest ecology but fills ecological niches with
food-bearing plant species. Encompassing
an ecological worldview, food forest gardens
are sustainable, diverse, holistic, and energy
efficient, providing productive spaces that that examine the personal challenges they face
model natural forests. Come be a part of at home, at school and with their peers. The
Evergreen's very own Edible Forest Garden. program integrates music into core curricula
Saturday, May 161\ we'll be spending to increase individual academic achievement
some time with the residents of Camp Quix- and improve student's opportunity for future
success. The program focuses on topics
ote. Stay tuned for more information!
such as gang life, alcohol and drugs, cultural
Community Events
Friday, April l01h, NAFTA Turns 15: awareness and creating the peaceable school.
Free Trade, Food Security and Migration Gear Up With Music is now searching for
in Mexico, 7p.m. at St. John's Episcopal interns and volunteers. For more information
Church. Take a deeper look at the effects contact Todd Denny at info@todddem1yrn•.rp.
of NAFTA, including resistance to geneti~ com.
cally modified (GMO) com, the impact of
The Prison Doula Project is a non-profit
migration on sending communities, and organization working to restore health and
the struggle for food security in Oaxaca's justice into communities in western Washindigenous communities. A discussion with ington State. The Prison Doula Project
Baldemar Mendoza Jimenez, Agro-ecologist provides pregnancy, labor, and post-partum
with the Union of Organizations of the Sierra doula services and popular education style
childbirth education classes to women
Juarez, Oaxaca.
Saturday, April 11th, Gateways for incarcerated in Washington State.
Our
Incarcerated Youth Presents "Making the Community Education I'rojects_links our
River," at the Capitol Theatre from 1pm to vital work inside prisons to the greater issues
4pm. A film about Jirni Dexter Simmons who surrounding incarceration and works toward
was charged with the first-degree murder of a creating pathways of knowledge for Western
prison guard at the Washington State Peniten- Washington communities about incarceration
tiary. Faced with almost insurmountable odds and its effects. We are accepting application
that he would be convicted and executed, the for internships for the spring, summer and
Simmons Brothers Defense was formed. fall of2009.
Gateways for Incarcerated Youth is
Come learn more about the prison industrial
complex and support Gateways for Incarcer- seeking men to become Challenge Partners
ated Youth! The film makers will be present to tutor youth at Green Hill and Maple Lane
Detention Centers in Lewis County.
after the film for a Q & A Session.
Community Requests
The CCBLA Millennial Math and
Gear Up With Music gives students the Science Teacher Explorer program
tools to create life-affirming poetry and songs is lookirlg for irlterested work-study
students to tutor irl high school math and
science classrooms. Contact berkeyjCa)
evergreen.edu for more irlformation.
Look for the CCBLA on Facebook for
more irlformation on community events
and ways that you can be irlvolved!
Students in Service is an AmeriCorps
program and a way that students can be
rewarded for their time spent within the
community. Email sis@evergreen.edu for
more information.
While striving to better address these needs,
we would also like input from you, the student
body. If you have ideas about Action Days
or interests in particular organizations and
would like to see them represented here in this
colurm1 please feel free to add your thoughts
by contacting Hilary Hacker at hackerh@
evergreen.edu or call (360) 867- 6137.
Hilary Hacker is anAmeriCorps VISTA and
Evergreen alumni.
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records, and other forms of punishment often await such
objectors.
The number of those imprisoned or tried for being objectors
has grown over the years as more and more of our military
personal refuse to fight in Iraq. Thankfully the panel of
speakers brought together by Amnesty International will
provide the Evergreen community with a diverse array of
CO objector experiences.
Benjamin "Benji" Lewis, a former Marine who served
two active duty tours in Iraq and was honorably discharged
in 2007, will be one of the speakers. Last year Lewis
received notification that he was being recalled to active
duty and subsequently, at a Winter Soldier event in Portland
announced his intention to refuse to be recalled to service.
He is currently resisting.
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created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948
you do. Though the right to refuse participation in war has
been affinned and reaffirmed by governments of the world
since 1948 those who oversee our governments often get
amnesia when they need soldiers for war.
Enter the conscientious objector. Conscientious Objector is
the name given to those who decide to invoke and fight for
their right to not participate at all in war, militancy, violence,
or in some cases specific wars, violent actions, or militaries
based on conviction of conscience.
On Thursday April 16 at 4 p.m. in Lecture HaUl, a panel
of conscientious objectors will be sharing their experiences.
This panel will be hosted by the school chapter of Amnesty
International, a recognized world leader in the struggle to for
human rights.
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in issues of peace and justice in the Middle East through
numerous organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace,
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Along with the speakers listed, a TESC faculty member
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Now you know.
by ELIZAJESSUP
You traverse the pathways on the daily,
passing your fellow students in the library
and the bus loop. Each week brings new
chapters, projects, activities and lessons;
you are in the midst of building your education. Maybe you have a goal that you are
working toward, or maybe you are seeing
where the road takes you. Either way, you
share the Evergreen experience with many
others and regardless of your participation
in the campus discussions, you have an
opinion-many of you have shared it with
the department of Institutional Research and
Assessment here at Evergreen's Olympia
campus.
Institutional Research conducts and
analyzes surveys of students and alunmi in
order to gather more information about how
the college is working. The 2008 Student
Experience Survey (conducted in spring
of 2008) looks at the general experiences
of students-what they're studying, what
they're enjoying, and what needs improvement. Are you curious to hear what your
fellow students think and feel? Check it
out under "Surveys of Students" on the
Institutional Research page at the Evergreen
website: (http://www.evergreen.edu/institutionalresearch/studentexperiencesurvey2008responses.htrn).
One of the questions on this survey asked
about the level of respect for and importance
of diversity in regards to learrring. 71.7% of
Olympia students said that diversity was
"quite a bit" or "very" important. When
asked about the level of respect for diversity
on campus, 53.5% responded that there was
"quite a bit" or "a lot" of respect and 36.3%
felt there was "some" respect. However,
43.1% said they felt "dissatisfied" or "very
dissatisfied" with the amount of diversity
and 31.9% felt "dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied" with their experiences with diversity
on campus. When asked about the level
of connection felt to other students, most
respondents indicated that they felt "moderately" (31.8%) or "quite a bit" (33 .3%)
connected. A total of 68.1% of respondents
said they felt "moderately" or "a little bit"
connected to the Evergreen community at
large.
Overall, Olympia campus students who
participated in this survey indicated that
they felt "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with
relevancy of assignments, faculty input
and support, opportunities for community
service work and in-depth learrring, campus
activities, general support and respect they
received, and so on. However, a large
percentage (20-32%) indicated dissatisfaction with the following: experiences with
and amount of diversity on campus, ability
to keep up with reading load, campus activities, opporturlities to work with technology,
amount of time available for academic
work, support for development in quantitative reasoning, and the social climate in
semmars.
