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by MADELINE BERMAN
During this year's election students will be given the option
of voting in a new Geoduck Student Union (GSU) constitution. This will replace the current constitution, which according to GSU staff advisor Tom Mercado, was the product of
surveys and forums directed at collecting student opinions.
This new constitution is specifically geared towards including students in the democratic process, but the process of writing the proposed constitution has had relatively little student
input when compared to that of the current constitution.
Mercado has concerns about the "lack of public discourse"
in developing the draft of this new constitution. During their
May 20 meeting Mercado told the GSU that, "I remember
when the original G
was being formed and there were a
number of forums and community conversations."
"I'm hoping the students will stop and consider that they're
being asked to vote on something they haven't seen," Mercado
also commented after the meeting. When asked by Mercado
at the time of the vote, only four of the representatives at the
meeting had read the entire thirteen-page constitution.
During the meeting, representatives spoke about a general
assembly that took place at Synergy during week six. "I
looked at the Synergy schedule and didn't see any forum,"
said Mercado post meeting.
Since the GSU is late on their original election timeline,
Mercado also brought up election bylaws that have been
disregarded as oflate "Your bylaws state that initiatives must
be submitted by week six of spring quarter. It's week eight
and you guys are just now bringing it to a vote."
Even if the proposed constitution does pass, the Washington
state Attorney General must also review the constitution to
make sure it is legal, while the Board of Trustees (BoT) still
has the final say whether or not it is implemented. According to Mercado, the BoT will strongly consider the process
behind the development of the proposed constitution.
"The group that developed the original GSU constitution
held forums throughout the year. The process was very much
considered."
The proposed constitution can be viewed at
anewunion.org.
Madeline Berman is a sophomore enrolled in Image &
Sequence.
BRIAN FULLERTON
Compromise
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RAD and Flaming Eggplant
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by BRIAN FULLERTON
Last Monday, after bringing
the dispute to the S&A Board,
the Flaming Eggplant came to an
agreement with Residential and
1Dining (RAD) Services over how
much they owe for use of the trailer
that RAD services purchased.
RAD Services purchased and outfitted the trailer earlier last year to be
used for food preparation. Originally
the Flaming Eggplant agreed to pay
RAD Services $8,000 for exclusive
use of the trailer until they move
into the CAB after its renovation is
complete. However, the prep-trailer
arrived six weeks late, causing "hardships" (such as inadequate training
and claims oflostrevenue) to the Cafe.
As a result of these hardships,
RAD Services dropped the price
down by $800. People representing the Flaming Eggplant to the
S&A Board said they were willing
pay up to $5,999.99. They would
only consent to paying the $7,200
proposed by RAD Services if the
Flaming Eggplant would be signed
as co-owners of the prep-trailer.
The S&A Board, when they started
their deliberation soon after RAD
Services, made it clear that they had
no interest co-owning the preparation trailer. "It wouldn't make sense
for RAD co-owning things" since
they are an auxiliary unit from
Evergreen and are in charge of their
own funds" according to one of the
people representing RAD services.
Deliberation was stalled when
S&A Board member Jaime Hellerman suggested that, as a simple
compromise, the Cafe pay RAD
Services $6,500 dollars. Fellow
members Allie Van Nostran and
Justin Prazak weren't comfortable, as Van Nostran put it, with
"pulling a number out of our butt."
As the scheduled time for deliberation came and passed, both sides
agreed to the $6,500 in the interest of
time.
Brian Fullerton is a senior enrolled
in Mediaworks.
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by JAMES BRENNAMAN
Four people are currently awaiting trial
accused of violating the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism Act. AETA is a law pushed
through by animal industry groups to
specifically target activism that affects the
profits of animal industries. AETA is a law
so vague and broad that the non-violent
tactics ofMLK and Gandhi are now "terrorism." Historically most social movements
have strategically affected the profits of
industries as a mechanism of change. These
laws have a chilling effect and criminalize
activism. Although no one charged under
these new laws has been accused of violent
crime (just property damage), they receive
significantly harsher sentences and a terrorist label. According to the FBI, animal and
environmental activists are the number one
domestic terrorist threat. William Viehl and
Alex Hall were arrested in connection with
a mink release in Utah, their trial begins July
27, they have both pled not guilty. Nathan
Pope, Adriana Stumpo, Joseph Buddenberg,
and Maryam Khajavi, were arrested for
"conspiring" to violate the AETA. They are
being tried for allegedly using the Internet to
find information on bio-medical researchers
at the University of California at Santa Cruz
and attending demonstrations at the homes
of animal researchers where they marched,
chanted and sidewalk chalked. They have
pled not guilty. Their trial begins June 8. All
activists are in desperate need oflegal funds;
donations can be made at http://www.aeta4.
org and http://www.supportbjandalex.com/.
James Brennaman, an Evergreen Student
and Infoshop.org collective member,
conducted the following interview with Will
Potter, an award-winning independent jour-
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on "ceo-terrorism," the environmental and
animal rights movements, and civil liberties
post 9/11 earlier this year. Will Potter runs the
website GreenlsTheNewRed.com.
