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Each perspective of what happened before and during the riot on Febru ary 14 has its own set of values and limitations, according to Evergreen police officer April Meyers. And only by piecing together as many different perspectives as possi ble, said Meyers, can the.community develop a 360 degree view of what happened. STUDENTS AND COMMUNUY MEMBERS MARCH THROUGH CAMPUS TO PROTEST POLICE PRESENCE BELINDA MAN Meyers' own view from inside her police car that night was severely limited as the size of the crowd around her car increased. All she could see was the upper Protesters rally on Red Square bodies of those closest to the car, with only occasional glimpses of the by JUSTIN SHEPHARD VERY FEW PEOPLE VISIBLY SUPPORTED THE action beyond, said Meyers. 1lcr view "was further occluded," Wednesday, February 27, a group of RALLY BY PICKING UP SIGNS OR STANDING said Meyers, "Because my windows approximately 10 people, students and non (were) covered with spit." students, stood in red square in an attempt WITH THE SMALL GROUP IN THE CENTER. to rall y students against police. Between THE YOUTUBE VIDEO 100-140 onlookers observed at' a distance an end to administration cooperation with ful Valentine's Day gift on February 14." POSTED BY THE GSU with little participation or vocal support for the police, a disbanding of campus police, Very few people visibly supported the Wh ilc most computer screens are not the rally. and an apology from the administration for rally by picking up signs or standing with covered with spit, th e view offered by The demonstration was purportedly orga what the group claims was misinformation. the small group in the center. Many anti th e vid eo footage posted to Youtube. ni zed in reaction to the riot on campus Also taking the microphone were several police signs laid on red square with phrases com by the Geoduck Student Uni on February 15 and claims of police misconduct members of an anarchist/anti-authoritarian like "PIGS GO HOME," "All COPS ARE (GSU) is also limited. in dealing with the crowd. Older incidents organization from Minneapolis-St. Paul, MURDERERS," and "LIARS, LIARS, The anonymous fi 1m makers edited involving Olympia police were also cited. Minnesota. Ryan, one of the members who COPS ON FIRE!" the rootage and blurred the faces of A list of demands was read by Peter chose not to be identified with a last name, The group gained approximately 20-25 those in the crowd. As Evergreen Cooper, a TESC senior which included an read a statement declaring solidarity with chief of police Ed Sorger noted in an end to the concert moratorium on campus, Greeners and thanking them for the "beauti- see RALLY, page 3 interview, there's plenty that could be happening outside the frame of the video. "What you can see in the video isn't the same as what was happening in those officers' minds," said Sorger, Geoducks dig Eagles "The video doesn't show that." The footage that the GSU released by ZACH LICHT lead to 18-10. Menefee himself scored, 14 doesn't show in explicit detail the of the team's first 18 points. student who was hit repeatedly by If Wednesday night was the last game to Evergreen would maintain roughly an Olympia police officer. The video be played in the Greenhouse this season, an eight-point lead until there was ftve doesn't show that student being taken then the Evergreen faithful got their minutes left in the first half. The 'Ducks to the hospital for his injuries. money's worth in what became a high then would seize control of the game by "1 was standing off to the side flying showcase in the second half, as the pushing the lead to 14, capped by Nick of the crowd," said the student men of E-State defeated the Northwest Moore posterizing an Eagle defender with at Wednesday's forum, "Without Eagles in stylish fashion, 93-78 to move a monster dunk off a steal. giving any warnings, without any on to the CCC Semifinals. The Geoducks took a 46-32 lead into provoking actions from within the Evergreen started the game like a bunch intermission. The guys shot 53% from the crowd, without any pretext that could of sugar high three-year-olds, jumping field, including seven 3-pointers. conceivably justify use of force, the to a 9-0 lead in the three minutes, which Now coming out of the break, the offense officers from various police depart included three steals. Northwest came did sputter a little bit; but great defense ments came in swinging batons." back and countered with an 8-0 run of kept the lead right around 15 for the first The Olympia Police Department is their own to pull the game to one. five minutes. Then behind another Mene Nathan Menefee decided then to turn fee outburst, Evergreen took a 19-point the jet engines on, as he hit three straight see VIEWPOINTS, page 4 DAVID HOWARD, AIRBORNE bombs from beyond the arc to pull the see GEODUCK MEN, page 13
THE COOPER l'Oii'.T.JOL:R:-Ji\L IS A FREE, WEEKLY S'l'LJI'JE) TESC PRSRT"STD Olympia, WA 98505 US Postage Paid Address Service Requested OlympiaWA hrmit#6S - 2~' VOXPOP ...... What brought you to this rally? by MADELINE BERMAN CPJ How do you fie! about cops on campus? & AMBER ROSE Business Busin~ss manager Cerise Palmant~cr ·------· · ------, ' ' ' Assistant business manager ' Carrie Ramsdell "I'm here because I Ad proo!Cr think this is a venue of "Just wanted to see Alex l\lorl~y dialogue with people of what's going on. I don't do anything stupid, so I Ad rcprescntatil'e different opinions and Joshua Katz a way to show visible don't worry about it." opposition to the police." Circulation manager Ga1·in Dahl Distribution manager Sarah Alexander Christopher Rotondo I Junior D;m G<>sset l·'rc::; hrn art News I Edit!>r-itt-chicf 500 Years of' Gloh;tli~:a t iou Seth Vincent 1\ lanaging editor Da1·id Railcanu Arts & Entertainment coordinator .------. 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Persons C BELINDA ~IAN MADELINE BERMAN RALLY, fi·om cover is a need to work for resolution instead officers provide a valuable and necessary of polarization," which provided a stark service to our community. ELECTIONS COMMISIONER followers as it walked to Police Services contrast to comments by Cooper, one of After the rally completely dissipated AND STUDENT TRUSTEE and Annex F on campus, but more than a the organizers. When asked if he thought Jenna Wes, a student, mentioned the opportunity she felt did not get enough hundred people moved on, or discussed the event would create more division Spring is springing, birds will be their view of the event without joining between police and students, Cooper attention during the anger·driven demon chirping, hormones will be raging, and the rally. The anti-police signs stayed said, "I think I would hope so." stration, "wouldn't it be amazing if we the Geoduck Student Union is looking mostly on the ground. Though oddly enough, Cooper could take this passion and energy to for two Elections Commissioners, one A group of students also marched confir~ed ~ha~ he does not view the rally create peaceful, positive change?" around campus carryino signs with ·, as antt-poltce m nature and used the term Student Trustee, and a partridge in a peace symbols and ph~ses such as "alternative to police." Justin Shephard is enrolled in Practice pear tree. Why would you venture to .. Non-violence." Several individuals thanked the police of Community. do such daring deeds, you ask? The Many of the onlookers mentioned their for their presence on campus after the Commissioner pays big bucks and the disapproval of the polarizing statements ra.lly .left the headq~arters. Ch~is Moz.eri trustee appointment lands you a hot and signs of the small anti-police group. aJUnf.or at TESC, pomt~d to a s~gn;, wh~ch lunch date with Governor Gregoire. Adam Fleischmann a freshman and read FIRE ALL COPS and satd, I thmk Election Commissioners will receive member of Amnes~y International at that's c~ap." He indicated his approval of rl[])@DJETJJ a $400 "stipend at the end of the spring TESC stated "Hate is not ooing to brino the poltce presence and suggested the quarter for such duties as: providing change to the campus." "' "' ang~r toward police was "discrimjnating info to the campus about elections and Jason Housden, a junior, said, " ... there agamst a huge group for the actiOns of THE EVERGREEN STATECOUE6l a few" and that, for the most part, many ballot measures, recruiting & hiring poll '1)1. {.. ) r··~··v··l·'·} ? -~) workers, supervising polling stations, . ), .... J ...... J .. ..'