When it came to student goals, most
participants (79.2%) listed "personal growth
and development/personal success/satisfaction" as one of their top goals for college.
This was followed by "becoming a more
informed individual" (72.1%), and "getting
a job of your choice or making a career
change" (58.8%). "Helping others/contributing to the community" was selected as a
top goal by 46.5% of respondents.
Most participants felt "somewhat", "quite",
or "very" confident that they will receive an I
interdisciplinary education, that they have
emotional support from friends and family,
that they will be able to use their education I
to meet life-long goals, that they can manage
most interpersonal conflicts, and that they
will be able to pursue further education
(graduate or professional) if they decide to in
the future. None of the participants felt "not
at all" confident that they had the skills and I
abilities to succeed at Evergreen-which
leads me to believe that despite some dissatisfaction, students at Evergreen feel they can
succeed. What do you think?
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Eliza Jessup is a Student Assistant for the
department of Institutional Research and
Assessment.
NOTE: All responses refer to the
Olympia Campus survey participants.
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El Salvador's historic elections
Left-wing party gains over neo-fascists
by KEN HOYT
On March 15, El Salvador will choose
a new president in what are expected to
be historic national elections. Olympia
Committee in Solidarity with the People of
El Salvador (CISPES) will be present, in El
Salvador, on Election Day in solidarity.
Since colonization, El Salvador has never
had a government of or for the people. A
long history of brutal military and oligarchic repression was sustained by electoral
fraud and political violence. It follows that
such a story of ugliness is contrasted by a
truly beautiful story of popular struggle. In
1932, a collaboration between Indians and
communists, especially the leader of the
communist party at the time, Farabundo
Marti, nearly took control of a third of the
country. In response, the fascist government
and the vigilante forces of the oligarchy
massacred upwards of30,000 people simply
for their beliefs and identities.
This is the historical precedent for the death
squads, the scorched-earth tactics of the
war, and the murders of whole communities. This is also the blueprint for American
hegemonic presence-a U.S. warship was
off the coast watching western El Salvador
bum.
A generation later, the memories of fire
fading with time, the people of El Salvador began to rise up in response to brutal
economic violence, the social movement
demanded economic and labor rights and
social justice through protest and demonstration. In response to the brutal repression
from the oligarchy's vigilante groups, much
of this social movement took up arms,
organically and largely in self-defense.
The repression was understood to have
peaked in March of 1980 with the martyrdom of Monsefiior Romero. That same
year, the five revolutionary groups joined
under one red flag that read "FMLN" for the
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
With varying degrees of seriousness, we
were considered the sixth.
After 12 bloody fratricidal years that
claimed over 75,000 lives, the Frente fought
billions of dollars worth of US imperialism
to a stalemate. Just as the FMLN was closing in on the capital city, a truce was called.
If the war resulted in anything, it was the
chance to struggle for peace. With the signing of the peace accords in 1992, the guerillas put down their weapons and became a
political party, and congress became the
battlefield on which they fought the same
oligarchic death-squad power structure
represented by the US-backed ARENA
(Nationalist Republican Alliance) party.
The economic situation resembles that
of any Latin American country prior to
revolution. Equally, one must squint to see
the middle class in a country where 50%
of the population is living in poverty. With
over 85% of land owned by a few families, "close of the campaigns." Sunday morning
a majority of resources in the hands of the ARENA celebrated their close at the biggest
rich minority, and millions of dollars of soccer stadium in El Salvador and 50,000
public money lost to corruption annually, El neo-fascists attended. The night before, the
FMLN celebrated their close on the biggest
Salvador is ready for change.
This is a country where everyone knows, street in the capital and 300,000 people
intellectually and firsthand, what neo-liber- came out in support of change. You know
alism is. Economic imperialism has kept what they say about El Pueblo Unido.
a rich nation poor, and militaristic police
We are in solidarity with the people of El
repression has violently stifled popular Salvador. That means we will be there in
solidarity on election day to witness this
opposition.
We were in solidarity then and we will be historical moment, watching centuries of
siempre-always and forever. Especially struggle enter the next stage of revolution,
this week, until March 15, when even the as official trained observers will work to
Washington Post is expecting an FMLN denounce voter fraud and US intervention
in the process. We believe in democracy
win.
In a country where both of the newspapers because we believe in the people.
The Olympia Compafieros invite you to
and every television channel but one support
the fascist right wing, the FMLN candidate watch in solidarity with those struggling
Mauricio Funes is still, after over a year of against oppression globally. Eight hundred
campaigning, maintaining a double-digit words is hardly enough to do justice to the
struggle, but trust us, we'll tell you all about
lead in the polls.
it
when we get home.
This is attributable at least in part to the
Contact Olympia CISPES at Olycispes@
shear charisma of Funes, an ex-independent
journalist. The oligarchic right wing is gmail.com. There is no Indymedia El Salvadivided and scared. The social movement dor. Ken Hoyt's crappy blog is vivirluchar.
and civil society are more united than ever. blogspot.com. Election information can be
Bush is out of the White House. The global found at cispes.org/09electionsblog, and as
recession has hit El Salvador especially always, for more information, visit www.
hard, in correlation with how close it has tied cispes.org.
itself to the gringo economy. The bottom
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Apri19, 2009
BLITZ- KMFDM
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SKOLD vs. KMFDMSKOLD vs. KMFDM
by STEPHEN BRAIGEN
Seminal industrial rock band KMFDM
recently released a new album, Blitz.
Founder of the the 25-year-old band,
Sascha Konietzko is joined by Lucia
Cifarelli, Steve White, Andy Selway
and Jules Hodgson.
Over the past three albums, KMFDM
stagnated almost completely, using
the same line-up (the aforementioned
Cifarelli, White, Selway and Hodgson),
musical stylings (same fat and crunchy
repetitive guitar loops), and vocal setups (Konietzko shouting witticisms
into a microphone and Cifarelli doing
her comical best to sound like a sultry
seductress or someone with a semiautomatic rifle past the point of no return,
somehow pulling off neither very well).
This runs counter to the past twenty
years of their career, which featured
an everchanging main band, innovative music varying many genres and
an array of guest artists - such as F.M.
Einheit of Einstlirzende N eubauten and
Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy.
The good news is that Blitz is in some
ways a return to older KMFDM. Or at
least a slowdown on the trajectory of
KMFDM has ever released before.
The album has eleven full tracks interspersed with short remixes of tracks on
the album, which serve as interludes.
The structure of the album is fantastic,
giving a welcome break between the
fairly aggressive and pounding tracks
like "Bloodsport," "Why Me," and
"A Common Enemy," but also giving
you time to reflect on the less abrasive
tracks, like "Error 404," "All or Nothing," and "Porn, Kitsch & Firearms."
