Issue 16 Volume 35 ° COOPER POINT OURNAL Feb. 15,2007
Aramark supports The Cooper Point Journal is a student newspaper seiVing the Abrasive graffiti on campus Evergreen ip. boycott on Evergreen State College and Del Monte produce the surrounding community of Olympia, WA. By Ian Humphrey goes, Cripe said, "We have years to file. That's not By Emily Johnson to say that won't happen eventually." However, the On December 8 last quarter, over a dozen acts of suspects have not been charged with any crimes. "Recently Evergreen's union LocalS ILWU graffiti were found in housing, including two swas Officer Cripe was clear that, "The Evergreen State asked Aramark to support us in a boycott ofDel tikas, one painted on the back ofC dorm and one on Police blotter: College is not the place to be doing graffiti anymore Monte produce. Aramark has been completely a vending machine outside of A dorm. Both are in because we are on top of it. We have zero tolerance supportive," says Jens Eventyr, an Evergreen A marijuana special. freshman only housing. from this point." Greenery employee. But why would Evergreen Page3 At 4:42 p.m. the same day, Art Costantino, Vice Ed ~orger added that Sam Costell, an want to boycott Del Monte produce? President of Student Affairs, sent out an email to The Olympiadetective is looking into graffiti trends both on On November 17, 2006, seven hundred Evergreen State College community in accordance campus and in Olympia to investigate into gang activity. employees were cut off from their primary with the Bias Related Incident Response Protocol. He In an interview on January 29, Costantino said source of income in Hawaii. On that day Del Jake's Mannequin: informed the community about the graffiti, assuring that there were three suspects associated with the Monte shut down all oftheir plantations on the An intimate rock star. them that the swastikas were gone and that "work swastikas, two of who had been caught by Officer Islands. Del Monte had grown pineapple in Page4 continued to remove the remaining graffiti." Cripe. Hawaii for over 100 years, and for many of its He went on to offer the Housing staff as well Costantino is confident they know which was employees, pineapple work was the only field as the Student and Academic Support Services responsible for the swastikas but the grievance pro in which they had experience. Del Monte left staff as a place to talk for students who felt cess is not over yet. One of the original suspects, RJ, Hawaii to take their operations to countries with Latent language: "impacted by these events." Crime Stoppers, was brought in the night the swastikas appeared for subordinate labor standards and where the cost Our bonds with adver a community organization authorized tq give trying to paint them over. Later that night RJ was to pay workers is much lower. Costa Rica is one tisements. financial restitution for information leading to heard to say, "I couldn't just let them sit there!" of those countries. With them, Del Monte took PageS an arrest, put out a $400 reward regarding the When asked about how this year's graffiti com Hawaiian seeds for the popular MD-2 variety, graffiti. A tip was given, eventually leading to the pared to past years, Constantino could remember low-acid pineapple. arrest of two Evergreen students. The tip was anon last school year having to deal with one set of On February 1, 2006 Del Monte told its ymous however, and whoever gave it received no "depicti.ons of stereotypes of a category of people," worker that the company was going to shut Bikes, cars and buses: reward. but that was it. This year, however, we've had down in two years, 2008. The company offered The calamities of trans The graffiti continued, and on January 14, two serious incidents already, including the swas no extra assistance to its workers in the transi portation in Olympia. more graffiti was found in F parking lot, near tikas and the paintings on SEM II at the end of last tion, such as severance pay. The catch was that Page6 the child care center, near the CRP (Covered September, not to mention "thirty or forty other the workers had two years to make the tran Recreation Pavilion) and on C building. minor pieces." sition. The huge problem for the Hawaiian Last Tuesday, on January 23, Costantino released People seeking more information about these workers is that Del Monte told them the plants another statement. He said that "we have identi pieces can ask at Police Services. Costantino men wouldn't be closing down until 2008, then on Letters & Opinions: fied two students who we believe are responsible tioned that since the Bias Related Incident Response November 17, 2006 the company abruptly and for much of the graffiti, including the swastikas. Team has gotten involved, he's received three com Time travel may be with out explanation, shut down, leaving all of We are holding these individuals responsible for munications from the Washington State Human possible. its workers jobless and bewildered. their behavior and have already referred them to Rights Commission praising the protocols they've Pagel Seven hundred workers on a small island our campus grievance officers for adjudication of put to use. were, or are still, unemployed all at once. Del their cases." He also thanked Ed Sorger, Director of "That's not so say it couldn't be better," Monte shares little resemblance to former com Police Services, and officers Justin Cripe and Tammy Costantino said, adding that a public forum was panies in Hawaii that have shut down and given Stretch for their contributions to the investigation. recently discussed by the Team in case