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LAUREN Ti\KORES On college campuses around the 40 DAYS FOR LIFE SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE OLYMPIA'S PLANNED PARENTHOOD. country, Public Interest Research Group Inter-Group Soli- (PIRG) chapters are campaigning for more affordable textbooks. In April, darity Poduck Washington Governor Christine The Evergreen Center for ~e~student~oup Gregoire signed what the PIRGs call Radical Education presents a "landmark" legislation intended to Kickoff Event, the first in the • address the concerns of student and Intergroup Solidarity Potluck faces opposition faculty organizations. The bill instructs Series. It will be held Thursday, publishers of college textbooks to make October 4 at 6:00pm at 116 f?y LAUREN TAKORES Yesterday, September 26 marked the kickoff readily available to faculty the prices 19th Street SE in Olympia. of 40 Days for Life, a nationwide anti-abortion of books and a history of previous Children may not be on the minds of young campaign. A ·local group made up of middle­ revisions. As of right now, however, collegians. However, ask students how they feel aged women and one man gathered at downtown there is no mechanism in place to on the issue of abortion, and this topic is very Olympia's Planned Parenthood office on the first force textbook publishers or faculty to Recycling made prominent. day. This group is peaceful and do not condone comply. • The Evergreen State College Students for more violent tactics that anti-abortionists have House Bill 2300, meant to regulate easter on campus Choice is a new student group interested in main­ used in the past; they use prayer and fasting as textbooks and sponsored by Rep. Evergreen has made it easier taining and creating public policies on women's their protest techniques. There were no counter Bob Hasegawa (0-Seattle) and for students to recycle and reproductive rights. The opening meeting will demonstrators into mid afternoon. twelve other legislators, was met with dispose of their environmentally be held Wednesday, Oct. 3 at I p.m. in the LIB, Diana Freeland, who works at a child devel­ widespread enthusiasm. The bill passed hazardous waste. Recycling second floor. TESCSC has internships with opment center in Ft. Lewis, stated "[Abortion] unanimously in the State Senate and receptacles have been placed a statewide non-profit organization, NARAL kills somebody, and I think somebodys are Gregoire welcomed local PIRG campus at various locations throughout Pro-Choice WA. The group aims to educate the important things. What else would a baby be but organizers in front of the cameras for the campus and student housing. public about the current political climate and a somebody? It's not a toad, it's not a tree, it's a signing. Bryce McKibben, director of These centers contain containers for how it affects their reproductive rights. Unlike somebody. And they're killed when you have an government relations for the University aluminum, glass, mixed paper and other similar student groups and services avail­ abortion." of Washington's Associated Students garbage. The campus will also assist able on campus, TESCSC won 't be focused on Janice Bledsoe from Castlerock, WA pulled out group told Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in discarding material such as oil health issues. a plastic representation of a 10-week old fetus. "This is a really great victory for and fluorescent light bulbs. For more An overlapping event this week is a demon­ "That's what you're aborting. Many people students. I think democracy worked information regarding this program, stration of another side of the abortion debate. STUDENTS FOR CHOICE, page 4 here." waste receptacle locations, and Questions remain, however, what hazardous materials please visit the recognizable impact the bill will have website at www.evergreen.edu/facili­ for students at the bookstore checkout ties/Recycle/recyclehome.htm Update on student-initiated fees counter. Jenny Metcalf, a sophomore enrolled in Illuminations, is not aware of With the 2007-08 school year starting, the Flaming Eggplant Cafe was brought before any difference. "I feel like this is more fees voted on by the student body last spring the union after failing to pass the S&A Board expensive than in the past. I've never Cure your writing supporting the Flaming Eggplant and a transit which cited lack offunds, the late night transit paid this much for French textbooks." woes fee to support late night transportation were fee was put forth by members of the Geoduck Why are textbooks so expensive? applied to Fall Quarter fees due before the Union's Transportation Committee. The PIRG researchers surveyed nearly The Creative Writing Workships start of classes. Along with fee increases, late night transit fee was put on the ballot to 300 college and university professors are taking off every Tuesday, at 4 pm the newest members of the Geoduck Union, fund the creation of an Evergreen owned and in Massachusetts last fall and from the Writing Center. We will be the Evergreen student government, have also operated shuttle to run between downtown discovered that more than 75% said exploring the depths of our imagina­ taken their places in student government. Olympia and the Evergreen campus. For more sales representatives "rarely or never'' tions through various media, literary Spring elections, for many, are old news. information on the Flaming Eggplant Cafe, volunteered the price of their products. experiments, guest artists and giant However, the impact of the spring elections see FLAMING EGGPLANT, page 3. Often, instructors are provided books wormholes in time (WRITING!). results will affect Evergreen students for the The spring election also impacted representa­ free of charge and yet do not know the For more writing workshop times foreseeable future. tives in the Geoduck Union. The 21 members cost of the books on their reading lists. see page 14. The two fees passed during the spring of the 2007-08 Geoduck Union representa­ Meanwhile, elections, the fee supporting the creation of tives were elected out of a registered field of the Flaming Eggplant Cafe and the fee to 31 candidates. For more information on the TEXTBOOKS, page 4 support late night tra11sit, were both a result 2007-08 Geoduck Union, see STUDENT of planning by the Geoduck Union. While the GOVERNMENT, page 4.