\.. meeting with the lovely GSU to develop Quotes coUectedfrom the 2/2B/2008 elections procedures, · ~d certifying elections results. Sounds hard? Don't be BaBy on Red Square ridiculous, you can do it! If being an elections commissioner Stu1F got took doesn't tickle your pickle, we are also PETER COOPER "We're not wanting to take sides" Annex F had been broken into last hunting for a Student Trustee to serve (one ()/'the organizers and reader of "Polarizing is not attractive" weekend. The break and enterers on the Board of Trustees for the 2008- de m a mil) may have gotten in through an unse-, 2009 academic year. Our Trustee will be JENNA WES cured window. A Sony DSC camera required to attend monthly meetings of ·•J think [the event] turned out alright" (Student and amnesty Int. member) is believed to have been stolen in the the BOT and keep them updated on GSU .. I don't think the administration should break-in. happenings as well as informing them of be cooperating with police, selling out "Wouldn't it be amazing if we could our needs, wants, and burning desires as their students" take this passion and energy to create a student body. The trustee is a voting "I don't think the division could get peaceful, positive, change?" Car, proweled member of the BOT .whom the governor much further" Police responded to a "vehicle prowl" appoints from a list of the chosen ones. "I would hope that it would catalyze call in F lot. A student claimed her driv Sound enticing? Positively thrilling? discussions between students with issues JASON HOUSDEN er's side window had been cut opened Hurry and storm the castle (CAB 320) to that concern all of our safety and not just (TESC Junior) and her car battery charger stolen. pick up an application! Applications for some of our safety" The car stereo and GPS unit were left Elections Commissioners are accepted "To create change, the hardest step is to behind. According to another report, until March 3rd (TENTATIVLEY) and reach toward the other people to find the this wasn't the only vehicle "prowled" Student Trustees end 5:00 p.m. April . ADAM FLEISCHMANN common ground ... No one has stepped in F lot this week . 17th. (student and Amnesty Int. member but up to do that" on what is needed and speaking as an individual) what he didn't see at the rally" ~JASON SLOTKIN ~ ALEX MAVRIKIS & SAMMI WEBSTER, GSU REPRESENTATIVES New York Style Hand Tossed Pizza Huge Selection of Fresh Toppings ! Pizza By The Slice & Whole Pies Vegan Pizzas Available Salads, Calzone, Fresh Baked Goods Micro Brews on Tap, Bottled Beers, Wine Dine In or Call Ahead for Take Out ~ P12ZE RlA Loca~d ~ ?.,:i~n~ ~v:i~n ~~3!lvision St. NW) WORLD SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL 3 STAGES - 200 ARTISTS WORKSHOPS - FOOD MARCH 8, 11:00A.M.-9:30 P.M. At the door: $20 general; $15 students/low income; under 12 free "Minnaert Center for the Arts, SPSCC, 2011 Mottman Rd SW www.ol sacredmusic.or or 357-7224 4~NEWS ...... ~.??P.~~.. ~?.i.r~9?.':1r.~.~~ February 28, 2008 FORUMS: AVENUE FOR.DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES "When I saw this video it really broke my heart," said a groundskeeper for the college at the community forum on Wednesday, February 27, "I really love this joint." GEODUCK STUDENT UNION "Let's learn from this and move forward," he said. REPRESENTATIVE SAMMI WEBSTER The community forum, which was held to address concerns about the riot, became heated with some members of the audience shouting from their chairs,' interrupting as others spoke. Many who spoke at Wednesday's and last week's forum expressed their concern about police presence on campus. Others spoke to their discomfort and disgust toward the way students acted after the suspect was released and Olympia police cleared the crowd so that Meyers' car could be removed. " What do we think this riot accomplished for any of the issues that this has brought up?" asked student Jonathan Atwood of the attendees of Wednesday's forum. Near the end of Wednesday's forum a woman in the crowd passed out due to a medical condition. Audience members checked the condition of the woman and carried her from the room. PRESIDENT LES PURCE ON LEFT: EVERGREEN POLICE CHIEF ED SORGER "Right there. what just happened is a true display MIDDLE: OFFICER APRIL MEYERS of what community is all about," said student Aaron Mallory as audience members carried the woman out VIEWPOINTS,Jrom cover tioning Meyers about the legitimacy of Olympia, Tumwater and Lacey officers of the lecture hall. "We talk about these notions of shown in the GSU footage breaking up .the arrest, based on allegations of it being responded. community and the healing process, but when it comes the crowd around the car. And the video, a racially motivated arrest. ..,. At the two community forums held down to it, that's what community is about. Taking a as expressed on TESCtalk and at commu The mood gradually became more to discuss the riot, many students have moment out of your own personal life for somebody nity forums about the riot, seems to show aggressive, said Meyers, including shouts spoken about the abrupt, aggressive use else. And I can guarantee, that those events right before that Olympia police officers acted with like "Fuck the pigs." of force that was used without warning the throwing of bottles, the cops going after kids to undue force. Meyers reported that once she was in by responding officers. entice them to throw bottles, that was an act of people The GSU footage also doesn't show her car, it was being kicked and rocked, Pepper spray and blunt objects such as coming together to support something, like people whether or not members of the crowd and that bottles were falling on her wind batons and flashlights were used to dispel came together to support that person right there." were provoking the Thurston County shield before Olympia police arrived. the crowd. "I hear that everyone has their perspective of what deputies that were around Meyer's car. "It became physically violent in that "An abrupt approach was necessary," happened and what ignited this," said school president The footage, because of the angle and way long before people (Olympia police) said Evergreen police chief Ed Sorger. Les Puree, "and I hear some people say all you have to image quality, ~oesn 't show anyone grab arrived," said Meyers. "It would be nice to have the luxury do is look at this video and you can see what happened. bing at the guns on the hips of Thurston Thurston County deputies arrived at of a 1000 watt amplifier megaphone in Well, I'd argue that everybody sees something differ County officers, as police reports attest. Meyers' request to take statements from your hand," said Sorger about trying to ent there." The footage doesn't show crowd the crowd. warn the crowd. "But I don't know if a "We talk about our ideals. We talk about what we members trying to open the doors of One student who was present when 1000 watt amplifier would have done aspire to,'' said Puree. "We talk about racism, we talk Meyers' car. Thurston deputies arrived noticed that the any good." about sexism, and all the things in our hearts that we "Did they want to get in?" Said Meyers, officers attempted to take statements, but "We don't have to like it, we don't have hope that we can be. I know that that's why I' m here "Somebody did, because my car handles the crowd largely ignored them, and to to agree," said Sorger about the abrupt as president and why I came back to Evergreen. l do were tried multiple times." a degree, responded negatively. A Thur action that Olympia police took to clear know that we have something running deep here that ston County police report made available the area, "but it worked." we need to address. And I do know that as adults, and THE POIJCE PERSPECTIVE on TESCcrier made similar claims. members ofthis community, we do have to be account "It mushroomed, it snowballed, but it Thurston County put out an emergency Seth Vincent is a junior enrolled in able. We are accountable and responsible for the events wasn't peaceful starting from back in the call for backup, and fellow concert-goers an internship learning contract and that happened in our place." building," said Meyers. called 911 out of concern about the is editor-in-chief of the Cooper Point Crowd members initially were ques- actions of the crowd. Journal. ~ SETH VINCENT It's time for fun, and we're your ride! Intercity Transit is your ticket off campus! Your Evergreen student ID is your bus pass on all local routes to plenty of fun destinations. Grab a pizza or take in some music, go biking, shopping, whatever! Give us a call or go online for more information. intercitytransit.com 360-786-1881 Learn more: www.learn.bastyr.edu Health Psychology • Exercise Science & Wellness • Herbal Sciences Nutrition • Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine • Naturopathic Medicine ~~~~r~r.~~.~:.~?.l;'!..C.P.L ...... ~~~!~ . ~.~~. .~ .. ~. February 28, 2008 ------~------Projed Plug in rgreen ------ I!}' DAVE RAILEANU one of the best ways of reinforcing that is "OLYMPIA HAS BEEN PART OF THE ELEC providing one of these [stations]."' Project PIE, or Plug in Evergreen, is a Youngers and Trammell started the project TRICAL VEHICLE MOVEMENT FOR A commuter service program aimed at provid in the middle of fall quarter with the mission ing a permanent electrical vehicle charging of providing support for commuters that WHILE NOW. IF EVERGREEN CAMPUS IS station on campus. choose electrical power. There are no elec The station, according to project coor trical vehicle charging stations on campus GOING TO STICK TO THIS 'GO GREEN, dinators Murdoc Trammell and Forrest as of yet. Youngers, would serve the dozen or so elec "We're trying to help those students who STAY GREEN' MOTTO, ONE OF THE BEST tric commuters already on campus. are helping our society fight our addiction to "Olympia has been part of the electrical petroleum-based fuels," says Trammell. WAYS OF REINFORCING THAT IS PROVID vehicle movement for a while now," says "Originally, we had planned to get funding Youngers. "If Evergreen campus is going to from the Clean Energy Grant," Trammell ING ONE OF THESE [STATIONS]." stick to this 'Go Green, Stay Green' motto, explains. After the winter 2005 vote to establish the vehicle at around $18,000, ·and admits that $1.00 per quarter clean energy fee, the Clean the project is not entirely aimed at students. Energy Committee established a fund, made "It's a community based action," he said. up of I 0% of the