It smacks very much of the "suture"
technique that 90's angeldustrial outfit
Chemlab used heavily on their albums
Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar and Eastside Militia (which everyone should
listen to if they haven't already).
Skold vs. KMFDM is such a fantastic
album not because of how coherent,
catchy or crammed with material it is
(although it is all of those things), but
because it takes chances. "Error 404"
is a very angsty song. It features such
heavy use of autotune that I expected
(well, hoped, actually) that T-Pain
would appear in the chorus at some
point. It's actually taken me quite some
time to safely say that I like the track,
but one thing I recognized about it
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read Evan Hastings' press release.
Hastings will be performing with Desi of W.OM.E. and wat Evergreen in Lecture
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humdrum that the band has been on.
Back in the band is Tim Skold, a previous longtime collaborator in KMFDM
and an old hand in industrial rock.
Blitz features some strong tracks with
the typical sound developed in 2003's
WWIII. On the other hand, there are
tracks like "Strut" (featuring another
long lost contributor, Cheryl Wilson),
which features some fun guitar work,
a very dancy disco-beat and innovative
programming, and "(Symbol) [also
known as "Up Uranus"]." The gem of
the album is "Bitches," a completely
self-deprecating song which gives the
middle finger to longtime fans in ways
Lou Reed could only dream of. Not
only does Konietzko reveal the truth
about the band (the chorus features the
lyric "We're only in it for the money")
but he, Skold and Hodgson created one
of the most musically interesting tracks
KMFDM has produced in at least five
years.
However, the best part of Blitz
isn't even on the album. Released
on Konietzko's own label a month
before Blitz was the self-titled Skold
vs. KMFDM. Skold vs. KMFDM is a
22-track programming collaboration
of Konietzko and Skold, an offshoot
of working together on Blitz. It has an
Attak-era old school EBM feel to it in
many ways, but it also has some tracks
that are fairly different from anything
from the first listen was that KMFDM
had no other tracks like it. And to have
a musical project for 25 solid years
and still create something new alone
deserves respect.
The next logical step for Sascha is to
continue on the path that he set out on in
Skoldvs. KMFDM. KMFDMwas musical turbulance, and it can and should be
that again. In order to get there, Konietzko needs to bring new blood into
the project. First things first, he should
ditch the slack that is Selway, Hodgson, White and Cifarelli. No offense
to them, but they are the cause of the
stagnation. They keep the band on solid
footing in terms of engineering, drum
work and all that, but KMFDM was
never about being stable. Hell, he needs
to bring old blood in, too. In my world,
KMFDM's next release should feature
the following artists: Andy La Plegua
of Combichrist/lcon of Coil/Panzer AG
and Jared Louche of Chemlab, neither
of whom he's collaborated with before,
and should feature Raymond Watts of
PIG, Blixa Bargeld or F.M. Einheit of
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Why not to watdl the Watchmen
pirates and a newsstand), the synopsis of the
Real Estate 7'' review
by CASEY JAYWORK
by D. LUCAS JEWELL
During his three years in our cold, rainy
town, Martin Courtney IV left his mark on
the Oly music scene. He released a couple
of EP's as bassist of a soon forgotten local
garage band, as well as a stellar solo effort
quietly released in May oflast year. Though
he left Olympia last June, Courtney has
remained on the minds of some devoted
fans.
Since leaving Olympia, Courtney has
settled down in his native New Jersey,
connecting with old friends and musicians:
Alex Bleeker, Etienne Pierre Duguay and
Matthew Mondanile III (aka Ducktails).
The newly formed quartet, donning the
name Real Estate (after Courtney's initial
plan to become a real estate agent at his
mother's firm) have quickly gained a
following on the East Coast, with a weekly
slot at Cake Shop and opening slots for
Wavves and Saturday Looks Good To Me,
among others. Always looking for the hot
new thing, Pitchfork Media, Stereogum and
other music blogs have begun to latch onto
-and for good reason- Real Estate's debut
single. Out now on Underwater Peoples,
their debut 7" offers three songs drenched
in reverb and feel-good vibes. Imagine if
fellow Garden Stater Bruce Springsteen
got rid of Clarence, became obsessed with
the Beach Boys and went to liberal arts
college. Or perhaps if Jersey's Jon Bon
Jovi wore glasses and plaid shirts and
didn't suck, then you'd have Real Estate.
The single "Suburban Beverage" offers
a slow, unchanging bass line throughout,
while Courtney's vocals are a perfect
match for the sunny guitars and unchanging percussion. Side B's "Black Lake"
(maybe he didn't forget about us after
all!) offers more of the same sunshine
as Side A, while "Old Folks", with
drums sounding like they've seen better
days and Courtney's vocals sometimes
strained, has great potential but cannot
match the pleasant nostalgia induced by
"Suburban Beverage" and "Black Lake".
Fresh from playing SXSW, Real Estate is
another east coast band we're supposed to
pay attention to, but luckily they have some
sort of local tie, are planning a summer
tour with possible stops nearby, and are
genuinely worth listening to instead of just
reading about.
The Real Estate 7" is available at Rainy
Day Records, Phantom City Records and
online at www.underwaterpeoples.com
D. Lucas Jewell is a senior at the Evergreen State College.
The second Watchmen trailer released last
year was essentially a two-minute short-film.
Set to an ingenious application of ''Take a
Bow" by the British Radiohead-heir, Muse,
the whirling montage of image and soundbite
culminated in a pair of awe-inspiring shots:
Rorschach (sort of a homeless version of the
Punisher) sprinting past slow-motion police
bullets before diving out a window, and a
silhouette of Nightowl (geeky Batman) and
Silk Specter (basically, The Girl) kissing in the
light of a mushroom cloud. I remember shuddering when I viewed it.
Just about everything redeeming about
Watchmen occurs in those two minutes.
The rest is filled with bland dialogue, ineptly
cutout(and cutup) of the comic, amidst oversimplified plot developments bludgeoned over
the one's head with all the subtlety ofa daytime
drama, all of it slathered in a pornographic
stew of childish violence and adolescentlydepicted erotica-the whole thing comes off
as a rip-off oflate Tarintino (who is a rip-off of
early Tarintino). Gratuity seems to be the guiding ascetic principle to director Zack Snyder's
latest film for thirteen year-old boys and fraternities (following the unexpected success ofhis
misunderstood gay porno 300).