J: What should we be doing in response
to the Green Scare?
WP: People should be building stronger
communities so when someone is arrested ..
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AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS ARE
THE NUMBER ONE
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. there will be people to support them, which
makes it easer to resist state repression.
J: The government is taking crimes that
are already illegal and making them terrorism charges, and taking things that are not
illegal, like posting public information on
a website, and making it terrorism.
WP: Exactly, like with the Stop Huntington
Animal Cruelty (SHAC) US case, they are
conflating everything. They are treating the
Animal Liberation Front as the exact same
thing as people who leaflet, as the same thing
as running a website, it defies logic. To any
normal person there is a difference between
breaking a window, writing an article about
breaking a window, and publishing someone
else's anonymous communique about break-
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ing a window. Just because they are all about
breaking a window doesn't mean they are all
connected or that these people know each
other. But that is what the government says,
and that is what they said about the SHAC
US case.
J: What would you say to anarchists
or activists not involved in animal rights
work about the impacts of the Animal
Enterprise Terrorism Act on them?
WP: Everyone should still be paying attention. Just because the government is going
after SHAC activists this second doesn't mean
they won't be going to go after anarchists or
anti-war activists next. I think a really good
example of this happened in Minneapolis
with the RNC case. Before the Republican
National Convention even started they kicked
in organizer's doors, rounded everyone up at
gunpoint, and now there are eight people with
felony charges for "conspiring to incite a riot
for the furtherance of terrorism." It shows
how fluid all this stuff is. They are charging
these kids as terrorists for organizing. That
is all they did; they created maps of the city;
they talked about 'swarm' tactics, which
is civil disobedience; they ran community
services like child care and housing, and that
is why they were picked off. Anyone who is
doing activism should be paying attention.
J: When I hear about this stuff it just
makes me not want to get out of bed in the
morning, any advice?
WP: It stinks at first, to see it so brutally
clear how corrupt our government and how
little respect they have for people's constitutional rights. But at the same time it can be
kind of empowering when you can look past
the media spin and the government PR and
you can see the picture clearly. It takes some
of the mystery out of it. That's my postivist
rationalization on this sort of education, that
the more you learn about this the less people
retreat into despair and start using their
anger for positive change. With these sorts
of government tactics, I think that anyone
paying attention just has to be angry. You
don't have to be an anarchist or a vegan to
understand that the Green Scare tactics just
aren't right.
J: So what's the best way to not get
arrested?
WP: Well, my very legal sounding answer is
to know your rights. If you're doing political
actions, whether your leafleting or liberating
animals, be aware of the consequences. If
police approach you, don't talk to them. If
police threaten you, don't buckle and start
telling them everything you know. I think
part of the problem with the Green Scare was
that people were getting in over their heads
without really understanding and preparing
for what kind of repression could come back
to them.
Throughout history things like this have
always occurred, I think people have a
tendency to feel like this sort of repression is
inevitable. In some ways it probably is. Yet at
the same time every era of repression, from
the Red Scare to COINTELPRO, people
came out of it a lot stronger in the end. It
would be a big mistake if anyone looked at
the Green Scare and thought they couldn't
do anything about it. The government will
continue to do this and we can use it to aid in
organizing, reaching out to other movements,
building community and educating people
about their rights. We can use these experiences to move forward.
James Brennaman is a junior enrolled in
The Lens Based Image.
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passionate and interested in responsible business. This center offers a wide variety of
resources and helps students develop their own business plans. Resources include magazines, books, guest lectures, and field trips. On Saturday May 30, the CSE is heading
down to Powell's Bookstore in Portland. The purpose of this trip is to study and discuss
the bookstore's business plan. Over and above the official business of the visit, there
should be lots of fun had in Powell's incredible aisles of books. If you want to go on this
trip or are just generally interested in the group, talk to the coordinator Ben Anderson or
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PMR seeks support
by STEPHANI HEMNESS
With the Obama administration's escalation of the war in
Afghanistan, shipments out of Fort Lewis, via the Port of
Tacoma, are increasing. According to an Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) press release, "Deployments of
three Stryker Brigade Combat Teams, based at Ft. Lewis, are
scheduled for later this year. One deployment is destined for
Afghanistan, while the other two will be deployed to Iraq.
In an anticipation of the equipment being shipped through
regional ports, a concerted campaign of resistance has been
formulated."
Non-violent direct action began in early May, with several
successfully created blockades delaying Strykers on their
way to the Port of Tacoma. Meetings are usually held in the
evening at Coffee Strong, a GI coffee house in Lakewood, in
order to plan and organize before each direct action. Though
the group has been highly organized thus far, more support
is still needed. "It's been more difficult to get support in
Tacoma. It's been difficult to get people to realize that stuff is
still going through [the ports)" says Chris Grande, of Olympia, "PMR needs more people involved who really want to
help out in any way possible," he says.
Grande became active with PMR in November 2007 with
the Port of Olympia protests, and has been involved in direct
actions and helped with legal support in the most recent
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Tacoma actions. "I'm pretty comfortable putting myself out
there. But I try and be pretty smart about it," Grande says of
his experience forming blockades. Grande has also worked
behind the scenes with legal support work, which he views
as a bottom line to "make sure things run smoothly for the
people who get arrested."