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~y MAX BAUVAL a lot to be done before their anticipated start the Corner was forced to close. The failures Offenses of Mary Jane date at the beginning of winter quarter. of past student groups' should not color On 9/19, Officers were dispatched to C Hopefully you've paid your student fees "What they need now is more students," the way the Eggplant is viewed, asserts T­ Dorm in response to the wafting sweet by now, and no doubt you noticed a $2 says Andy Corn, the Assistant Director of Claw. "The corner was taken over by group smell of marijuana. Upon contact, Suspect I charge per credit for a "student run cafe." Student Activities, who is working with the of hardcore vegans who made it a I 00% indicated he "may" have eaten the substance But what exactly does that mean? Eggplant to put their plan into action. vegan menu, and only like 6% of housing or flushed it down the toilet. Asked where If you're new to Evergreen, and even But that's just the start of what's needed was vegan at that point" he says. Another they purchased it, they said it was from a if you',.e not, you could be forgiven for to get the Eggplant going. Before they're factor in the Corner's failure was the fact dealer at the Bon Fire who was tall, thin, not knowing much about the Flaming allowed to serve food, the Flaming Eggplant that it was located in the Housing Commu­ and "kind of dirty." Eggplant-the student body's latest attempt has a number of things they need to do, nity Center and served only dinner and after Freshman: 0. at an independently-run campus food source. including turning in their Thurston County hours snacks. "We're serving lunch-which "KindofDirty": 1. The Flaming Eggplant seeks to source its Health Application, and actually purchas­ is a different battle - getting students to organic ingredients from local suppliers and ing the trailer they're going to serve from. work during lunch" says T-Ciaw, but adds Did someone yell fire? provide students with an alternative to the "We want to start this year with a big group that it's during the lunch rush that Aramark current campus dining choice, Aramark (or -find out what needs to be done and do it," makes most of their profits. "That's when On 9/20 Fire and Police responded to a the bookstore ifyou're in the know). They says T-Claw, "and we're getting closer." most people are on campus to eat." fire alarm in S Dorm caused by the dust of plan to serve from a trailer on Red Square, a "My concern is that there have been this "What we really need is a core group of extinguisher spray. Suspect stated he was "goofing around and didn't think it would central location where all students will have type of thing on campus before - and committed students to help navigate the go off." access. they've always failed," says Dana Gilbert, a system, as well as a larger group of students Freshman: 0. So now you know what it is, you probably senior. Numerous students on campus echo to help with the busy work stuff," reports Remove pin and press handle: 1 want to know where it is. What happened to this belief, and not without just cause. The T-Claw. the money you paid at the beginning of the most prominent of these previous student­ A day in the life quarter, and where's your organic falafel?! run cafes, known as the Corner, started in Max Bauval is a senior enrolled in an Unfortunately, it's not that simple. While the 1980s and continued serving students independent learning contract. In F Lot on 9/16, officers responded to a the Eggplant is a certainty, there's obviously until 2000, when, plagued by large losses, group of loud persons. Officers located a drunk man and asked that he come with them to the CAB so he could use a pay phone to call for a ride. The drunkard responded by calling them "pieces of shit" and ac~using Celebrate the Autumn harvest them of violating his first amendment rights. Drunk man gets handcuffed. Drunk man The Organic Farm will the site of the annual harvest fes­ vomits. Drunk man apologizes profusely. be Drunken civil rights tival, complete with chickens While on patrol on 9/20 an officer made contact with a woman who clearly tried to by CARLIN BRINER program and community members wili give purchase. hide a beer from the officer's view. During presentations from 12-4 p.m. in the farm contact, she indicated she didn't have The 27th Annual Harvest Festival will be house as others explore the farm outside! The Harvest Fest is sponsored by the student student ID or drivers license (stating it was Saturday, September 29, from noon to 6 group Community Gardens. Community "being sent from NY"). After being placed p.m. at the Evergreen Organic Farm. This There will be an opportunity to adopt-a­ Gardens provides students, faculty, and under arrest for MIP, the officer searched longstanding Evergreen tradition is a cele­ hen (a 2-3 year old layer) from the Organic community members with 12xl2 ft. garden her purse, which she alleged was illegal. bration of the arduous but fruitful work our Farm as well as a guided bug walk through plots at the Evergreen farm. The Commu­ Inside the secret black purse was her NY community gardeners and organic farmers the fields. Curious about compost, biodiesel, nity Gardens helps gardeners to prepare the ID and her Evergreen ID. And some Mike's Hard. have put into their plots and the farm all the Organic Farm, or Community Gardens? beds and provides tools and seeds as well Freshman: 0 season. It is also a time to begin preparing Go on a tour! as some gardening support throughout the Secret Black Purses': 5% alcohol by for next season, with activities such as a season. There are some communal herb and volume. seed exchange. This festival is a wonderful The musical headliner at this year's vegetable beds and raspberries! Contact opportunity to get information about all of Harvest Fest are The Tune Stranglers, 867- 6145 or EvergreenGardens@riseup. Compiled by Victor Sanders the farm's programs. performing at 4:00p.m .. There will be food net for more information about the commu­ presentations and fresh apple cider pressing nity gardens or the Harvest Festival. Are you curious about squash breeding, throughout the afternoon as well as arts and medicinal herbs, or home canning? 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said that past anti-abortion demonstrators at women aren't given options very carefully Students for Evergreen felt that it went very well, in that in their choice and that many come to regret GSUback there was a lot of respect shown. "Educa­ their decision. "They aren't really making Choice tion is important, and I don't think a lot of that choice. They're being deceived, you • • Continued from cover people realize that abortion is legal in Wash­ know, very deceived." ington State into the ninth month for any 40 Days for Life will be holding a 24-hour­ mactton reason, and so I think most people would a-day vigil outside Planned Parenthood at have abortions up until that [10 weeks] too." agree that a woman having an abortion in her 402 Legion Way until November 4. Counter "Who would not say that was a person, ninth month is pretty horrible. Then if you protests are being planned for Fridays during ~SETH VINCENT right? It looks like a person to me," added ask which month is okay, that opens up a lot this time. Contact [email protected] to sign Freeland. of dialogue." up for a shift with the visibility team. The new representatives of the Geoduck Bledsoe then said, "Without my religion, "They've been that it's not a baby, that Student Union met for the first time this I'd still think I would feel that way." it's okay decision, that it's really not a baby." Lauren Takores is a junior enrolled in quarter to discuss their their goals for the Karen Rotter, a resident of Rochester, WA, Rotter went on to state her opinion that Poetics and Power. year. Current projects are based on work that carries over from last year and on the personal interests of the current representatives. Masters of Environmental Science class. & Society told the Crimson, "It's hard to see Some of the proposed projects include: Rushing out of the bookstore, he said, "Used as intellectual property." Harvard students late-night transit, getting an update from the Continued from cover always makes a difference." With used founded a website, www.crimson;eading. CAB redesign