something their employees much deserved frnancial aid. It TESC sports: About the investigation process, Officer Cripe said of this magnitude were to ever come up again. is unlikely that Del Monte will give its workers Basketball coverage. that the tip was where he started his investigation. He was also pleased to report that the stu compensation for the sudden loss of their pri Page9 · He pieced the case together from there, leading him dent population had responded to these inci mary incomes. to one person. dents by getting active in the Diversity DTF Aramark contracts with Charlie's Produce The second turned themselves in not long after as well as the Bias Incident Response Team. and Charlie's Produce delivers produce to wards, though according to Officer Cripe," It was me As to the accused, he would say very little beyond Evergreen. Evergreen andAramark have gotten Illustrations: coming to them or them coming to me." According that "having done harm to the community, it's now Charlie's Produce to agree to stop delivering Giants, moons and to Officer Cripe, these were first time offenders, your responsibility to understand what you've done Del Monte produce to Evergreen. three-handed but officer Cripe was skeptical. "There are no prior and why you may have done it." Jen Eventyr articulates the importance of musicians. incidents that we know about. I can't charge on Evergreens boycott, "We had a meeting to touch Back page assumptions. I can follow assumptions on a case, Jan Humphrey is a freshman enrolled in Sign, base with management and we asked them to but I can't charge for them." As far as being charged Symbol and Symptom. support our boycott on Del Monte's produce. One ofthe truck drivers from Charlie's Produce was hostile about the request ofboycott, saying "That's just the way things are! That's how life works, why should I stop delivering Del Monte Geoduck Union change liaison in midst of controversy produce?" Craig Ward, the director of food services at Evergreen, stepped in and sought out someone to talk to who had the authority By Tori Needer has been a lot of contact going on between the cation transparency. to stop the delivering of Del Monte produce Geoduck Union [liaison] and the WSL, and I The motion proposed by Sanders appointed to Evergreen. Craig Ward has been great in Representative Victor Sanders was appointed don't feel like I've been given information or himself as the official WSL liaison and tempo facilitating the boycott. Evergreen's union, as the official liaison to the Washington input," said representative Sam Green. rary suspends the WSL committee in the hopes Local 5 got Aramark to agree to support our State Lobby in the wake of accusations The Union cited several instances when that future WSL business would be discussed boycott. Boycotting Del Monte makes a state against representative Asenka Miller. The the lines of communication had been broken during public GDU meetings. Technically the ment and strengthens Evergreen's union, Local Union alleged that Miller was not suffi between the GDU and the WSL. The Union motion did not remove Miller from any posi 5 ILWU. It's success for our union because it ciently facilitating communication between was not informed by Miller about the date of a tions because she never held an official appoint encoura~es good corporate citizenship." Union the Union and WSL. Representative David WSL board meeting at which TESC was enti ment. The motion passed with two stand asides workers at Evergreen were concerned about Faber cited the pending state deadline to tled to voting rights. Millei:.'s handling of the votes, one was by Miller and the other was the treatment of their fellow union members in propose new legislation as the reason why public information forum about the WSL was Representative Steven Engle. Hawaii and responded on a local level. the Union was obligated to change WSL also questioned because ofthe low student tum Miller submitted herresignation as an Union To find more information on this topic you representation immediately. "The legislative out. Representative Kylen Clayton cited that representative after her actions where called in can go to the International Longshore and cut off is less than two weeks away" said Faber, Miller had given a campus tour to a groups to question. Representatives urged her to recon Warehouse Union website,http://www.ilwu. "which means the last chance Evergreen is of WSL representatives without the Unions sider. "[You can still offer] a lot to the Union, org/dispatcher/2006/11/iebpolicies.cfin, which going to have to affect legislation this session is knowledge or consent. Millers actions as liaison and so much to the students" said Engle. Her has the "Statement Of Policy To boycott Fresh going to be in the next week and a half." have come under observation before. Email resignation was not accepted by the Union and Del Monte Produce" posted. During the February 14 public meeting the correspondence between the WSL and Miller is under review as ofthe end of the meeting. Union discussed how Miller's actions have has yet to be submitted to public record despite Emily Johnson is a freshmen enrolled impacted their ability to utilize their member the fact that bylaw amendments have been Tori Needer is a junior enrolled in Health in Writing From Life and Afro-Brazillian ship in the WSL to its fullest extent. "Their enacted that required GDU liaison communi- and Human DevelotJment. Dance.