Legal support is an important aspect •to the organization behind PMR. Legal provides other activists with the
information they need before, during and after direct action
and arrest. Patty Irnani, who has been active with Olympia
by CLAIRE ROSENFELD
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir
by submitting this to the Evergreen newspaper, but I would still like to rant, so bear with
me. Many people, especially in developed
countries, believe that impoverished people
could change their circumstances if they
tried. They stay poor because they are lazy
or unintelligent. The more time I spend in
India, the more strongly I believe these ideas
are false. Meet Leela-she's a skinny orphan
with large, shining eyes and a shaved head.
Leela has a sense of what kind of situation
she is in and you can see her pain and disgust
at times. Even at the young age of six, she
knows that the women do not treat her or
the other orphans well. The workers have
harnessed her intelligence, so she helps them
PMR since 2006, has recently been coordinating the legal
defense fund, which provides funding for jailed activists
who otherwise couldn't afford such things as private council
or bail. The fund also makes sure that the movement's attorney -who shows up to actions without question- receives
payment for such things as gas and other expenses. Arrest is
not always imminent with PMR direct actions, but it does
happen, and the group supports itself well.
"We're not the criminals, the port, the police, anybody who
aids an aggressive war effort is," Imani says. "There's always
room for more people to come in and do legal support," she
adds.
"There are definitely a lot of roles to fill, without involving arrest," notes Kteeo Olejnik, an Olympian PMR activist
who has been involved since 2007. Olejnik has participated
in blockades in the past, and most recently has been doing
support work with outreach and communication behind
the scenes. "I want to give people the tools to be able to do
what they want," she says, noting the high state of privilege
involved with being able to take direct action. She adds, "If
you don't know anyone it can be intimidating, it's important
to have that resource for people. Especially for those who
say 'I want to help out, but can't get arrested."'
PMR has recently begun using a new communications
system with Hackbloc, using cell phone text messages and
a Twitter feed. Information is received at what is called the
"Com. Center"-which usually runs out of a volunteer's
home-verified, and sent out to the feeds for PMR participants to use. Information usually comes from someone in
legal support or intelligence from scouts who verify the time
and location of moving Strykers.
"PMR in general needs many more participants," says
Ringo Carson, who helped to set up the new communication system, and who once stayed up for two and a half
days straight because he was on the phone lines for support.
Carson describes working in the communication group as a
ensure that things get done in their pseudohousehold. Before someone barks demands
at her, she knows to
fold all of the clean
clothes and place
them in the closet,
to feed the disabled
child a banana, or
to sweep biscuit
crumbs from the
floor. She even has
learned to slap the
other children when
they misbehave.
When I asked my
supervisor
why
the older children
weren't attending
school, she replied that the children aren't
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full time job, which usually involves three to four people on
the lines from nine until about midnight. "It's rewarding," he
says, "I feel like I am a part of something bigger than myself.
No matter who you are, you can participate," he adds, "PMR
has a pretty straight forward, easy to understand tactic. It's a
great way of putting ideology into reality."
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"We're making progress," says Olejnik, "We're all still
growing and learning and we're getting better. The amount
of police presence shows our progress. The fact that the
military needs guards to move equipment in this country is
a sign."
"It doesn't matter if the blockades only last five seconds,"
adds Grande, "The worst thing to happen would be for the
vehicles to get through without anyone noticing. People need
to see that these things are real."
The present challenge seems to be forming an effective
movement in Tacoma similar to the ones seen at the Port
of Olympia and Aberdeen. "After the 2007 Port of Olympia
protests it was no longer expedient to use the Port of Olympia for military expenses," says Grande. PMR will continue
to use similar tactics of resistance at the Port ofTacoma.
"The idea of direct action makes sense to me," says
Olejnik, "It would be great if we held signs and the government listened-but they're not. And it's sad. But PMR is
really inspiring."
Updates on previous and upcoming PMR actions can be
found at olypmr.org
More support is needed for PMR as shipments to Middle
East increase.
Stephani Hemness is a junior enrolled in Russian
Languages.
intelligent enough. I was enraged. Yes,
perhaps the disabled children can't be placed
in
public
school, but the
rest are just
as intelligent
as any other
children. What
will
become
of Leela if
she
remains
uneducated,
· spending
all
but two days of
the year locked
in an orphanage that reeks
of piss, baby
powder, and stale milk? She has no say in
her future. How is it, that I live in a world
where I can attend an out of state college and
make over three hundred dollars in tips in a
few hours just for smiling at some customers, and Leela will probably never break free
from an impoverished, undignified life?
I chose to engage in social work while
studying abroad because I thought it would
soothe my guilty conscience-somehow the
fact that I am spending most of my time at an
orphanage would ease the pang I feel when
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can. But I can't help but ask myself what
difference am I really making? I'll spend
ten weeks giving the kids some tender loving
care, and then I'll disappear from their lives
without impacting their futures. What I am
doing is important for the kids' immediate
needs, especially the disabled ones, but I
want to understand the root of the problem.
