The INDEPENDENT Volume III, Number 4 The University of Washington Tacoma Campus Student Newspaper March/April, 1995 Writing Center Adapts New Hours Fit Student s Needs Here's how it works: a writer can Jon T. Scott contact the WC - either from the Independent Staff Reporter Computer Center or at home with a modem - through email at In a continuing effort to meet U WTWRITE® U.Washington.Edu the needs of UWT students, of with questions about his/her work. UWT students, the Writing Cen­ Through email, the writer trans­ ter has restructured its hours for mits a partial or full rough draft the Spring quarter. Additionally, in an paper that s/he would like ad­ effort designed to provide students dressed. Between the hours of 1:00 a more consistent service, the WC and 4:00 p.m. on Sundays, these hours will be identical throughout questions will be answered imme­ the week and all business will take diately. If a writer submits a draft place in 715 Perkins. The WC will after 4:00 p.m., then his/her ques­ be open Monday through Thurs­ tions will be answered by 9:00 day with the following schedule: p.m. 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m., 2:00-4:30 If anyone has any questions p.m., and 6:00-7:00 p.m. about the WC's hours or opera­ On Sundays, writers can receive tions, please stop by or call Beth feedback via use of the On-Line Kalikoffin 715 Perkins (552441 7), WC. Immediate feedback will be or email questions and suggestions Nazi or Roman? Student Council member at large Stacy Redding prepares to convene his offered from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. to UWTWRITE followers. Photo by Jon T. Scott ©U.WASHINGTON.EDU.

SEX, SPORT, OR EXPLOI­ TATION? The annual con­ troversy over the Sports Il­ jp*'^ tt^^ lustrated swimsuit edition Student Goveminent Work Slow \, was revisited with its publi­ cation last month. Though ASUWT Should Work Harder on Activities, Information SI'S pictures are no more graphic than those that can Hornback, Sherry Sloan, Sandy here? They did do two ice cream be found in Cosmopolitan, NariK Craypo Lazaroff, and Marlene Jolly. All of socials and one pizza night, the mm Vogue, or any of a host of major publications, the Managing Editor these positions are voted on by the second pizza night was by Stacy magazines opponents in­ student body. These positions also Redding. Where are the activities sist the issues is demean­ What does the student govern­ come with a salary for the year, and information for the students? ing to women. Read one ment of a university do? What are from $300 to $600+ a quarter The vice president of information man's opinion on Page 6. they supposed to do? What are depending on the job. does do a regular letter for The they? These are some questions The student government sets Independent. Paul Hornback did Photo by Jon T. Scott that 1 have heard around campus up the activities and services that the artistry on the masthead for JH '^I from students and business people. the students, faculty and staff think the paper, which looks excellent. Model: Tammy Loa The Associated Students of the we need. They take information Sandy Lazaroff is very active with University of Washington Tacoma gained from student proposals to the nursing program and does the have a smaller group governing help guide where the students want Health Corner articles. All ofthis them. The ASUWT consists of their money to go. There has been is good work and 1 am not knock­ S & ACommittee agenda slow eight positions; president, vice a Student Committee for Perma­ ing what they have done, but what proposal, costing $2,750 per quar­ president - finance, vice president - nent Campus Design put together is the rest of the student govern­ Katherine Kolody ter, would maintain Rawlings' po­ information, and five board mem­ to help plan the new student cen­ ment doing? As I look at the Independent Staff Writer sition as the part-time executive bers at large. ter, a child care facility, and many Daily, 1 see many activities, ser­ director of the Center. This pro­ The President is Sam White. other facilities and services for the vices and places to go sponsored The Student Service and Activity posal was tabled until the S and A The Vice President of Finance is students and community. by the ASUW. 1 would like to see Fees Committee met on February Fees Committee's financial review Linda Womack. The Vice Presi­ 1 look at Tacoma Community the ASUWT student government 27 to discuss one new proposal. is complete. dent of Information is Linda Cook. College and the student govern­ get more involved with the stu­ Janette Rawlings proposed the con­ The S and A Fees Committee There are five Board Members at ment there does lots of activities for dents and community in a more tinuation ofthe Center for the Study Large: Stacy Redding, Paul the students. What have we seen visible way. _, Please see 'S&A 'page 2 of Community and Societ '. The fit II11IIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIII illtiiltilflllill •--:.:;- The Independent March / April, 1995

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CON­ additional 10 words is $.50. (206) 552 - 4429 have the information. e t e t.e e.t.e e.e tL » t .e, t. March / April, 1995 The Independent Important Times Founders A Letter From ASUWT Coming Up for Endowment VP of Information Well, Spring quarter is here and it's time to think about Fund Accepting Applications next year's student government. We will be holding elec­ UW Tacoma tions in early May, so now is the time to think about running The Founders' Endowment Fund Committee is for office if you'll be attending UWT next year. A lot of things ASUWT Govemment Elections soliciting applications for the final round of funding have been going on. We are getting ready for the ground The next couple of months will be interesting for the UW during this academic year. Application forms will be breaking ofthe permanent campus in May. Your student Tacoma. We will be electing an entire new student govern­ available from March 1st until April 1st in the library government is working on a student Union, supporting the ment. Each position will be voted on by the students. These and in 501 TSB. Film Society, helping search for a permanent Dean, and positions are of reasonably great importance because ofthe Completed applications must be submitted to the • developing a strategic plan for the University. Student development of the permanent campus and the integration Dean's Office by April 3rd. Government offers a unique opportunity to get involved ofthe U W Tacoma students into the community around the Ifyou will be applying for funding, PLEASE READ with the building of a future community. The student permanent campus. They will decide whether the existing THE ENTIRE APPLICATION FORM CAREFULLY government is a great place to sferve and make a dtffetence. business community will provide the services that may be AND COMPLETELY. Several ofthe guidelines have The main office of the student government is president, needed or ifthe ASUWT government will want to do that changed. a role demanding responsibility and opportunity. Ifyou like business for the students. There will be many issues sur­ ^ See below for highlights of important criteria for to motivate people, coordinate activities, and get things rounding the permanent campus that the student leaders funding. Ask a committee member for clarification if done, then this may be the job for you. There are t\yo vice will have a say in. you have questions about any aspect of the application president positions: one involves gathering assisting and The student government will have to set the standard for process. substituting for the president, and the other is a very dealings with the community and its leaders. We will have - Individuals funded during the current biennium are important position that includes finances and the S &. A to choose the people that we want to represent us in the not eligible to submit new proposals until the next committee. There are three member-at-large positions to be dealings with the community. What form of government do biennium. elected in the spring and then three more in the-fall (to we want to have in place to make decisions for now and the - Proposals may be partially or fully funded* based on the ^accommodate nursing and education students). These mem- future regarding the students of UW Tacoma. The current availability of funds...... '.'••--• "Z-'''.' /Befs do projects and serve on facility committees. These and new student leaders need input of all kinds from - Student international travel is now, a specific category positions are paid because there are duties and time require­ students and community leaders so that they can lead the of funding. ments that warrant salaries. 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At our last board meeting, we discussed the process with Of the sixteen applicat;jions submitted last fall, the ?!nf3'5'? which students, faculty, or staff could come to the board with following projects were chosen for funding: a request for services. To ask for assistance in a project or Quiet, mature, social concern, scheduling a speaker, etc., the board needs young couple avail­ - Deborah Beals, Jamy Kingsbury, and Lea Ann Russell able for 6 month, to a written proposal with a brief description of what is being for EAGLES: Culturally Based Health Education for 2 year commitment asked for and why the student government should support Native American Youth in the Thurston, the idea. There should also be a budget and a contact person Pierce, and So - Anthony D'Costa for clarification and response. The proposal does not need King county areas Industrial Maturity and Restructuring of the South to be lengthy or complicated, just clear and concise. 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BSU President Andrea Hardaman serving punch at the closing banquet March / April, 1995 The Independent

