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Budget decisions to be
made soon

New constitution
could complicate
GSU elections
by MADELINE BERMAN

The Geoduck Student Union
(GSU) representative Randall
Hunt, who wrote a new GSU
constitution, expects that this
document will be implemented
this fall if students and the college
approve it. According to Hunt, if
the document 'is approved, the
twenty-five candidates running
in this year's election, whether
elected or not, will not serve as
representatives but as organizers
of the event where representatives in this new union will be
chosen.
If, the new' constitution is
approved, next year's student
government will be chosen
through a popular assembly
instead of being elected this
quarter.
However, in order for this popular assembly to happen, 25% of
all students would have to vote
with a majority of them voting in
favor of this constitution. After
this, the constitution would have
to be approved by both the Board
of Trustees and the state's attorney generaL
Tom Mercado, advisor to the
GSU, is concerned about what
will happen if the constitution
is approved in the election, but
is vetoed by the Board of Trustees. "I hope that if it is denied,
problems will be identified, that
it isn't just a flat "no" but they
show what areas are problematic
and what can be worked on."
When asked what will happen if
the proposed constitution passes,
John Carmichael, Executive
Assistant to the President, stated

that the board of trustees would
have to be updated and given
time to consider the constitution
and what approving it would
entaiL "I imagine we'd give them
the update at the June meeting.
We don't ever want to bring them
something and ask them to vote
on the spot. You have to allow
time for deliberation." Carmichael went on to say it would most
likely be voted on in the fall.
When asked how much of the
proposed constitution might
actually be feasibly implemented,
Mercado stated he had not had
enough time to read through the
entirety of the constitution and
make an informed statement
about what might work and what
might not.
"If we'd had sufficient timing,
we could've addressed any
problems," continued Mercado,
"There was not sufficient time to
review. We will be responding
instead of being proactive and
working with students."
"There was just no time to do
review or notify the student
body," says Phyllis Lane, Dean
of Student and Academic Support
Services, "what public discourse
was there? ... It's really important
that students have the opportunity
to study it."
Lane is also curious about the
structure of the proposed union.
"From an organizational perspective, it's not even constructed in
the classic sense of a union .. .I'm
still not clear on what is motivating this change."
see Constitution, page 5

money can be spent. Tuition will
be increased for most students to
Evergreen's budget for the next supplement revenue, though less
two years will be presented for money will be available.
approval to the school's governOverall,
Evergreen's
state
ing body, the Board of Trustees, funding will be cut by over $15
on June 11.
million.
Evergreen will receive less
Trotter says that in the three
public funding over these next decades he's been at Evergreen,
two years than it did during the he's noticed a trend: school's are
previous budget years.
being funded less by the state and
Steve Trotter, Director of more by student fees each year.
Evergreen's budget, says more · In this budget, half of the
revenue will be needed and less school's finances will be paid for
by JASON SLOTKIN

by student fees.
According to Trotter, the school
has set funding priorities. Instruction and maintaining student
enrollment are high on the list.
Even with these priorities, each
of the college's divisions may
have to take more than a 6% cut
in funding.
Among these cuts are funding
student jobs in different departments all over campus.

see BUDGET, page 3

Sixth annual Science Camival
by KRISTINA WILLIAMS
&JASON SLOTKIN

Pop! was a common onomonpeia in Red Square
last Friday, as Evergreen's Annual Science Carnival
began. The Carnival is a two day event featuring
lectures and presentations from Evergreen Science
Students.
During Friday, Evergreen science students and
Chemistry Club members hosted several interac-

tive exhibits including: air-powered foam rockets,
a make your own ice-cream table; a display of a
Mentos powered soda fountain and the Chemistry
Club's volcano.
The event was attended by students from elementary and middle schools all over Thurston County
on Friday while children attended with their parents
and guardians on Saturday. For every frn-filled
exhibit, there was an equal number of highly engag-

see SCIENCE CARNIVAL, page 3

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Features: Play Day: Inflatable
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Student Voice: Mad weektakes
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Calendar: Find out what's happening around Olympia .. Page 11

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Icarus Project presents Mad Week
by IAN PERIEDA-PERRY

Mad Pride Week is Here
-So far there has been a potluck, a labyrinth, movie showings, and on Wednesday Will Hall came and spoke.
-Upcoming events include a Friday
vigil, more movies etc (see bottom for
more details).
-the potluck included a spoken-word
segment in which people contributed
songs, poems, and dances. This combination of food, good people, and silliness
contributed to a therapeutic, healthy, and
fun night.
-Mad Pride week rocks because it
creates a place for people to explore and
be themselves without any restrictions or
expectations.
Trauma
Remember meeting the Icarus Project a
couple weeks ago? Now is the time to get

more intimate with the project by attending a Mad Pride event. Hall has worked
for the Mad Pride movement for over 20
years and also hosts the Madness Radio
(MadnessRadio.net). This discussion
with Hall covered issues surrounding and
relating to what is commonly referred to
as the "mentally ill." The topics ranged
from trauma, pharmaceutical companies,
electroshock therapy, stereotypes, and
much more. At the core of what was
being discussed was the notion that safety
and diversity are vital for both personal
and societal growth. In the words of Hall
there needs to be a "new vision of society... one in which everyone is allowed to
find what is good for (his/her) own self."
This is a little taste of the type of material that can be found at Icarus events. If
this is appetizing then look right and get
involved.

What is Next?
On Thursday:
From noon-3 p.m. there'll be winged
people in Red Square. They'll have a
blanket with information, zines, and
books about a wide range of topics
centering on breaking the paradigm of
mental illness and on reassessing the
mental state of this country
From 4-6 p.m. in Sem II All 05
Ear Acupuncture demo (acupressure
touch therapy... ) for trauma led by Will
Hall will take place. This experience
will engage and discuss the benefits of
receiving supportive treatment and look
into how ear acupuncture in low-cost
community clinics can help heal trauma,
detox the body, and form the center of an
activist organizing strategy and, therefore, empower health care.
From 7-9 p.m. in Sem II All05 a
Discussion with Will Hall. Oppression is
emotionally traumatic, and activists are
often traumatized in our struggles. What
is emotional trauma, how do we heal it,
and what are the connections between
trauma and social activism?
On Friday:

Film screening 4-6 p.m. Sem II C 1105:
"The Doctor Who Hears Voices" the
story of Ruth, an orthodox journey of
a doctor to regain her profession as a
doctor who hears voices. Ruth's journey
of reclamation is guided by a maverick
psychologist, Rufus May, who believes
there's no such thing as schizophrenia,
that medication can destroy lives, and
that there's nothing wrong with hearing
voices.
Another film 7-9 p.m. Sem II Cll05
"The Devil and Daniel Johnston." His
drawings and sketches are exhibited and
sold worldwide. Beck, Wilco, and Sonic
Youth have recorded his songs. But
beneath Daniel Johnson's success as an
artist and musician is an incredible story
of genius touched by "madness;" he's
diagnosed as manic depressive.
A VIGIL (9 p.m. in Red Square) open
to everyone--therapeutic circle led by lit
candle, a space to tell stories that invite
public survivors to live vicariously
through our healing and give permission to grieve through our grieving
- together.
Ian Perida-Perry is a student enrolled
in Academic Writing and Orissi Dance.