money collected through Currently, very few companies offer a road the fee, to provide support for on campus ready version of the electric vehicle, but renewable energy projects, according to the many commuters have chosen to modifY committee's website. internal combustion engines to accommo But Facilities and the Campus Land Use date petroleum-less driving. Committee (CLUC) might help offset the In order to get a better idea of how best cost a bit as well. Paul Smith, Director of to serve the electrical vehicle community, Facilities, indicated his interest in the proj Project PIE will be releasing a survey to ect. "It sounds reasonable," Smith says. "It gain more understanding of the campus definitely sounds like something we'd be commuting population. interested in doing." PIE's next steps include coordinating with The Energy Policy Act of 1992 provides Parking Services, CLUC and Facilites to a tax deduction of up to $100,000 to a determine the project's feasability. property containing a qualifYing electrical vehicle charging station. David Raileanu is a senior enrolled in Youngers estimates the cost of an electrical Molecule to Organism. '------. :Vlcaning: A l'celing of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one abmu the human condition or the state of the world in general . The n'Cnt~ of the recent past have proven that thi s student body has some kind of general angst. It is the purpose of this survey to define the level of priorities that students have in terms of their angst, and to design a course of action that represents the.student body as a whole in resolving the issues that students have. 4 Below arc a series of topics. Please circle the ones that mean something to you as an individual and place a number next to it that shows how important that topic when compared to your other topics with # 1 being the most imp01tant and that you want S?mething done about now before anything else. Circle as many as apply. . Classes offered Drugs on Campus __ Hypocrisy__ Black Water Free Expression __ Financial aid Privacy __ Money__ Walmart Student Involvement War in Iraq _ _ Surveillance Jobs Corp. Responsibility __ Transparent Gov. __ OPD Smoking ban __ Economy__ Anarchism Post College __ Housina 0--- Campus Safety __ Friends Democracy __ Other: ()raffiti Rights ____ _ Activism Community__ Elected Officials Other: Vandalism Applied Sci. __ Family__ Sports __ Other: Grievance Process Global Warming _ _ Violence Health Other: Grad Programs __ Bush Admin. Environment Parks and Trai Is Evaluations Suslainability _ _ Creative Writing __ Transportation __ ' Please Retum Surveys to the Box outside the CPJ office in CAB 320 (CAB 316) This Survey Paid for by a student .~ .. ~ .. ~.~!.~.. ~.. ~~.!.~.~!~~.~.~.~~! ...... : ...... ~.?.?.P..~~.. ~?.i.~t.J.?.~r.~.~~ February 28, 2008 Mlndscrean shoots your face I've had itMth these In a student film competition at the Capitol Theater by GAVIN DAHL KAOS Radio (Thursday nights at 11 p.m.), 111other f'l'*king jumpers! spinning records. Emcee Pat Costaldo of The Evergreen State College cinema-loving BuyOlympia.com will begin the presentation by ERIN RASHBAUM You betyourcliche-lovin' ass! Rachel Bilson, student organization Mind Screen is teaming at 8 p.m. of The O.C., is Millie, David's childhood up with Olympia Film Society (OFS) to bring Competitors get up to 4 minutes of new At first glance, Jumper has a lot going for crush who just happens to dream of travel a new outlet for moviemakers in the South work screened and critiqued by our judges, it: co-stars include Jamie Bell, fantastic actor ing around the world. Handy, is it not? She Sound. The first annual Shot to the Face 72- including filmmakers and local celebrities of Billy Elliott fame and the ultimate badass gets mixed up in the drama, but .adds little hour film competition screening takes place from TESC, OFS, KAOS Radio, Rainy Day, motherfucker himself, Samuel L. Jackson. more than a pretty face. If anyone happens to Saturday March 8 at the historic Capitol K Records and Cooper Point Journal. After And although I saw this movie only because I run into Miss Bilson, please tell her to eat a Theater in downtown Olympia. the screening, while the audience votes and was late for the one I'd wanted, I figured a film frickin ' cookie. The first annual Shot to the Face competi judges deliberate, a surprise musical guest with characters teleporting around the world Overall, I give the movie a "C-." The writ tion kicks off February 29, when shooting will entertain on the Capitol main stage. would be fun. No such luck. Pretty boy of the ing is just pitiful. The casting could have been begins. Participants can register in advance Pat will give awards at 11 pm and students post-worth-a-damn Star Wars series, Hayden worse, but the premise for the drama could at: [email protected] or show up at in attendance can catch the last bus at 11 :30 Christensen, takes the lead as David Rice, an not. Can't give away details, but remember the Housing Community Center on campus p.m. To find out more, or register your team, outcast who discovers that he can teleport how the end of every Scooby Doo episode at 7 p.m. Friday. Groups will receive a bag of visit www.shottotheface.org. ('jump") and does so to his heart's content. involved the removal of a scary mask, reveal Ravensbrew Coffee to help get them through Mind Screen serves Evergreen students by Then one day - uh oh - a snow-white-haired ing Old Man Something-or-other? It's nothing the intense production schedule. screening free weekly movies on campus, Samuel L. Jackson shows up. David comes to like that, but just as flimsy. Far less entertain Local filmmakers have a mere 72 hours to providing entertainment and diverse view learn from a fellow jumper, played by Bell, ing, however. Sure, people are teleporting all write, shoot, edit and submit a short movie. points as expressed through cinema arts. that there are people throughout the world over the world, there are some cool special Full guidelines are available at www.shot Because students choose all movies screened who possess this power and even more who effects and the actors are cute, but there's no totheface.org and a specific prompt will be with student fees, the organization has are trying to kill them (for the lamest reason sex or nudity, so what's the point? released this Friday. Submissions must be remained popular after more than 15 years on imaginable). Cue generic battle between good delivered in either DV or DVD format by campus. Mind Screen also strives to catalyze and evil. Erin Rashbaum is enrolled in Me and My Monday night at 7 p.m. to Old School Pizze student fi 1m making by bringing exposure But wait, what about a damsel in distress? Shadow. ria(108 Franklin StNE, Olympia). to foreign, independent, cla.Ssic and cutting Then on Saturday, March 8, we present the edge films, as well as offering students the best two hours of material at a free screen opportunity to screen our own work. lhe Birds flies high ing at the Capitol Theater (206 Fifth Ave SE, Olympia). Doors open at 7 p.m. with DJ Gavin Dahl is a senior. He is the coordina by JASON SLOTKIN interfere with humans and the gods they Ponder Monkey, co-host of Monkey Haus on tor ofMindscreen. worship. "Our economy is not a recession," said the During this scene it's easy to draw parallels WHO: Evergreen State College student group Mind Screen and Olympia Film Society • Wl:lAT· Shot to Barbarian God Dubya during the final act of between this character and other real and the Face 72-hour film competition • WHERE: Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia • WHEN: Saturday the Phrontisterion production of The Birds. fictional demagogues. Pisthetairos is a real Marr:h 8 7p.m. FREE • CONTACT· Gavin Dahl, coordinator at [email protected] x6412 The group chose Aristophanes comedy for Adenoid Hynkel. their third production. The humor of the play was diverse and The Birds is a comedy of unpunished manip consisted of transitions between grandiose KAOS 89.3 Thp 20 ulation and selfish power plays done for for physical movements, phallic jokes, Evergreen 1. VI A- Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists 12. Tumbatu Cumba- SIT personal and political gain. This stronger references, political humor, and word play. Cover Neil Young/or Charity 13. Wynton · Marsalas - Standards and theme is balanced with the irreverent scenes Like many comedies the play ends without 2. Grupo Fantasma- Comes Alive Ballads and dialogue. the character learning any lessons or suffer 3. Shabaka- The Black Loyalist 14. Anthony Gomes- Live The club chose David Barrett's english ing any questions. And there's also a dance 4. Gamelan X - Satu 15. VI A - Droppin' Science 5. Cat Power- Jukebox 16. The Better Beatles - Mercy Beat translation of the play, with the third act pulled number. 6. Omar Sosa - Afreecanos 17. Sebastien Tellier- Sexuality from another translation. The character gets everything he wanted to 7. Salvador Santana Band- SSB 18. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down Comical anachronisms such as a tough talk achieve through manipulation and from what 8. V/A - Putumayo Presents: Latin -We Brave Bee Stings and All ing Hercules, a trench coat-clad Prometheus one of the members of the Phrontisterion Reggae 19. Lee "Scratch" Perr - Chicken and the aforementioned God Dubya dotted informs me is called "political hubris." 9. Eddie Clearwater - West Side Strut Scratch the play. 10. Sahra Indio- Change 20. 