And it's not the sex and violence themselves
that are the problem. As with most of the film,
Snyder stays more or less true to Allen Moore's
graphic masterwork on a superficial level: the
airborne Skinimax scene that appears halfway
through is more or less straight out ofthe novel,
except that when Moore did it, it wasn't about
sex even though sex was going on. Aside from
a major plot change at the end (and the gutting
of an extremely important sub-plot involving
film and comic are pretty much identical. But,
to cite just one example of Snyder jerking-off
where Moore created poetry, the application
of blood and action in the original was nothing if not subtle. One rarely saw the actual
wounds without some foil: the emphasis was
always on either the turning of larger wheels
of cause-and-effect, as with the final "battle"
(which, with sad predictability, becomes in the
film much more of a battle, ala The Matrix)
or on the emotional reaction of the character
involved, as with Rorschach's ''birth" by
fire-which, incidentally, is replaced on screen
with a gory gag.
Ditto for action sequences. Whether because
of Snyder's teenage-sensibility or Hollywood
formula, mindless (and extremely subpar- we're talking barely more impressive
than The Karate Kid) martial arts sequences
abound. Take Nightowl and Silk Specter's
alley scene: Moore's original use of action
was as a sort of snapshot-montage, in which
the reader viewed the violence at an emotional
distance. Under Snyder's epileptic surgery,
this becomes-dub- another dumb action
sequence.
Watchmen truly is, as the back of the trade
comic will tell you, ''peerless." There simply
is not a smarter, more profound, or more
moving comic in existence. So Snyder should
be thanked for, if nothing else, making a filmadaptation so abysmally uncompelling that no
one can ever conflate the two with each other.
I guess if you're going to destroy something
beautiful, you can at least make sure it's dead
and not just maimed and crying.
Casey Jaywork is a student at the Evergreen
State College
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27. Jerome Hoi Iowa'{- Matters of the Heart
28. Drag the River- !::5ad at BreakJng Up
29. Ancnor down - Steel to Dust
30. Pamela Parker - Beautiful Day
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Befriendinc Brie11y;
or,Joy and Sorrow in
the Same Burrito
When porcelain shatters,
remember what I said
about relationships.
Don't believe what they say.
Friends
are as temporal
as the sun.
When the sun sets,
and the moon rises,
you may smile with your new friend
as you share
being alone.
Soon,
Loneliness,
that white orb,
also will set
and friends anew will march into your
life
Beating away your solitude
with glow and amusement.
So,
When porcelain shatters,
Remember what I said
about relationships.
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Voices in the
night
by VLADIMIR KLYUCHRIKOV
think things, which means I'm not
too happy by default, and maybe only
Three in the mornsomeone who is happy can explain
ing.
The
whole
happiness. But I have my arguments.
house is dark, with
If you've read this far, I suppose you
the exception of
want to hear them.
one room, barely lit
Consider your own happy childhood
by the backlight of
memories. No matter how bad our
a silvery rectangle,
childhoods were, all of us have someas if by a window into another, hazy thing nice and warm buried deep down
world. In front of that window, I write. there. It's one of those things that help
I have to get up in four hours, but I us survive and live on. Now consider
keep writing, the familiar and sooth- the premise of your happiness as a
ing dakka-dakka-dak of my keyboard child. Did you understand a whole lot?
etching its own melody onto the screen Probably not. You simply took things
in front of me. I am very tired. I do not as they were. If you found a quarter on
write because I am tired, but in spite the ground, it would not even occur to
of it. Spite. That is a good word.
you that someone else has lost it; you
I lead such a nocturnal life not were simply happy to find a quarter.
because of some habit or because I do
Consider romance. Are people
not have enough time to
that are in love happy
sleep. It's just that I do I SEE IT IN THIS because of the heightmy best thinking in the
ened clarity of perception? Hah! If anything,
deep of the morning.
NEWSPAPER.
Everything
accumuhappiness in love is
lated during the day, all
THERE AREA mostly achieved by
putting on rose-coloured
the kaleidoscopic bits
and fragments of every- LOT OF UNHAPPY blinds. And what about
day perceptions, mixed
the consequences of
with my own fantasies PEOPLE IN THIS such broken relationand guesses and theoships, where people
ries, the entirety of my
escape reality through
WORLD, AND
existence is digested in
addictions? One does
those early hours of the MOST OF THEM not go drinking alone to
night, mixed around,
get drunk. One drinks
alone
to forget someHAVE
FACES
LIKE
and transformed into
thing,
no matter how
these words on a flickering,
ever-changing
THEY REALLY momentarily. Through
that, one also hopes to
screen.
It's not like I can write
KNOW IT ALL regain a little bit of the
a book from these ideas,
lost happiness.
"Alright, so suppose you have
because they are never connected. One
night, I might write about the ironies convinced me that happiness is ignoin the life of Mark Twain. The other, I rance," I hear you ask. "What's your
might ponder on the flaws in the mini- actual point? What are you trying to
mum wage system. Tonight, I think get at with this verbose diatribe?" My
I'll write about happiness.
point is that there is a world out there
I will go on record saying this: all that's constantly growing less and less
happy, because it thinks it understands
happiness is ignorance.
I do not say this because I am an more and more. It's fairly plain: one
unhappy person; certainly, I have my simply has to look at the faces of
share of misery in this world, but I do passer-bys. I see it on the flickering
not find this load to be overly heavy. TV screen whenever I turn it on. I
Nor do I envy the people whose load, see it in this newspaper. There are a
at least for the time being, is lighter. I lot of unhappy people in this world,
am not trying to tear down their own and most of them have faces like they
enjoyment through some sort of a really know it all.
Consider this a community service
preachi.1g from a moral or intellectual
high ground. I just remark on what I announcement, then: happiness is
easy to achieve. This world, and espeobserve.
Happiness is ignorance because cially the people in it, is completely
one can only be happy through igno- incomprehensible, to the point where
rance, self-forced or otherwise. This all of us are nothing but ignorant,
is because the very essence of igno- poor fools. So before you get into
rance is to forget-whether one forgets another political squabble, before you
the future or the past, or the reality yell out another party slogan, before
around them, or the unreality of their you pronounce someone else a total
position and their dreams and takes buffoon, remember this: we don't
a leap into the abyss, ignorant of the really know anything.
consequences, with a happy smile on
And that's really great.
their face, they have to be ignorant to
Vladimir Klyuchrikov is a junior
be happy. Reason and judgement must
be foregone to achieve that moment of enrolled in Russia Eurasia: Empires in
History.
heartwarming bliss.
Am I wrong? Perhaps. I tend to over
April9, 2009
True reason
by RYAN BAREITHER
If the true reason
behind banning cigarettes sales in the
campus bookstore
is for the concern
of the health and
well-being of the
Evergreen community and not some
exercise in exerting control over the
adult student population, when, prey
tell, will the school also be banning
unhealthy snacks, sodas, and energy
drinks from the school vending
machines, bookstore, and the rest of
campus? I'm positively certain this
would fall under the same category.
Ryan Bareither is a student enrolled in
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture.