(same wing people from noon-3 p.m. in
Red Square)

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learners, has classes starting every 10 weeks. You won't have to wait long to get started
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"What we do
So the school year is ending and much
like everyone else on campus, the staff at
the CPJ are preparing to go on summer
vacation. With that in mind, there are a
few things every student should know
about the CPJ.
One, this will be our last issue until the
orientation week issue.
The next thing you should know is that
once school starts in the fall, the CPJ will
be predominantly online. As mentioned
in the last article, there will still be a print
paper put out every week.
Since we will be online, you will be able
to submit both audio and video to the
CPJ.
There will also be new ways to get
involved with the CPJ. All of the CPJ
staff positions are changing to reflect the
type of content a website can host. Staff
reporters and editors will be able to work
in audio, video, photos, and text.
Also, the CPJ will have options for
students to comment on content.
And as mentioned earlier this quarter,
we will again accept opinions articles
covering the Israel/Palestine conflict.
So if you are interested in getting
involved with next year 's CPJ come to
our Thursday or Friday meetings this
week.
If you want to get involved next year
stop by SEM II C3105 . We will be there
until the renovations on the CAB are
completed.
Always feel free to email or call the
CPJ.
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COURTNEY BAILEY

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Arnie Maxwell and Cameron Deleone
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on both Friday and Saturday. Eggs,
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Departments such as First People's,
Academic Advising, and Registration
and Records will have less money to hire
student workers who do not have Federal
Work Study.
Director of Business Services, Colin
Orr says that his ability to hire students
will be limited. His department may take

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geared towards a younger audience
and included everything from cookies,
microscopes, bugs, mutants and even
toy monkeys.
On presenting to children, Darcy
said," If you want to engage them, you
have to be prepared for anything."
Later that Saturday, the same team

presented an exhibit called Heads up,
Tails Down: Primary Axis Formation
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Embryos.

a 25% cut to his budget for hiring student
and temporary employees.
Orr says that this could mean less
student employees.
Phyllis Lane, Dean of Student and
Academic Support Services (SASS) said
all of the areas in her department will be
affected by these cuts.
The offices in SASS in First People's,
Academic Advising, and Access services
will not be able to hire as many students.
According to Lane, this could affect
the services these offices provide to

students.
Other staff positions within the college
will also be cut or made part-time. Many
of these positions are vacant at this time.
Orr says that there are also vacant fulltime positions that will not be funded
next year, including a second cashier in
the Cashier's office.

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Another point Mercado brought up was
that there was no outreach to either the
Tacoma campus or the Reservation Based
Program. "They were never offered the
opportunity for input. Tacoma and reservation students are being asked to vote on
this. The GSU has funds in their budget for
field trips to Tacoma, which they have not
done."
"What about our students studying
abroad, or inI independent contracts? Have
we thought about their representation?"
asks Mercado
During an interview on Wednesday June
3, GSU rep Randall Hunt said that there
has been outreach to Tacoma. "We have
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We're going to Tacoma this evening to talk
to people."
Mercado made a point to clarify his
earlier statement about there not being
a forum about the proposed constitution
during Synergy week six. "All they had
was a table. That is different from a forum.
They're providing information instead of
an opportunity to review the document
because it wasn't ready at that time."
In regards to trying to gauge the opinions
of a campus of over four thousand students,
Mercado asks "To only have a table- is that
adequate public notice and opportuni<y for
review; for comments and feedback?"
Both Mercado and Lane expressed
concern about the lack of historical
perspective taken into account during the
drafting process.
"We didn't have a student government in
04, 05. We sent out letters to start conversation because we wanted to bring students
together to talk about it. We said 'you don't
have student government' and asked them
to consider that there may be reasons for
creating one. Students took it from there ...
a long deliberate process, that's missing in
I this one" says Mercado.
"In 06, student affairs really got communicating around having organized student
voice ... we had meetings weekends,
evenings, all times of the day to make sure
there was the kind of outreach that was
necessary to insure that students had access
and understood."

Madeline Berman is a sophomore
enrolled in Image & Sequence.

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Be a part of it, Evergreen!
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by HILARY HACKER
Go with the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with
what they have. But of the best leaders. When the jobs is done. The task accomplished The people will all
say, "We have done this ourselves."
- Lao Tsu. China 700. BC

Summer is here and it's full of opportunities to be involved! Are you concerned about social
justice issues affecting members of your community? Are you interested in volunteering your
time at a local organization? Come check out the Center for Community Based Learning and
Action (CCBLA)! We are a public service center on campus located in Seminar 2 E2125. We
work to bridge the gap between the campus community and the greater Olympia community.
We seek to address social issues, while strengthening and enhancing student experience, by
supporting our community's ability to meet critical needs. Whether you're looking for long
term or short term opportunities to get involved the CCBLA is the place for community!

A Eulogy
I met Happyland earlier this quarter after a lot of hushed planning and conversations. I had heard of Happyland through conversations with friends who were in
the know about it but whenever I asked for specific details about just who the hell
Happyland is, answers were vague and cryptic at best or, at worst, the question was
completely dodged.*
When I asked the person who eventually took me to meet Happyland about Happyland, her eyes widened and we asked
to secure the time
of a meeting.
Happyland was in a room in the CAB basement and up a ladder blocked by a grate.
The short story of how it began is that in 1991, KAOS was in
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and was started by two KAOS DJ's as a place to put a
art.
years the idea behind Happyland was for visitors to sign in on the sign-in book,
contribute something to the space, and leave to bring someone down when you get
the chance to.
That was the
land and, to my regret, despite the abundance
of
I took the experience for granted like everyone
else who went down there, as I completely forgot that the room was to be cleared out
when the CAB is renovated. In all honesty, the visit wasn't that big of a deal and it
is hard to substantially describe it to anyone who hasn't been to Evergreen because it
isn't a big deal to anyone who doesn't know or care about Evergreen.
There isn't an elitist intent behind writing this; partly because I doubt I would care
about Happy land ifl didn't go to Evergreen but mostly because Happyland was Evergreen. Happyland wasn't hard to get to and, again, it wasn't that big of a deal after
you spent a few hours down there. But it was always there, acting as a not-so-hidden
flip-side to everything we ended getting the most outraged about; that coinciding with
every flipped cop-car is a room filled w i t h · · · · · · ·· · ··
Figuring it would be in the collaborative spirit ofHappyland, I don't want
this one piece to be an end-all substantial look at Happyland. Instead, it
would be great if there was enough people who sent in their own photos of
Happy land to www.cooperpointjournal.com with a paragraph or two detailing their visit. If there's enough interest, I'll put up a gallery on the site.