20. Karl Blau -Am One of the most memorable scenes of the Jason Slatkin is a junior enrolled in a .Jour 11. Albert Collins - Live at Montreux play is the grand speech the protagonist gives nalism Internship with the CPJ. 1992 ~NICKI SABALU to lure the birds into forming a city that would WHO WILL BE THE NEXT EDITOR IN _/~~ CHIEF? )~ ~ "( The Cooper Point Journal is recruiting for the 2008-09 editor in chief from . now until 5 p.m., Friday, April4. Prior experience with the Cooper Point Journal is preferred, but not required. For more information stop into the All are encouraged to apply. office, CAB 316, call 360.867. .6213, or email [email protected]. applications onli evergreen.edu/c INTERNATIONAL Thursday February 28, 2008 Tuesday M~rch 4, 2008 ALICE ROTHCHILD Jewish American Physician, Activist and author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams will be giving a lecture on Jewish and Palestinian. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FEST SING-OFF Trauma and Resilience. Semll C1107. Kimya Dawson 12p.m. Lecture Hall 1. 8p.m. Monday March 3, 2008 NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL Join us for an evening of Immigration and Customs Enforcemt'nt Raid Resistance. Guest presenters Rosalinda Guillen Olga Solano from Community to Community with special guests Las Margaritas Longhouse Cedar Room. 6p.m. Community to Community- Comunidad a Comunidad p-.,~~~---~------Empowering people and .. respecting the land that sustains EMI KOYAMA "INTERSEX CRTIQUES" them. We come together with reverence and respect to build Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice slut social justice movements. We are grounded in the belief that synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, '1\nother world is not only sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, possible, she is on her way. On as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of a quiet day, we can hear her who she is, all impacted her life. Emi is currently the breathing." -Arundhati Roy director of Intersex Initiative. Emi lives in Portland, Community to Community Oregon and is putting the emi back in feminism Development is a women since 1975. Email Emi at [email protected]. led, place based, grassroots SEM II C1107. 6 p.m. organization working for a just society and healthy communities. We are committed to systemic Wednesday March 5, ~008 change and to creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global movements towards social, WRITING WORKSHOP economic and t'nvironmental 2:30-4:30 p.m. To register, please contact Women of L!=::~===::;.ii.'-'IJ justice. Color Coalition at [email protected] Evening Lecture on militarism and feminism- Las Margaritas The Histone Parallels of Rape and Combat Trauma. In response to the impacts of harsh enforcement of immigration law on their families, a group of women came together in September of 2006 to find ways to provide for the needs of their children. They looked within themselves to bring out the best in each of them and offered each other their favorite dishes as comfort. They quickly decided that one of the best ways to earn money to pay for their children's health care, immigration court ((My identity hG! everythi'}g to do with my writing and my identi!J has legal fees, and rent was by nothing to do With m) wntmg. Both o£ these are absolute!:)! true. It can cooking their hearts out. be hard to charactenze something as Jtrab-American literature," because there is a wide spectrum of beliefs, values and attitudes that comes through in the cultural work we dO. I like to talk about positive, larger trends in our communiry as a whole. " -Joanna Kadi · WOMEN'S WEEK Thursday March 6, 2008 Monday March 10,2008 TIBETAN UPRISING DAY Join us Monday, March l 0, in the 49th commemoration of Tibetan Uprising Day, observed by Tibetans around the world in honor of the March I 0, 1959, the first clay of a two-week long protest and standoff by 300,000 Tibetans against the Communist Chinese occupation. We will be screening From Bhod To Bharat ("From Tibet To India"), a 25 minute film made in 2006 by Tenzin Mingyur Palclron, an Evergreen student, about the journey through India's Tibetan settlements. This short will be followed by Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, a I 05 minute / documentary covering Tibetan history and the significance of the ''SHE ISM'' colonization of Tibet on the rest of the world. Lecture Hall 2 Christa Bell is an award-winning feminist folk poet, performance artist, 6p.m. and cultural activist from. Her work is an act of resistance towards the international corporately-sanctioned attack on women in mainstream hip-hop and mass media. As a spoken-word artist, poet and monologist Bell has created a body of Sat and Sun, March 15 & 16 work that is both a cultural insurgency and spintual-political revival in celebration of the gospel accordmg to women. Longhouse. 6-9p.m. Saturday March 8, 2008 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!!! WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN CAPOEIRA ANGOLA Capoeira Angola is a Afro-Brazilian art form- a fluid rhythmic martial art, a ritual, a dance of deceptive vu lnerability, wit and grace. The intricate movements of CapoeiraAngola weave African tradition, history, spirituality, and philosophy, into a uniquely beautiful "game." Come check it out! Come support families who have been affected by ICE raids-help provide food and comfort for those member of our community whose families Capoeira Angola Demonstration have been torn apart due to inhumane immigration policies. Red Square Carpool leaving from Harrison and Division at l 0:00 a.m. 1-1:30 p.m. SPONSORED BY: WOMEN OF COLOR COALITION (WOCC), Women'·s Resource Center (WRC) Students Educating Students About the Middle East (SESAME), Movimiento Estudiant1i Chicano de Aztlan MECh~ Committee in Solidari!y for the Peo_12le of El Salvador (CISPES), coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV), Capoe1ra Angola, Colonialism and Decolinization L 10 ~ l ETTERS & OPINIONS Cooper Pointjournal ...... ' February 2R, 2008 li VI~ I< G l(Jj'Ji.i\ll)(J I-~ I Cli A personal reflection I have just done the unspeakable: I a slap on the hand. I had a friend who :···············································································································································································: have submitted an article to the CPJ was caught with enough marijuana to a compelling reason for wanting to remain anonymously. To take that even further produce a felony in the state of Wash EXPLANATION for anonymous. I will play the sympathy card and let the ington. This friend, although kicked out reader know that I am the woman who of housing, was not even put through the ANONYMITY 2. The information in the article must provide was sexually assaulted in U Building in court systems. Can you appreciate the pertinent information and/or provide a The CPJ rarely prints anonymous submissions. October. magnitude of this? Our campus officers substantial contribution to the issue being This article is an exception. The real reason, of course, is not to are lenient, to say the least. discussed. There are two tests that we at the CPJ apply tell you this for sympathy but rather to Of course most Evergreen students to whether or not an article can be printed This article meets both of those criteria. explain to you better why I feel the way I do recognize and appreciate this. Their anonymously: do about police presence on campus. issues are more with an individual officer Please direct any questions to cpj@evergreen. Most importantly, I think, is that we and have come from specific experiences. :...... need to remember that our campus police I recognize this but I think it's important ~:.::~~.~~~.~~~.~~~~.~~~.~.~.~.~~.~.~.~ ~.~~~~·~·i·~·~·~·~~~ ~9.~ ~ officers are not Olympia or Thurston to re-examine our pol ice force before to the Mods, is one of the most genuine, who specifically chose Evergreen for County officers and, again I believe, condemning them. understanding and adamant individuals I its helpful, cooperative ideals and its they would never agree with the events The officer who performed the arrest on have ever met. very community based way of life. The that took place at the Port of Olympia February 14, known to me for my time The night I was sexually assaulted majority of them are liberal, negotiable protests. officer Perez was the first to respond. and understanding. You only need have a Furthermore police presence on WE AS "GREENERS" Believe me, that situation was almost conversation with them to realize this. campus is regulated by state laws. There ' unbearable for me. To have to describe Instead of dramatizing events and blow has been much talk about removing the NEED TO TEACH an incident that just took place which ing things out of proportion I feel that the police presence from campus which is had so much emotion in it and which had student body needs to discuss its issues all fair and right if that is your belief but OURSELVES THESE me still shaking with fear and ... well, the with campus police and help them to that is a matter for legislator and should point is that Officer Perez handled that understand where we are coming from. not be taken to the administration here at IDEALS WE DEMAND THE situation with amazing care. Not only We, as "Greeners" need to teach Evergreen. Also, the result of removing was he attentive to my individual needs, ourselves these ideals we demand the campus