On Venezuela and
democratic
socialism
by ASHLEY WALDRON
However, the most predominating
contradiction I would like to point out is
NorthAmericannews
the undaunted support of the Colombian
sources have been
President Alvaro Uribe. Colombia not
flooding with misleadonly has limitless presidential terms, but
ing headlines such as,
the constitution had . been amended to
"Chavez calls Venezuallow so by President Uribe himself. The
ela vote mandate for
US continues to give unwavering support
socialism," when in
to Uribe and his supposed "contributions
fact writing on the recent change in the to democracy".
amendment calling for unlimited terms
By implying that Venezuela's constituin, which such articles fail to point out, tiona! change is a step toward socialism
is presidential as well as the mayoral, (which it technically is not); coincidmunicipal, and legislative. This means ing with the fact that the constitutional
unlimitedtermsare
change is deemed
granted not only
BY IMPLYING THAT
dictatorial,
the
to the President,
s u b c on s c i o u s
but to all other VENEZUELA'S CONSTITU- implication is that
elected officials in
socialism is dictaVenezuela as well, TIONAL CHANGE IS A STEP torship-whichitis
and of all parties.
not. The American
Regardless, AmerTOWARD SOCIALISM...
mainstream media
ican news articles
fails to address the
on the subject
COINCIDING WITH THE democratic socialare riddled with
ist gains in Veneridiculous impli- FACT THAT THE CONSTI- zuela,orsocialism
cations, such as
in general. This is
Venezuela's slipTUTIONAL CHANGE IS
perhaps because
pery slope to dictathe
journalists
torship and soviet
DEEMED DICTATORIAL, fail to know what
democratic socialcommunism.
ism is.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS
However,
it
Democratic and
is important to
participatory
suggest
double
IMPLICATION IS THAT
socialism means
standards in the
media SOCIALISM IS DICTATOR- the creation of
Western
worker- owned
against Venezuela,
SHIP - WHICH IT IS NOT factories, localespecially in terms
ized forms of
of limitless terms
in government. Hugo Chavez has been government, the organizing of industrial
President of Venezuela since 1999, or labor, nationalizing energy resources in
ten years. Strangely enough, the United order to spread wealth within the counStates once had limitless terms. Under try, providing social programmes for the
this rule, the U.S. had Franklin D. Roos- poor, providing cheap food, free educaevelt for twelve years, Roosevelt's term tion and health care, and openly opposonly ending because of his failing health. ing the right-winged, imperial forces in
Roosevelt was never voted out of office. the global south while calling for Latin
In fact, the U.S. made Roosevelt appoint a American countries to cooperate. By no
different (less pro-Soviet) Vice President means is Chavez perfect, nor is Venezuto take after him. During Roosevelt's ela paradise on earth. Nevertheless, these
fourth term, newly appointed Vice Presi- platforms and actions by the United
dent Truman took office (thus proceed- Socialist Party of Venezuela are progresing to eradicate so-called "communist sive. True socialism will take considersympathizers" from the government and able cooperation, work and time, not
drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and only in Venezuela, but internationally.
Nagasaki, which we all know, were acts
Ashley Waldron is a sophomore enrolled
of democracy in its prime). If anyone
fails to remember, President Roosevelt in an independent learning contract.
was, indeed, president for life.
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10 COOPER POINTJOURNAL 2009
Beyond snitches get stitches
PART 1: SCAT'TERED TllCJU(;liTS ()N \Tl()LENCE,JUSTICE A.~D S11\:I'E CC)()PER.i\TlC)N
on his crime partners, or anybody else (the kind that leaves the survivor physi- the Amazon rainforest point the finger at
involved in street crime, he would serve cally and/or psychologically scarred). I ChevronTexaco for dumping billions of
turned to the police for recourse, but they gallons of toxic waste into their streams
Somebody who is
little or no jail time.
That was a snitch.
part of a political or
made very little effort to find the people and rivers? What about when a battered
But the term has been loosened over the who jumped me. The attack and its after- wife testifies against her abusive husband
criminal organizationyears to include anybody who gives infor- math left me deeply embittered for quite because she knows that unless this man is
-an organization with
well-established rules
mation to the police about any kind of some time, but the malevolent thoughts locked up, he will keep coming back to
against police coopcrime. So now, even law-abiding people that once clouded my head have long hurt her. Is she a snitch?
If somebody I love (a friend, my sister,
eration-and
betrays
who have information about murderers since subsided, and I'm now left with a
that organization by cooperating with the or rapists are discouraged from contact- firm compassion for (most) survivors of etc.) is maliciously attacked and left hospipolice, deserves whatever reprisal that ing the police for fear they'll be labeled violent crime. I bring up this personal talized, and I know who's responsible for
a "snitch" and
piece ofhistory, the attack, and I also know that my injured
particular organization dictates.
But what if the police informant has no face
not to gamer friend or relative wants me to cooperate
SO MY OVERRIDING
violent
sympathy, but with the police, I probably will. Does
allegiance to the organization? What if retaliation. As a
slhe is opposed to everything that orga- result, the arrest QUESTION IS, HAS THIS NEW toletthereader that make me a snitch? Because if it
know
where does, then virtually all of the radicals
nization stands for? Does that informant and conviction
deserve reprisal? Is s/he a "snitch", rate for violent
STANDARD OF "SNITCH"
I'm
coming here at Evergreen are snitches. "Why?"
from. I den't you ask. Because I guarantee you, under
or just somebody with a strong moral crime suspects
in many AmeriALSO BEEN ADOPTED BY
like the police, those same circumstances, most, if not
conscience?
or any other all of them would do the exact same
Last quarter, a student here at Evergreen can cities has
went public with the news that he had plummeted, as ACTIVIST /RADICAL CIRCLES group of violent thing. They would put their politics
thugs.
I'm aside and sheepishly approach the police
been working with the police to identify gang hangers
people involved in the Dead Prez ruckus and other degenerates are essentially intrigued by the efforts of some to station to ask the "pig" for help.
This is no black and white matter; like
last year. This student, Jake Mixon, was given a pass by the community to rob, supplant the police and the prisons for a
swiftly labeled a snitch by other students rape and kill others at will.
better, more humane model. But I'll tell everything else, there's a lot of grey. But
So my overriding question is, has this you, if that model does not offer justice I can say with certainty that the road
who found his actions deplorable. My
intent with this article is not to defend new standard of "snitch" also been to the victim, then I will critique it and to creating a viable, alternative justice
system is daunting and replete with
Jake or the people he informed on, but adopted by activist/radical circles? And oppose it because it is the wrong model.
Let's get back to "snitching". Do the obstacles. Those committed to blackballrather, to expose the ambiguity of the term if so, if turning to the police for any
"snitch", as well as to analyze instances reason whatsoever is unacceptable, then same rules regarding snitching also ing the state and building this alternative
of violence in our society and the ways in what resources has the radical created for apply to historically oppressed people model must be made aware of those
who just want their oppressors held obstacles if they are to create anything
victims of violent or property crime?
which we respond to that violence.