* The most cryptic, and probably most accurate response I got was,

"Happy/and is a room filled

with whatever you want it to be filled with. "

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Community Events
• Saturday, June 6, one of many Community Volunteer Days hosted by Harmony
Hill, a place for transformational & healing
experiences for mind, body & spirit in a
natural retreat environment. The volunteer
days are centered on the concept of cultivating community and gardens and each will
include a free whole foods lunch. For more
information about Harmony Hill and how
you can be a part of their volunteer days
please call 360-898-2363 or email info@
harmonyhill.org
• Saturday, June 20, Stonewall Youth is
hosting a Drag Show and are still looking
for actors. For more information contact
Rachel, Christina or Amber at 360-705-2738
or e mail events@stonewallyouth.org
Community Requests
• Books to Prisoners is looking for summer
interns! Be a part of the Books to Prisoners
crew! Sundays from 2-5 p.m. and Mondays
from 5-8 p.m. the Books to Prisoners Library
is open! Stop by 1503 6'h Ave at Thomas
during their hours to answer requests from
prisoners and help organize the library! For
more information e-mail Andrea Robbins at
roband1 O@evergreen.edu
• The Campus Action Network is seeking students interested in social activism to
serve as interns networking with and providing resources to student groups around the
country working to educate Americans about
the Middle East. This is an opportunity for
students to learn about the functioning of a
non-profit NGO and the current situation
between Israel, Palestine, and the United
States, whUe improving their computer,
administrative, and group participation
skills.
• Parents Organizing for Welfare and
Economic Rights (POWER) is a grassroots coalition that monitors welfare legislation and its implementation in the Olympia
area. POWER holds weekly volunteer
meetings, Wednesdays at 1pm at the First
Christian Church, downtown Olympia at

Seventh and Franklin. All are welcome!
• De Colores Books is a volunteer run
bookstore at 507 Washington St, downtown
Olympia. They are always searching for
interns and volunteers.
• CHUMAinternational (Catholic Health
United for Medical Assistance) practices
global solidarity and environmental stewardship by ensuring that useful medical supplies
and equipment are shared with charitable
healthcare organizations in economically
developing countries. Volunteer opportunities are available Monday thru Friday, 7:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. If interested, please call (360)
493-5641 ore mail raymond.reyes@providence.org or peter.barry@providence.org.
• YES! (Youth Empowerment Strategies) Community Technology Center is
a SOCK sponsored program available to
Mason County youth 12 years and older,
adults, families, service agencies and businesses providing community access to
computers for education, homework clubs,
GED preparation, testing, job search, job
training, resume building, workshops and
more. Currently YES! is searching for
mentors and tutors to spend time with the
youth. For more information check out
www.yestechmentoring.org, send an e mail
to yesprogram@live.come or call (360)
432-0815.
• The Birth Attendants is a non-profit
organization working to restore health and
justice into communities in western Washington State.
• The Prison Doula Project provides pregnancy, labor, and post-partum doula services
and popular education style childbirth
education classes to women incarcerated in
Washington State.
• 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 column please feel free to add
your thoughts by contacting Hilary Hacker at hackerh@evergreen.edu or call (360)
867- 6137.
Hilary Hacker is an AmeriCorps VISTA and an Evergreen alumna.

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HEY, HOW'S IT GOING? GOOD?
FINE. LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.
1. This is the last "normal" issue of the CPJ. Starting next
year, the focus of the CPJ will be producing a web-based
newspaper. So, while the CPJ paper edition will exist, the
size and scope of it will be scaled back. So, every Thursday,
expect an 8 page paper. But, everyday, expect an updated

cooperpointjournal.com complete with color
photos, a comment system on news stories, video,
audio, and whatever else we can think of.

2. Want in on cooperpointjournal.com?
Email cpj@evergreen.edu or come up to CAB 316
through next week (we'll still be packing up and
moving) and we can talk about filling in the interim positions we have for the beginning of next year.

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4. We prepared all of these neat bundles of every issue of the CPJ published
this year. They're are yours. Come up to CAB 316 to get one.

5. Thanks for a great year, everyone. But first, I
think there's some people you should meet.

Why, it's next year's CPJ Leadership!
Editor-in-chief

Business Manager

Jason Slotkin

Kristina Williams

Jason, the current Editor-inchief, will continue his studies
injournalism through Fall
quarter. Then he'll be done.
With Evergreen, at least.

Kristina, who will be a senior,
spent last year as Associate
Business Manager. Kristina
is studying communication,
specifically the critical analysis of
media policy and journalism.

Associate Business Manager

Alexandre Chateubriand
Madeline Berman spent
the last two years at the CPJ
as a reporter. She's super
tenacious and will take over
Editor-in-chief responsibilities Winter Quarter.

Alexandre, or Xandre, will
be a junior. Like Madeline
Berman, he's super nice. He's
studying humanities and law.

Web Managing Editor

Print Managing Editor

Brian Fullerton
Brian took over Managing Editor
duties sometime in Winter
quarter. He recently decided to
stay at Evergreen an extra year
to study web-publishing, journalism, and multimedia things.

We don't know who the Print
Managing Editor will be yet.
There are some applicants but
we are trying to get either Judas
Priest or Barack Obama.