committee, hearing from the books, Miller says the sooner instructors com, to list ISBN and price comparisons financial oversight committee, plans to move submit their book lists, the better. Unfortu­ from around the Internet. Student-to-student forward with the Flaming Eggplant, work­ the average cost of textbooks and supplies is nately he is still getting orders now. Asked if, swap eliminates the middleman, an exchange ing with Access Services and the Counsel­ between $500 and $1000 according to a vari­ given his preference for buying used, Gutier­ Murphy characterizes as bad for business. As ing Center to assist students with psycholog­ ety of studies by the Government Account­ rez was aware the difference made by teach­ far as Evergreen goes, beyond the Library on ical disabilities, refining policies to recognize ability Office (GAO), publishing industry ers' advance planning, he said no. campus, students have the regional Summit the Geoduck Student Union as the appoint­ experts and the PIRGs. Required reading lists get expensive across resources available. As Zittrain quips, "It ing authority for the Services and Activi­ A GAO report completed in 2005 claimed the academic spectrum. Molecule to Organ­ sort oftakes the 'co' out of Coop." ties Board, revising the campus recycling that textbook prices rose at twice the rate of ism books total around $500 new this fall. If new federal legislation introduced in program, raising the number of registered inflation over twenty years. PIRG research Marxist Theory will set you back over $200. the House Committee on Education and voters on campus and much more. claims prices rose at nearly four times the So when will the textbook law start to make Labor on September I 0 by Indiana Demo­ The Union will also be facilitating the reaf­ rate of inflation over just the last ten years. In a difference here on campus? crat Representative Julia Carson passes, the firmation vote for the Evergreen chapter of many instances, as the prices go up, the prod­ Miller does not feel encouraged, saying, bill would require any university receiving WashPIRG. The contract with WashPIRG uct stays the same. Of course, new editions "Disclosure from publishers to the public or federal assistance to include unique ISBN for requires 25% of the student population to limit the relevance of used books already bookstores has not improved. I don't think all textbooks on students' schedules, guaran­ vote in favor of continuing the student orga­ in circulation. The other common practice they accomplished what they wanted to teeing that books bought online are correct nization in order for Evergreen's chapter to criticized by the campaigns is bundling, accomplish," Miller said, looking exhausted editions. H.R. 3512, endorsed by the Amer­ be renewed. because one-time use materials can also on a Week One afternoon. "Bottom line is: ican Association of University Professors, Representatives are currently working limit buyback potential. Washington legis­ it is the academic freedom of the faculty to would also require publishers to give a full to recruit a reservation-based Evergreen lators have also passed unbundling bills the decide and our job to order it." history of all revisions made to textbooks. student to fill the Union as the 21st member. last two sessions. Still, Evergreen students have it better The movement for fundamental changes The Union will also be appointing one of its So, blame is being laid on publishers and than hundreds of thousands of other college to the structure of industry profits from our representatives to act as a liaison between faculty, but what about bookstores? Sarah students across the United States. Evergreen education has gained traction around the student government and Evergreen's Board Keliher, class of '97, has been in the book campus WashPIRG organizer Emily Saxton country. California State Senate Bill 832 of Trustees. business for nearly 20 years. In Olympia, moved here from Massachusetts and already would require publishers to notify faculty The first meeting was spent compiling she worked for Orca Books and is now a feels like the textbook issue is a lower prior­ of the amount of time a book will remain in their goals for the quarter and are now focus­ buyer for Magus Books in Seattle. She says, ity around campus than many other issues. print. At Evergreen, the research and advo­ ing on getting feedback from fellow students. "TESC Book store sucks ass. There is no "In California, where the movement started, cacy efforts of WashPIRG are funded by There will be a town hall meeting - a time point in selling books to someone who isn't CaiPIRG student board members made this a waivable fees, which appear on students' for students to voice concerns, questions and going to pay you a fair price. Their mark up top priority. PIRG works on conflict resolu­ tuition bills. ideas to the Geoduck Union twice on Wednes­ on used books is unethical." tion. This is about the public interest versus Industries criticized by PIRGs have been day, Oct. 3. Tentatively, they will take place Used textbooks generally sell for about private profits." known to strike back. Saxton winced when at I p.m. in the Longhouse and 7 p.m. in the 75% of the new price. Patrick Miller, Which campus has seen the most contro­ she heard the name of a website run by the Housing Community Center (HCC). manager of the Evergreen Bookstore, says versy surrounding private booksellers so far Association of American Publishers. Text­ This year's representatives are: buyback isn't easy here. "If Evergreen taught this fall? Harvard, where the Coop book­ bookfacts.org refutes much of the data Aaron M. Shelley, Brittany Jane in a traditional way we could pay 50% of new store, contractually partnered with Barnes produced by the Make Textbooks Afford­ Newhouse, Charlie Bloomfield, Tyler Ball, (price)." Evergreen ships books to an out-of­ and Noble, has already been the subject of able campaign, and is quoted in news stories Joshua Collins-Beldin, Regan Harrison, state company and then re-orders as soon as six articles in the college newspaper. Coop around the country. "When referring to a site Austin Mansell, Elizabeth Hill, Courtney faculty tum in their lists. When asked ifthere President Jerry Murphy told the Harvard like this, you've got to say facts and dot org," Underwood, Jay Standish, Charles Loosen, is flexibility when filling orders, for example Crimson that ISBN, or international standard she pointed out. "In a way, it's cool that the Nathaniel Hagood, Sammi Webster, Trevor avoiding bundles, Miller said no. "A lot of book number information is the store's intel­ industry created a site like this, because you Kinahan, Mallory Epping, Bea Wolfe, Kit publishers have refused to sell just the book lectual property. Students were instructed don't get a rebuttal unless you're making a Crosland, Alexandra Mavrikis and Brian in some cases. But," he countered, "in a lot to stop writing down ISBN numbers for good argument." Fligner. of cases bundling saves when the materials comparison-shopping online. Campus police are all new." got involved. Gavin Dahl is a senior. enrolled in Politics, Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in an inde­ Jose Gutierrez, Jr. was pleased to find Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard Performance and the Public and a contract pendent learning contract. a used copy of Natures Economy for his Law School's Berkman Center for Internet called Community Radio Networking.