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order in which men call the ferent 1992 picture - which ing patent leather shoes and erable imaginations to devel­ Jon T. Scott shots and women submit with­ shows a model eating a white socks (Dali did unique oping solutions for issues that Independent Columnist out protest. He claimed the popsicle as another model ap­ things with his art). One needs are truly damaging. message Time Warner (Si's proaches on a motorcycle - not have the capacity for brain The catch word that is tossed The Sports Illustrated p^^^^^ company) sends with Leo finds the popsicle to be surgery to recognize the photog­ about like some puritanical Swimsuit Edition was con graphically rapher sought to compose the baseball is EXPLOITATION. spicuously placed in its H. V. " phallic and he models attire to fit the setting, This begs the question: who is own cardboard display envisions an­ rather than allude to child porn being exploited? Could it be rack at newsstands every­ other SI shot imagery. the models who receive several where last month, and so with an oral And what of the charges of thousand dollars a day to shoot began the annual firestorm sex and lesbian lesbianism? Oral sex? Pornogra­ pictures at exotic locations? I of controversy that inevita­ ^^^mrnF^-Wt^ ^^^^^^^^•j^BK^***^ j^^^K <>'M^B|B|^U^^^HLV voyeur theme. phy? This is the sick product of don't think so. Are all women bly accompanies its publi­ These desperate people who have re­ somehow subjected to an un­ cation. Indeed, it is diffi­ egregious cri­ pressed their own sexuality to reasonable standard of beauty cult to determine who most ^^^^^^^^HjHHPI^^ #^^2^||HF ^ tiques are the point where they see a moral by the wide spread promulga­ looks forward to this issue clearly steeped conspiracy in every facet of natu­ tion of these photographs? This - hormonally challenged in arrogance ral human desire. Their critiques theory assumes that women's 1 3 year old boys who comb and overzealous are self serving justifications for self perceptions are governed tfiVough its pages with ^K^m^t SA morality. As their self-appointed promotions entirely by media images. The sweaty fingers and wide, John Leo and to the Pedestal of Purity where women I know possess a great greedy eyes, or the fanatic ^^^^Hl^^*^^! his fanatical co­ they wallow in their godly egos deal more independence and supporters of radical horts froth un­ and cast their condescending self worth than this theory al­ women's rights who view controllably in gazes of judgement down upon lows. That would be like me any exposed skin as the their moral ra­ the hedonistic masses. The only breaking into uncontrollable foundation of exploitation bidity, one has thing more ludicrous than their sobs of self hatred every time I and victimhood, and thus, to wonder: how fantasy-as-fact proclamations is see Lucky Vandross pop open find the swimsuit issue an did they become their own misguided perception a Diet Coke or Fabio shake annual rallying point to be­ back his golden locks as the moan the evils of a male sun glistens off his rippled Model: Tammy Loa dominated culture. Both muscles. Admiration? Yes. groups provide the maga­ Photos by Jon T. Scott Envy? Perhaps. A prototypi­ zine with a pious follow­ this publication is: Women so immersed in cal model of who I should be ing. The difference, of course, Are Property. this erotic con­ if I am to obtain value as is that while the 1 3 year olds These flaying criticisms, spiracy theory? human being? Hell no. Ex­ privately enjoy the pictures, while ebullient and more I've viewed the ploitation occurs in the fac­ the fanatics flop publicly about imaginative than any 13 year SI swimsuit edi­ tories of third world coun­ in a feeding frenzy of self- old's fantasies, are actually tion for a num­ tries, not in the pages of SI. righteous indignation. The re- Sex and beauty sell tame when compared with ber of years and magazines. The pictures spons^ e of the teenager^ s seems othe^«.u.»r, ,,;^..,».^;^»viewpointso . Uecilin^^;\;^a 1 have inevita­ found in just one issue of far more genuine. Blewer of Women Against bly failed to find SI are no more graphic The crux of the criticism Pornography, claims that the visions of child than pictures found in ev­ for SI originates from the SI swimsuit edition brings pornography ery issue of Cosmopolitan, swimsuit edition's departure the pornographic culture and dead Vogue, or any other major from the usual theme of the into (America's) homes. As woman dancing women's publication. The magazine. SI is, after all, a an example, Blewer cited a through its cash cow of beauty is be­ magazine for and about 1991 SI photograph which pages. I have hind most ofthe advertise­ sports. Its opponents argue showed a model floating in a seen beautiful ments in any visual media. that a swimsuit layout is a pool with her head back and women and The SI swimsuit edition ^gros s departur^ e from the stan- „..„eye„s close^i^„».d4 „.an, d4 claime^i„:.„„d^ tha-k^..;.t it . clever photogra­ costs an extra buck and dard fare. They describe the was a conventional hard-core phy; I have still outsells regular SI edi­ swimsuit issue as soft porn shot ofa dead or unconscious been stirred to tions by 50%. For SI, it's that ought to be sold in plain admire and de­ woman. John Leo, in a 1993 just a matter of good busi­ brown wrappers. The mod­ sire. And this US News and World Reports ness. For Si's customers, els are slanderously described may be the root article, seriously stated that its just a matter of good as empty headed, smiling, air of their fanati­ photographs taken of models photography. So whether the brushed mannequins who cal opposition: their views are posed on their hands and that they are the standard bear­ swimsuit edition affects envy, live only to be commanded projected through a lens which knees are imagery of lower ers for morality. Perhaps they worship, sex, lust, or money, by photographers, editors, shades all allusions to sexuality mammals in heat. Ofa 1992 became so bored trying to allevi­ its difficult to imagine any and anyone else who will pick as bad, even evil. In the photo­ picture that displayed a model ate the traditional ills of society real damage being done to up their tab. Frank Rich graph of the model sitting on sitting on a desk in the Dali such as hunger and poverty, that anyone. Unfortunately, It's wrote, in a 1994 New York ^^^^^^ j^ Spain, Leo finds Dali's desk wearing patent they manufactured a cause not difficult at all to hear the Times article, that the pic- ^^ "unmistakable image of leather shoes and white socks, celebre that was a bit more glam­ whining ofthe perversely self tures are not even sexy. Their ^^.^^^ ^^^^•' because the model for example, Leo failed to men­ orous than the standard fare. It righteous. In the words of true allure derives from their j^ rearing white socks and tion that, strange as it may would be far more productive if the Eagles: Get Over It. implicit celebration of the old p^^^^^ i^^^^er shoes. In a dif- sound, the desk was also wear- they would refocus their consid­ March / April, 1995 The Independent Valentines Day blues § out of my purse and throwing them YOUR HEALTH i| Tammy Lynn Loa at me with disgust. 1 was ruinous Independent Staff Writer with what she was saying. 1 got up and sadly said, lets go, I really have CORNER February 14th is a holiday usu­ heard enough. 1 thought that maybe ally shared with your loved one. she would change her mind after we A Valentine From the Cardiac Comer k It's the day that you both exchange started shopping and seeing others candy, stuffed animals, cards, hugs purchase cards, candy, and gifts. and kisses. Most people will spend We arrived at the Hallmark sue injury can be more painful 2. Pad the hard object with time with their special homeslice. store and pursued our lonely mis­ Nissy Beech, RN than a fracture and most soft soft material like a sheet or Others will be at the local bar by sion. We went into store to buy her Special to the independent tissue injuries take 6 months to shirt. themselves getting wasted (like Jon soolled loved one a VD card. heal, some may take upto a year. 3. Tie the padded splint to Scott, for example). Other people What a mess! People of all sizes, Basketball, baseball and Basic first aid for suspected the injured limb. It should be who are alone, like me, look for ages and sex were scattering, push­ spring training, soccer; the sports fractures is helpful in preventing tied snugly, but not so tight as other ways to spend the day. Even ing and angrily placing cards back season, along with all its injuries, greater damage. If the victim is to constrict the blood flow. diough I knew and ACCEPTED on the shelf I broke out in a cold is now upon us. But what kind of unarousable initiate CPR routine 4. Every now and then check the fact that I would be alone for sweat and my eyes widened. Look injuries do we find related to and know your ABC's. Do not the circulation of the injured Valentine's Day (otherwise known at this place, where is the joyous sports, and more importantly, move the victim. If you have to limb, i.e. if the arm is splinted, as VD), I was excited to go shop­ spirit and love that is supposed to what do we do about them while move the victim, immobilize the check the fingers for tempera­ ping with my girlfriend. accompany this romantic occasion? we're waiting for the doctor. injured limb. If you suspect a ture, color, and sensation. If the I went over to my oh girl Tisha, why is everyone so dis­ Fractures and sprains are com­ neck or spine injury DO NOT fingers are cold, blue, and/or Tisha's house to pick her up so traught - is it because they waited mon injuries seen in this season. MOVE the victim until the head, numb - the splint should be loos­ we could go shopping for the until the last day to do their shop­ What's the difference? neck, and back are immobilized. ened. special, overrated, nationally