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Think outside
the bottle
misconceptions that people have. First,
we held a blind tap vs. bottled water
taste test to see if people could idenSome students at
Evergreen make the
tify which water was the tap and to see
choice to buy bottled
which they thought tasted better. Only
40% of people guessed correctly that
water on campus.
There are a few
the tap water was actually tap, which is
reasons why purchasnot very significant because if they had
ing
bottled water
been guessing randomly, 33% would
might make sense to them. The drinking have guessed correctly. In addition, 54%
fountain isn't always convenient. Bottled of participants said that the tap water
water is sold at approximately a dozen tasted the best without actually knowing
locations on campus, and it's only a what it was. So, while some people may
couple dollars. Some people think bottled think that they have taste preferences
water is safer than tap water. Others think between different types of water, most
bottled water just tastes better.
would probably not be able to distinguish
But do any of these reasons for buying bottled water from tap water in a blind
bottled water really make sense? It is taste test.
important to stay hydrated, but there
Additionally, we highlighted facts about
are plenty of drinking fountains around bottled water from the U.S, and did
campus and the nearest one is never too chemical tests in the labs at Evergreen
far away.
to identify the masses of the elements
Many people consider tap water to present in tap and bottled water. Seven
be unsafe to consume and bad-tasting. samples from drinking fountains around
This is exactly what
campus were tested
corporations
like
along with Fiji,
SOME BOTTLED
Pepsi, Coca Cola,
Olympic Rain, and
Nestle want people
Aquafina
bottled
WATER COMPANIES
to
think.
While
waters. The results
bubbling mountain WON'T EVEN RELEASE indicated that there
springs are shown
were only small
on the bottle, most
THE LOCATIONS OF differences among
bottled water is
the waters, and what
differences
there
purified municipal
THEIR BOTTLING
tap water, some
were could not harm
anyone to a considof it originating in
SITES. AND THERE
erable extent.
places with worse
tap than our own,
ARE FEWER REGULALastly, to confirm
like New York, Los
their support for the
Angeles, or India.
TIONS ON BOTTLED movement, students
Some bottled water
could sign a pledge
companies
won't
WATER THAN THERE sheet to not buy
even release the
bottled water unless
locations of their
it was absolutely
ARE ON TAP WATER
necessary. Stainless
bottling sites. And
there are fewer regusteel canteens were
lations on bottled water than there are on sold at a reduced price of five dollars to
provide an alternative to bottled water.
tap water.
Yet by far the most practical conse- Over the course of three days this spring,
quence of buying bottled water is the we sold approximately 60 canteens,
cost. The average American uses 167 collected 50 signatures on the pledge
disposable water bottles each year; at sheet, and talked to many more about
$1.50 apiece this adds up to over $250 their ideas behind buying or not buying
a year! In addition to physical costs, bottled water.
bottled water also puts a lot of stress on
Other colleges and government offices
the environment, and humans will have have banned the sale of bottled water,
to pay for that destruction as well.
and Evergreen is in a great position to
Sustainability
Coordinators
Halli do the same. To accomplish this, we'll
Winstead and Katie Taylor initiated the continue outreach and education, as well
"Ban the Bottle" project last June during as advocate for official testing of campus
Graduation weekend. This movement water and for the installation of better
intends to educate people about the filtration systems. In addition, if there is
harmful affects of bottled water, why we enough student support from the pledge
don't need it on our campus, and provide sheet, we hope to enter discussion with
reusable bottles as an alternative. This our food service provider to discontinue
year Residential and Dining Services bottled water sales on campus.
For additional resources, check out the
Sustainability
Coordinator
Natalie
Pyrooz and students sought to continue website from last year:www.evergreen.
this project. Our work has consisted of edu/sustainability/banthebottle.htm.
tabling at the Clean Energy Fair, Synergy Also, look out for our table during orienand the Science Carnival. We have also tation week and other future events. But
sold metal canteens at a reduced price you don't have to wait until then to do
with support from the Evergreen Book- your part to stop the addiction to bottled
store, Residential and Dining Services, water from spreading. Get a canteen and
and the Clean Energy Committee, and we start drinking tap today!
have expanded on the presentation and
distribution of information about bottled
Alyssa McClure is a student at The
Evergreen State College.
water.
To explain to people why some of their
perceptions about tap vs. bottled water
are false, we looked back to the common

Why is it so

difficult to make
friends?

by ALYSSA MCCLURE

by TRISTAN CARTER
It was always tough
for me to make
friends. When I was a
kid I was made fun of
a lot for my weight,
and this led me to
become equally nasty
as I was growing up. So in high school
I had a lot of arguments and such with
my friends and I didn't have very many,
mainly because I had closed myself off to
the idea of making new friends because I
had just about lost my accepting nature. I
found it again, however, and I can safely
say I've been meeting more people as a
result. But I still find it difficult to meet
and keep friends nowadays; not because
I'm uncharismatic but because of small
reasons that are usually deal-breakers in
keeping a friendship up.
The way it goes is that introverts enjoy
being alone, and extroverts enjoy being
around as many people as possible. This
was pointed out to me in one of my classes
this quarter by a guest speaker. But some
of us are in-between; we hate being alone,
but also feel uncomfortable around large
crowds. Most of the time it's good to either
be one-on-one with a friend or perhaps in
a small-enough group of familiar friends
when we do something outside for fun.
But very few friends are accessible at any
time.
We're all in school after all, and those
of us who aren't are working full-time
jobs. We schedule everything now, even
hanging out with friends. Even fun has
to be put somewhere on a calendar. But
for those who don't have a fixed schedule
to see friends, it's tough to get into that
habit when the default action after class or
work each day is to come home and work
on homework or things on the computer.
One major problem is that my schedule
with class and work seems to be crammed
into the major spots of when everyone
else is available; i.e. if I'm working or in
class, everyone is out having fun on their

days off. If I'm free, everyone has left the
campus and I'm alone in my room. Either
that or my own personal work itself stops
me from making plans; yet it isn't urgent
enough that I would not seize the opportunity to hang out with people.
New friends, such as people I end up
frequently talking to in class, are also hard
to reach. People I want to meet simply
because they seem like interesting people
who just happen to not know me are usually
the kinds of people that stay very secure in
a ring of other friends and leave as soon as
class ends. You have to get creative if you
want to have any kind of run-in with these
people, as you can't just walk up and say
"Hi, you're cool, let's be friends!" Some
people have begged to differ but all the
times I've tried, I've clearly been taken
as just as weird as I seem. Embarrassingly
enough these are also the reasons I never
get many opportunities to ask out girls
I like. And on the off-chance I do get to
meet a new friend one-on-one, there will
be a high chance said new friend will run
into a friend they've known longer and
trust more, after which I will feel very
alienated from talking to the new friend
once they join the conversation. If I'm in a
group, chances are I will know one person
and everyone else will be doing their own
thing and I will get no momentum from
them in getting to know these new people.
I'm no leper; I can get a 'hi' back if I say
'hi', or an answer to a question I ask. But
I won't hear them starting conversations
with me, nor will a conversation flow
smoothly if I start it. I'm not the most
charismatic person in the world, but I'd
like to think meeting new people is not
this challenging.
So what do you think? Do these things
pose a problem to any of you or am I just
missing something completely? Give me
your feedback! I am at solidsnake8431@
gmail.com.
Tristan Carter is a student at The Evergreen State College.