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Altai lies of the conflicts with the US and USSR at paper and KAOS radio ought to be Works in Progress is a local in central Russia on a border with China, the time. Sonina earned her bachelor's and your first stops on campus. Here is a activist newspaper, available around Mongolia and Kazakhstan. She spoke of master's degrees at state teacher training partial list of organizations working town and online. the resemblance between Altai and Wash­ school, with a foreign language focus. with media for a more informed http://www.o ly-wa. us/GreenPages/ ington; Altai's landscape includes pine Sonina then worked for 13 years as a senior populace. South Sound Green Pages is a forests, mountains, lakes and rivers but not lecturer. journal of environmental news the ocean. Altai is actually the belly button Sonina's passion for Native American http://btpolympia.org/ available around town. of Eurasia. furthest from the ocean on all culture brought her to the US as a teacher The volunteers who run Books to sides. at the understaffed reservation schools but Prisoners are dedicated to offsetting Sitting Duck is a local newspaper Sonina will be teaching a brand new only after waiting three years for her visa. the dehumanization ofincarceration. published twice a month. They class at Evergreen: Intermediate Russian On hiking trips through the Altai Moun­ Their space is open Sundays and don't believe in websites. Language. Beginners will also be accepted. tains, Sonina served as a guide and inter­ Mondays on the Westside. Sonina is coming to Evergreen from Pinon, preter, where she met Evergreen professor http://www. tctv. net/ Arizona, where she spent a year teaching Rob Smurr. Hikes were coordinated with http://lastwordblog.blogspot.com/ Thurston County Community high school language arts and drama classes students from Evergreen as well as St. Last Word Books, in downtown Television offers trainings and airs on a Navajo reservation. Her teaching Petersburg, Russia. Olympia, hosts a huge library of public access TV to everyone with techniques include motivating her students Sonina kept in touch with Smurr. When zines. If the store is open, chances cable. They are also responsible from a stance of equal terms as a leader not she visited the campus, she fell in love with are you can spend some time with for educational and government a boss in the classroom. One major accom­ Evergreen immediately. the zines. programming. plishment in her drama classes came from "I am a very lucky person," Sonina said, the field trips she helped organize outside then rapped three times on the wooden http://www.mediaisland.org/ http://www.tvw.org/ the isolated reservation. The closest city cafeteria table, and laughed. Media Island is a resource center The entire state governmental was at least a two-hour drive away, so trips Son ina was looking for other opportunities for media activism, located across process is as documented as it can to see Irish step dancing and the Russian after her year in Arizona when she received the street from the downtown public be on TVW. The legislature is right ballet brought out expressive and engaging a call about a job opportunity to teach inter­ library. here in Olympia, and the website is sides of her Navajo students. mediate Russian. She readily accepted. great even if you don't watch TV. Sonina is also interested in forming a "That's what I love life for," Sonina said. http://olyblog.net Russian language speaking club at Ever­ "Surprise and opportunity." OlyBlog is a hyperlocal community Gavin Dahl is a senior enrolled in green to give students the opportunity to not news portal on the Internet. a contract called Community Radio only speak Russian, but also to discuss the Lauren Takores is a junior enrolled in Networking, as well as Politics, culture in the native tongue. Poetics and Power http://olyimc. infotage.net/ Performance & the Public "Learning language is learning culture," Olympia is indeed part of the

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~ ------~------~ ' ' Pennanently Keep This Document Copied ~------1 by THEODORA RANELLI LANGUAGE EQUALS THE FACT THAT YOU ALL SUCK I am told that the only specific about the Language Symposium column is that it be about language. Because AND HAVE FAILED TERRIBLY AT LIFE ITSELF. this is my first article, I will set down some scenarios you probably will not see from me in my articles: instead of writing about how language can be used to guardian for funeral and pays to purchase any new Language's meaning is subjected because of the theo­ convey, I will convey. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I home or new car each year. retical discussions and metaphorical (un)zipping which am goal setting, so nyaah. Goal setting is highly valued " ... Each teacher and each coal miner and each happen in non queer-identified space and is not decon­ at TESC. landlord and each factory employee and each structed along the shaft a Ia Butler. We need to (re)claim The name for this article comes from the best thing I read retired person and each ranch owner and each and (re)zip the alphabet [qtd, uncited passage in French] during the summer of 2006. It was not a bestseller, but homeless shelter employee and each homeless as is demonstrated in this passage from Gender Trouble: a collection of letters by a woman named Mildred Cath­ person and everyone on welfare and each public Unusually long quote which doesn't make sense to the erine Odorizzi. I first found these letters going through aid welfare employee and each prison guard and general public and even to many people who would benefit the Matthew Shepard collection at the American Heritage all prisoners and each police and each farm owner from it, despite the importance of the text. Center in Laramie, Wyoming. Mildred was born in 1937 and each movie star and each director and each in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Mildred's packet of material is publisher and each editor and each store employee I walked to the store addressed in this fashion: University of Wyoming, All Staff on Earth and each electric company employee And listened to the flitter and Students, Laramie, WY. Attached is her foundation and each telephone company employee and each Flatter of WOrDs on the and bylaws for a better United States of America. Writ­ stadium employee and each nursing home employee Wind ofmy Soul. ten on April 13, 1998 is her "Constitution of State." She and each secret service agent and each C.I.A. agent I walked home from the store highlights these factors: and each court employee and each Halfway House And Mused About How That can now print their own legal currency up to 89 Dog is Really God is Really '' ... Each pet and each person in each nation is to zillion dollars each day. " A Large Semicolon. I like be put on a bank grant from the mint and insured by Semicolons and they connect me the God-Queen Government of Mildred Catherine In her cover letter to the University, Mildred writes, "I feel To the FLOWING DESIRE Odorizzi, Precious President of the United States. so bad about the young man who was gay and murdered Ofcommun Medicaid and Medicare is to get a budget of 8,974 at the University of Wyoming in 1998. His ghosts talk to !cation. Oh, Nostradamus, you put the zillion dollars per day and print their own legal me. I am resurrecting dead loved ones and him .... Please Des in desire. Please be my sire. currency. Everyone is to get free public aidfrom the keep all this mail permanently and copy it all to each staff bank, and a Medicaid and Medicare green card that member and each new and old student at the University The problem with language is God. [sentence in French]. pays all rent direct from the bank ofpublic aid offices of Wyoming as I want to be proud of you and Wyoming's Name drop re: Sarte, Genet, Chekhov, Camus. Praises and pays all C. T.A . and R. T.A . bus and subway and hospitality." She writes that her cousin is a lesbian. to existentialism and anarchy because they really mean train rides to and from anywhere on Earth. And "Maybe your research at the Heritage Center was leading nothing at all, right? Language's innate virtue died with pays to rent a limousine or taxi rides and ambu­ you to Mildred," the friend I was staying with in Laramie God, so language has to take on a new identity. The iden­ lances and all Hospital bills and pays all meals for suggested. "Maybe it's your job to show the world this tity of this new language is purple flower and should be purchase in any restaurant or cafe or store or any woman." It is in the spirit of Mildred and her writing that I engrained in our consciousnesses even if we have never eating public place on Earth. This green card pays work on this column about language. Her writing was full read the "anarchist" text mentioning this label. from the bank of the Public Aid Department for all of life, and, beyond all academic standards, she is a writer. Language equals the fact that you all suck and have purchases ofclothes and medicine and any items in It is high time the spunk of Mildred infused itself into our failed terribly at life itself. Go now ye Deadhead, drop a retail store on Earth and pays all Hotel and Motel own