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The Other state universities and special state of California not only has Why doesn't UWT have a Stu­ interest groups have Legislative large universities and commu­ dent Legislative Representative in Reps in Olympia and they are not nity colleges, but local four year Olympia to lobby and espouse our espousing the need of branch cam­ colleges. Washington State offers common interest? The Seattle pus or twigs at distant locals to education to the wealthy or conve­ campus's student government has make an education available to the niently located student. This will a legislative rep in order to keep larger portion ofthe state's popu­ not serve future students or our their presence and needs before lace. economy in the near future. Fi­ the different bodies of the legisla­ One example of a loss we al­ nancial aide is going to continue tive branch of our state. It is this ready have is the need for the to shrink and the need for stu­ important branch of government funding of our second phase to dents to live at home will increase. which appropriates the funds that accommodate our growing stu­ Assessable higher education is created and now nourish our dent body. This construction going to become a bigger need in branch campus. We exist and grow money was not in the Governor's the future. as they are willing to fund us and budget according to The News Someone must espouse the be­ we should be there standing up for Tribune on Tuesday, March 14, lief in branch campus's to the our own interest. Now I know we 1995. According to this article if legislature for proper growth to are here and are getting the ben­ Phase 2 is not funded during this occur. Perhaps the upcoming stu­ efits of what has happened before. years session it could not be built dent government could add the What about the needs coming up until at least the year 2000. The position of Legislative Rep. or for us later, for example, graduate need for our campus is bigger hire someone for the position. programs that are somewhat af­ than expected and Phase 1 is This could be achieved if action is fordable. What about the children behind schedule already. We taken. The action will take place now in secondary schools who will need Phase 2 to be built before when people get involved enough need to attend upper division more of the baby boomer's chil­ in the life of their community to schools near their homes. Can dren need higher education. The make a difference. The Barber of Seville Celebrate Leadership Luncheon Tacoma Opera for the English speaking UWT Students Honored at PLU Luncheon that like great art that is easily tired PLU political science pro­ make....[Parents] need to pro­ Linda Cook assessable there is the Tacoma Katherine Kolody fessor who has led leadership vide their kids with more than Independent Staff Writer Opera in American English ready Independent Staff Writer workshops for Tacoma's [just] things. Smith claimed for us to enjoy. They will be having businesspeopie since 1977. that lots of...problems come It may surprise some but only two operas this coming year On Monday, April 3, Sutherland announced a schol­ from parents not being home. Tacoma has its own opera com­ The Barber of Seville is Bubbling Tacoma's Chamber of Com­ arship program founded in Saying further that, We're pany, which is appropriately called with freshness and charm, joyous merce and Pacific Lutheran Schiller's name, recognizing 1 7 missing each other. the Tacoma Opera. One of their melodies and laughter, but the University sponsored a lead­ years of thank -you's to John policies 1 especially enjoy is that all rumor 1 heard was that it was very ership luncheon. Among Schiller. ON THE INSIDE their operas are in English. Though funny. Romeo and Juliet is, of those in attendance from Harry Smith, co-anchor ofthe I may be showing my lack of cul­ course, a tragic story of young love UWT were staff members CBS morning show, This CALENDAR 2 ture, 1 must confess that 1 do not and family feuds. Rebecca Gallogly and Steven Morning , was the guest speaker CAMPUS know German or Italian well They just finished this years sea­ Smith, and students Jesse for the luncheon. His speech INFORMATION 2 enough to understand plots or get son, but are now selling season tick­ Torres, Iris Finch, Mark was centered on the negative ef­ CROSSWORD 12 the jokes. In fact, 1 only know a ets for the 95 - 96 season which they Craypo, Katherine Kolody, fects that television's media can ASUWT little German from high school. In call A Season of Laughter &. Tears. and Andrea Hardamen. produce in people. He said, 1 INFORMATION 3 a drama class years ago 1 was told The upcoming season begins in Doug Sutherland, member think we live in a culture of YOUR HEALTH that one should read a play such as October and they are now selling ofthe Chamber of Commerce, want—[We are always aware) of CORNER 11 a Shakespeare or a foreign opera student tickets for $7.50 for the last gave the opening speech en­ what we need more and less of. OPINIONS 8 before going in order to under­ three rows in the upper balcony of titled Celebrate Leadership . He also spoke about parenting, POETRY 12 stand the plot, but 1 don't really the Pantages Theater. For more in­ In his speech, Sutherland hon­ stating that grown-up humans want to do that. So for those of us formation call (206) 627 - 7789. ored Dr. John Schiller, a re­ have...decisions to TOUCH & GO 10 li The Independent IVIarch / April, 1995