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Love: is it for you1
by DANIEL MIES
What are the rules to
love? When there are
no rules, no constraints
it is difficult to really
do anything. Our
first rule is that we
are human, except
I guess those few that don't like to be
labeled. For them I guess this rule doesn't
apply. Another rule is that what goes up
must come down, though I suppose if it
went up at escape velocity and traveled
far enough from other objects, this rule
doesn't really apply either. Here we see
that for every rule, there is an exception,
even those we take for granted.
So again, I ask, what are the rules of
love? A simple rule would be, "you
just know." In which case, what if
you "know" but the person you love
doesn' t feel the same way? Does this
mean it can't be so? Or can love be
one sided, forever to be alone?
Let's get into the detail of it now.
Perhaps a rhetoric "would you rather"
type scenario: would you rather have
perfect love with someone else for one
year of your life and then they died, or
have mediocre pseudo-love till you are
old and gray? A passionate person might
take the perfect love because it is better

to have loved and lost than to have never
loved before. A sensible person on the
other hand might choose the pseudolove because at least they knew what to
expect. Yet there are holes to this 'would
you rather', questions left unanswered
such as, after your perfect love died could
you find another, or could your pseudolove transform into perfect love over the
years?
What are the rules of procedure if the
person you love, truly and deeply, is
with another? Can you offer something
better; should you offer something
better? Should you offer at all? Do you
stay silent, and smile as they walk by,
and bury your love deep down inside
you, hidden from the world? Why is it
that love is a competition? Who are we
competing against?
Why is it that on this campus, it seems
the most difficult to even go out on a
date? From observation, it appears that
people tend to cluster, so that one single
female might have a dozen suitors each
competing for her attention, as well I'm
sure it is with other possible combinations
(i.e. one single male with multiple
females, one single male with multiple
males, one single female with multiple
females etc . .. ).

I propose that there be official* rules to
love:
1. Never, ever tell someone you love him
or her unless you absolutely mean it.
2. Be open minded, and willing to let
your heart guide you, not your culture.
3. Don't live with the person you love
unless you are willing to marry them
within a year.
4. Feelings oflove are quite powerful, so
take care and proceed with caution.
5. Go for the passion, you only live once
(obvious exceptions can be made for this
rule).
6. Emotions are valid; don't bury them.
7. When in a relationship remember that
when you don't get what you need, it
usually means they aren't getting what
they need, so talk to each other.
8. Be flexible, the rigid views are in the
past, leave them there.
9. Love like you're not going to get hurt.
10. Be up front and don't lead someone
on when you're not interested.
*By official I mean something suggested
but not actually required to be adhered
to.

Daniel Mies is a senior enrolled in
Quantum Theory.

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by JUSTIN PRAZAK
A friend of mine informed me her parents
had recently returned from Jordan where
they were couch surfing and spending
time
volunteering
at a cultural center.
While my immediate
thought was "Wow,
your parents couch
surf?" her immediate
thoughts were more in
line with "hey Justin, I know you write
things for the CPJ, you believe in crosscultural sharing, and you're heading
to the Middle East soon, would you be
interested in writing something for the
CPJ?"
I said yes. Yes, I totally dig cross-cultural
learning opportunities. Yes, I think more
people, especially Americans and other
Westerners should learn more about the
region and humbly experience it, myself
included. Also, I've been intensely
focused on the Middle East since I was
accepted to a grad school program in
Oman, an absolutely lovely country from
all I've seen and read.
So my friend sent me a link to a couchsurfing.org profile for a friendly man by
the name of Mohammed Abu Aql (http://
www.couchsurfing.org/people/abuaqll).
I don't know much about Jordan and I
know even less about couch surfing but
I have to admit I was flat out amazed at
what was offered on his page.
He was willing to bring people into his
home with his family (as many couchsurfers are) but, also willing to make
breakfast, show you the sights, allow
you to stay for long periods, teach you

SO NOW I HAVE BEEN WONDERFULLY
INFORMED THAT THERE IS A GREAT AND
POTENTIALLY FREE LIVING, LEARNING,
AND SHARING OPPORTUNITY IN JORDAN
Arabic, and even buy you a plane ticket
if you wanted to stay for a six month
period and teach your native tongue at his
cultural center (Jordan Leaders Cultural
Center (LCC) for Educational & Cultural
Opportunities).
I was floored! I immediately decided I
needed a couch surfing profile. I looked
at some of the other profiles and read
comments by people who had stayed with
Mohammed in the past and everything
looked too good to pass up. I'm pretty
sure I resolved to find some time off from
school in Oman and take a short flight
for a weekend over to lrbid, Jordan (his
town). How could I not right?
Essentially, I don't believe that any of
our worldly problems, real or perceived
are going to go away without lots of
sincere and honest communication and
cross cultural understanding. Not that
spending a week to six months in Jordan
will solve all the world's problems, but
certainly this people to people, "I wanna
know you and you wanna know me"
collaboration is where the answers are
going to come from.
So now I have been wonderfully
informed that there is a great and potentially free living, learning, and sharing
opportunity in Jordan but I happen to be

really busy over the next year. Still, I'm
sure there are tons of graduating Greeners, and those with free summers, looking at a bleak national job market and
an absence of real world, personal, cross
cultural experience in the Middle East.
Well here you go.
Now instead of the hum of back and
forth about that Israel/Palestine conflict
you can explore one of the many countries
hardly ever talked about in our school
yard politics or on the nightly news. If
you do decide to couch surf across the
Middle East I would highly recommend
paying attention to a handful of the rarely
mentioned small Arab countries: Jordan,
Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain,
and of course Oman with it's wonderful
Sultan Qaboos. If you visit Oman after
September you can likely stay on my
couch in Muscat, the capital city.
Maybe couch surfing is the way to
solving all our problems; as long as we
are willing to take those opportunities, I
don't see why not.

Justin Prazak is graduating this month,
is excited about the Middle East, and
hopes fellow Greeners flock to this
opportunity like Zombies flock to brain
buffets.