What happened in this country that some
parent was so impoverished that she left her
child in an orphanage drop box, hoping the
kid would have a better life?
Some people feel like poverty isn't their
problem-they don't see it, so they aren't
affected by it, right? Wrong. This is the age
of globalization, in which we are more interconnected than ever before. Do you think
September 11th would have happened if those
men had received a proper education and felt
like they had something to live for? Probably not. Perhaps some people can ease their
conscience by writing a tax-deductible check
to the charity of their choice, but like my work
at the orphanage, it's a quick fix. What would
happen if we all came to the realization that
poverty is our problem and we should put
our energies towards its eradication? Is it
really that different than attempting to get rid
of witch trials, slavery or small pox? I want
my children to be proud of the world they
live in. As the founder of microfinance and
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad
Yunus said at the 1997 Microcredit Surnrnit,
"poverty does not belong in a civilized human
society. It belongs in museums." This is our
world, these are our fellow human beings,
this is our responsibility.
Claire Rosenfeld is a junior enrolled in
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This weekend witnesses the opening of
three plays, two of the musical persuasion. Closest to home, The Experimental
Theater at The Evergreen State College
will be presenting "Flight of the Lawnchair Man." The show, directed by Walter
Grodzik, features
Students. This
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premiere and it
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senses ofall who
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SPSCC. The show will run for two weeks
on the main stage at The Minnaert Center.
The two college performance spaces are
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With one eye
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Crusted over.
The other
The darkness faded and the young man
opened his eyes. Fluorescent lighting flickered on the ceiling above. He was on his
back. Looking down, he watched his body
follow limply as his head rose upward. He
hovered several inches above the ground
for a moment before the weight of his body
returned. He gently floated down and his
A slender arm reached out of the rolling
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man an envelope. It was clearly overstuffed
with cash, and the name "William" was
written across the front. He looked back
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contact, but staring very intensely over his
right shoulder. "My name's not William"
Blinking,
HE WAS IN A VAST CORRIDOR
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I could tell
He wanted to talk,
But his lips were made of
Cement.
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CONSTRUCTION OR ABANDONED
feet touched the floor again. He was in a
vast codi.dor lined with innumerable storefronts that were either under construction
or abandoned. He could hear noise coming
from the darkness at the far end, and he
started towards it. Floating again, his toes
dragged on the floor as he drifted slowly
towards the noise. He wished he could go
faster, but couldn't. Days went by, and
still he continued
forward. The noise
was growing, almost
imperceptibly, and
the young man had
to fight to not give
up entirely. Waves of
relief surged; there
was something up
ahead. Hours passed
and he didn't feel
as scared. The small
blur grew and grew. It was purple, the first
color he had seen in days.
Eventually more colors were revealed,
all around the purple. It started with the
concrete floors changing from grey, to a
deep shining red. The fluorescents turned
into huge chandeliers, their light was
golden and magnificent as it reflected off
the floor and the brown polished columns
that extended off towards the noise. Noise,
so much louder now, he could feel its heat
from off in the distance. He stopped and the
purple woman was standing there, looking him directly in the eyes. "I'm sorry it
took me so long ... " he stuttered. She stood
there, not breaking her gaze for a moment.
he said as he awkwardly Graned his head
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his eyes and loudly sang:
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toooo beeee suuuuuure!" She used the
envelope like a conductors baton to
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was very theatrical. He giggled and took
the envelope from her hand. As soon as
she let go the face and
arm vanished. The
purple hair crumpled
to a heap on the floor
and all of the noise
stopped. For some
reason, the young man
was not surprised. He
counted the cash in
the envelope: $1,372.
He counted out five
hundred of it and
hid it underneath the mass of purple hair.
"She's gonna need that when she gets
back" he said aloud. His lips rubbed against
the pillow, wet with drool as he spoke.
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that everything was not as it seemed. He
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was shooting with pain. 'Maybe there was
something wrong with that cheeseburger
I ate last night' he thought. The bowels
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walls of his rectum and by the second step
towards the bathroom it was too much for
the muscles to retain. Warm liquid spilled
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Adult lifesty!es,
why can't I be myself?
never smoked or drank. I still don't, but at-home-all-the-time lifestyle that I seem met with their own lifestyles have really
put things into perspective for me. Though
now it's because I choose to; also realized to take lots of comfort in.