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Aiarch / April, 1995 The Independent Student Services Info Our student A letter from the Please do notbringyour ffovemment ^ ^^ information 1995 - 96 student aid re­ needs^ to be more visible and and govemance port (SAR) here. We accessible to students to show ASUWT elections in May, what we are paying for anybody interested? now receive your SAR Does the average student know what their student Well, it is Spring Quarter already and ASUWT elections government is supposed to do? Did you know that the are upon us. 1 hope you've seen the signs and notices. We infomiation and correc­ student government positions are paid and that we pay will be electing a complete new board. If you have any them $300 to $700 dollars per quarter, depending on the leadership skills and care about what happens here at UW position. 1 have seen several events and they worked hard Tacoma, then please consider running for an office. It is a tions electronically and to get them to happen. I would like to see more out of our great opportunity to help shape the future ofthe school here student government because of the amount that we pay in the South Puget Sound Region. Any of the positions can no longer need a paper them. 1 understand that this is almost the end ofthe year, be interesting and serve an important function at UWT. but there are still things that could be done, like having a Many don't realize, I am sure, that this school wants student copy. brown bag lunch, or other event in the commons or down representatives on most all their committees. President Sam at Firemans' Park or some place like that. I think that we White is currendy on the Dean search committee. Mark need to see more from our student government. Craypo is working with the committee to hire the new Psychology Professor, and 1 am on the strategic planning Also, do not bring 1995 On the other hand, the student government needs to committee. This is ground breaking territory and an exciting see support for and against what they are or are not doing. opportunity for those willing to come forward. The deadline They don't seem to know what you (the students) want. - 96 verification docu­ for applications is April 21, 1995, see Rebecca Gallogly for They need to know what would be interesting and fun to applications. The candidate speakers night is April 26th and N have happen. Please take at least a limited interest about 27th at 6:45 p.m. in the Perkins Building Commons. The ments here unless re­ what is going on and write a note, not a book, to the student election is the first week in May. government or The Independent. They will listen to you quested. We no longer and take note of what you have to say to them. 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I am especially interested in two when we need docu­ how these people did not like the content and pictures of new organizations I've heard of The first is a Pacific Islander the last issue. Understanding that most of us do not have / Asian organization and the second is an organization to the time to really be very active in school, 1 think that there promote International Business on campus and the region. ments from you. should be more than 3% or 4% ofthe student body active If there are any more possibilities please let us know about in the student government. If you want help or need you. Please see a Financial information please call the student organization office or How many have contacted the Endowment Committee to better yet leave a written message so that we can help you. get funds for the China Study Trip with Dr. Mary Hanneman Please let the student government and organizations know this summer? 1 know a few smart people did - good luck. If Aid Counselor if you what you want to happen. you missed this year don't forget to check out the possibilities for next year. have any questions. By Mark Craypo Managing Editor By Linda Cook VP of Information and Governance Thank You. Email: [email protected] (carson) The Independent is looking for a few The INDEPENDENT Crossword puzzle courtesy of USA good staffers staff Are you dependable, motivated, and hard Today, copyright 1995. Reporters: Tammy Loa working? The Independent is looking for Managing Editor, Mark Craypo Business IManager, Jon T. Scott Elisabeth Howard individuals to help put together our student Mark Craypo Stacy Redding newspaper. Faculty Adviser, Dr. Mike Sean Banks We need writers, photographers, editors, SmSQElBnQCDEDDQDOm Allen Karla Swanson advertising assistants and any other people Staff Adviser, Beth Kalikoff Photographer: Jenny Williams interested in helping. 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sionally in his profile shots, woman and her child waiting for some wonderful views of pany into insolvency. Karia Stover and the lights had to be soft­ for her husband's return from Tatoosh range. The building was converted Special to the Independent ened. Indoor shooting finally a prospecting trip. When he A Yukon town street scene into a ballroom, and then one began at 11:00 am and went on returns he is murdered and his was set up at the studio and J. night in August 1932 two men In 1952 H. C. Weaver Pro­ all day. The outdoor shots were money stolen. Reduced to beg­ Smith Bennet remembers that were seen leaving the premises. ductions Inc. Transferred its later done at Kapowsin. ging the wife sits in front of a the buildings were all fronts Shortly after, flames shot out of business offices and activities The movie was about a suc­ totem pole by which "all eyes supported by braces in the rear, the structure. The caretaker and to Tacoma. On 5 3/4 acres of cessful lumber business Old must pass sooner or later." and that icicles were made of his wife barely escaped the fire land across the street from Man Pond had built, but which Everyone in Tacoma not cotton dipped in melted paraf­ which destroyed all their be­ where Titlow Pool is today a had declined drastically while working, and some who should fin. longings including their car. movie studio was built in a his son and heir, Larry, was have been" turned out to watch Other memories of these Cars lined both sides of 6th building big enough to allow away at college. Larry learns of the filming, and at the end of movies include the Winthrop Avenue for more than a mile as three or four companies to work a contract, that if filled, will the day Wanda Harley had six Hotel's crystal ballroom made upwards of 1,000 people simultaneously. The facility in­ save the business. The villain copper pennies in her beggar's up as a cabaret, the tables filled watched a fire department, cluded dressing rooms, a pro­ tries to force him out. Loyal cup. My Dear Daughter,' she with locals, and the hotel's fa­ handicapped by a lack of fire jection room, kleig lights, and employees step in to help. A said to co-star Anne Cornwall, cade used as the exterior of a plugs, battle the blaze. In the the feature most important in logging train's race to get the I'm afraid this won't send you Chinese Garden. end, all was destroyed. enticing other companies to use timber to the mill while coping very far through school." In May 1927 H. C. Weaver After the fire. General James the Tacoma facility, a develop­ with burnt bridges, loggers Raw Country was next. Anne announced that the three mov­ M. Ashton, legal representa­ ing laboratory. Four motion pic­ made intentionally drunk, and Cornwall was back, and so was ies would be released through tive for the Weaver concern, tures were contracted for. Hol­ a giant fir across the tracks end John Bowers, but the real star out the country by Pathe. Raw said the films had never been lywood had come to Tacoma! the movie. Larry marries the was a team of sled dogs who Country was distributed in the marketed. Researcher Brian Hearts and Fists was the first banker's daughter and the vil­ had raced diphtheria antitoxin east under the name In the Kamens of the Tacoma Public movie made, and Tacomans lain is foiled. serum to Nome in 1925. The Heart of the Yukon so no one Library's Northwest room tried were agog. Star John Bowers The movie premiered at the movie was their story. would get the impression that it to locate copies, but many of had recently appeared with Rialto Theater, and for the first The outdoor action was was one of the usual wild west­ the old nitrate-based negatives Clara Bow in Empty Hearts, time a picture of the mountain filmed around Paradise Inn, erns." failed to survive, these three and Marguerite de la Motte with and the words Made in Longmire and Narada Falls, Alas for H. C. Weaver, and included. Only the memories Douglas Fairbanks in The Tacoma flashed on a motion and while filming a blizzard for Tacoma, 1927 was the year of people like J. Smith Bennett Three Musketeers. Shooting picture screen. caught the cast unprepared. Al Jolson made The Jazz Singer, remain to herald a time de­ was set to begin at 9:00 am and The Totem Pole Beggar was They admitted to their fear, but the first talkie, and talkies led scribed locally as A Great Civic Bowers, at least, appeared on next, but the title was changed breaks in the clouds allowed the inadequately equipped com­ Event." time fully made up. But there to Eyes of the Totem after a were problems to be sorted out. psychological study" decided it The dozens of arc lights and would be more effective. The All Positions Available kleighs required two hours of movie stared Wanda Hawley, additional adjusting. 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these questions we have to look tempt to justify another round of Movement. Volk, however, does an attachment to a land. The eu­ Robert D. Levy past the most commonly held be­ pogroms (short, violent attacks on not just simply mean people. In genics movement and racial Special to the Independent lief most ofus may have learned in Jewish settlements designed to German it has an emotional conno­ theory, with its division of only high school or college history purge unwanted elements or sim­ tation that specifically attaches a two PURE races, had couched the Editor's note: courses, and we have to look at ply to blow off some steam) in the people or race to a particular land. Jews in terms ofa disease that was This is a two part report with some of the underlying principles early twentieth century (1 apologize In this case, the Germans were capable of contaminating the other part one appearing here and that built-up and led to the Na­ if 1 seem to be jumping around, but rooted in the land or soil of Ger­ pure race - the Aryans; and it was part two appearing in the next tional Socialist phenomenon in much like my subject - some things many, and this was in itself a reason only a matter of time before the issue of The Independent post-war Germany. The founda­ just don't go in order). The book for having a great deal of pride. In eugenics movement would turn tions ofthe Shoah are jointly shared imagined a worldwide attempt by no other way possible, this move­ toward taking action to fulfill its April 27, 1995 is Yom Ha- by two separate and divergent ele­ the Jews to take over control ofthe ment swept up the German nation destiny and inhibit the spread of Shoah, the Day of Remembrance ments: the traditional history of world! Maybe this sounds like a in a wave of Germanism and an unwanted race. for the victims and survivors ofthe anti-Semitism, and the moderniza­ specifically directed attack against created a unified country. While Socially and culturally, Ger­ Holocaust. Fifty years ago, this year, tion of Germany during the turn of swelling Bolshevik ranks in Rus­ this was an emotional reaction to many was facing a building crisis the world ended the most destruc­ the century. sia, and it was. Unfortunately, how­ modernity, let's not forget that this around the turn of the century. tive assault against man's human­ Of these, anti-Semitism requires ever, the attack was directed specifi­ was a skillfully manipulated action The Fatherland, clearly, had prob­ ity ever perpetrated. This crime is little explanation. Expect to say that cally against the Jews. This theory by the traditional powerbrokers (the lems coming to terms with the what we have come to call the in Germany, anti-Semitism was of world domination by the Jews land owning classes and the aristoc­ modern world, and what could Holocaust, or in Hebrew: Ha- both a scapegoat mechanism and and the combination ofthe Blood racy) to maintain political power have helped save her was not avail­ Shoah (literally, ritual slaughter). the result of over two hundred Libel found receptive ears all over during the modernization of Ger­ able - the Enlightenment. Unlike This systematic and methodical years of persecution following the the world - and of course in Ger­ many, other European countries, Ger­ attempt to literally erase a portion Great Reformation. Martin Luther many. The newly emerging classes of many never really embraced the of humanity from the face of the had even attempted to court the German anti-Semitism goes industrial society were swept into fullness of the Enlightenment - earth seems almost impossible and Jews to follow his path and join beyond the world domination plot this movement of Pan-Germanism good, bad, or indifferent it just unbelievable to us today. How him as he struck out on his own and the Blood Libel, but these easily. Traditional values and mo­ didn't really happen in Germany. could this have happened? And away from the Roman Catholic elements combined into a turn- of­ res of Germany were incorporated The sense of equality and egalitari- more importantly, how could oth­ Church. When the Jews failed to the- century German ideology that to fit into what the pre-industrial anism that made up the core ofthe ers have let this happen (even join his movement, Luther became would serve as the intellectual and predominately rural German Enlightenment was never present amongst the Jews themselves)? one of the most vitriolic critics of origins ofthe Nazis. Key to under­ population already believed. Along in Germany. So, coming into the These are questions that you will Judaism, and he likewise encour­ standing what made the Nazis pos­ with this emerging form of national­ modern world Germany was hin­ have to answer on your own, but I aged his followers to begin a path sible is understanding the unique­ ism, of course, came an inherent dered by its older ideas and coping would like the opportunity to share of persecution against the Jews that ness of Germany around the turn belief in superiority. This mixed mechanisms (social, political, and with you some of what 1 have would last until today. Luther's ofthe century. To begin with, Ger­ with developing social sciences in economic). As the industrial learned about the Shoah and the opposition against the Jews was many (as such) had just recently Germany to form their eugenics worker and bourgeoisie were events leading up to it. hardly needed to encourage a mass been united into a country in 1871, movement. Eugenics is the study of slowly beginning to be empow­ The roots for the Shoah go back of reprisals and general discrimina­ and by the 1890s, Germany was improving human beings through ered in Germany, this lack of as far as anti-Semitism goes, that is tion. The Roman Catholic Church just beginning to industrialize - or genetic controls - a sort of Social equality presented a problem. almost two thousand years. Of had founded a whole ministry of to modernize. Both these changes Darwinism meets Dr. Frankenstein. How could Germany (or more course, anti-Semitism, as such, did hatred against all nonbelievers sent dramatic shockwaves through The end result was the categoriza­ specifically the traditional not exist yet; it was a nineteenth and particularly the Jews as the German society on a variety of tion of races according to Germany. powerbrokers) rally around mod­ century phrase designed to cover Christ Killers. This epithet re­ levels. There were only two PURE races: ernization? Hopefully, 1 have up less scientific names such as: mained with the Jews until the Politically, Germany was orga­ the Aryans (Germans, although shown how Germany attempted Jew hatred; Jew killing; and so on. 1960s! nized under a monarch -the Kaiser everyone claimed Aryan ancestry to cope with this dilemma in its Raul Hilberg, recognized as the Medieval notions of the Jews (Emperor) - and a national legisla­ even the English); and the Jews. Volkische Movement and the eu­ preeminent Holocaust scholar, were further enhanced by such ture - the Reichstag. The legisla­ While this is not the first time that genics movement converging to summed up this history best by wonderful ideas as the Crusades ture, however, until the First World the Jews were classified as a race, it form a Pan-Germanism that com­ saying: The missionaries of Chris­ and the Inquisition, which pre­ War was merely a rubber stamp for was a significant development in bined a unique form of national tianity had said in effect: You have date Luther, but surely gave him a the will of the Chancellor or the adapting some left-over baggage of pride and at the same time a con­ no right to live among us as Jews. historical basis for his actions. Also, Kaiser. Modernization, however, anti-Semitism into a modern form. tempt for the Jews. The secular rulers who followed out ofthe medieval world came the created two new distinct classes: Afterall, it was scientific. Wasn't it? Incidentally, around this time had proclaimed: You have no right idea ofthe Blood Libel. This was the industrial bourgeoisie and the Now, the Volkische Movement the Jews, of course, served as the to live among us. The Nazis at last an invention depicting the Jews as industrial workers. Both of these and the theories of race collided in scapegoats for all failures in the decreed: You have no right to live. veritable monsters who required new classes were not figured into a modern Germany attempting to German economy and social de­ This transformation was a slow the blood of innocent (usually the German political equation, but come to terms with its modernity. cay. They were THE cause for and logical process. What had be­ young boys or girls - as they are with their growing numbers - they The Volkische Movement placed a everything, and this was based on gun as a means of converting Jews more pure) to perform a variety of had to be accounted for. This was great deal of emphasis on land, and traditional forms of anti-Semitism to the Church had ended in the religious rituals. Again, this was accomplished in a very simple and a people's relation to that land; and combined with the new knowl­ methodical elimination of Euro­ great fodder for Luther's program eloquent rnanner: the country was the theory of racial superiority had edge that there was a Jewish plan pean Jewry. against the Jews. Incidentally, if realigned along its historical and created a hierarchy of race, with the to take over the world (The Proto­ But many countries and parts of any of this sounds familiar, it cultural background. Germans naturally on the top. cols). In the early part ofthe twen­ the world have experienced bouts should. Even today there are people Now, that doesn't sound like Where these converging philoso­ tieth century these beliefs culmi­ of anti-Semitism (especially the and groups who will swear up and much to us today, but what it phies met was on the Jewish Ques­ nated in the Great War. Following Russian pogroms), but only Ger­ down about the Blood Libel. meant to Germans in the last part tion. Both dealt with the Jews in the collapse of Germany after the many seems to have attempted to More Important to my analysis of of the nineteenth and early twenti­ slightly different but similar ways. First World War, someone had to commit genocide (a word coined, the Shoah, however, is a small eth centuries is that they would The Volkische Movement, with its be held accountable (or blame) in fact, to explain the phenomenon book that came out of Tsarist Rus­ now embrace the traditions that emphasis on land (and ownership), and who could the Germans ofthe Shoah). What was so unique sia: The Protocols of the Elders of went into making a German a saw the Jews as a landless and blame? The Jews, of course. about Germany? And why did it Zion. German. This phenomenon was shiftless people; therefore, they were h^pen when it did? To answer The Protocols served as an at­ known as the Volkische or People's naturally inferior to the people with Please See 'Holocaust'pg. 9