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Buses talk, see, hear, pass gas,
grow sustainable surveillance
by GAR RUSSO

Climbing on to the
surveillance trolleys
from the canyons of j
lower Division Street
north of Muirhead is
culture shock. The
placid voice from
space reveals everything the compliant
needs to know as it announces to the world
and beyond for all of the deaf among us
that "yes, this is a bus." A creepy beeping
signals to those not deaf among us that
the unit is kneeling in recognition of the
more pitiful, needy, or hobbled among
us. Riders ascend into the box of eyes
that never blink, hidden ears that never
sleep and signs that read like Miranda
Rights except you are not under arrest
just caged. You are being watched and
listened to and it can all be used against
you or somebody else and you can take
that to the bank and get interest on it.
A local bloggist on Olybloggery reported
that before the red-eyes turned over a
cop car at The Evergreen on February
17, 2007, a surveilled bus was rare on
the #41 route. Immediately after the car
event, the bloggist reported, almost every
#41 bus had the camera bubbles and the
hidden ears. What is hardly kn~wn and
never mentioned is that cameras on Inter-

city trolleys surveil both the passengers
inside and the streets outside the bus.
Although details are hidden behind the
curtain of secrecy, citizens who think
that they can avoid the unblinking eyes
of the surveillance trolleys by not riding
the bus are wrong. The street area outside
in front of trolleys is surveilled along
with the sidewalk and the activity on the
streets on the passenger side is surveilled
every time the bus passes. Cameras
mounted above the front passenger door
scan streets and look deeply into places
with unobstructed views such as parking
lots, doorways and windows. Not a dog,
loiterer, walker, miscreant or bike rider is
missed. At TESC sometimes the trolleys
are positioned to surveil Red Square.
The ancient says "make a chain" and
Big Bus sold us surveillance with a
chain of lies. When they did the talking
buses they began socializing riders to the
idea with the photo on the bus schedule
of the blind fellow with the seeing-eye
dog. Then they installed the cameras and
audio recorders on the buses and said
that the recordings stayed in a black box
onboard, were only looked at if needed
and that they were destroyed after a
time. Then they said that the surveillance
was not on board in a black box but was
broadcast on Wi-Fi and was on a seven
to ten day loop. They massaged us in the

2008 schedule by using two older rather
infirmed sisters to promote their new
surveillance as help for the vulnerable
among us.
Now the definitive word is in and,
according to the surveillance company's
website (verint.com), the spy information from the surveillance trolleys patrolling the streets is broadcast and can be
received by "anyone with the proper
equipment." No black box, no loop, no
destruction, no restriction, no privacy, no
sweat-all lies till now. "Anyone with
the proper equipment" for any reason
whatsoever has access to the faces and
voices of the bus riders and people on
the streets in west Olympia. The Verint
Corporation calls its surveillance product "actionable" because it is acceptable
proof in court. Their surveillance is
from a public place and is available to
"anyone with the proper equipment" and
thus is not a "search" that would require
warrants to be legal proof.
Bus riders back in the heady days of
2006 would seem chirpy compared to
the docile blankness on the faces of the
modems in 2009 who surveil and are
being surveilled. The exiting "thank
you" that was commonplace in 2006 is
now almost always recited by innocents.
The real modems are ready to grab their
cell phone cameras at the slightest hint of

non-conformity. They're going to have
to change the words in the Star Spangled
Banner from home of the brave to the
home of the scared rabbits. "Report any
non-conformist behavior to the surveillance officer at the front of the bus.
We are Intercity Surveillance: The Bus
People."
Spies used to have to talk into their
watches to report but now they can whisper to the wall on the bus. Now everyone
is a spy and suspect, but like it probably
says in the Constitution: "If you're not
doing anything wrong, you got nothing
to worry about."
Maybe it is time for red-eyes to demand
a redress of Big Bus's cultural imperialism if it wants to use west Olympia's
air space: I) The obnoxious beeping
must be replaced by the first four notes
of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 2)
Eyeball decals must be placed on camera
bubbles. 3) The voice from space must
have an Italian accent. 4) Secret microphones must have signs affixed that say:
"Talk here." And 5) A sign must be
posted outside the bus over the entrance
way and inside the bus over the rear exit
proclaiming: "Surveillance makes free."

Gar Russo is a senior at The Evergreen
State College.

Healthcare
by CAITLUN MCNULTY

Free comprehensive healthcare; a
compassionate system providing the
best care possible to ~ 0
the largest number
of people. This is ~
what Mission Barrio ~:
Adentro has been "
able to accomplish in
Venezuela. The right
to healthcare was guaranteed in the 1999
Venezuelan Constitution, and beginning
in June 2003 through a trade pact with
Cuba, Venezuela began to bring Cuban
doctors, medical technology, and medications into all communities free of charge.
No one is turned away, no one is denied
care, and money stays where it belongsoutside of the healthcare system.
During my time in Venezuela, I developed a cough that went on for three
weeks and progressively worsened. After
I had become incredibly congested and
developed a fever, I decided to attend
a Barrio Adentro clinic. I headed in
without my medical records or calling
to make an appointment. Immediately,
I was ushered into a small room where
Carmen, a friendly Cuban doctor, began
questioning me about my symptoms.
She listened to my lungs and walked
me over to another examination room
where, again without waiting, I had xrays taken. Afterwards, the technician
apologized profusely that I had to wait
for the x-rays to be developed, promising that it would take no more than five
minutes. Sure enough, five minutes later
he returned with both x-rays developed.

THERE ARE OVER FIFTY MILLION UNITED
STATES RESIDENTS CURRENTLY LIVING
WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE, A NUMBER
THAT WILL SKYROCKET AS UNEMPLOYMENT
RATES INCREASE AND PEOPLE LOSE THEIR
WORK-BASED HEALTHCARE COVERAGE
Carmen studied the x-rays and informed
me that I had pneumonia. She sent me
away with my x-rays, three medications
to treat my pneumonia, congestion, and
fever, and made me promise to come
back if my conditioned failed to improve
or worsened within three days.
I walked out of the clinic with a diagnosis and treatment within twenty five
minutes of entering, without paying a
dime. There was no wait, no paperwork,
and no questions about my ability to pay.
There was no monetary value connected
with my physical well-being, the care
I received was not contingent upon my
ability to pay. I was treated with dignity,
respect, and compassion, my illness was
cured and I was able to continue with my
journey in Venezuela.
This past year, a family friend was not
so lucky. At the age of 56, she was going
back to school and was uninsured. She
came down with what she thought was a
severe case of the flu, and as her condition worsened she decided not to see a
doctor because of the cost. She died at

home in bed, losing her life to a system
that did not respect her basic human right
to survive. Her death is not an isolated
incident. Over 18,000 United States
residents die every year because of their
lack of prohibitively expensive health
insurance. The United States has the
distinct honor of being the "only wealthy
industrialized nation that does not
ensure that all citizens have coverage"
(Insuring America's Health: Principles
and Recommendations). Those whose
jobs do not provide insurance, can't get
enough hours to qualify for healthcare
coverage through their workplace, are
unemployed, or have "previously existing conditions" that exclude them from
coverage are forced to choose between
the potentially fatal decision of refusing
medical care and accumulating medical
bills that trap them in an inescapable
cycle of debt. And sometimes, that decision is made for them. Doctors often
ask that dreaded question; "do you have
insurance?" before scheduling critical
tests, procedures, or treatments. When