I never had sex before marriage because
When I was a kid
So when I sit down and ask myself why it's still tough to deal with, because I
I never met anyone that cared to do that I am not happy with the lifestyle I live, want to be sure any decision I make is not
I went to a Catholic
school in Montgomwith me. Today, I've no moral obligation it's probably because I don't know what just the Catholic in me talking, and that
ery, Alabama. I don't
to components of adult lifestyles such as I would truly pick after everyone else has it is a genuine 20-Years Tristan Carter
wish to pass judgment
smoking pot, and it took being here in the picked their own fun styles. Promiscuity college lifestyle decision. After all there
on all Catholics here,
Evergreen commuis one of the bigger are other factors. Do I have a gut reaction
but the people at that
nity to realize "Hey,
questions because to someone that talks about all the guys
THIS MEANS NO
school were terrible people, saturating wait, this shit isn't as
sex is just too they've fucked in the past week because
the minds of young kids with the idea that evil as I've been told
powerful to be taken my Catholic self disagrees with their lifeONE SHOULD
they can never have sex until marriage it was." It was even
lightly, by Catholics style, or is it because I feel they tum the
and that they should sit down and be good more shocking to EVENTUALLY BELIEVE or anyone. And idea of dating into something passive and
kids and follow the rules of this God that hear about people's
whenever someone dull by making sex more commonplace,
lifestyles. AN IDEAJUST BECAUSE tells me about their making me feel like I would only ever just
no one could clarify any information sexual
about. Here at Evergreen we stress free- It was completely
sexual
lifestyle be "a night" to any woman? (Man ... when
THEY'VE HEARD IT
thought sometimes to ridiculous levels, profound to someone
I always have to did Romance die out?)
but I have never once believed anyone's like me who'd been
decide what reaction
There of course exists the challenge of
perspective should be censored. Not beaten mentally by
FOR DECADES, NOR to have, since I have prioritization, though people in college
only is it one of America's fundamental religious folk. If
to catch up with the especially have a general choice of
rules, but it's well known that the less you talk to me now, SHOULD ·THEY FOLLOW norms in life. Yes, "excitement and risk" or "relaxation and
popular opinions are sometimes so right you'll find I'm very
people have sex safety". So it takes some doing to figure
that they should be heard, because they accepting of people
before marriage all out what kind oflifestyle you want to live
A PHILOSOPHY OF
may be the ones changing the course of like I was when I
the time; I had no in the here and now, and form said future
idea but after hear- lifestyles from this point on.
the planet day. I also believe that any idea was a kid. I lost that
LIFE OUT OF FEAR
ing nothing but that
introduced to a person should be taken trait in high school
So tell me what you think. Do you have
voluntarily, and not burned or sponged unfortunately, and only recently got it until I was 18, I felt like I'd missed a trouble forming a comfortable but livable
onto a person's mind. This means no one back. But I still struggle when I meet ton of social opportunities. On the other college lifestyle? How does your own
should eventually believe an idea just people. Everyone has such different side I wonder to myself how comfortable history fit into it? I'd love to hear anyone's
because they've heard it for decades, lifestyles, and they all seem so awesome would I be with a sexual lifestyle? Sure, thoughts. E-Mail me: solidsnake8431@
nor should they follow a philosophy of compared to my own daily habits. The I'm a virgin at the moment, but I am by no gmail.com.
life out of fear. I grew up in high school Catholic in me has not only determined means celibate; but I'm also not a whore
thinking 1 was high and mighty because I just how many less people I've met in a that treats sex "like a handshake" as my · Tristan Carter is a sophomore enrolled
abstained from sex before marriage and past life, but he's also formed this very friend puts it. All the different people I've in Projects in Visual Art Professions.
by TRISTAN CARTER
GSU adion plan
by TREVOR VAN DYKE
I believe the new proposed Geoduck
Student
Union
constitution provides
a system that can
enable more art,
physical recreation,
music,
events,
lectures, awareness,
and information to be readily available
on Evergreen campuses and learning
communities, and I agree that we need
a new union that can do that. (check
anewunion.org for the proposed constitution and more) Here's how I want to
get there:
The next year needs to be a year of transition to this new structure as efficiently,
openly, and transparently as we students
can organize! I propose that the GSU's
priorities need to be centered around
these values, and that we can get there
with some simple initiatives:
- Get A Better Blog: The Geoduck
Student Union can, and should, be
held accountable to its members, the
students! To that end, enforcing a simple
update scheme can make accessing info
very easy, at www.geoduckunion.info or
wiki.anewunion.org. Info to be accessed
could include weekly minutes and agendas for GSU meetings, major initiatives
and platforms of the GSU and the greater
student body of TESC, and essays from
students and Union Stewards outlining in
detail proposals (similar to this article)!
-Student Outreach: Join a club! Getting
involved in campus life shouldn't be
hard, especially since we're already
living it. Our organizations can reflect
that, by finding connections and ways
to collaborate for events, talks, dances,
and projects. I propose that the GSU can
help spearhead this effort, by facilitating
a simple "Student Group Affiliation"
process with the GSU that can promote,
support, and uphold student interests
in all forms, as outlined in our new
(hopefully) constitution! Monthly meetings between coordinators, sustained
discussion with our S&A board and the
Greener Organization ... Wouldn't it be
nice to see public art, music, sports, and
drama in an even greater variety through
Evergreen?
- Campus Outreach: Students aren't
alone at Evergreen, and our discussions aren't either. The GSU can reach
out for help from all Campus Services,
and should stay in contact with important communication and organizationoriented services in Student Academic
Support Services (SASS). Let us find
our roles as students as members of a
larger community.