ideas about writing. Mildred seems like someone who out, commune with the Peruvian Flute and become lncan, bills and pays all photoderm varicose vein surgery is tapped into the universe and unafraid to tell us. I hope be the Language of the Universe. If you can't suck less in any hospital or beauty salon and pays 100% all that if people read this, they also find inspiration, fire, and in that department, at least read The Way of the Peaceful plastic surgery and all dental teeth implant costs the desire to reach out to near-strangers. Mildred's is a Warrior and never buy anything again. I am sending you a and all dentist bills and all doctor bills and all elec­ spirit of spunk, passion, and resurrection, a true emptying text message to remind you of this. tric bills and all telephone bills and all tuition and of the heart. Too bad you're stuck with just my voice from I could write these until I'm blue in the face, but I guess board and room for all schools and all colleges, now on. I should tell you what will happen in my articles. One of academy and universities on Earth. And pays all the traits the above examples have in common is language funeral costs and insurance bills and pays four Theodora Ranelli is enrolled in Fashioning the Body. as an entity entirely unconnected to the body. Perhaps, billion dollars upon death to the family or nearest Contact Theodora at ranthe21 @evergrcen.edu

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by HALEY CARPENTER quarter. Many years ago, the first Day of American cast in white face. A reverse TOPI5 Absence began simply as a potluck for Afri­ minstrel show, the play offers social Set the stage: a small southern town, not can American faculty. The event has grown commentary as well as humor. Our cast 1. c.o.c.o. so long ago. Two old men on their rock­ into what we know it to be now: a campus- is a conglomeration of students and staff Play Drums and Bass ingchairs, chatting like they do everyday. members, of people of color and of white Saying hello to the passersby like they do A REVERSE folks. However, in keeping some set:tse 2. Bettye Lavette every day. It's the beginning of a hot day, of the history of the play, everyone will The Scene ofthe Crime business is the same as it was yesterday. MINSTREL SHOW, be in white face in our performance. Be Gradually, it dawns on them. Something is warned: there are definite chances for you 3. Mark Knopfler riot quite right. Something is not the way THE PLAY OFFERS to be offended. But come, and be a part of Kill to get Crimson it is supposed to be. Skip over to the home this ground-breaking event. There will be of a newlywed, newly blessed couple. The SOCIAL COMMEN- discussions after each performance so that 4. V/A baby's screaming. Neither of them know you may ask questions, voice your opin­ Homeschooled: the abcs what to do to stop the baby's crying. All TARY AS WELL ions, and share your emotions. ofkid soul they can wonder is, where's her mammy? The performances are coming up quickly! Skip back to the two old men in their rock­ AS HUMOR. Look for us in the Recital Hall Friday, 5. Eric Bibb ing chairs. They've realized what is miss­ October 5 at 6 p.m.; Saturday, October 6 at An Evening with Eric ing. Every person of color is gone from the wide event in which all people of color 6; and Sunday, October 7 at 3 p.m. Bibb town. As the day passes, panic settles in. who chose to participate-faculty, students Contact the Women of Color Coalition The Women of Color Coalition, along and staff attend an off campus retreat to with your questions! x6006 or wocc.tesc@ 6. Nicole Willis and the with other sponsors, is producing A Day build community, attend workshops, and gmail.com. Soul Investigators of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy. This play, eat good food. Keep Reachin' Up written by Douglas Turner Ward:was the The play, written by an African American Haley Carpenter is a junior enrolled in basisfor Evergreen's Day of Absence, man for an African American audience, The Practical Community. 7. Ernest Gonzales the annual event that occurs every winter was originally performed by an all-African While on Saturn s Rings 8. ManuChao The Pyramids: Monmnents to the Mind La Radiolina 9. Soulive by BRANDON CUSTY have been a source of wonder for m iII ions the structure of the book is also a source of No Place like Soul of people for thousands of years. This meaning. Gamal ai-Ghitani's book, Pyramid Texts, book is a series of texts that explores the The experience of reading this book was 10. Marc Broussard contains intricate insight into one of the obsessions that have drawn people to the different. Sitting in my cramped seat in the SOS: Save our Soul great wonders of the world. The Pyramids Pyramids throughout history. The many very back of the plane, unable to recline or stories delve deeply move at all, I began. 11. Toni Price into the complexity of "MAN IS UNAWARE It seemed almost Talk Memphis the fabled structures. immediate that I read The Pyramids play an THAT HE IS AWAYS the last word and 12. Lee Rocker important part in each looked out to see the Black Cat Bone story, for they are TRAVELING, BOTH mountains for the first the link between the time in a year - the 13. Do bet Gnahore physical and the eter­ WHEN MOVING AND Rocky Mountains, my Naa.friki nal. AI-Ghitani writes, mountains. It is a little "Man is unaware that WHEN STILL." strange, but in a way, 14. Marsmobil he is always traveling, this book about the Minx both when moving Pyramids led me back and when still." The wisdom of many lines to pyramids of my own. 15. Joni Mitchell like this flows from the text. Pyramid Texts was published in Arabic Shine The imagery of the piece is not limited in 1994. It was translated by Humphrey to the text, for meaning also lies in its Davies and was published in English in Above are the top fifteen records structure. 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The following is a review ofa recent concert Very Long Time, " to a much slower tempo. in Olympia written by both C. V. Rotondo and Tonight the litany of lyrics runs so fast I can Victoria Larkin. Victorias voice is presented barely catch hold, like a waterslide ride. But in italics. I remembered them, all the way up to "think I will take up quitting drinking take the bottles "It's bigger than my bedroom." out the fridge I out of the cupboard and the Robin Cutler, low-slung guitar across her chimney strange and stranger places hid I I waist, announces in a lilting voice. She stands will collect them into bags. Collect the bags under a small white spotlight, hemmed in by into a can I that 1 will place beside the house monitors in front, an amplifier behind, the where the garbage meets the garbage man. " microphone stand drawing a black plumb line The rhythms continue to shiji gears and we 're from her chin to the floor. She faces the door on a smooth ride up and do\Vn hills on the and a crowd of forty to fifty young Olympian long highways by the ocean. denizens, some bent over computers or note­ Paleo and his drummer close the set with books, the casual ambience complete with a gentle, compelling tune and then offer the their affected indifference. audience the Song Diary, a DVD of mp3s Strange set up in here: Opposing walls lined containing seventeen hours of music. They with benches on one side, couches on the other, leave the stage as unassuming as they came. chairs interspersed between. Reminiscent of The audience succumbs to conversational high school dances, everyone avoiding look­ and mechanical distractions once more. An DAVID STRACKANY AND RAKY SASTRI MELT THE AUDIENCE INTO WATER. ing straight ahead, but that too is Olympian. announcement is needed to draw our diverted High ceiling with overhead lights beaming and conversation. As the audience submits, us. attention to the pair with guitars seated in the down, not much intimacy Also, homemade­ quiets, and descends into chairs, couches, to The set includes the tunes, "Forever is a center of the room, devoid of microphones style sandwiches at $7.00 per is a bit steep the floor, he breaks off: "Just checking." Very Long Time," "In the Morning Linda or amplifiers, clutching acoustic guitars. We for us artisans. Some of us brought our own. Yeah, we're all here now. Dies," and "Dead Wings Beat." Each song is are told that the Winning Lasses are about to We're just here for