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Submit your news briefs: short factual accounts News briefs of past happenings. [email protected]. EVERGREEN POLICE BLOTTER Now hiring: RAs Energy Committee. This fund is for on-campus renew Residential and Dining Services is currently taking able energy projects. All one is to do is write up a pro applications for Resident Assistants this fall. You have posal for a renewable energy project and submit that to admit, the RAs have it pretty good: free rent, great proposal to the committee. The committee allocates out Compiled by Curtis Randolph leadership experience, instant social network and a pay money to these projects, just as the S&A Board does to check to boot. Look up this position online at www. student organizations. Case Number: 07-0050 evergreen.edu/housing/employement. Application There is nothing to stop you now! Pick up a pro 01/09/2007 at 2319 hours deadline is 4:30p.m. on Friday. Feb. 16. posal form in the Student Activities Office, CAB 320. An officer and RA knocked on a door inC dorm. The door There is money waiting for you to turn this campus into was opened approximately.two inches and the resident peeked Women's Resource Center presents "Vagina a clean, energy efficient environment. It's never too late through the crack. He was told that his music needed to be Monologues" to start making a difference. turned down. Suspect said okay and closed the door before The Women's Resource Center will present Eve For information on the clean energy initiative either the RA or officer could say anything about the strong Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" on Feb. 15, 16, 17 at 7 and green tags, check out http://evergreen.edu/ odor of burning marijuana coming from his room. They p.m. with a special matinee at 2 p.m. on Feb. 18. All group. greenfut/earnenergy.htm and evergreen. knocked again, and once more the door was opened approxi performances will be held in COM recital hall. This edu/commitee/sustainablity. mately 2 inches. Suspect was told to open the door the rest of program is also sponsored by The V-Day campaign, the way, and complied. Suspect was told that they needed the which raises awareness and funds in local commu The Dances of Universal Peace pipe or bong or whatever he was smoking his marijuana out of nities, and empowers women to create a world free On Feb. 22, 7 p.m. in the Rotunda, Evergreen's and the rest of his marijuana. Suspect complied. While infor of violence. Tickets are $7 or the equivalent in tam interfaith ministry Common Bread will sponsor mation was being obtained from the suspect, the officer noticed pons, pads, soaps and shampoos for all different types The Dances of Universal Peace. It's a chance to what looked like a switchblade knife in his drawer. The knife of hair. Tickets will ONLY be sold at the door. No one communally experience group energy in a safe, was seized and suspect was told that it was illegal in the state will be turned away for lack of funds. This year, pro friendly environment. The dances use simple of Washington to possess it. Suspect stated he did not know ceeds will go to the YWCA, Safeplace and The Birth chants and music that evoke the spiritual essence of that. Suspect then stated it was no different than any of the Attendants. The box office will open an hour before each participant. They come from spiritual traditions other knives in the drawer, and began to open the blade of a the show. Please give yourself ample time to get your the world over, focusing on the collective experiences leatherman-type tool. Suspect was advised that opening knives tickets. Questions? Please call the Women's Resource ofhumanity. Samuel Lewis, a Sufi Murshid and Rinzai around cops was a good way for someone to get hurt. Suspect Center at (360) 867-6162 or (360) 866-0681. You can Zen Master, began The Dances of Universal Peace in then put the tool in the drawer and took a few steps back. At also email [email protected]. 1970s Berkeley. There he saw the hippie culture in that time suspect was told to turn arouncj and was placed into full swing and was inspired to become their guide. hand restraints, and was taken back to the office. Back at the All students will be required to activate their Since then it has grown into a global movement, with office, suspect stated that he did not know that the knife was @evergreen email address people teaching the dances in schools, prisons, hospi illegal in Washington or anywhere else, and that he used it for Beginning in March, Evergreen will use your college tals and retirement homes. The dances are designed to opening mail and boxes. He stated he paid about $10 for it in email address ([email protected]) to communicate be simple enough to learn in a minute while working Mexico, and had not intentionally broken the law. Based on with you. Important messages, which previously have to heal the global community. Jo Jibrila and Thornton this, and the fact he had no prior police contacts, police ser come by paper mail, will now come via email. These Curtz will lead the dances. They have been coming here vices decided to turn the case over to the grievance process. include tuition billing notices, financial aid notices, reg every quarter for a few years now and lead dances in Suspect asked what was going on and if he was going to jail, istration deadline reminders and emergency updates. Olympia twice a month. and the officer stated that he was being un-arrested. Suspect Many of you have already activated, and now use, your said he didn't know that could be done. Officer affirmed that @evergreen email address. If you have not activated, TESC-Tacoma hosts free presentation and dia it could. Suspect was issued a Required Grievance Meeting please do so at my.evergreen.edu. You