- Behind-the-Scenes: The coming year
will obviously need some restructuring,
to prep the GSU for an Action Committee,
an anti-oppression Empowered Students
Panel, GSU newsletters, and more. The
Geoduck Student Union should begin
drafting examples oflndependent Learning Contracts for the Action Committee
(because student organizing can be a
learning experience), and setting the
scope of our proposed organizations. We
also need input! Because when the GSU
sets the agenda, it allows the students to
set the agenda, which allows you specifically to set it. What do you want to see?
How do you want student organizations
to function at TESC?
These are just my ideas. I would love
to hear from others about my proposals,
but moreover I want to hear their ideas.
Please make your voices heard, whether
it's as brief as a two-line email to a GSU
rep, or as large as becoming a student
group coordinator.
And there's another easy way you can
make your voice heard - at the polls!
If you'd like to see the changes I'm
promoting and others, please vote for
Trevor Van Dyke, and more importantly,
vote for a new constitution for all us
Geoducks.
Remember that elections don't solve
problems though. When you vote, it's
only the beginning of what you can do
to make Evergreen the school you want
to go to. This is your school, don't let
myself or anyone else take that away
from you. I'll see you at the next student
activity!
Trevor Van Dyke is a freshman enrolled
in Language & Power and Cultivating
Voice. He is a GSU candidate for the
'09- '1 0 year, and wants to hear from you
at vantre27@evergreen.edu.
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It is not a sin
it is said that we are made in God's image.
To find fault with people for being gay
My partner is a transman. He was born is to find fault with God and His image.
with a female body,
Luke 6:41-42 says, "Why do you look
at the speck of sawdust in your brother's
but a male mind.
When he came out to
eye and pay no attention to the plank in
me in January 2008,
your own eye? How can you say to your
my first reaction was
brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck
out of your eye,' when you yourself fail
of disbelief. Who was
this sudden stranger
to see the plank in your own eye? You
who slept next to me at night, and knew hypocrite, first take the plank out of
my innermost thoughts? Upon further your eye, and then you will see clearly
reflection, I realized this transformation to remove the speck from your brother's
WAS the real him. The female I thought eye." (NIV) No one has the right or
I knew was the illusion. He is still the responsibility to point out another's sin
person I love, if not more so, because he unless they are blameless themselves.
no longer has to lie about hi_s identity. People say, "Oh well, those homosexuals
Towards the end of 2008, the Holy Spirit are promiscuous. They also molest chilalso spoke to me. It said, in a nutshell, dren, and try to convert them to their gay
"David, not only do I want you to accept agenda. But at least they have fabulous
Me as your Savior, but I want you to window treatment, and throw amazing
spread My Word." God personally called dinner parties. Why do they spend so much
me to serve and teach! Before that, I was time shopping for small dogs, though?''
going to study fashion design. God truly God does not approve of promiscuity
works in mysterious ways.
from heterosexual people either. There
I've slowly come to understand that God are queer folks who keep notches on their
wants me to teach His love to those who bedposts to keep track of their lovers, but
normally don't feel comfortable, or feel there are hetero folks who do, too. As for
marginalchild abuse,
just as many
ized in a
I HAVE SEEN THE QUOTE
"normal"
heterosexuchurch. "LOVE THE SINNER, HATE THE als molest
In Jesus'
children, if
time,
it SIN" APPLIED TO "THE HOMO- not more.
was lepers,
I pray for
prostitutes, SEXUALITY DEBATE" TOO MANY them
and
and Samarcondemn
itans. TIMES. THAT'S GREAT, EXCEPT t h e i r
Today, the
actions, but
marginalBEING GAY IS NO MORE A SIN just because
ized and
there are a
forgotten
few hetero
THAN BEING LEFT HANDED.
are
the
people who
molest chilLBGTQQ
and their
drendoesnot
allies, the divorced, the disabled, or those mean that I write them all off as molesters.
who find their home in a 'subculture'-in
short, anyone below middle class and I checked my inbox before I started writnon-heteronormative.
ing this. No gay agenda came in the mail
I have seen the quote "Love the sinner, with my laminated ID card. We just want
hate the sin" applied to "the homosexual- to live our own lives and be accepted by
ity debate" too many times. That's great, those around us. We want to have relationexcept being gay is no more a sin than being ships, love, and families. Equal rights are
left handed. God created gay animals-for not special rights.
example, wolves, dolphins, and gorillas.
You might 'be asking, "David, where are
Animals are no less God's creation than you going with this?" This is my answer:
I. Matthew 6:25 says "If you [are] living I am gay, because my life partner is a man.
a life of God-worship ... you don't fuss A lot of people who write and preach that
about what's on the table at mealtimes or queers of all flavors are going to hell, and
whether the clothes in your closet are in are not "saved", yet I was called to the
fashion. There is far more to your life than ministry AFTER my husband came out
the food you put in your stomach, more and began his transition process. If God
to your outer appearance than the clothes TRULY despised homosexuality, I would
you hang on your body. Look at the not have been called to teach the Word,
birds, free and unfettered, not tied down but been reviled and cast away from the
Ito
a job description, careless in the care table.
of God. And you count far more to him
than birds." (The Message) God made gay
David Graves is a freshman enrolled in
animals and people. It's not a 'choice' as Living in the Sacred Garden.
some would say. Matthew reminds us that
God cares for us, and throughout the Bible
Late Dight encounters
with Officer Perez
by DAVID GRAVES
1
a fresh cigarette butt sitting on the edge
of the table.