the mu~ic. Back in NYC, David had heard Raky Sastri accompanied by a birth date and place, part of begin. • Slouched in tall stark chairs, low benches and play and sent him an email asking him [{he'd a year of songwriting dubbed the Song Diary, The female in the group strums light, simple sunken couches, the crowd hums in conversa­ like to go on tour for a month. As David put begun on April 15, 2006 and ending one year rhythms while her male counterpart plays tion as the music provides a translucent back­ it: "The rest, as they say ... " They played the later, producing 365 tunes. The set includes melodic ostinatoes over her. She sings, barely ground. Cutler's staccato guitar rhythms and night before at another venue for the first time drumless ballads and crashing blues inspired audible over the strumming and plucking of intimate voice roll through seven tunes. a1· a group. I watched them communicate sounds. Between the pair is an organic sense the guitars, more of a high register notion than The audience offers subdued, appreciative across airwaves, and come down for the final of music, the songs flowing in their structure comprehensible words. Jt makes it hard to applause at the closing of each tune, still beat together; I watched smiles ripple across yet rhythmically tight. In "Animals, Animals, care when you can~ even hear ... The drowsi­ encased in their coffee shop aloofness, the David:\· face a1· Raky improvised on tunes Animals" Paleo sings penetrating images such ness of the distilled crowd enhanced by the music subduing the already subdued. The last he'd probably barely heard before. They were as " ... hearts are pumping money; all are born dragging low sounds of the music. However, tune is announced to be a sing-a-long. We are dancing together. to die." "Half Empty I Know the World is Half the audience complies politely with the lack instructed: Do-op Do-ah, Do-op Do-ah. He launches into his first tune as his drum­ Full," offers a more uplifting tone in lines like, of volume or technical enhancement. leaning Counting on your audience to be able to keep mer saunters behind the drum kit silent and " ... But I am fixing to stick until God drags me closer and focusing in on the duo in short time: always a gamble. I roll my eyes. "It:~ still. Guitar twang soft and rhythmic, while out like the ribbon of the bow of the last of his chairs before them. Kumbaya!" Christopher says: "It :1· a sing Strackany's voice finds resonant ground fluc­ presents and stashes me in a shoe box in an ft.~ m· i{we 'resitting on a beach by the dying along, come on. " "It:~ a campfire sing along. " tuating between gravel and sweetness. As he attic called heaven." embers ()[the night :~fire. Someone next to me Robin sings: "Drop me off .. " I drop qff.' sings, coming across his guitar like a free form "Dead Wings Beat" begins plaintively, is.falling asleep. The song opens with little enthusiasm composition, words catch the ear. Strackany singing alone. The drummer The set is short. tour songs to round out the from the enlisted back up singers, though We both write down "the world turned on doesn ~ come in on drums until the word night. The audience engages halfueartedly in Cutler plunges on. The melody is sweet and you like a page ... " The music dips, crests "beat" begins to repeat. After being inside yet another sing-a-long, nearly energizing the understated in the vein of her other songs. and crru·hes waves ofsound. The drums have the songfor a while, Raky drags his drumstick scenario, but hesitating on the edge of true Eventually the audience is shaken by its more water in them, are gentle and then strong. point across the grooves of the large cymbal volume, pulling back into the barely audible engaged members and a murmur of a sing-a­ David plays with long be-ringed.fingers, his -it sound~ like a screeching}ail cell you can~ realm of the pair with guitars in the lead. long accompanies Cutler to the end. voice not quite round, more oval. My eyes and want to get out of I want to eat it. The After the feeble attempt by both performers "Drop me off," she sings. Some of the more travel out fi-om my pen and paper and I see ending to this song is very different fi-om !rut and audience to rouse the sleep ti·om their reticent members of the audience pick up her feet tapping in boots, sneakers ... night :1· version. There David repeated "beat, eyes. head, and mouths, the night closes with words and join in. The tinkling guitar ceases, The rest of the set accompanied by feet small beat, beat" over and over again til one {rut more mingling and procrastinating against the into the microphone a conversational "Thank dance beating, heads swaying on loose necks bit at the end. Tonight the ending comes much return to the chill night air beyond the cafe's you," and the audience stretches piped jean and focused eyes. Both Paleo and his drum­ sooner. Both versions are equally satisfYing tall doors. legs, mingles, and rises to refill empty mugs. mer are expressive in their playing, Sastri's and ~ffective . Into the din, he begins, just cuts through: face contorted by the timbre of the drums and Paleo stretches the limits of his vocals into Victoria Larkin is a an Evergreen alumna reedy, ttght voice: Strackany's eyes closed, mouth open. Both growling registers but somehow keeps the and works at the Writing Cente1: Under the dim spotlight Paleo, David Strack­ musicians embody an innocent abandon to the sweet melodies going. C. V. Ronalda is a secondyear student at Ever­ any, begins to sing over the hum of movement music they play, eliciting similar abandon in The night before they played "Forever is a egreen and is a tutor at the Writing Cente1:

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Soon they came teenage girls to punks to a few middle­ wish they had collaborated for every song narcissistic youth. Attempting to politicize back, revived their instruments like zombies, aged couples. While the younger set was he did. oneself after gaining a following through and busted out a fantastic new song I didn't undoubtedly drawn by lead singer Conor One downside to seeing Bright Eyes live more personal songs can be a difficult tran­ know. It was one of their hardest rocking Oberst's inexplicable sex appeal, the older is waiting a good half hour while the roadie sition to make and can be the artist's siren tracks, at times displaying a punkier influ­ crowd was perhaps hooked by his latest, tunes the myriad of orchestral instruments song, but Conor hasn't lost his ability to ence and at times breaking down into alter­ more traditional folk rock album Cassa­ strewn about the stage. Once the sound keep audiences hooked just yet. You could native folk riffs, with every musician going dega. What unites them all are Oberst's checks were up to par, Conor and his fluc­ hear a pin drop in the crowd as he played wild. The song ended, or so I thought, with poetic expose of heartbroken, drug-ridden tuating posse graced the stage to amorous "Poison Oak," the emotive, regretful tale of the heaviness dying down and the last note nights sung with wavering, emotionally applause. Besides Conor, and boyhood love with nostalgic, hesitant guitar holding on for dear life, until the surprise engaging allure. making it seem like the are the only official members strums that paint the same picture. The song energy came crashing back. It led into what words of lost loves still sting him. of the Omaha-based group. Mogis looks like ends dramatically with cries of, "When I hit sounded like a jam song in its raw intensity, The Capitol Theater, built in 1924, retains an indie computer programmer, who could the keys I It all gets reversed I The sound of almost improvised but too structured to be the modernist, grandiose architecture of just as easily be working for NASA, with loneliness I Makes me happier." so, until finally ending on a good note, both the era, with ceilings as high as cathedrals a striped sweater clinging to his scrawny "Four Winds" is a great song because of the metaphorically and musically. that shape a dramatic yet intimate atmo­ body, occasionally casting a smirk towards beautiful, daunting violin strokes that start I'm usually at shows I can mosh or dance sphere. It was an ideal spot for Bright Eyes, Conor. They revealed an evident lifelong it out. I was bummed when I didn't see a to, so whenever I see acoustically toned