the answer is no, treatments that were
deemed necessary before are suddenly
cancelled as the ability to pay becomes
more important than the patient's health.
It is estimated that there are over fifty
million United States residents currently
living without health insurance, a number
that will skyrocket as unemployment
rates increase and people lose their workbased healthcare coverage in this time
of international financial crisis. Already
this year, seven point five million people
have lost work-related coverage. Budget
cuts for the state of Washington this year
will remove forty thousand people from
Washington Basic Health, a subsidized
program which already has a waiting list
of seventeen thousand people.
As I returned from Venezuela, I was
faced with the realization that as a society, the United States places a monetary
value on life. And that someone with the
same condition I had recently recovered
from had died because, according to our
system, her life wasn't insured. We must
ask ourselves, as a country, where our
values lie and how we have not only let
people slip through the cracks but worked
to systematically exclude them. Do
we believe that insurance corporations
should be profiting from denying care and
keeping sick people from receiving treatment? Or do we believe that care should
be separate from an individual's ability
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thursday, June 4
Free Film: "A Call to Action"
Presented by BRICK.
!2:00p.m.
SPSCC Building 26 Room 102
Free!

Film: "Hunger"
Part of the Olympia Film Society film
festival.
9:00p.m.
Capitol Theater
$5

Saturday, June 6
"The Tempest"
Free outdoor theater!
2:00p.m.
Heritage Park Amphitheater at Capitol
Lake

POWER Dinner and Discussion
Parents Organizing for Welfare and
Economic Rights presents a discussion
with guest Courtney Frantz about Venezu-·
ela, collectives, and women's work.
5:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.
Payne Room at 1st Christian Church

Friday, June 5
Building an Anarchist Movement
Presented by Common Action.
5:30p.m.- 7:00p.m.
Timberland Library
"Tone Clusters"
A play by Joyce Carol Oates.
7:00p.m.
Sem II C4107
First Thursday Burlesque
Featuring Shotgun Party and dancers from
the CanCan Club.
9:00p.m.
The 4th Ave.
$4
21+
'
Image and Sequence
Art Show
1:30 p.m.-5:00p.m.
Sem II E4107

Ear Acupunture Demo for Trauma
Workshop
Presented by Will Hall as part of the Icarus
Project's Mad Pride Week.
4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Sen IIA1105
In the Presence of Others Art Gallery
Exhibit opening with free refreshments.
5:00p.m. -7:00p.m.
Arts Annex
Film: "Sin Nombre"
Part of the Olympia Film Society film
festival.
6:30p.m.
Capitol Theater
$5
Trauma and Healing for Activists
Discussion with Will Hall, as part of the
Icarus Project's Mad Pride Week.
7:00p.m. -9:00p.m.
SemiiA1105
Dance Oly Dance
Dance on live TV! Beat set by DJ
PhilosoBitch.
8:00p.m.
Thurston Community Television

"The Tempest"
Free outdoor theater!
Repeats Sat Jun 06.
2:00p.m.
Heritage Park Amphitheater at Capitol
Lake
Film: "The Doctor Who Hears Voices"
Presented by the Icarus Project's Mad
Pride Week.
4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m.
Sem II C1105
Sea Cinema Film Festival
Continues June 6. $12/night for students,
$20 for both.
6:00p.m. - midnight
Capitol Theater
"Tone Clusters"
A play by Joyce Carol Oates.
7:00p.m.
Sem II C4107
One-Act Festival ·
Presented by Riot To Follow productions,
continues June 6 and 7.
7:00p.m. -9:00p.m.
Lecture Hall 1
Film: "The Devil and Daniel
Johnston"
Presented as part of the Icarus Project's
Mad Pride Week.
7:00p.m. -9:00p.m.
Sem II C1105
Flowers Without Roots
Pizza, music, poetry, film, and garden.
7:30p.m.
Fertile Ground (311 9th Ave.)
$10
Threads & Tears & Finnegan's Wake
Experiments in music for dance.
8:00p.m.
Comm Building Room 209
Free!
Macklemore Concert
9:00p.m.
The Clipper
$5
21+

Self Evaluation Writing Workshop
Last one of the quarter!
2:00p.m.
Writing Center in Lib231 0
Sea Cinema Film Festival
$12/night for students, $20 for both.
6:00p.m. - midnight
Capitol Theater
"Tone Clusters"
A play by Joyce Carol Oates.
7:00p.m.
Sem II C4107
One-Act Festival
Presented by Riot To Follow productions,
continues June 7.
7:00p.m. -9:00p.m.
Lecture Hall 1
Threads & Tears & Finnegan's Wake
Experiments in music for dance.
8:00p.m.
Comm Building Room 209
Free!
A Very Interesting Voice Performance
Presented by the Evergreen Experimental
Choir.
8:00p.m.
Recital Hall
Free!
Mortal Kombat Dance Party
Dress in kombat clothing for admission!
9:00p.m.
1100 Fern St. SW Appt #45-102
Dramatic Improv Show
Presented by Generation Friends.
10:30 p.m. - midnight
Lecture Hall 1

Sunday, June 7
One-Act Festival
Presented by Riot To Follow productions.
7:00p.m.- 9:00p.m.
Lecture Hall 1

Media Works Final Screening
6:00p.m. - 11 :45 p.m.
Recital Hall
Media Artist Studio
Advanced student festival showcase.
Donations benefit Olympia Film Society.
7:00p.m.
Capitol Theater
Earthy, Unearthly, Unearthed
22 object-makers' showcase.
Reception: 7:00 p.m. Waltzing, puppet
shows, and music: 8:30p.m.
Cherry St. Lofts
Metal Show
Presented by Funerot Olympia, featuring
Terracide, Atraveho, Filth, and Mattress.
8:00p.m.
421 Phoenix St.

Thursday, June 11
Earthy, Unearthly, Unearthed
22 object-makers' open gallery.
12:00 p.m. -5:00p.m.
Cherry St. Lofts
Rhyme or Treason
David Raffin reads from his book.
6:00p.m.
Last Word Books
VegProm
Under-the-sea themed dance for vegans,
vegetarians, and allies.
7:00p.m. - midnight
Eagles Hall
Free!
DJ Diggs Show
9:00p.m.
QBLounge
21+

Friday, June 12
Graduation!
1:00 p.m. - 4:00p.m.
Red Square

Monday, June 8
Eval Week Begins.•. stay alive!