My roommate, a
He pulled the first item from my pocket,
former sailor, was
a pen, and the point showed through the
involved in an incinight. He carelessly put upon the picnic
dent that occurred at
table my iPod, my cell phone, keys
an off-campus party.
(though not without first turning on and
They were handling
off the blue keychain light), my moleskin
it out-of-court, but
journal, and some metal trash.
Officer Perez thought it was necessary
"Subject is a white male approximately
to come to my door looking for him at five foot ten," he says into the radio,
12:30 a.m. on a Sunday night! Have you along with more codespeak for the other
no courtesy, Sir?
end.
I was given a card by an investigator
"You know you could've just asked me
who was with Perez to give to my room- to empty my pockets and we could've
mate, and I did. Subsequently the inves- skipped all this rigmarole ... " I mention
tigator was sent an explanatory email to him.
that should have made everything clear.
"Well it's just regulation when you
Lo, Perez showed up, unannounced, have a person in custody to handcuff
AGAIN at midnight. Arthur, ex-Navy, them before you search them." he states,
told him that the situation was under matter-of-factly.
control and wondered what he was really
"You aren't treating me like a person,
doing here?
you are treating me like a suspect."
"Well you ·are a suspect!" he quickly
This , was one of several questionable
encounters I've had with Perez this year. retorts.
"Yeah, well don't tell me you're treating
One incident in particular still haunts
my memory. We'd had a round of beers me like a person when you're treating me
after school was done for the week, and like a subject!"
we were relaxing at our picnic table
He proceeds to fill my pockets with
just waiting for some friends to finish their former contents, except for one
a conversation inside so we could head thing which hadn't been in my pocket:
over to our other friends'. apartment in the cigarette butt. He attempts to throw
the Glen.
it in with the metal trinkets, and at this l
"Okay so this isn't a designated smoking take a quick step back:
area. You need to put that out right now."
"Hey! You kiddin' me!? Don't put that
The police had come out of nowhere, cigarette butt in my pocket!"
Perez loses it; giving me a rough push
apparently on the prowl for ne'er-dowells like us. Perez characteristically on the side, which straightens me out.
shines his flashlight directly into our He cries: "C'MERE!" and pulls me back,
faces, causing momentary blindness. We grabbing me at my pocket and plopping
all get up and walk away.
the butt in it the same time.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR LIP:
"Hey you! What's that in your back
ANY MORE AND WE'RE TAKING
pocket?"
Suddenly, I remembered that a bottle of YOU DOWN TO JAIL!" his voice boomcream stout stuck out of my back pocket, ing at full blast.
(There's much more to this story, but
the label safely hidden.
there's no time to tell it here. Ask me for
"Oh,,it's just a root beer, officer."
a copy if you want.)
I continue on.
"Stop! Get back here!"
I guess what really bothers me about
I turn around to a blinding flashlight to officer Perez is the fact that he chose to
the face and two menacing dark figures.
do his authoritarian work here at EverI Comply.
green in particular.
"Turn around!"
"Most colleges and universities have
I Comply.
security rather than their own police
"What's this?"
department," said my brother, an internal
He reaches into my back pocket and affairs investigator for NYPD.
removes my property.
Officer Perez makes the state's crushing
"Now hold on a second. You can't just police presence here obvious. He reaftake that from me. There is no way you firms the discomfort that many people
could tell from there that wasn't a soda." around here have had, and still have,
"Quiet! It's called Reasonable Suspi- with the police. If Perez wants to be this
cion. I'm sure you can talk to your attor- Top Cop character, why doesn't he go
ney about that," he calmly replies.
somewhere where that might actually
"Do you have anything crazy like be appreciated by his peers and suborknives or needles in your pockets I dinates; somewhere like New York City
should be worried about?" he asks me, where police brutality is common?
as if jestingly.
"Uh no, I don't think so."
Geoffrey S. Bok is a udent enrolled in
As he turned me to the picnic table to the Evergreen State College.
sift through my personal effects, I notice
, by GEOFFREY S. BOK
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Thursday. May 21
Taking Back Birth film festival
Presented by Women's Resource Center.
4:30p.m. -6:00p.m., Lecture Hall3
Baha'i faith talk
Common Bread hosts Erica Couissant.
5:30p.m., Rotunda
Community Forum on Free Health Care
Featuring panelists Dr. Muhammad Ayub,
Peter Bohmer, Aaron Dixon, Rob Richards,
and Linda Sternhill Davis.
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., The Olympia Center
Room204
Homeland Security presents: Eprhyme
Shomer Salaam record release party with
Evergreen One, AKA, Smoke, and DJ
Deadbeat.
9:00p.m., The Royal (311 N. Capitol Way),
$5, 21+
Friday. May 22
Taking Back Birth film festival
Presented by Women's Resource Center.
4:30p.m. - 6:00p.m., Lecture Hall 1
Presented by 98.5 FM.