who loves to exploit the delicate balance friendship dating back to boyhood record­ violin on stage, but leave it to Mogis to step acts such as Bright Eyes, I get sick of between the extravagant and the cherished. ings in their parents' basements. He oper­ up to the plate and offer an electric guitar standing real fast. While he played lots of When he's not exploding into booming ates the pedal steel guitar with an articulate adaptation of the violin part, still not up to great songs, old and new, there were still a melodious tantrums that demand atten­ demeanor, sliding up and down the frets to par with the real deal but satisfyingly close. few songs in the set that had me yawning. tion, he's recouping into a self-conscious I get pissed at Conor sometimes as well. introvert belting confessions. Conor is all He stands there in his pointy leather shoes about dynamics, often transitioning from HE PACES THE STAGE IN HIS TIGHT STRAIGHT with shoulder-length hair parted down his delicate acoustic strumming until a the middle. He paces the stage in his tight cymbal crash leads into a heavier, country LEG DENIMS AND THAT WHOLE "JACKET WITH straight leg denims and that whole "jacket rock chorus. The crescendos and whispers with a hoodie underneath" look. It makes functioned beautifully in the large space, A HOODIE UNDERNEATH" LOOK. IT MAKES him the ultimate hipster, able to sing about sounds echoing up the crimson drapes and how constantly sad he is and how he has receding back into Conor's melancholic HIM LOOK LIKE THE ULTIMATE HIPSTER. to cope with his hard troubles of living center like ocean tides rising and falling. or losing his girlfriend, often by blowing Kimya Dawson (whom I unfortunately produce that characteristic chord bending Staying in country chic, the band romped cocaine. If he didn't somehow imbue this arrived too late to see) and sound essential for any romantic. through "If the Brakeman Turns My Way" act with talent, I'd say he sounds like a opened. A local Olympian and Evergreen Taking their places without introduction, and "Another Traveling Song," whose roll­ fashionable, privileged, whiny, co-depen­ alumna, Kimya Dawson is one of The Moldy they start off with "An Attempt to Tip the ing drumbeat could be a soundtrack to train dent liberal bitch. Maybe my inner whiny, Peaches. but with that group of rotting fruit Scales," a tribute to Conor's more vulner­ hoppers nationwide. co-dependent cokehead side attaches to on hiatus, she has released a streak of lo-fi able era. Oberst has Bright Eyes then played some hits off their him . I find Bright Eyes to be a guilty plea­ solo albums consisting of sweet acoustic grown up with a four track attached to his electronic Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, sure that I still only listen to from time to ballads and has been touring extensively. hip, allowing us to chronicle his develop­ performing quality instrumental adapta­ time because I grew up loving it. But now Freitas is a Visalia, CA native, and former ment and watch him grow from a lo-ti, tions of the digitized sounds that gave it a all my friends listen to punk or hip hop, and Thrasher skate photographer, whose bluesy whiny adolescent to a socially conscious theatrical life not achieved on the CD. "Arc while I still suffer from depression, I no guitar playing set an adequate tone for the storyteller, who is still sometimes whiny. of Time" began with its tropical tom-drum longer find the cure in listening to mopey night, singing catchy pop-rock recounts They quickly jumped to a later date in beat, backed by a swarm of happy guitar tunes that only bring me down further. Sure, of women and the subsequent pathetic their discography and lead into " I'm Wide pluckings and tambourine shakes, climax­ there's "Bowl of Oranges," but that's like loneliness they create. Nik writes cute lin es Awake, It's Morning," an angsty track made ing to three synchronized notes where Con or one happy song for how many sad ones? pitched in a nasal tone reminiscent of Bob with the solid arrangement and traveling screams "[You will] Die! Die! Die!" Only Point being, I've grown past rel ating to Dylan. Nick is a talented, shy musician who style, again attributable to Bob Dylan. This in this in stance does he manage to make Bright Eyes since it became a given there seemed much more confident performing song displays hi s growth as a songwriter, death sound more upbeat than frightening. will be giggly, indie rock girls at every than he did talking between songs, though now able to root himself in safe, cleanly Throughout the show, Conor is spewing spit show who I is ten to Co heed And Cambria his nervous demeanor made him approach­ developed melodies as opposed to spewing into the front row; the spray of saliva can and scream "I love you Conor!" like he was able and opened a cas ual di alogue with th e furti ve lines from an unstable harmony. be cl early seen flying past the microphone Nick Carter back in '99. audience. I always like the closeness of this Cassadega stands as a greater evolution in as he yell s, which he later jokingly attrib­ venue, where I feel no separation between the direction paved by I 'm Wide Awake, It~· uted to his "overactive saliva gland." He Nicky Tis o lives and writes on a pseudo­ the audience and the artist, when the Morning. It's a classically composed album took moments between songs to exchange farm in Olympia, Washington, where he performer is not on some God-like pedestal, that manages to stand out due to Oberst's greetings and laughs with the audience, at combats the rain and the hippies, and but is in fact within arms reach. It was a treat Americana interpretations of contemporary one point getting asked, "How do you like studies literature at The Evergreen State to see Nik's classic songwriting capabilities. issues, launching him as a voice of our Olympia?" To which he responded, "I think College.

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You may or may not WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID TO QUESTION by SYDNEY PAGE-HAYES have heard about an incident at the University OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AND WHY ARE WE A recently released list, of Florida on September compiled by U.S. News 17 involving campus AFRAID TO STAND UP TO UNJUST ACTIONS and World Report of the police, John Kerry and best colleges and univer­ a UF student named Andrew Meyer. You TAKEN BY THE STATE, SUCH AS TASING sities in America asserts can go to any search engine and type in any that such things as gradu­ combination of Kerry, U F, Meyer, Taser and MEYER? WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED ation rate, selectivity rank, and the number find several different videos of the incident of freshman in the top I 0% of their class from different angles showing everything IF THE CROWD HAD STOPPED THIS FROM are among the best ways to "judge" the that happened. greatness of a college. Average incoming You should watch the videos, really, HAPPENING BY SIMPLY STANDING UP? freshman ACT and SAT scores are another because even though this was one incident, indicator of the superiority of a school, so it is a sign of the times, and we need to get angry with the Tasing though, why was this campus. I talked to Evergreen Chief of does the annual alumni giving total as well wake up. Meyer was not allowing Kerry he arrested In the first place? Police Ed Sorger to find out what the policy as the percent of faculty that are full-time time to answer the questions - that is true Because he dared to ask the questions we is for Evergreen cops using their Tasers. at the school. - it is also true that Kerry wanted to answer would all love to ask our public officials? Sorger explained that Tasers are reserved In fact, colleges and universities are Meyer's questions. You can hear him saying Perhaps it is what Ashley Hansen suggested, for the last resort and, in the year and a half given a higher rating by U.S. News if they this in the video. Meyer was asking three "His point was what happens when you go he has been at Evergreen, they have not had reject more students than admit. Is this the questions: up and you say things like that. to use a Taser on anyone. But there was one correct way to determine the excellence of I) If you really wanted to be the What happens when you act like a real occasion on June II, 2006 when Officer