About ten years ago I was assaulted by a accountable? Is it snitching when Nicara- worthwhile.
From what little research I could find
on the topic, the term "snitch" was first group of people in a random attack. This guan laborers testify in court against Dole
Stay tuned.
used to characterize a criminal who cut wasn't my first, or last, brush with Fruit Co. for knowingly exposing them to
Daniel Shelley is a sophomore at The
a deal with the state to save himself. In violence, but it was my first encounter with pesticides which left them sterile? Is it
exchange for providing information such raw, unprovoked, predatory violence snitching when indigenous people from Evergreen State College.
by DANIEL SHELLEY
Dear Evergreen feminists
TO SC>:lVlE
by ERICA HAYES
I would like to precede
what I am about to say
by giving the disclaimer
that I am a feminist, and
that I feel very strongly
about female oriented
politics. However, my
time at Evergreen has made me ashamed
to declare myself as such, because of the
people, attitudes and behaviors I would
associate myself with.
In a recent article, a friend of mine was
quoted as having called an Alive! Pamphleteer an "Anarchist Idiot Cunt." My friend
is a mild mannered guy, who also considered himself a feminist before attending
this campus. When he engaged a female
pamphleteer in political discourse, expressing his views on her subject, she argued by
speaking over him and loudly silencing
his opinion. This is typical behavior for
Evergreen demonstrators. Her berating and
inability to hold a polite conversation in
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a reasonable manner are what caused my
friend to respond in the manner he did.
This has nothing to do with gender; this
has everything to do with the ability to
conduct ones self in a manner appropriate
for a college educated adult.
You (or your parents) are paying for an
education that will put you into careers
in the adult world, or you may be attending this institution in hopes of improving
yourself as a human being. Either way, you
attend an institution with a heavy focus on
the importance of communication. And yet
you continually as a community conduct
yourself in a manner that is completely
inappropriate, and that inhibits the passage
of your message into receptive brains.
While my friend's choice of words was
unfortunate, his sentiment was exactly the
kind that Greener feminists should learn
to expect if they are going to continue
to disregard the words and opinions of
others. No one will listen to a hypocrite or
a raving lunatic. You are ultimately practicing how to disorient people from your
AS FEMINISTS, IT IS YOUR SELF-ASSUMED JOB TO
ACCURATELY PORTRAY THE GOALS AND VALUES
OF FEMINISM TO THE COMMUNITY AROUND
YOU; TO INFECT OTHERS WITH A DESIRE
FOR EQUALITY AND SENSIBLE APPROACHES
TO POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES
cause by conducting yourself the manner
that you do. You cannot bully people into
agreement with you, you must first understand their position, and then maybe you
can figure out how to correctly influence
them by understanding their mindset. It
is extremely immature and irrational to
think that you can shout down your fellow
students and expect this kind of behavior to
convince them of anything.
Another episode discussed in the article
was that of the protests that occurred in
November of 2007. This description of
the treatment of students by police officers
focused on the facts that female students
were silenced, and that they were forced to
strip in front of male guards. This is a great
example of an expected double standard
held by female political activists on this
campus. If one is going to participate in
illegal behavior, regardless of the worthiness of the cause it supports, one offers
one's self as a political martyr for one's
cause. It was the duty of the police officers
involved to respond to the actions taken
by protesters, regardless of their genders.
The "silencing" of these protesters was
because their actions, whether necessary or un-necessary for their aims, were
illegal. By participating in illegal activity
one becomes subject to the action of the
government whose laws they act against.
Their martyrdom is another example they
offer towards their cause. Stripping down
arrestees is part of a normal booking-in
procedure. Police have to make sure that
none of the people they have just brought
in are carrying contraband or dangerous
objects. It would be sexist of them not to
strip search these female prisoners-that
would be maintaining a double standard.
Just be glad it wasn't decided that any of
them needed a cavity search and stop whining. If you feminists of Evergreen are such
strong, determined women, you should
be strong enough to experience the same
treatment in the penal system as your male
counterparts. This had nothing to do with
silencing female voices. This was not a
gendered issue. Stop taking everything you
don't like that happens to you, and making
it about your sex.
As feminists, it is your self-assumed job
to accurately portray the goals and values
of feminism to the community around you;
to infect others with a desire for equality
and sensible approaches to political and
sociological issues. It is not an excuse to
get special treatment, or to get in people's
faces and expect them to listen to your
disrespectfulness because you are female.
Go back and re-read important feminist
works. Instead of focusing on using
feminism for selfish aims, why not use
it to grow? Stop telling the males of this
campus that their opinions and experiences
do not count, and instead learn to appreciate the unique and underrepresented ways
in which patriarchal culture has negatively
effected their experiences. Try to express
to them the ways in which feminism can
benefit them. It is not all about you.
.
Erica Hayes is a junior enrolled in Projects in Visual Arts Professions.
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In the next few months,
the US military intends
to send 17,000 new
soldiers to Afghanistan.
This will increase by
one half the size of their
hugely unpopular occupation. Vice President Joe Biden himself
has gone on the record to say he expects an
''uptick" in American deaths in Afghanistan.
The CIA and US military have begun bombing civilians in, and even sending in ground
troops into, Pakistan, to much popular
opposition from the Pakistani people. The
current administration is already preparing
to escalate and spread military campaign
further into Pakistan.
In the meantime, while Obama talks about
removing "combat troops" from Iraq, there
is no intention to end the occupation of Iraq
by dismantling the U.S. military bases. Only
approximately half of the U.S. soldiers in
Iraq will be removed under this plan, because
the rest are not considered "combat troops."
In the past year, a record number of us have
lost our homes and jobs as the economy
collapses, yet the U.S. government continues to waste our resources in the Military
Industrial Complex, making a very small
number of rich war profiteers even richer.
Some of these war profiteers, set to make
huge sums of money off of the increase in
American and Afghani deaths, are located
right here in Western Washington State. It is
time we foreclose the war profiteers rather
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The General Dynamics Land System
(GDLS) corporation has been awarded a
contract to repair military Strykers to send
back to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. The
warehouse housing these spare parts is
located inAubum, WA. GDLS' net revenue
in 2008 was $29.3 billion, 69% of their net
sales coming from the US government! We
intend to SHUT DOWN the War Machine,
to do everything we can to stop the surge
from leaving the United States.
To this end, we are calling for a day of
coordinated, non-violent civil disobedience
and direct action to blockade the GDLS
facility in Auburn.
Please attend an information meeting in
Olympia, WA, at 1 p.m. on April 5, 2009 to
discuss this plan, our strategy, and building
a strong movement to end these wars and
occupations.
The meeting will be at Capitol Theater
Offices: 416 Washington St. (Between 4th
and State, Next to the Painted Plate). Room
208 on the 2nd Floor).
