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VOU.l.\JE :5ti, SEJYJ"EMBER '2.7, :21)1)7 I\E\VS BRIEFS Is the new Student govern mentTown "Before Iformed textbook Hall Meeting you in the womb, ' )) There will be a town hall meeting- a 1knew you. legislation time for students to voice concerns, questions and ideas to the Geoduck .God Union twice on Wednesday, Oct. 3. 1 Tentatively, they will take place at t I p.m. in the Longhouse and 7 p.m. ..\O 0 \YS rn1__ u \_ __ ~ helping? in the Housing Community Center (HCC). More student govermnment information is available on page 3. f?y GAVIN DAHL 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. ·rHF COOPI:R 1'01\:T.)Ol:R ~1\L JS A FREE, \VEEKT.Y STL:IJE~T \:EWSI'AI'I'R TJIAT SERVES THE EVERGREEi\ S·-i i\J'Io: COLU:CE Al\JJ THE SURROl.li'·ilJJi\(; COM~IUNJT\' OF OLY~IPIA, WASIH\\:CTON. 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