police from Evergreen would be POLICE FORCE HAVE respectful and comforting, but he also police force have. Lets be realistic, having deputies and sheriffs of Thurston made sure to note very important things police enforce laws, and if you don't County responding to calls on campus here as simply April, is one of the most that, if I was without now, I might not follow them no officer is going to let you and partaking in walk throughs. proactive, liberal, understanding police have any hope in catching anyone ever. get away with it. Yet I feel it is more than Not only does that present the issue of officers and- in my opinion- one of Now, almost five months later, although that. stricter officers and harsher punishments the least I ikely to ever commit an act of all these officers are working on other In order to create peace in a commu but there is a longer response time in racism. things and continuing their very busy nity where a delicate balance of neces cases of, let's say, sexual assault. Officer Pamela Garland, a sexual lives, they continue to check up on me, sary change and upholding the law is in By stricter officers I mean exactly that. assault spec ia I ist, is another exam pie of escort me to work and struggle to help constant confrontation we must remem Most students who have lived on campus a kind, genuine woman who is an excel me catch the bastard who assau Ited me. ber what so many have grown to learn have violated their contracts in some lent resource for all persons on campus Despite what people may say about in the past. Violence begets violence, way or another and the large percentages dealing with a sexual assault related Police Services they are not a group intolerance begets intolerance and fear of that were violations through Police issue. Even officer Tony Perez, whose of racist, sexist, gang-mentality indi and hate. well, they just plain fuck every Services and never received more than name is publicly slandered from A Dorm viduals. They are a group of people thing up. Waters around the time of the arson. The does not know exactly where she was in Olympia and at large. On March 30, 2006, FBI's stories are not concurrent. Stan on March 21, but that she was probably Briana Waters is a key target in what Briana Waters, a resi islaus Meyerhoff, himself an admitted asleep in her home. activists have labeled the Green Scare, dent of Oakland, Cali central figure in the Earth Liberation Recently, on February II, 2008, her a neo-McCarthyist scenario in which fornia, was indicted Front who met with William Rodgers trial began. However, for the past few the government has taken aggressive for the alleged partici about the arson, was shown a photo of years, the case has garnered its share measures to combat radical environ pation in an arson Waters in an FBI interview in March of neutral to negative publicity and mentalism. Briana Waters is one of 18 to the University of '---'----"-""IlL..__.__-' 2006 and claimed she looked familiar but flamboyant stories in the media. In fact, people that have been indicted in the Washington Center for Urban Horticul was not involved. Robert Bloom, Waters' shortly after Briana was indicted former Pacific Northwest alone between 1996 ture in 200 I. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and 2001 for property crimes against The FBI have accused five people of BRIANA WATERS IS proclaimed her guilty. One initial action threats to animals or the environment. the March 21 arson. Waters' trial is by the prosecution was the moving of She is the only one to continue to profess largely based on the testimony of two of A KEY TARGET IN the trial. Proceedings were moved by a her innocence, and the only one to be the five, Jen Kolar and Lacy Phillabaum, superseding decision from the location of brought to trial for the UW arson. Many who decided to testify against Briana WHAT ACTIVISTS HAVE the incident in Seattle, Washington to the of the accused have received terrorism Waters in order to drastically reduce more conservative Tacoma, Washington, enhancements. Accordingly, on May I 0, their sentences. Briana's alleged role in LABELED THE GREEN in the courtroom of Judge Burgess. 2006, Washington issued a superseding the arson was the lookout. The prosecu In late December, the defense filed indictment adding a destructive device tion also accuses her of renting a car to SCARE, A NEO-MCCAR a motion that the FBI concealed and charge (18 USC § 924(c)) to Waters' transport the group of five from 0 lym pia tampered information and falsified at indictment, which carries a 30-year to Seattle and back. THYIST SCENARIO IN least one report from their original FBI minimum sentence. Besides that, she is The combined statements and testi "302" reports, therefore submitting a being charged with arson and conspiracy mony of Kolar and Phillabaum have WHICH THE GOVERN- doctored presentation. Waters' attorneys to commit arson. created a foggy scene. For one, in an used Jen Kolar's shaky statement as The events of the Briana Waters case FBI interview conducted on December MENT HAS TAKEN part of their argument, claiming that the are very significant. Fundamentally, 16, 2005, Kolar identified four others FBI both submitted a different and more Waters' attorney Robert Bloom does not besides herself: "Crazy Dan," "Capi AGGRESSIVE MEASURES specific report and that they withheld believe the prosecution's case establishes tal Hill Girl," Capital Hill Girl's Punk information from the defense. On Janu guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt". Boyfriend, and William Rodgers. A few TO COMBAT RADICAL ary 7, Judge Burgess denied the motion. Briana's trial is ongoing and is sched weeks of interrogation would pass before Burgess has also ruled that the defense uled to be over in early March. Proceed she remembered another, Briana Waters. ENVIRONMENTALISM may not present an expert testifying that ings are being held at the Federal Court Also during her interrogation, Jen Kolar the device used in the arson was not a House in Tacoma, Washington. There never mentioned Briana Waters and Lacy defense attorney, has discredited both bomb. This severely hurts Briana's will also be a benefit held for Briana Phillabaum together. In fact, Jen Kolar Kolar and Phillabaum. "Each of these defense against the 30-year destructive Waters on Friday, February 29 at 7:00 never mentioned Phillabaum in any people was facing mandatory minimum device enhancement. pm in the Eagle's Ballroom (805 4th ave) accounts of the arson. of35 years. They have a very high incen Briana Waters' proposed sentence with several bands and a silent auction. Now the prosecution's story is that the tive that they please." He said. length is extremely harsh. It is evident arson was committed by Briana Waters, At the time of the arson, Briana Waters that not only is she being punished for Cory Ratajczak is a student enrolled in Lacy Phillabaum, William Rodgers, Jen was near the end of her studies at the not consenting to a plea deal, but that she Looking Backward. www.evergreen.edu/ cpj LETTERS Br OPINIONS ~ 11 "j~"i;~~~·~--2ii: · ;;;(i"ii"""•••• • •• • • •• •• • • • • • • • ••• ••• •• o• O•oo o ooo o oo• • •• • •••• • •••• • • ••••• •• •• ••• •• • •• •• • •••• •• ••• •• •••• • •• • •••• •• •• • •••••••••• ••••• ••••• • •••• • •••••••••••••••• • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • •• •••• ••• •••••••••••• •••••••••••••• •••••••••• ••••••••• •• ••••••••••••••••••••• •••••• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••o•••o•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••o••• •••••••••••••••• oo•••••o•o• ••o o•••• •• •••• The I was wrong ... by CASEY JAYWORK enforces racism in our community." This is a provocative articulation of a some dangers of Oops what larger concern: validly or not, lots of I suppose it's fitting Greeners view the police as more or less that, covering an event Orwellian. as rife with regrets and On the other hand-fascist that I am-my poor judgment as the origin~! article for last week proclaimed, dehumanization V-Day riot, I should "Hatred masquerading as justice is a share some of my own. powerful unifying agent. Seeing a white My op-ed last week unfairly portrayed cop arrest a black man Thursday night, ~y JONATHAN ATWOOD sort of violent campaign against the police, authorities as conspiring to "mislead" the faux-revolutionaries used it to allevi but it's certainly a slippery slope to start public about the riot; there are questions ate their self-conscious whiteness and It seems like I can 't go a week on this down. Racism, ethnic violence, homopho about the information provided to the wealth." campus without seeing -_ __,.. DL1 bia and political radicalism have all used public, but it's far from clear that we were something that I feel this so11 of dehumanization to justify any subjected to purposeful "fraud." Mythology compelled to write number of unjustifiable actions against other I also repeated a mistake from the port There are two stories being told here. In about. This time around, human beings, just to name a few examples. protest last year, in which I lumped nonvio what we might call the Loyalist version, I was just walking into History shows us that when we start treating lent protestors and rioters together, by fail the police are agents of a valid democratic work when I saw a flier any faction or group of people as less than ing to differentiate between specific police government, who professionally responded someone had posted human, disasters tend