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Queer Dance Party
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!O:OOp.m.
ABC House (105 Sherman)
Dramatic Improv Show
Presented by Generation Friends.
10:30 p.m.- midnight
Lecture Hall 1

MediaWorks Installations
Experiments in documentary, autobiography, film, and video art.
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Comm Building Room 209

Wednesday, June 10
Earthy, Unearthly, Unearthed
22 object-makers' showcase.
Open gallery: 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. Waltzing,
puppet shows, and music: 8:30p.m.
Cherry St. Lofts
Media Works Installations
Experiments in documentary, autobiography, film, and video art.
12:00 p.m. -6:00p.m.
Comm Building Room 209

In the meantime, keep busy in
June ...
Olympia Comics Festival
Including Northwest Cartoonist Expo and
stage show.
June 23
Downtown Olympia
Summer Squash Community Festival
June 24-28
Downtown Olympia
Junior Reid Show
June 25, 9 p.m.
The Royal, Downtown Olympia
$15
21+
Bring Your Daughters and Sons to
WorkDay
June 25

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Spring into

withRTFI

o8-o9 JD&rkedanewbeginning for EveJ:green Theater
Saturday and Sunday at 7 in Lecture Hall 1,
is Free!
The club is simple: We do one mainstage
play per quarter; plus any side projects we
can afford to do. Our constituents vote on
the plays and we do whatever we feel like.
Some students get credit by writing contracts
to participate in our shows. We can be an
avenue for you to expand your resume, get
credit domg what you love, or just have fun

by MARK ALFORD
It is the spring of2008 and there is barely any
consistent theater at Evergreen. Sometimes,
· a Greener will suddenly find themselves
gripped by inspiration and gather up enough
motivation to put together a contract, cast
their closest friel'.ds in the roles, and put on a
small-scale show in the Lecture Hall or even
Recital Hall if the planets align for them. And
once every Valentine's Day weekend, The
Vagina Monologues sells out.
At least that's generally it for student-

THE CLUB ... PLANS TO
PRODUCE THREE MORE
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
NEXT YEAR; INCLUDING
'IIOTOS <.0

produced theater. But what about theater
programs? Unfortunately, there's not much
there either. Even in a school that has a reputation for valuing the arts as much as Ever-

THE POPULAR MUSI-

RTI:SY tH RIOT Til Hli.I.O\\"

there IS no reason to belt eve we won't have
similar aud1cnce successes here too.
Year to year, nobody knows exactly how
many shows will sec the fruition. Riot to
Foil ow has established a group that will consistently produce shows every quarter, every
year. This is the goal of the group. Through
5 Plays:
1. Carmen Dick: Feminist Private EyeDirected by Jessy Nations 2. CagebirdsDirected by Kaelyn Robinson 3. Shooting
Stars-Directed by Dylan Przygocki 4. The
Decision-Directed by Tillman Clark
and David Duncan 5. The PhiladelphiaDirected by Donald Wickman Jr.

here and there at random, and are generally
very good, but it's a sad fact that th1s is pretty
much all the school has as far as consistent
theater opportunities for its students.
Fast forward just one year later to the present: Spring 2009. The student group Riot To
Follow Productions has been formed and has
already put on three full-length, large-scale
productions. The Book of Liz by Amy and
David Sedaris in the fall, Moonchildren by

THROUGH THE COURSE OF ITS VERY FIRST YEAR
IN EXISTENCE RTF HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED
THE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL PLAYS ON CAMPUS.
green, there is sadly only one faculty member Michael Weller in the winter, andaone-actplay
who consistently directs full-length shows. festival in the spring that featured 5 studentdirected oneMost springs,
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR acts. Formal
Walter Grodzik
will put himself
auditions
through
the
CLUB, SEND US AN EMAIL AT
were held for
arduous process
each project
of directing a RIOTTOFOLLOW@GMAIL.COM. and
each
full-length show so that the campus can have show consisted of at least fifteen student-cast
at least one thing to point to and say, "See? members and at least ten student-technical
We have theater here." He did this last year crew members. The new club is growing
with I'm a Potato and he's doing it again stronger by the week. Backed by the finanthis year with Flight of the
cial offerings of Student
Lawnchair Man. We can
THE FESTIVAL,
Activities, and by the
only hope the exhaustion
irrepressible drive and
doesn't kill him anytime
OPENING THIS
commitment of its
soon cause then we'd really
rapidly growing constithavenotheater.Asidefrom
FRIDAY, SATUR- uency, the club brought
this, Student Originated
in over six hundred
Studies(S.O.S.)willputon DAY AND SUNDAY audience members to
its first two shows even
a show about once every
AT 7 IN LECTURE though both shows had
five or so years. That's it.
just three performances
Of course, this is not to
HALL
IS FREE! each. This article was
take anything away from
written
during
the
other performing arts
faculty members on campus. Shows pop up rehearsal process of the one-act festival, but

1,

the course of its very first year in existence,
RTF has more than doubled the amount of
annual plays on
campus.
This abundance of
theater promises to
continue into next
year. The club, now
boasting an email
list of over 125
students (it started
with just 3), plans to
produce three more
full-lengtl!
plays
next year; including the popular
musical Little Shop
of Horrors in the
spring.
By doing one mainstage show per quarter,
not only does the only student theater club at
Evergreen provide consistent opportunities
for actors, costume designers, lighting and
sound designers, stage designers, directors,
and more, but we also present avenues to
playwrights.
The one-act play Shooting Stars and Threesomes Jaime Cruz, s student ofUniveristy of
Wyoming, is featured in our one-act festival
I and was written by a college student from
Wyoming who is friend with one of our
I members. The Festival, opening this Friday,
1

CAL LITTLE SHOP OF

HORRORS IN THE SPRING.
with a group of people. The process of choosing directors is also simple. We have a meeting every spring and choose all three projects
for the following year, including directors.
Plays and direct~rs are selected by majority vote and all who attend are welcome to
vote. Potential directors are given the chance
to present themselves to the group, and the
voting process is always low-stress and inviting. As the club grows, our abilities expand.
The scene shop has expressed excitement to
work with us on future projects (we pretty
much just had tables and chairs for our first
show), and various departments
could join in on
the fun as Riot
To Follow's size
and scale grows.
Right now, the
possibilities are
vast.
Evergreen
is
a small school
that might not
necessarily have
the ability or
resources to do
everything you'd
like, but they will
definitely work with you to get something
going, especially the Student Activities office.
Riot To Follow Productions is a success story
that has come out of nowhere and marked a
new beginning for Evergreen theater.
If you'd like information on auditions for
next year's shows or would like to find out
more about our club, send us an email to riottofollow@gmail.com.

Mark Alford is a sophomore enrolled in
Theater Intensive: Musical Theater.

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