End BOTH Occupations
Foreclose the War Machine--Direct Action
to Stop the Surge
No administration will end these warsWe, the people, need to end them.
-the North West Anti-Imperialist Direct
Action Coalition
Feel free to e-mail khashy01@evergreen.
edu with any questions, concern, excitement, etc ..
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by CASEY JAYWORK
Most nights I sleep
on
an
inflatable
camping pad in the
upstairs hallway of a
house with a mountain of refuse at either
entrance and black
mold decorating the bathroom. Sometimes I eat the trash from leftover meals
of people I've never met, along with a
whole lot of rice and beans. This is, of
course, more punk-rock than bouncing
vomit and tattooed knuckles, which is
to say that it is suburban like identical
lawns.
I am a tourist.
My friend Dustin rents an apartment
downtown for $500 a month. We get
stoned and stumble onto oil-slicked sledrides of epistametaethics, leapfrogging
from one arcane subject to the next. He
feasts and then famishes on his schoolaid check, and sometimes towards the
end of the quarter or during break, I'll be
one of the people to buy some groceries
to augment his Food-Bank pasta.
I talk to my parents about once a week.
They're flying to the Caribbean to go
sailing later this month. I pay $10 a
month for my cell phone on their family
plan, and my mom's state-employee
health-insurance covers me as long as
I'm in college. If I ever go into a coma
or have a felony arrest, they'll arrive like
middle-class cavalry.
I did not choose this.
I did not reject this.
I've spent too many years spent
running from the guilt of privilege, like
some modem-day flagellant, starving and
sleeping on too many dirty floors in an
attempt to outrun this souped-up Original
Sin; to prove, I dunno, something.
Dustin is not my only friend
who feasts and starves with the wolves of
the world perpetually at the door, never
farther than three month's rent, held back
by precious little more than his wits. I am
not his only friend for whom the fact that
Mom and Dad have a wallet and an interest is an embarrassing sign of sheltered
naivety.
Maybe this is silly: inequality exists
and should be recognized, but the gulf
between constructive critique and pointless self-hatred is too wide for me to
shoulder the sins of my fathers. Or,
maybe this is silly: I'm kin and kind to
the upper caste, as domestic and impotent as a well-fed zoo animal, too gutless
to cut the umbilical cord and live dangerously, honestly.
I don't know. This isn't an argument.
Here is where I am.
Casey Jaywork is a student at the Evergreen State College.
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friends, family, and
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classmates who took
THAT'S WINNING!!! time out of their
University of Port(spring break) Saturland.
Evergreen
raced two boats, the varsity lightweight day to come out into the rain and cheer
four and the novice heavyweight four. the team on.
The novice crew was first to launch. After
For more information, or if you would
warming up in snowy and raining condi- like to find out about rowing on the team
tions the race started. The novice crew next year, please visit www.evergreenfinished with a time of 9 minutes and 26 crew. com.
seconds taking third place. The varsity
We would also like to thank Carlos
launched after. Varsity pulled a time of Javier Sanchez for coming to the race
8 minutes and 49 seconds walking away and taking such great photos.
with first place in their race. This week we
will continue to train and look forward to
Lea Kronenberg is a junior
our race this Saturday in Vancouver, WA. enrolled in Orissi Dance.
Since the beginning of October, the
women have been training. Every morning at 5:15 a.m. we wake to head down
to practice. There we spend about two
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CARLOS JAVIER SANCHEZ
The long haul
by NICHOLAS PACE
It's been a long story to tell about each
Evergreen student's adventures and
scenarios over the last three weeks including spring break. The men's basketball
team making their mark on the records
in the NAIA, attracting the attention of
students and student athletes to watch the
tournament via online is good example,
but nevertheless student athletes have been
prepping for their sports considerably even
when their seasons being over, and spring
break was no exception.
While some students lay on the beaches
on the two coasts of continent, or in foreign
lands others found themselves continuing in
their athletic routines busting tail whether
rain, snow, wind, hail, or sleet. For seniors
Eric Jones (time: 1:14:20.0) and Dianne
Leo (time: 1:43:59), it's almost undeniable
that the prep work for Half-Marathons is
just what spring break was for them.
Jones in particular made a distinct impression for the track team following the stamina
and effort of running the half marathon in
the Run for the Roses, which took place in
Portland, Oregon. Leo also is pleased that
she finished the long race stating: "The half
marathon is a tough distance, and I think I
will improve my time with each attempt.
Jones had a difficult task reaching his
potential in the half-marathon being in
Peru for almost a quarter, but nevertheless
maintained routine base workouts and as
he mentioned: "There were plenty of hills
to keep me busy."
In the meantime Jones plans on running
the 5 Kin Evergreen's track season, which
will be his last. "Although it's my last, I
don't think about it too dramatically, since
the main reason I'm in this is to run and have
a good time with my teammates, which is
probably the main reason I run for this
College." Jones however plans to continue
to keep up his strength and stamina for the
to his
ation from Evergreen in order to compete
in the Marathon in St. Louis, MO.
When asked what would be the first
thing he'd probably do after that hefty
assignment of 26 miles, he replied: "Marathons take more out of you than increase
anything. I'm seeing a long relaxing vacation afterwards."
In other related news last weekend
provided some good news for the Track and
field team including Coach Craig Dickson's
long awaited return from teaching English
in the Far East. Two records were set last
weekend by the Evergreen women's track
and field team. (Year) Ana Cassilias set
a new school record of 18.32.56 in the
women's 5000 meters in Salem, Oregon for
the Willamette Invitational last Friday. In
addition Freshman Karissa Carlson broke
her own personal record running the 1500
meters with a time of 5:01.61 and placing
herself in 4th place at the University of
Puget Sound's Shotwell Classic Track and
Field Invitational last Saturday.
Sophomore Ryan Laura also left his mark
on last Saturday's Invitational running the
400 meters with a time of 51.90 tying 5th
place.
This spring's track and tield team will
nevertheless have a few challenges up
ahead. With cross-country record holders
junior Brian Rakestraw studying abroad
in Equador and sophomore Annie Carter
Mullen in India this track season should
provide both a challenge and opportunity
for each team member on track and field.
Nicholas Pace is a junior enrolled in India
Tradition & Beyond.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thursday. April9
Friday, April 10
Career fair
St. Martin's University Marcus Pavillion
in Lacey, free shuttle from Evergreen!
11:00 a.m.-3:00p.m., free
NAFTA Turns 15!
Free trade, food security, and migration
in Mexico forum.
Lecture Hall 3, 12-2 p.m., free
Charles
Alexander
reads
at
Evergreen
This event is presented by The Friends
of the Evergreen Library and Prolegomena To A Future Poetics.