:^l March/April, 1995 The Independent

Jobs With Justice RaUy held in opposition to Contract

On April 5, Ken Litde of Jobs pany and the community that they with Justice came to the UWT had support for what they were campus to speak to the students, doing. JWJ organized a rally down staff, and faculty about the national at Kaiser to support the strikers. and local organization. Mr. Little Jobs with Justice also supported addressed a small, but very atten­ a rally on April 8th. The rally tive crowd as he explained a litde organized at Peoples park, and then bit about the organization and what the group marched down to the it does. It did not surprise me to see Republican part headquarters at so few people there but, hopefully 739 St. Helens street. The rally was more people will get involved. to let the government know that Jobs with Justice OWJ) is about many ofthe people in Washington people in the work force and the are not happy with the Contract community. The main idea behind with America or the contract with JWJ is that when a group of people, Washington State. Many commu­ whether it be a union, community nity, religious, and labor leaders action, or religious group, need were there to support the people of help in the support oftheir struggle, JWJ. If anyone would like more JWJ will help. It is an organization information on Jobs with Justice that has already done a lot for please e-mail all inquiries to members of our community. The [email protected] strike last month of the Kaiser works was sided by JWJ when the By Elisabeth Howard workers needed to show the com­ Photos by Jon T. Scott TbeIndependent March / April, 1995 Why do you and I have to pick up the tab for the deadbeats of society ?