3:00p.m., The Northern (321 4th Ave)
Sunday. May 24
"Give Them A Stage"
Part of From Page to Stage. Featuring live
music, dance, acting, stand-up comedy, short
films, and spoken word. Proceeds go to Kids
at Play.
7:00p.m., Capital Playhouse, $7
Monday. May 25
"Free the Ben Moore's 4"
Presented by Sour Owl.
9:00p.m., Eagles Club at 4th and Plum
Campus Holiday! (Memorial Day)
Tuesday. May 26
Olympia World Affairs Council meeting
Speaker Jack F. Nevin will address "Dictatorship to Democracy."
7:30p.m., Olympia Center Room 101
"The Producers" starts at SPSCC
Shows Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.
and Sunday at 2 p.m.
8:00 p.m., Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for
the Arts Main Theater, $5
Show, Clothing Swap, and Root Beer
Floats
Featuring Pythias Braswell, Boguslaw
Moravec, Razz-M-Tazz, Margy Pepper, and
Cacuey, with root beer floats and a clothing
swap at 6 p.m.
8:00p.m., 805 14th Ave.
"Flight of the Lawn chair Man"
Shows Thursday through Sunday.
8:00p.m., Experimental Theater, $5
Saturday. May 23
Acrobatics Class
Includes stretching, conditioning, etc.
Presented by Evergreen Circus Resurgence.
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., CRC 117
Fermented Foods Secret Cafe
Enjoy nori rolls, garlic pancakes, pickled
soup, fancy desserts, etc.
12:00 p.m. -4:00p.m., 1224 Thomas St.
Lovingkindness Meditation Workshop
Featuring Jude Rozhon.
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Olympia Friends
Meeting House (219 B St. Tumwater)
"The Last Graduation"
Benefits Olympia's Books to Prisoners project, presented with Olympia Film Society.
1:00 p.m., Capitol Theater
Free Radio Olympia Birthday Bash!
Self-Evaluation Workshop
Presented by the Writing Center.
6:30p.m., Primetime
From Page to Stage Film Festival
Showcases student work that has been transformed in the past 10 weeks.
7:00p.m., Lecture Hall4
Wednesday. May 27
Folk Dance Alliance presents Live Music/
Dance in Red Square!
11:00 a.m. -7:45p.m., Red Square
Presentation on International Health
Featuring Mark Toy, MPH, MSCE, and
Susan Camp, ARNP.
1:00 p.m. - 3:00p.m., Sem II B2107
Business Plan Workshop: Budgeting and
Financing
Presented by CSE.
2:00p.m.- 4:00p.m., Sem IIA2109
Business of Being Born
Wednesday, May 20
Lecture Hall3 @4:30p.m.
Contract Cafe
Info about contracts and/or sponsors!
3:00p.m.- 5:00p.m., Library Lobby
"The Case for Israel: Democracy's
Outpost"
Documentary film with Alan Dershowitz,
presented by SUA Shalom, Chabad Olympia,
and StandWithUs.
6:00p.m., Lecture Hall 3
South Sound Bounty Event
Featuring Jim Lynch. Reserve a $15 ticket at
www.LeadThurstonCounty.com!
6:00 p.m., SMU's Norman Washington
Center, $15
Thursday. May 28
Public Hearing for Proposed Rules/
College Policies
Topic: Required and Emergency Medical
Leave Policy. Wendy Endress at endressw@
evergreen.edu for more information.
3:30p.m.- 4:30p.m., Lib2207
Waterbaby
Thursday, May 21
Lecture Hall! @4:30p.m.
Expressive Arts Senior Thesis Gallery
Exhibit Opening
5:00p.m. -8:00p.m., Library 2204
WEEKLY STUDENT GROUP MEETING TIMES
Mondays
Cooper Point Journal CAB 316, 5 p.m.
Hillel meeting CAB 320, 3:30 p.m.
Men's Resource Center CAB Solarium, 6- 8 p.m.
S&A Board CAB 320, 3-5 p.m.
Freedom of Consciousness CAB Solarium, 8:3010p.m.
Greeners 4 Christ SEM II B\105, 7 p.m.
HABOO LIB 2147,4 p.m.
OuParaPo Sem IIA2109, 12:30-2 p.m.
S.T.A.RSemiiA3107, 7p.m.
Thesdays
CapoeiraAngola CRC 316, 5:30p.m.
ERC Environmental Resource Center CAB 320,
5:30p.m.
Folk Dance CAB 320 cubicle 4, 10 a.m.
Wednesdays
Amnesty International CAB Solarium, 1-2 p.m.
Anime Club HCC, 6-9 p.m.
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Committee in Solidarity with the People of El
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Evergreen Queer Alliance SEM II A21 09,4 p.m.
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Folk Dance Alliance CAB 320 (cube 4), 1 p.m.
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Middle East Solidarity Committee CAB 320, 2
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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
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Socialist Alternative SEMfl B2107, 6 p.m.
Synergy CAB 320, cube 17, 1:30 p.m.
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Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30- 9 p.m.
Global Medical Brigade SEMII E21 09, 4 p.m.
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