Library underground, 12-2 p.m., free
Evergreen Hillel presents: Passover
Seder
If you choose to bring a dish, please
make it kosher and flour/grain free!
Contact hillel@evergreenhillel.org for
more information.
Sem II B3107, 7 p.m., free
Budget forum for students
Information will be given to students
about the budget cuts and students will
be given time to ask questions of the
panel.
Sem II A1105, 4-6 p.m., free
Pre-course for spring lifeguarding
class
Evergreen pool, 5 p.m., free
Common Bread presents: Exploring
Eslam with Dr. Mohammed Ayub
Comm Building 3rd floor lounge, 7
p.m., free
The Empire Strikes Back
Join as faculty members Steve Niva
and Zoltan Grossman talk about US war
and occupation so that we can start the
conversation about what is next in the
anti-war movement.
Lecture Hall 2, 7 p.m., free
tUnEyArDs, ben kamen, and Quinn
ABC House, 105 Sherman, 8 p.m., $5
Political songwriters and guitarists Mindy Dillard and AI Bradbury
perform.
Lecture HallS, 8-10 p.m., free
Arrington de Dionysio and Bill Nace
Eagles Hall top floor, 9 p.m., $6
Sunday. April12
Jeremy Jay's "Slow Dance" record
release party
Features Cosmetics, Cool Scool, and
Ten Little Indians.
The Big Room @ Cherry Street Lofts
808 Legion Way, 9 p.m.
Saturday, April 11
Monday, April 13
Featured education restoration
This event is part ofWestside Watershed
Days. Contact watershed@pugetsound.
org for more information.
Woodruff Park; French Creek Rd., 10
a.m.-7:30p.m. April 12, free
Applications for Student Trustee are
due!
Act hunger: Exploring Liberation
and Critical Psychology through
Psychodrama
Join Dr. Leticia Nieto for an afternoon
of exploration and engagement in the
field of Liberation and Critical Psychology. Registration is encouraged at wocc.
tesc@gmail.com.
Library 2nd floor lobby, 3-5 p.m.
Edible forest garden installation in
campus housing
All day workshop to transform the area
next to the HCC into a diverse perennial
polyculture of food-producing species.
Contact Natalie Pyrooz at pyroozn@
evergreen.edu for more information.
By the HCC, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., free
Tuesday, April14
"Making the River" movie
Come support Gateways for Incarcerated Youth!
Capitol Theater, 1 p.m.
Artist Elizabeth Conner speaks at
Evergreen
Lecture Hall 1, 4 p.m., free
Evergreen Hillel presents: ET and
the Boy
Mondays
STUDENT GROUP MEETING TIMES
Cooper Point Journal CAB 316, 5 p.m.
Hillel meeting CAB 320, 3:30p.m.
S&ABoard CAB 320,3-5 p.m.
Tuesdays
"It's great! You can just pull out your
student ID and ride free!"
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all local routes to
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Capoeira CRC 316, 5:30p.m.
ERC Environmental Resource Center
CAB 320, 5:30p.m.
Folk Dance CAB 320 cubicle 4, 10 a.m.
Freedom of Consciousness CAB SolarI ium, 8:30-10 p.m.
Greeners 4 Christ SEMII D 1107,7-8:30
p.m.
HABOO LIB 2147, 4 p.m.
OuParaPo Sem II A2109, 12:30-2 p.m.
S.T.A.R Sem IIA3107, 7 p.m.
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Wednesdays
Amnesty International CAB 320 Solarium, 1-2 p.m.
Anime Club HCC, 6-9 p.m.
Barrier Breakers club LIB 2318, 1-3
p.m.
Center 4 Sustainable Entrepreneurship
SEM IIA2109, 2 p.m.
CENSE Nature Walks Front of clock
tower, 1 p.m.
Chemistry Club Lab II 2211, 1-2 p.m.
Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador (qSPES) CAB 3rd Floor
Lounge, 4 p.m.
Clean Energy Lab II 1250, 3 p.m.
Evergreen Queer Alliance SEM II
A2109, 4 p.m.
Evergreen Queer Christian Alliance
Sem IIA3116, 5:30p.m.
ESSAA Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture Sem II A31 09, 1
p.m.
Folk Dance Alliance CAB 320 (cube 4),
1 p.m.
Geoduck Student Union Sem II E1105,
1-4p.m.
Healing Arts Collective CAB 3rd Floor
Skills for a New Millenium Tour
Earth Activist Training Permaculture
Bus (Permibus) will be parked on campus
giving tours of permaculture practices.
See permibus.org for more information.
Red Square, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., free
WashPIRG kick-off meeting
HCC, 9 p.m., free
Wednesday, April 15
Permibus Workshops
Skills for a New Millenium Tour presents this series of free workshops from
the Permibus, followed by a potluck.
Red Square, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free
Potluck: organic farm, 6:30p.m., free
"Beyond Beats & Rhymes,"
a film by Byron Hurt
Lib 1326, 7 p.m., free
Thursday, April16
Lecture on International Whaling
sponsored by the Olympia World
Affairs Council
John Calambokidis from Cascadia
Research Institute will address the topic
"Whales Without Borders: International
Collaboration and Research on Humpback and Blue Whales." Contact (360)
867-0919 for more information.
The Olympia Center at 222 Columbia
Street room 101, 7:30p.m., free
Evergreen Expressions presents: An
evening with fimmaker Jan Krawitz
Recital Hall, 8 p.m., $5
Pit, 5 p.m.
Hip Hop Congress Lecture Hall Rotunda,
3:30-4:30 p.m.
MEChA CAB 320 cube 12, 5-6 p.m.
Middle East Solidarity Committee CAB
320,2 p.m.
Pre-Health Society Lab I 3033, 3-4:30
p.m.
S&A Board Solarium 3-5 p.m.
Students at Evergreen for Ecological
Design (SEED) CAB 320 cube 17, 12:30
p.m.
Socialist Alternative SEMII B21 07, 6
p.m.
Synergy CAB 320, cube 17, 1:30 p.m.
Women's Resource Center CAB 320,
1:30-3 p.m.
Thursdays
Common Bread Comm Building 3rd
floor lounge, 5:30-8 p.m.
Cooper Point Journal CAB 316, 5 p.m.
Gaming Guild CAB 320,5:30-9 p.m.
Global Medical Brigade SEMII E2109,
4p.m.
Gun Club CAB 108, 5 p.m.
Hip Hop Congress Board meetings in the
Lecture Rotunda, 5 p.m.
Juggling Club CAB 2nd floor, 6 p.m.
Sabot Infoshoppe CAB Solarium, 4
p.m.
Fridays
Carnival clu~ CAB 320, 4-5:30 p.m.
Evergreen Student Productions 3rd
floor of the CAB (TV Lounge), 5:15p.m.
Saturdays
Anime Club HCC, 2-4 p.m.
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