others, like the mandatory insur­ rent, rather than an incentive. that they produce, 1 mean there is together, getting back together nark. Craypo ance law, are justified by the fact Why do prisoners / criminals get no reason that we, the taxpayer and helping each other. This will Managing Editor that they are supposed to help the free education (beyond high should have to pay for some igno­ probably never happen. 1 just majority of the populace. I do school)? Why do they get conju­ rant little girl who got knocked don't feel that 1 have to take care Why does society think that it not see the value of having this gal visits, where is the value in up. She should take responsibil­ of someone else's failure to take has to protect society from soci­ monstrous amount of laws, giving them this? They are sup­ ity for her actions by EITHER responsibility for their own ac­ ety? Who is to say that whatever codes, and such. Does anybody posed to be in PRISON, right? having an abortion or ifyou pre­ tions. There is no justification given law or ordinance is going to see the value of letting idiot cases Why can prisoners run busi­ fer, giving the child up for adop­ for having society supporting the really make a difference? What is get to court, like the lady that nesses out of a prison cell, or get tion. I understand that the abor­ deadbeats. We need to protect the value of having so much gov­ burned herself on McDonald's proceeds from a book that they tion is a big topic, and that we all the future of our society for our ernment regulation of all aspects coffee. She should not have got­ write, they should have to then have very different views, that is children and their children by of life, like the laws requiring ten dime one because she knew pay for their cost of living just like not for this article. 1 see no making choices for them that seatbelts or helmets, or like the that the coffee was hot, she put the rest of us. It is ridiculous that justification for having to pay for hopefully will benefit them in the building and environmental the coffee between her legs while criminals who have committed a someone else's mistake. 1 take end. 1 understand that the laws codes governing the land that she was driving, which is illegal - felony, which according to the responsibility for my actions, and and such nowadays were meant you or 1 legally and rightfully technically. Why do we have law, removes their civil rights, work for a living, why can't they? with this in mind, but we need to own? Why do 1 have to get a stack rules and laws that allow such meaning they are not protected Why don't we tie the child's fa­ let people make their own deci­ of permits to do almost any work cases to get into a courtroom? by the Bill of Rights anymore. ther down with a job and make sion as they need to. Would you on my house. Why can't 1 put in Why don't judges and good law­ Why should society have to him support his child? The fami­ like to have the majority of choices a single pane window if 1 want to, yers throw this garbage out. pay for the deadbeats on welfare lies ofthe children should be the arbitrarily made for you? I think the current building code states We have all these laws to pro­ who are not willing to get a job ones to take care oftheir children not, considering the condition of that all new windows will be tect us from ourselves, and we and work for a living like the rest and grandchildren. If they can­ society today. double pane insulated, what if 1 also have many laws protecting of us. The part of society that is not afford to have another child We will hopefully see the out­ don't want that kind of window us from criminals. Although on welfare that can't get a job around, then they should abort it come of our decisions today for on my house and 1 am willing to criminals don't really have all should be trained or encouraged or let a willing supportive family our children and society of to­ pay an extra $5 a year in heating that hard of a life. They get many to go to school to be able to get a adopt it. morrow. The society of tomor­ costs. Why can't we choose what benefits in jail that the average job and get off the system. Why We as a society should really row will hopefully have the power we want to do. The laws that American has no access to. 1 are we letting teenagers have and look at what we are doing, we to improve upon the base that we force us to do things to protect thought prison was to be a deter­ more importantly keep children need to promote families staying will have created for them.

The UWT Library is offering introductory Intemet session. All sessions will be in the Library. For more sessions. April 20 - 26. These sessions ai^e designed for ' information call the Reference Desk at (206) 552 - 4442. students who have no Intemet experience and would Introductory Intemet Sessions like a basic overview ofthe types of resources available. Thursday, April 20, 11:45 - 12:30. (The Library is scheduling sessions Saturday, April 22, 1:30 - 2:15. for more experienced Intemet users in May.) Monday, April 24, 3:30 - 4:15. Space is limited to five students per session so please Tuesday, April 25, 3:30 - 4:15. sign-up in the Library in advance ofthe scheduled Wednesday, April 26, 11:45 - 12:30. A.S.U.W.T. Asian - Pacific I >f l^:*-^fa • (Student Govemment) Volunteer, Student Islander Student Organizations 8c Association I would like this opportunity to proudly announce the Intemship Fain recent formation of the Asian - Pacific Islander Student + Ifyou want a Vice- Association of the University of Washington - Tacoma. President of The main purpose of our organization is not only to Spring Social Finance who is communicate, disseminate, and coordinate cultural is­ sues, but also to promote multi- and inter- cultural ex­ Refreshments &Fun trustworthy, change among its membership, the college campus, and IN THE COMMONS dedicated, and the community at large. committed to The first organizational meeting was on April 5, 1995 APRIL 19^20, 1995 excellence? Vote for at 6:30 pm in the Commons. Please feel free to join us at 6:00-7:15 pm IRIS FINCH May any tUne as we hold elections for officers and discuss our 2-6, 1995.1 inau||iral Spring Quarter event. Spring Spectacular 1995 IF YOUR ORGANIZATION WANTS TO PARTIUPATE is scheduled to coincide with Asian - American History PLEASE CONTACT SAMUEL WHITE, UNDA COOK, OR eagerly await the month in May. STACY REDDING IN STUDENT GOVERNMENT opportunity to serve

For more infonnation call 552 - 4429 or email my fellow students. Jackie Kang - Badua [email protected] (carson) President March/April, 199i^' The Independent Springtime fbr Egos and Puget Sound ^ Good Evening Concrete Campus tion than the Seatde campus. In season of renewal and rediscovery they are getting harder and harder huge sums of money that was Chris Higgins your opinion, does it? Anyway, as you may have known the months to ignore. The cumulatively in­ never paid out, they propagated Independent Colunnnlst this is all just fine and Jim Dandy of spring and summer to be, but creasing issues surrounding a the networks advertising rev­ but I have some coffeetalk for this can also be a time when com­ snowballing modernity and its ef­ enues. Their pat suburban biog­ With the arrival of spring and you. Webster's New World Slang placency and indifference to your fect upon all levels of society's so­ raphies' and plastic faces were the warmer weather comes a sense and Adage dictionary defines direction, goals, and mission" can cial strata continue to be cloned conveniently recycled for subse­ of detachment from the problems coffeetalk as: 1. Engaging hu­ set in. Have your aspirations been through competitive replication. quent brief and obligatory inter­ of the world. Spring fever by its man conversation during the physi­ blindsided. Have the smaller items This would appear to reflect a fa­ views by the Wink Martindales very nature has been defined by cal ingestion of any coffee product. on your agenda been neglected for vorite adage of ol' Murphy that and Bob Barkers of the game Webster's Dictionary as a feeling 2. That segment of Saturday Night chillin' out in the lazy hazy sun. I states, There is no gravity, the show world. Where in the hell is of listlessness , which further Live where Mike Meyer (AKA know all about it because I too love earth just sucks". Well then, Dink Winkerson these days any­ translates to varying degrees of in­ Wayne of Wayne's World) dresses the warmer weather. All that is wouldn't this support Dr. l.B. way, er sorry...1 mean Wink, and difference. We might tend to focus in drag to imitate his real life required as a first step is the posi­ Negative's additional weight when will Bob Barker get some upon the beauty ofthis region and mother-inJaw while encouraging tive acknowledgment of our place theory that attributes population Grecian Formula Sixteen? More in many instances improving our­ his audience to talk amongst your­ on this roller coaster planet but so growth on the planet to his belief importantly, who cares? selves with one popular goal, to get selves while she is becoming many times we choose ignorance. that the earth sucks a litde bit more Earth to Chris, earth to in shape or maybe lose some vadempt. 3. Reading words that At times within this curriculum, it every day? What do you think? Chris As you may have noted, weight. Another issue of major have the same effect as caffeine seems we are steeped like over Remember that we may have lim­ I've plotted a vertical trajectory concern to deal with on top of upon the CNS. This memo my saturated tea bags in the brew of ited power to invoke big changes in away from the orb of annoyance everything else is course work and fellow chowder heads (yea yea, I historical data. Authoritative text the system, but what we do possess for a short time; the source, ifyou readings. Instructors aren't im­ know, speak for yourself) pertains and reader rhetoric filtered is infinite (dreams count too) power will, of all trials and confabula­ mune to this spring sedative either, to the third one. through the inteilectuaiized brains to gain personal knowledge that tions. The gravity was getting a although they sometimes appear I am here to remind you that of scholars in the pursuit of true can bring bigger changes in our bit heinous. 1*11 be back of course, "indifferent" to our personal obli­ the world is still here with all of its insight (or funding?) appears some­ lives. Ifwe desire to change the big for class and maybe the King gations throughout the year. Some problems, hardships, and heart­ times to cloud over our liberal" picture, than we should try harder Crimson concert (roots of of them appear just as rushed and break. Even though our lives might studies. To the popular contrary, to value our personal growth. grunge?) at the Paramount if they hurried while they scramble to sur­ be going smooth as peach pie, you reasons exist for these broad ranges To many students at this replace the replacement musi­ vive and deal with the system. Make don't have to look far to see just of eclectic study. They haven't branch campus university this is cians with the original cast. After no mistake, there is a power inher­ what I am talking about. Maybe been selected by our own 'crack' a season of choices. What are hearing the five member band ent in an instructor's authority to some of these problems have really team of professors for nut'n honey your goals? Business majors line-up on an FM station, I only assign grades. Specifically, a per­ hurt you personally or impeded and please, if you figure them out might have a better game plan, recognized (where's Greg Lake? sonal appraisal of the students re­ your progress in a big way. If so, let me know too. The value of this but what is it you are going to do Fripp?) one or two members. If flective synthesis of the assigned don't be afraid to use the resources degree is what you or I make of it. with a B.A. in Liberal Studies? I'm wrong, may I get stuck in the work. They also have the time edge available and most of all don't give This includes business and nurs­ Personally, I'm preparing for TSB elevator with Mike Lowry because students usually have to up. Everyone has the right to a fair ing too. Dispel the illusion now Jeopardy. Being somewhat of a for 3 minutes...help! Watching arrange their schedule to accom­ and speedy trial and a long, drawn that it (the degree) will guarantee trivia buff, I just might decide to replacement baseball sounds like modate the instructors. They were out tribulation! Also, if you or I financial wealth and while your at make a quick buck with a fast fun. Listening to replacement telling me now I'm telling you. don't use the available resources at it, explode the illusion's myth of answer. Actually, I used to think musicians who mimic the same Another stale western adage for the this branch campus, then they success. that Game Show People (by no music ofthe original artists while collection. Comparatively speak­ might just be cut from the budget. I have both ignored and ac­ coincidence the title of a song I headlining under the original ing, Tacoma's much smaller cam­ I don't have to remind anyone how knowledged many of today's social wrote eons ago) were plastic an­ name makes the planet a heavier pus should allow for better one on fast that can happen. I'm not problems and upon being droids created by the networks to place, and 1 for one know what one student / instructor interac­ trying to ruin what is a long awaited reawakened to some of the facts. appear on the shows. Winning that really means.