to ensue. agencies. There is no evidence I'm aware as best they could to the unlawful block about how you should never talk to the police, Conflict, violence and hate can all have their of to suggest that Evergreen police seri ading of a lone officer by self-righteous because they're only going to use what you roots in this kind of attitude towards those we ously mishandled the riot, except perhaps trustafarians. In the Rebel version, a tell them to ruin sonteone's life. Now, the flier don't like or don't agree with. by a lack of inter-agency organization. corrupt gang working for an oppressive itself only iiTitated me; in my mind that sort What really frightens me is that I see the state unnecessarily attacked peaceful civil of claim is so ridiculously untrue it's almost beginnings of a lot of that kind of thought OPD Response disobedients, who responded with direct not wo11h mentioning. here at Evergreen. I see it in the graffiti on Like many students, I' m skeptical about action. In Travis Greer's words: "The Any student of logic will tell you that a our walls and in the constant conflicts with the overall handling of the riot- videos cops retreated completely, the area was universal statement like "all cops ruin lives'" authority we keep having. released over the past week imply that the completely liberated, the prisoner freed." becomes false as soon as you meet even one I see it in the riot the other week, and in how (This statement is of dubious accuracy.) cop who doesn 't ruin lives. It's just a bad many people jump to conclusions about all THERE IS NO argument. But like I said, that's not what manner of things without seeming to take the From the Anti-Police Rally really bothers me. time to fonnulate anything but a knee-jerk EVIDENCE I'M AWARE I'llleave you with the comments of some What disturbs me is the attitude behind reaction. Its destroying the very environment protestors from Wednesday's anti-police broad-brush statements like that. I'm well we're trying to create here at Evergreen: one OF TO SUGGEST rally, shouted at the entrance of police aware that there's a seductive quality to that of open thought and constructive action, a services (which ignored them), since they kind of claim. It changes the world into black place where we can learn how to change the THAT EVERGREEN seem a lot more confident in their own and white, into "we" and "they." It makes world for the better. views than I am. things simple and unambiguous. It makes it so We have to keep mind that in a few years or POLICE SERIOUSLY "Racism doesn't mean intent. Racism is that we don't have to consider the people we decades we are the ones who are going to be an action." disagree with one of"us." They become not called on to lead our world, and we are going MISHANDLED THE "All community forums on this thus far to be the ones that decide what we want our have been publicity stunts." HISTORY SHOWS world to look like. To me, it feels like for all RIOT, EXCEPT "Get off your high-horse, you fucking that we say we want to change, we're taking white, privileged piece of shit." -To me, 1..JS THAT WHEN WE the same road as those who came before us, PERHAPS BY A LACK responding to a question about racism & one of division and conflict. intent. START TREATING Once more, the sins of the father are being OF INTER-AGENCY "The reason it's racism, is one black passed down to the sons. Personally, I'm not person out of ten people was arrested, is ANY FACTION OR sure our world can survive another genera ORGANIZATION because it's ingrained racism in someone's tion of that sort of destruction. mind. They say, 'Who was among the GROUP OF PEOPLE AS We here at Evergreen need to be better than OPD's use of force exacerbated the situa fight? Oh, some people and that black guy. this. I believe we can be better than this! It's tion rather than de-escalating it, essentially Oh, let's arrest him."' LESS THAN HUMAN, not easy, I know. I fall into the same traps all lighting a powder-keg. "We have members of our community the time, especially when things like the riot Yet considering that a fellow officer was who are posing as our friends with a gun DISASTERS TEND or these fliers come up. It's so natural to just trapped inside a potentially dangerous on their belt. That's ridiculous." think that it's just ·'dumb kids" or ''idiot revo crowd, their actions appear less brutish. "Have you ever had the shit kicked out TO ENSUE lutionaries." But it's only by avoiding that "Were (OPD) a little forceful? I think of you by a cop? ... Then shut the fuck up." sort of mental trap, by making the effort to rightfully so," p~lice director Ed Sorger - To me. a group of people, but almost a sort of thing, see through the eyes of the other side, that we told me. "They didn't have much choice." "Do you know the history of police something Other, even something monstrous. can end the conflicts between us. It's only by Really, we should be asking ourselves, on this campus? Do you know that they Police stop being people, and start being admitting that those we disagree with might "Why was the powder-keg in the first ignored that women get raped on this "fascist pigs." Liberals stop being holders have a valid point or two, that we can begin place?'' campus, and that racism happens, and that of legitimate political viewpoints, and start to heal the rifts between our various groups. nobody does anything about it? Do you being "unpatriotic crackpots". (Of course, the We have a responsibility to make this change, Theories of Action know? Really!? ... This police service has same can be said of conservatives, substitut not just for ourselves, but for our sons and An underlying venue of contention in a history that goes beyond racism, sexism, ing "imperialistic" for "unpatriotic.") daughters in the future. this argument of police vs. rioter culpa okay? And, like, homophobia." It's this kind of tactic that has been used for Anything else feels like madness. bility involves conflicting groundwork millenia to justify all manner of atrocities assumptions about society and authority. Casey Jaywork is a student at The Ever against groups of people. I'm not saying that Jonathan Atwood is a student at The Ever According to Oly SDS, "The police are an green State College. Fee/free to email him the posters of that flier were advocating some green State College. occupying force that brings violence and at hurch9030_yahoo.com. applications online:, I ' /· WHO WILL BE THE NEXT evergreen.edu/cpj EDITOR IN ·cHIEF? see page 7 for more detail I I ·J 12 ~ LETTERS & OPINIONS Cooper Point journal ...... Februarr 28, 2008 When a news organization fails at its obliga tions so completely as the CPJ has in covering H-Day Dead Prez the most important story of the past year, it is the responsibility of the public to launch a f?y ERIC MAPES itly acknowledged that no audible order Coverage policy of reform within said news organization, to disperse was given before clubs and or to dissolve the organization and create a new It's clear from the capsicum were used, a fact confirmed by DearCPJ, one that will fulfill its obligations to the general events of February the video. That's not just unprofessional, . While I am quite familiar public. If the Cooper Point Journal remains 15 that Geoducks are it's illegal and the media and administra- with the operating stan incapable of fulfilling its journalistic duties, not so different from tion have a responsibility to say so. dards of your organiza then we here at Evergreen will find a replace Huskies or Cougars. I fully agree with Mr. Jaywork that tion, I was stunned by the ment that can. Large groups of the footage "casts serious doubt upon near-total absence of solid -or...:____:::~- angry young people the reliability of police and administra- news reporting about the ~PAUL GOODFELLOW can quickly turn destructive regardless of tion statements regarding the incident." Dead Prez riot. Where are your journalistic their animal mascots. Further eyewitness testimony casts even standards? Where are the interviews with the Paul Goodfellow is a student at The Evergreen UW and WSU have their fraternity more doubt. Police forces always call Geoduck Union and members of the Hip-Hop State College. riots, and now we have something simi- their use of force justified, no matter how Congress? Where are the statements from lar. Sure, the cause was a perceived racial egregious. By now, more skepticism witnesses to the riot, participants in the riot, and injustice rather than drunken rage, the is clearly warranted. Yet Evergreen's police involved in the ensuing aftermath? Most only lasting injuries were some bruised administration took the cops' story at importantly, where are the interviews with Army Ad ribs and a hyper extended elbow, and face value, and even opened the public members of the campus administration? Where many onlookers actually tried to stop the forum regarding these events by thank is the one on one interview with President Les rampage. Still, do not construe anything ing the police for their actions! Puree discussing the repercussions of the riot Revisited below as condoning They then added on campus security? When the school news the vandals' point- THE STUDENTS insult to injury. paper is handed the biggest story of the entire As I understand it, the US less destruction. When the cops year and the best that is put forward is one full Army, a government insti With that INVOLVED ARE CLEARLY decided to release length article and a handful of other semi-full tution, wished