a college? president, why did you concede the election person who is pissed off? This is what Justin Cripe responded to Evergreen hous­ My years leading up to high school to Bush in 2004? happens." Obviously Meyer's first amend­ ing and was met with a combative resident graduation were fi lied with researching 2) Why don't you move to impeach ment rights were denied. Kerry repeatedly during a questioning about drugs. Bush before he invades Iran? asked to answer Meyer's questions, stating Cripe wrestled with the resident for about COLLEGE ISN'T ABOUT 3) Were you in the secret society that they were "important questions" but II minutes before placing him in handcuffs "Skull and Bones" with Bush? the UF campus police had other plans. and reading him his Miranda warning. GETTING HARVARD'S What is also true is that Meyer was dragged Meyer did go over his allotted one-minute When Sorger told me about this incident away from the microphone and, after time slot for asking Kerry a question, but did he said, "In my opinion it would have been NAME ON YOUR screaming for help, resisting the police who Meyer deserve 50,000 volts of electricity appropriate to Tase him". were trying to arrest him, asking if anyone for asking Senator Kerry three questions? In our interview Sorger spoke very highly BACHELOR'S DEGREE was listening, he was finally Tased into NO! Why are we so afraid to question our regarding the conduct of his officers and submission. While all of this was going on, public officials, and why are we afraid to invited the student body to bring any and compiling a list of the "best" (in other the students and community members did stand up to unjust actions taken by the state, concerns to him regarding the conduct of words. the most selective) schools f could nothing! Meyer was screaming for help and such as lasing Meyer? what would have his otTicers. It is important to remember that get into. When my first semester of college 111 his fellow students did was watch until happened if the crowd had stopped this everyone has the first amendment right to ended with me, someone who had done campus police Tased him, then you can hear from happening by simply standing up? freedom of speech and no one else has the pretty well throughout high school, drop­ a few women screaming at the police. Many Greeners, when asked if what would right to silence us. ping out and taking a year off, something Maybe they were all in shock, but I cannot happen ifthis happened at Evergreen, stated clicked in my mind. ,.athom how anyone can sit by and let a that they would be outraged if the students Lindwy Adams is a senior enrolled in Finding the right college for you isn't fe llow classmate and community member here did nothing. American Indian Sovreignty about a subjective list of super-selective, be brutalized by the police. Before we all Hopefully this would never happen on uber-rejecting, ultra-expensive private schools. It's about choosing one where you can find the resources and freedom you need to excel at the things you enjoy. Evergreen students respond to the use of College isn't about getting Harvard's name on your bachelor's degree, it's about Tasers at University of Florida learning what you want to learn to be better at what it is you want to do (which is something that Harvard can't do for everyone). For me, it's pursuing something in the environmental studies field, possibly public policy. I haven't decided yet, and because I go to Evergreen, I have the free­ dom to decide what it is I want to study when I'm ready to study it. EVAN ROHAR, SENIOR, JAMEELEY PINEDA, ASHLEY HANSEN, JUNIOR, In truth, rejection-rate, cost, and alumni AMERICANS ABROAD GRAD STUDENT, MPA POETICS rL\D POWER donation rates aren't what make a college great. What makes a college great is if it's "I am angry that it happened at "I think there is a lot of fear of "What happens when you act great for you. the University of Florida campus. free speech in this country." like a real person who is pissed If it happened here, I would push "[The audience] should have off? This is what happens." Sydney Page-Hayes is a sophomore for a student council to hold physically obstructed the police." "I think it resembles the typical enrolled in Environmental and Community the officers accountable." treatment [of] police in general." Jounralism.

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Thursday, 27 I to 3 p.m. Women's soccer: Geoducks Tuesday, 2 building. Contact sabasu_chan@hotmail. 4:30 to 6 p.m. Foundation Activity Grant v. Oregon Tech. Field four, students I 0 a.m. to I p.m., 6 to 9 p.m. Tacoma com workshop. SEM II BII07. Contact admitted free. Campus Lyceum Speaker Series: Sharon [email protected] Katz speaking on Transactional Analysis. I p.m. "Female Faces of War" and "The 9 p.m. Avenue Rose, The Greatest Hits. Iraqi Refugee Situation" with Zahra Friday, 28 McCoy's Tavern. 21 + 3:45 p.m. Evergreen Gallery Artist Sultan, Iraqi Social Worker and Refugee. II a.m. to 2 p.m. Support Planned Lecture Series: Joseph Park. Ll-1 I. SEM II, EII05. Parenthood Positive Presence. Bring or Sunday, 30 make signs, all welcome. 2 to 4 p.m., doors at I :40 p.m. Enter­ 4 to 6 p.m. Men's soccer: Geoducks v. I to 3 p.m. Prairie Roof Garden Work tainment Explosion presents: Hats Off! Northwest University. Field four, students Party. On top of LIB. Refreshments will 3 to 5 p.m. Women's soccer: Geoducks v. Fall Variety Show/Benefit Concert to admitted free. be provided. Southern Oregon University. Field four, benefit the Dispute Resolution Center of students admitted free. Thurston County. Olympia High School 7 to 9 p.m. Climate Change-Olympia's 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Workshop on strategies Performing Arts Center. $8 in advance Call to Action. Washington Center. for finding work on campus or in the Saturday, 29 and at the door. Sponsored by Olympia Climate Action Olympia area. A dorm building, Room I 0 a.m. to 5 p.m., setup at 9 a.m. First Group. Contact [email protected] 220. Contact [email protected] Annual Olympia Family Barter Circle. Monday, 1 Burfoot Park. Free admittance; trading 6 p.m. Mindscreen free movie: "If.... " Wednesday, 3 8 to 9 p.m. First Greener Organization and skill sharing event. Contact (360) by Lindsay Anderson, starring Malcolm I p.m. TESC Students for Choice first meeting for all students interested in 866-1489 McDowell. Free popcorn. meeting. LIB 2"d floor. Walk in the LIB making a difference in housing. The front doors, go up the big stairs on the Fishbowl, A205. Contact turmel25@ 10 p.m. Le Voyeur free movie night. left in the lobby, meeting towards back of evergreen .ed u Program Events Writing

Monday night poetry readings Artist Lecture Series workshops Hosted by the program Poetics and Power. Free and open to all artists. Lecture series All readings at 7 pm in SEM II E II 05. on some Tuesdays at 3:45 p.m. in LH Nouns got you down? Verbals need Oct. I: Maged Zaher, Jeff Derksen I, sponsored by Evergreen Gallery and herbals? Sentence remember don't how Oct. 8: Kaia Sand, Jules Boykoff Visual and Environmental Arts. make to? Get spruced in the Grammar Oct. 15: Bill Ransom, Ghida Sinno Oct. 2: Joseph Park Garden. One hour a week will nip your fears in the bud. Come on by Wednesdays Oct. 22: Rikki Ducornet Oct. 16: Beverly Naidus from I to 2 p.m. Oct. 29: James Thomas Stephens, Zhang Oct. 30: Sara Bates Er Nov. 13: Laura Alpert "Academia is mind control." But it Nov. 5, C.S. Giscombe doesn't have to be. Come and hash out Common Calendar Nov. 12: Susan Schultz/Tinfish poetry the many different ways an essay can be journal reading written. Learn to sharpen your sword. Abbreviations Essay writing workships are Wednesdays 1 from 2 to 3 p.m. College Activities Building: CAB College Recreation Center: CRC VVant people to corr1e to your 1 • Communications Building: COMM Housing Community Center: I-ICC . Alternattve Lab Buildings: LAB I or LAB II rnag1cJI rooftop dance party? Food Events Lecture Hall: LH Library: LIB ··" Seminar I Building: SEM I Flaming Eggplant Seminar II Building: SEM II 4 p.m. Flaming Fall KickoffFestival. CAB 315. Hosted by the Flaming Eggplant. Evergreen phone numbers: (360) 867- Contact x6092. Friday, Sep. 28. 0000, abbreviated as xOOOO. Upcoming Events Wednesday, October 2, II a.m. to 4 p.m. Graduate School Fair. CRC.

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