'Holocaust 'from page 6 beerhall putsch, no one took the 1933, and 1 will attempt to present Afterall, they were the ones that Nazi party seriously. It would be some ofthe facts and statistics that signed the Peace Treaty, right? another twenty-two years before the make up the Shoah. Thank you for nliB Partly but not entirely true. But world would believe what the Na­ the opportunity to share these UW TACOMA SEATTLE and what is important is that the Jews zis were capable of doing, which is thoughts and I hope that they make ALUMNI SUPERSONICS were blamed for this treasonous what the Nazis had forthrighdy sense to someone - I'm still in the Invite you to watch NBA excitement treaty, and hence they were labeled stated upfront - it just seemed too process of deciphering it for my­ at the Tacoma Dome! the November Traitors. This be­ far fetched for the modern world. self. 1 do know one thing, however. Dallas Mavericks, April 13 at 7 P.M. came the basis for the stabbed in What the rest ofthe world failed to The Shoah has clearly demon­ the back theory of German eco­ realize was, that in many ways, strated that man is truly capable of nomic failure in the immediate Germany was and was not a mod­ anything, and ifwe are not vigilant post-war years and later on in the ern country. Ideologically, Ger­ it WILL happen again. A recent early 1930s, and would serve as the many was reliving the sixteenth shift towards political conservatism routine fodder ofa variety of politi­ century in many ways, but at the in this country has forced me to draw same time Germany was regarded several startling parallels between our Discounted tickets are available for cal parties seeking to gain power UWT students, faculty and staff - ^ during the Weimar Republic. as the most advanced industrial situation and Germany around the $25 seats for ONLY $201* ^ G^\ Among these parties was the complex on the European conti­ turn of the century. As we face an­ slighdy unnoticeable party the Na­ nent. And this is what the crisis of other turn ofthe century, how will we tional Socialist German Worker's modernity meant in terms of react to that version of modemity (or Call (206) 216 - 2387 to order. Party (Nationalsozialistiche Germany's unique history into the post-modernity)? The lessons of his­ 'Limited number of ticltets available Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or twentieth centufy. tory have been given to us, but NSDAP) - the Nazis. In my next article I will pick up whether we heed those lessons is Until 1923 and the failed with the Nazi seizure of power in surely another matter. KL The Independent March / April, 1995

Afi&rmative Reaction .*

and the November 1996 ballot are claimed that it's one of the most tion at work. According to Stephen interracial harmony. There is no one million signatures-which both significant attacks yet on our Ralston, senior attorney for the denying the long history of dis­ Jon T. Scott the initiative's supporters and crit­ rights. Rev. Jackson called for a NAACP's legal defense fund, ifthe crimination against minorities Independent Columnist ics agree will not be difficult to get. register and resist voter cam­ court rules in favor of Pech, it in this country, but if we are to Opponents of the proposal have paign. could, doom practically everything remedy the situation then we The latest political debate to labeled it son of 187 in reference It's possible that the Supreme so that you couldn't even think must ensure equality - not fur­ echo frenziedly through the hal­ to the successfiilly passed 1994 Court may decide the issue before about race Iwhen hiring]. ther discrimination. The Civil lowed halls of congress deals with initiative which outlaws state sup­ it ever reaches the ballot. In Janu­ What are the chances of the Rights amendment was 4 years the proposed elimination have port for illegal immigrants. How­ ary, the court heard arguments in court ruling in favor of Pech? Fairly old when 1 was born, and it was come from a wide spectrum of ever, many find the comparison the case of Adarand Constructors good. In a similar case in 1990, the 1986 before I could vote: What people ranging from Republican invalid. The proposed initiative V. Federico Pena, and the eventual court held in favor of the Affirma­ role did I play in past discrimi­ senator and 1996 presidential can­ reads much like civil rights legisla­ ruling could have profound impli­ tive Action program with a 5-4 ma­ nations? Why should I bear the didate Robert Dole to Ward tion: Neither the State of Califor­ cations on the legality of Affirma­ jority, but since then, 4 of the 5 in burden of a history of racism Connerly, an African-American nia nor any of its political subdivi­ tive Action. Adarand Construction the majority have retired. The court and sexism that I did not partici­ member ofthe California Board of sions or agents shall use race, sex, is owned by Randy Pech, a white is much more conservative now. pate? I have never perpetuated Regents, to Hispanic columnist color, ethnicity or national origin contractor who submitted the low­ Justice Clarence Thomas has al­ these negative practices, and yet, Roger Hernandez. They argue that as a criterion for eidier discriminat­ est bid to build guardrails along a ready spoken out against Affirma­ through Affirmative Action, the the overt discrimination inherent ing against or granting preferential stretch of Colorado highway, but tive Action, and this would seem to government is inviting, indeed within the policy is no longer nec­ treatment to any individual or was denied the contract. Why? Be­ give its opponents the majority they encouraging, that racism and essary, and that it sends the wrong group in the operation ofthe States cause the Federal Transportation need to defeat it. sexism by perpetuated against message to and about minorities. system of public employment, pub­ Department awards a 10% bonus And why not? Affirmative Ac­ me. Congress is hardly the only lic education or public contract­ to state transportation departments tion is the last legal sanctuary for The only way to equality is battleground for this controversial ing. To oppose the language in who hire contractors who agree to racism and sexism. How can we through equality. To quote Jus­ issue. In California, two college this bill is to oppose the principal subcontract to minority firms. hope to ever attain equality if we tice Sandra Day O'Conner: At professors-Glynn Custred and of equality. Yet it still has its oppo­ Despite having the lowest bid, Pech cling to the assumptions that mi­ the heart of the Constitution's Thomas Wood-are trying to put nents such as the Rev. Jesse Jack­ was denied the contract because norities and women cannot com­ guarantee of equal protection lies the issue to a popular vote. They son and Elizabeth Toledo, the head the state could make more money pete on the basis of merit alone? the simple command that the have drafted a proposed initiative of the California Branch of the by not hiring him and taking the The divisive assumptions har­ government must treat citizens that would effectively outlaw all National Organization for bonus instead. Pech's attorney calls bored within the outdated doc­ as individuals, not as simply race and gender preferences. All Woman. Toledo called the initia­ the practice bribery, but it none­ trine of Affirmative Action are components ofa racial, religious, that remains between the initiative tive "divisive scapegoating, and theless represents Affirmative Ac­ invidious to national unity and sexual or national class. Lack of Common Courtesy Annoying