to pay the disclaimer out of the the misdemeanor length articles, the Cooper Point Journal has newspaper of The Ever way, the students NOT THE ONLY ONES suspect (couldn't failed its obligations as a news organization to green State College, an involved are clearly they have done that provide accurate and responsible coverage to aspect of another govern- L...... - ...... c,,_ not the only ones WHO NEED TO DO SOME before resorting to the students of the campus. While entertaining, ment institution, for advertising. who need to do force?) and leave, two pages of op-ed pieces do not make up for a Instead of using this opportunity to take some learning. If we LEARNING. IF WE HOLD one of their cruis near-complete lack of factual information. funding from an institution that's engaged in hold them, barely of ers was stuck in the I know that these sentiments may be unpopu an action a vast majority of the student body age, to a higher stan THEM, BARELY OF AGE, mud and another lar, to say the least. I also understand that by disapproves of(the Iraq war, in case it's slipped dard, then to what wouldn't start. The submitting this letter I am placing myself your mind in the wake of the vastly more standard should TO A HIGHER STAN- capsicum-enraged in a position to come under public scrutiny. important overturning of a police car) and put we hold the police, crowd pelted them However, I feel that above everything else, we it into one we approve of, (The Evergreen State the media, and the DARD, THEN TO WHAT with debris while here at Evergreen deserve better journalistic College, in case it's slipped your mind, again irf administration? they extricated the coverage than the two front page articles that the wake of the vastly more important. .. etc.) They are suppos STANDARD SHOULD one, and they were were published. Not only did the attention we told the military not to fund us. edly the mature, forced to abandon of the local press fall upon us, but that of the So now, instead of advertising to a demo trained profes- WE HOLD THE POUCE, the (improperly Associated Press, a renowned, international graphic that's supermajority anti-war radical sionals respon- maintained) other. news provider. When dealing with an event of ized white-privilege-laden middle class and sible for keeping THE MEDIA, AND THE Despite recently this magnitude, the Cooper Point Journal has a largely unreceptive to their message, the the community safe pleading poverty responsibility to provide complete and balanced military can take that same money and spend and well-informed. ADMINISTRATION? when they denied coverage for both the student body and the rest it in publications more widely read by under How about the three displaced ofthe general public in Olympia, not to mention educated minority youths in economically event security personnel? They were Iraqi students assistance, the administra the rest of the state of Washington. depressed areas. There is an old maxim that most directly responsible for keeping the tion immediately promised to foot the The Dead Prez riot has shown the worst should have been applied here: never interrupt peace at the concert, and had the clearest Keystone Kops' bill. Are police cars not possible face of Evergreen to the rest of the your enemy when he is making a mistake. understanding of the audience. insured against vandalism? state, and the Cooper Point Journal's coverage The CPJ's misguided attempt at assuming a My partner and I attended the concert, Though not a college employee, I has failed to show our best face in response. moral stance, (encouraged by some unthinking accompanying two teenaged friends. happen to work in the same building as It is this newspaper's responsibility to give students) has only helped the military optimize The girls witnessed the original scuffle the oft-misnamed Evergreen vice presi total coverage to the event, instead of giving its recruitment spending. firsthand . It was a minor incident, last dent who arrives with the S. W.A.T. team , us journalistic lip service and following up As long as they don't mind running advertise ing about a minute. Competent security long after the crowd dispersed, in the with two pages of Op-Ed pieces. Op-Ed, while ments alongside an endless stream of smart and people would not have escalated it student union video. an important part of any news organization, sophisticated anti-war articles, I would have further. Were they really so myopic as to One morning last week I attempted is not nearly as important as complete news the military subsidize the CPJ as heavily as be blind to the potential consequences of to politely discuss these issues in my coverage of an event, especially one of such possible. In the future, if the military wants to police involvement? They certainly did co-worker's office. Without listening to far-reaching implications. When facing a situ buy an ad for next week's paper, don't turn up no favor to their hip-hop community. what I was saying, he immediately began ation as unclear and multi-sided as the riot, your nose and clinch your sphincter; instead, Sure enough, when officer Meyevs shouting at me and pounding his fist on opinion matters little compared to solid fact. I ask them if they'd consider buying two. arrested one of the few people of color the desk. During the tirade, one of the want to be able to pick up the newspaper and I am of the opinion that the only possible in attendance, some members of the V.P. 's staffers came in, not to participate know that I am going to get the fullest possible reason not to run military ads after giving the audience reacted angrily. Being familiar or ask my irate co-worker to calm down, understanding of the events that affect me on whole issue some sustained analysis would with police crowd control techniques, but to thank him for his 0' Reilly-style campus, not merely a basic overview of what's be if you believe the cultural and educational we decided to take our young neighbors outburst! Perhaps because her husband been going on. For example, in this author's background Evergreen provides us with is so home, and did not witness the ensuing works in law enforcement, she seems opinion, a story on bio-diesel production seems weak and ineffectual that the student body is events. determined to willfully ignore critical rather insignificant compared to a full scale riot dangerously open to subversion from the appar From the first, I considered the police opinions. on campus. ently overwhelming propaganda power of the account in the Olympian implausible. I hope her attitude is not representa Newspapers are a place to gain a solid under occasional full page ad. And if that's the case, But with a video camera in every cell tive of her colleagues. In the interests standing of the events and happenings that we need to seriously rethink a lot more than the phone these days, you wouldn't expect of public safety (remember when Police impact the readership, and nothing so impacted advertising policy of our student newspaper. them to lie about it. Services was so called?) we need to the readership than the riot. There are places After carefully watching the video honestly examine the actions of all those to voice opinions and then there are places to ~ DAVID DUNCAN released by the student union, however, I involved with a spirit of reconciliation. voice the facts. The CPJ is the place to voice have to agree for once with the Journal's Threatening youths with ten-year prison the facts first and foremost. Voicing opinions David Duncan is a student at The Evergreen preeminent right winger, Casey Jaywork, sentences, urging their classmates to should always come second. State College. that the police "aggressively initiat[ed] rat them out, and then condoning the non-lethal violence against an agitated wrongdoing of the powerful will only but nonviolent crowd," contrary to widen the divide between students and assurances that they exercised utmost the authorities. For the people. By the people. restraint. Their ill-conceived attack was The so indiscriminate that, by her own admis Eric Mapes graduated from The Ever We always welcome submissions of any kind, from opinion sion, the Evergreen police officer whom green State College in 1998. He currently pieces to in-depth news coverage of recent campus events. the deputies were allegedly assisting was lives in Olympia and teaches English to CPJ Come to CAB 316 or email it to [email protected] herself pepper sprayed! She also implic- foreign students. ,.! www.evergreen.edu/cpj SPORTS~ 13 ·························································-········ ...... February 28, 2008 Geoduck from cover assists and four steals. David Howard finished with 18 points, lead. But the Eagles made one final push, Nick Moore delivered 13 points and two men soar whitt ling the lead to I 0 with seven minutes huge blocks, and Michael Ward adding left to play. 12. The 'Ducks stopped the run ice cold, Now that the fellas have advanced to over Eagles pushing the lead back to 15. The lead again the next round, here is what the future fell, this time to 13 with a minute and half holds: on Saturday, the team will travel to left to play. It was here that the David Oregon Tech to play the #2 seeded Owls. to advance Howard Slam Dunk contest commenced, If the 'Ducks win that game, they will with Howard first breaking away for a either travel to #I seed Eastern Oregon, to semis two-handed jam off a turnover. or host the #4 seed, Warner Pacific here at Less than 15 seconds later, Howard