principal of it all. Why should we need to be big enough to read from why is it taking so long for their can't you do thesame for us? Marit Craypo give something away for free to the street, none of the two inch delivery. This game is getting old. People who don't have a Managing Editor someone that we know is trying to numbers that are hard to read at 10 Where 1 work, if the customer porch light on and any visible cheat us. The company tells us to, feet from the building. 1 don't doesn't have their porch light on numbers on their house have It is amazing how the general but that doesn't make it better. I think that people know thaT there prior to my arrival (meaning that no right to get mad when their public doesn't think or care. 1 have know that we make mistakes and is a Tacoma City ordinance as well motion lights don't count), and deliveries are late and when we worked far too long in the mind­ fixing that is not a problem, but as lawsinthe Washington Admin­ READABLE house numbers, they have to use a spotlight to find less field of pizza delivery. The why should we have to feel like istrative Code, the Revised Code of don't get to complain about a late their house. I happen to think rudeness, ignorance, and stupidity shmucks and give the store away to Washington, and is in the Build­ product; it is considered their fault it is comical when I hit a house that I have experienced from too someone who we know is lying ing Code for new homes that re­ because they did not do their part of with my spotlight and people many customers and the general through their teeth? quire visible house numbers. The the transaction by having a light on start jumping out of the win­ public is truly amazing. There is 1 have several legitimate prob­ reason for the laws and ordinances and a readable address. dows, thinking that I am the no need or want for such behavior lems with people, which are pet is so that when emergency vehicles Honestly, how hard is it to police looking for something from anyone. 1 don't see the thrill peeves to me. My biggest pet peeve and officers get to a neighborhood change a lightbulb, put in a new illicit. That is the consolation or desire to scam someone for a while delivering is something that they can go right to the address that fixture, or even putting readable prize for me when 1 have to $10.00 pizza. It doesn't make any should truly never happen. When they need to. Why is it that people house numbers up? 1 know it is not look for a house without lights sense how perfect strangers can't 1 go up to a customers house and cannot even show simple common that hard to do work like that. Ifyou or numbers. By you not hav­ even be civil towards one another. there are no house numbers and courtesy to perfect strangers by truly don't know, 1 am sure that you ing numbers or a light on, I Would you act rudely towards a no porch light on, this is just inex­ having houselights on at night and have at least one friend that might sometimes hit your neighbors stranger in hopes of getting some­ cusable, ignorant, and rude. 1 having readable visible house nu m- be willing to help or get paid to do houses looking for yours, and thing for free? 1 hope not, but from wouldn't leave my own porch light bers? I know that about half of the the work. I wish people would learn I'll bet this does wonders for what I've seen, I wouldn't be sur­ off if 1 knew that someone, either general population out there is very that by not having lights on and your relations with your neigh­ prised. Businesses and business friends or strangers, were coming good about having lights on and numbers up, they are only delaying bors. people don't need customers that over. So why do people not wake numbers on their houses, and I something they want. Most delivery Other pet peeves are soon are always going to complain, want up and make it easier, safer, and commend these people for being services will not deliver a product to to come, either by me or by something for free, and generally quicker for delivery people, nice, reasonable, and generous. It an unlit house, because it is not submissions from any who are cause trouble. At the company that whether it is food, mail, or other­ is hard enough for inexperienced worth getting hurt or robbed. willing to do so. Please E-mail 1 work for, we have to bend over wise, by turning an outside light on deliverers to find people's houses, In my case, the ten dollar pizza is responses and submissions to backwards to make the customer and having visible house numbers? so why make it harder for some­ not a guiding factor when it comes s wo rdstr® u.washington.edu, happy and we go home feeling When 1 say visible, 1 mean that thing that you want to get there? to my safety. There is NO excuse thank you. really bad, because no one likes they are illuminated by the outside People always seem to want some­ for not making it safe for all who Please write me back and I being taken advantage of. 1 know or porch light and they are not in thing for free, so they make it hard come to your house. We have to will print your responses in that the product that we give away the shadow created by the outside for delivery people to find their make it safe for you when you come The Independent. is not even ours, but I guess its the light. Also the house numbers houses and then complain about to our place of business, so why March / April, 1995 The Ind'ep^ndeht ii YOUR HEALTH CORNER 'A nurse is a nurse is a nurse??? ff Brought to you by the UWT Nursing program in celebration of National Nurses Week, May 1st - 7th there is the Nurse Practitioner (not a things like change beds and deliver with an Associate Degree (ADN), a cation exam) before they are allowed Sandy Lazaroff Practical Nurse); what is different foods to the patients. hospital school of nursing (RN Di­ to practice in many states. So - the UNC-ARNP about these nurses? MAs: ploma), or a Bachelor of Science Nurse Practitioner is professionally ASUWT Board Member at Large Webster's dictionary defines a (Medical Assistants) complete a degree (BSN). Many Associate and certified and licensed to practice as Special to the Independent nurse as a person trained to take program of approximately one year diploma RNs return to school to an independent health care profes­ care of the sick, injured, or aged, to at a vocational or technical school. obtain their BSN. All RN's must sional and as a member ofthe health May 6 is National Nurses' Day, assist surgeons, etc.: specif, same as: To be admitted to this kind of pro­ take and pass a national licensing care team. ARNPs are qualified to ending a week-long celebration a) REGISTERED NURSEb) PRAC­ gram, they must have a high school exam (state boards) and have con­ perform many exams and proce­ honoring those who care for the TICAL NURSE." diploma or GED and be at least 16 tinuing education hours to maintain dures previously done only by MDs, sick, injured and aged. This seg­ However, some nurses actually years of age. Graduates of these pro­ their license. Many nurses further many are even authorized to pre­ ment is a tribute to Nurses and are not nurses at all; and certainly all grams are qualified to work as a MA their education and obtain a Master's scribe medications. their health care associates some­ nurses are not educated in the same in the front or back office ofa medical degree (MSN); then an elite few Therefore, a nurse is a nurse is a times identified as nurses. way. TTie following is information practice and must work under the continue on and obtain a Doaorate nurse, is far from true. There are Throughout time people have aboutthese nurses and non-nurses direction of an RN or MD. (PhD, RN). Most of you may be many levels of nurses and non-nurses been attended to by nurses in hospi­ who are often called nurse. An LPN: familiar with some from this last who care for you in the hospital or tals and doctors offices. Yet few important fact to keep in mind is - all (Licensed Practical Nurse, or Practi­ category; they are many ofthe profes­ the doctor's office. It is not appropri­ people give thought to this nurse of these non-nurses must be certi­ cal Nurse) complete a one year program sors in the Nursing program here at ate to assume that everyone referred and his or her credentials. Many lay fied, and nurses must be licensed by at a vocational or technical school; they UWT. to as nurse is either an RN or LPN; people have no idea what is in­ the state. must also have a high school diploma ARNP doctors often refer to MAs as my volved with being a nurse and to Categories of Nurses or GED and cannot have a criminal (Advanced Registered Nurse Prac­ nurse. Moreover, it is inaccurate to many, the term nurse covers any­ CNAs: record. These nurses are licensed by the titioner, also called Nurse Practitio­ believe that an RN and an LPN are one who takes care of them in the (Certified Nurses' Assistants) also state and are qualified to perform stan­ ners (NPs)) are registered nurses the same; they are nor. There are hospital or doctor's office. Hospital " called PCAs (Patient-Care Assistants) dard nursing procedures under the (RNs) who have completed advanced significant differences in the training patients may be confused when sev­ or Nurses' Aides are technicians direction of an RN or MD in a variety education and training in a health and education RNs and LPNs re­ eral nurses are involved with provid­ who have had up to a one year of settings. system specialty. ARNP programs ceive to prepare them for their spe­ ing care during the same shift. What training and then certified by the RN: are now Master's Degree level cific roles. So, the next time you hear are the credentials of the nurse at state to assist registered nurses (RNs). (Registered Nurse) is educated (MSN), but in the early days (20 years someone referred to as nurse, take your doctor's office? ERs are busding These assistants perform tasks that through a variety of ways. These ago) many were Certificate programs. a moment and investigate: is this with many nurses; who are they and do not require the level of education nurses might graduate from a com­ These ARNPs must also be nation­ person really a nurse? You may be what are dieir credentials? Finally needed by nurses. The assistants do munity college ally certified (taking a national certifi­ surprised at the answer. TTENTION OR Am TATP'S V;.J XX^ VI y K^ jt VX JL-i L-^ ersokali^ed iGtaduation1?Gi^unce^ Qfvelaxation ^Alternatives Treat yourself or someone you care about to Relaxation • Stress Relief • Wellness

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