was the Greenhouse, depending the winner of on the receiving end of an alley-oop that that match-up on Saturday. brought the entire gym off their feet. Should the 'Ducks beat the winner of the Within another 20-second span, Howard EOU/WP game they would not only be the took off from the middle of the key to conference champs, but they would also deliver his third dunk of the night, and go on to represent the Cascade conference bringing "nah-nah-nah-nah," and "semi in the NAJA Division II National Champi final" chants from the crowd. onship Tournament. As the final buzzer sounded, the mighty Interesting and exciting times nowadays Green Machine had the game wrapped up, in Evergreen's basketball world. Here's to 93-78. the Green Machine. Star guard Nate Menefee put together an MVP-type game, scoring a season high Zach Licht is a .fi"eshman enrolled in 111:1.1 :-:ll.l ~1.1:-: BELIN Ill\ ~11\N 'DUCKS BOX-OUT FOR THE REBOUND 34 points, while adding six boards, five Looking Backward. NICK MOORE TAKES TO THE AIR 1 t .. ,'1. . ' t J .t ·1. .'f •) Votes top women of Everg to end season ~Y ZACH LICHT though C of I scored seven unanswered to the lead on a Kristi Auckland field goal, 75- C of I would attempt 12 more and make end the half, the 'Ducks were still firmly in 74. However, with both teams struggling 8, and fouls, where the girls committed II In what has been roller coaster of a season control. from the field and the game on the line, free more. for the Evergreen Geoducks, the ride came But as the second half started, the women throw shooting became critical down the Jennifer Solberg would score a team high to a close last Tuesday in Idaho, as the girls came out ice cold from the field, shooting stretch. And it was here where Evergreen of 19 points, and grab II rebounds in what fell to the College of Idaho by three, 75-78 only 34%. They were still sharp defensively would lose the game. would be her final game in an Evergreen in the first round of the playoffs. however, holding C of I to 33% shooting During the last minute of the game, Idaho uniform. Rosalind Lee added 15 and Kristi The last time these two teams met, Ever- while only allowing two total 3-pointers. made four free throws while Evergreen Auckland would chip in 14. green pulled a shocker at home, winning 79- Showing their resolve and experience, the made none, taking a 78-75 lead. Thank you girls for an awesome season. 71 in a close game. With this game coming Yotes pulled into a tie at 52 with nearly 14 With three seconds left, Jennifer Solberg You have been a great example ofhard work into view as the regular season ended, both minutes left to play. The game would never launched a desperation three that would've and dedication. Thank you from the entire teams were battle-tested and ready to go. exceed a lead of three on either side, as the sent the game into overtime, but missed, CPJ staffand students. Despite a two game losing streak, the girls two teams would battle it out till the very ending both the game and the season. came out of the gates with all engines blaz- end Every statistic in the game favored the Zach Licht is a freshman enrolled in ing. taking a quick I 0-6 lead, with Rosalind With that minute left, the women reclaimed Geoducks except for the free throws, where Loo_king Backward. Lee scoring the first eight. Jn Jact. through the first half. the women • in green would never trail, leading by as · many as 13 points. What was amazing was the shooting, as the girls shot a season high 60% Ji·ol)lthe field in the first half. And even ~a Books 0/ympid'l Large1t Independent Bookstore New Books 10% off with Current College 10 We Buy Books Everyday! 509 E 4th Ave 352-0123 Mon-Sat 10-9, Sun 11-6 orca(l'orcabooks.com THE LAW OFFICES OF SHARON CHIRICHILLO, P.S. 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Jake's on 4th , 3 11 4th Ave. Floor Pit, 4 to 6 p.m. Muslim chaplain and captain for the Flaming Eggplant CA B 108, 4 to 6 p.m. United States Army, stationed at the The Pasties concert & potluck With Student Video Garners Alliance Terrordactyls, Yes 0 Yes and Redbear. $5. March 5, Wednesday Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Hear Mr. CAB TV Lounge 3rd floor, 6 to 9 p.m. Yee speak about his book For God and 8 p.m. 1502 Legion Way SE. Women of Color Coalition Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Gateways for Incarcerated Youth CAB 206, 4 to 5 p.m. Fire and his unique experiences dealing All ages show With June Madrona, Sara doughnut fund raiser Gateways invites with the "War on Terror" and Guanta Lankutis, Agent Ribbons, The Nextdoor Evergreen staff and faculty to support WEDNESDAYS Amnesty International Neighbors. $5. 7 p.m . ABC !louse, 105 their work by purchasing Krispy Kreme namo Bay. 6 p.m. Lecture Hall I. CAB 320, 12:30 p.Jn . Doughnuts at $8 a dozen. All proceeds Sherman St. ATF Appearing Task Force on Kimya Dawson will positively play will go towards tuition and books for Anti-Oppression CAB 320, I p.m. guitar, come sing along. 8 p.m. Lecture incarcerated youth at Maple Lane and Bike Shop 2 p.m. Hall I. March 2, Sunday Green Hill. Last year Gateways spent Chemistry Club LAB II 2207, I p.m. over $10,000 on books and tuition. EARN Evergreen Animal Right Network Vegan Potluck Please submit your orders to Haley Queerfest Olympia at Jake's on 4th CAB 320, 5:30p.m. February 29, Friday Featuring queer bands and solo artists Lowe, Gateways program manager, at Evergreen Hillel CAB 320, 3 p.m . from across the country for four nights of [email protected] or at the Gate Evergreen Pre-Health Society Your Life Online 2.0 workshop. queer music! March 2 through 5. 7 p.m. ways office in Scm II, E2129. SEM II A3107, 12:30 to 2 p.m. What's out there and how to use it. 2 to Jake's on 4th, 311 4th Ave. Evergreen Wilderness Adventure GroupSEM IIA3105, I p.m. 3 p.m. Mac Lounge, Computer Center. Writing workshop with Jo Kadi Gaming Guild CAB 320, 5:30p.m. Themes: queer and working class Olympia Port Militarization meeting Geoduck Union SEM II Black History Month movie night To encourage participation of all activ identity & Arab feminisms. 3 p.m. The CII07, I to3p.m. Come watch an important film on black ists committed to diverse styles of direct Writing Center. GRAS Giant Robot Appreciation history month and enjoy some free non-violent civil resistance and to join in Society Anime Screening CAB 3rd Floor TV lounge, 5 p.m. dessert and discussion. Open to the regional planning strategies. PM R expects Working with pedals and bottom Hip Hop Congress Library to see movement of the Fifth Combat brackets Does your bike make crunch public. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. HCC. Proper Room 3303, 4 to 5 p.m . Stryker Brigade this spring from Fort ing, creaking, or squeaking noises when MEChA CAB 320, 4:30 p.m. Alice in Dragland The dance kicks Lewis to Iraq through a port in the greater you pedal? This could possibly be due to Musicians Club CAB 320, I :30 p.m. off at 7! Drag show at 8! Larry Milton Puget Sound area. 4:30 p.m. Olympia issues with your bottom bracket. Come SESAME Students Educating gets his funny on! More dancing to the Free School, 610 Columbia St. learn about what a bottom bracket even Students about the Middle is and how to fix one when it's impaired. East, SEM II E2107, I p.m . sweat sounds of OJ Goonie! Only $3 at SESAME Iraqi Student the door. Sales from refreshments will 3 p.m . Cab Rm 0 II , Bike shop. Committee, SEM II E2107 3:15p.m. benefit the Evergreen Crew Team. 7 March 3, Monday SDS Students for a Democratic Society ! p.m. to I I :55 p.m. Scm II C 1107. Wet Wednesday at Mud Bay: CAB 320, Solarium, 6 to 8 p.m. Palestine education project A series Randall Point Join People For Puget Umoja CAB 320 3rd Floor Pit, 2 to 3 p.m. Shabbatluck What will happen? No of participatory workshops for students Sound and the Capitol Land Trust at Women's Resource Center the Randall restoration site on Mud Bay one will know for 3 years (it's a leap interested in Palestine solidarity work CAB 320, I :30 p.m. year). Vegetarian-style potluck. 6:59. including planning educational events, on Eld Inlet. Plant a few plants, spread Writers' Guild LIB 2130 K207. supporting those traveling to the region some mulch, pick up some trash and Writing Center, 4 p.m. and learning how to talk about the conft ict. knock back the invasives. 10 a.m. to 3 THURSDAYS Hip Hop Congress debrief 3 p.m. 5:30p.m. Scm II, E2107. p.m. Call or e-mail Dan Grosboll (360)- 754-9177, [email protected]. Common Bread Lecture Hall I. Longhouse I 002, 5 to 8 p.m. Resisting immigration & customs Sabot lnfosquat Library enforcement detention centers work Cop watch meeting Watch cops. 6:30 Proper Room 3303, 4 p.m. March 1, Saturday shop Longhouse community gather p.m. Sem II,AI107. Generation Friends SEM ing and immigration teach-in. 6 p.m . II CII05 6 to 8 p.m. VOX CAB 320, Solarium, 5 to 6 p.m. South Sound Saturday at East Bay Longhouse. The Land & the Spirit: Why We All Care About Israel. A six part course Event hosted by People for Puget SATURDAYS Sound. Mulch and plant native shrubs Open gym basketball Every Monday. 8 with Rabbi Cheski Hosted by Evergreen Capoeira COM 209, in an urban waterfront. in Olympia. Over p.m. to 10 p.m. CRC Gymnasium. Hillel. 6:30p.m. Scm II, A2107. 12 :30 to 3:30p.m. time, the plan is to create a fringing salt marsh that will provide habitat for a Queerfest Olympia at Jake's on 4th Jo Kadi on feminism and militarism diversity of species. 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