may choose to logue with two eminent scholars form, which he signed. Nothing further. auto-forward mail from this @evergreen address to an "The Long Road Towards Decolonization: email address of your choice. If you choose to forward, Indigenous Peoples of West Africa and the Pacific Case Number: 07-149 note that you are responsible for the ongoing viability Rim (Including US Tribal Nations)- A Comparative 01/22/07 at 2321 hours of the forwarding address. Analysis" will be presented at TESC-Tacoma campus, An officer knocked on the door of a room in D-Dorm which 1210 6th Ave., Tacoma on Friday, Feb. 16 from 3 to 5 was emanating a strong odor of marijuana and loud music. The A challenge to "green" Evergreen p.m. Dr. Hassimi Maiga holds a presidential appoint officer knocked on the door and the residents greeted them. In the winter of 2005 there was an election at ment as Distinguished Research Professor of Education Also greeting the officer was the strong odor of marijuana as Evergreen, organized by a number of student organiza at the University of Bamako, Mali (by Presidential smoke wafted out the door. Officer observed that the inside tions, regarding The Evergreen Clean Energy Initiative. Decree, June 200 I). Dr. Maiga is also Professor of of the residence was thick with smoke. The residents denied Ring a bell? Students decided to take climate change Education (on leave) at L'ISFRA, the national higher smoking marijuana and stated "We were smoking outside and issues into their own jurisdiction and voted to pay a education institute at the University of Bamako where it followed us in." This was not a very good excuse, and the dollar extra, per credit, every quarter in order to get MA and Ph.D. students are trained. At L' ISFRA he has residents soon admitted to smoking marijuana in the room. Evergreen to purchase green tags from their energy taught graduate courses in the "History of Education They stated that they had only a roach and already smoked providers, Puget Sound Energy and Tacoma Public from Antiquity to the Present," "Curriculum Design" it all. The officer informed them that the smoke present in Utilities. Did you know you paid a clean energy fee? and "Research Methods." Alan Parker, J.D., is the the room was not consistent with smoking a roach, and it You did, indeed, and because of your contribution 100% Director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research appeared to him that they had been smoking a blunt. They of Evergreen's electrical energy is green. The results of Institute at The Evergreen State College where he also admitted that this was 100% correct. (A roach is the thickly our energy initiative even grabbed the attention of the has served as a member of the faculty since September packed butts of a marijuana cigarette that must be smoked EPA. Last year they announced that Evergreen is the of 1997. A citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Nation, with a small clip to avoid burning oneself. A blunt is mari 8th largest purchaser of green energy in the country. Parker lived for many years with his family on the juana wrapped in cigar paper, sometimes along with tobacco, This truly does show Evergreen's leadership in making Rocky Boy's Reservation in Northern Montana. Alan to appear to be a cigar. How was the officer able to tell the improvements to the environment, and in working graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1972 and difference between the two based solely on the consistency towards a more sustainable campus. practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over twenty years of the smoke? Extensive training, of course.) The remaining Why stop there though? Evergreen is unique because before joining The Evergreen State College faculty in marijuana was seized and the residents were issued Required of every student that makes up this campus. We have 1997. While in Washington, D.C., he directed research Grievance Meeting forms. the ability and opportunity to make Evergreen a lot on tribal governments for the American Indian Policy "greener" than it already is. There are a lot of students Review Commission and was the first Native American Case Number: 07-0170 here who have knowledge about renewable energy, and to serve as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee 01/25/2007 even more who have ideas and skills needed to make on Indian Affairs. On the aforementioned date an officer was contacted by a Evergreen's energy consumption even cleaner. suspect and asked if he was busy. At the time the officer was Why should you take the time and spend the effort Umoja to sponsor events at basketball games responding to a broken window and injury in A-Dorm. Officer to be a part of this? Let's try the easiest reason: you this weekend asked what he needed and stated he had missed the bus and don't need to worry about the costs. Included in the Umoja will be holding a Family Fun Night, Friday, needed a ride into town. Officer stated that he could not do Clean Energy Initiative was the creation of a Clean Feb.l6 and a Student Appreciation Night, in conjunc that, as he was in the middle of something else. After dealing Energy Committee, with a make-up of four students, tion with Senior Night, on Saturday, Feb. 17 during with the broken window the officer was notified by an RA the director of student activities, the director of facili both the men's and women's basketball teams' last two that the suspect had been contacted a couple days earlier, due ties and a faculty member. Now, when all of the clean regular games ofthe 06'/07' season. Family Fun Night to his. erratic behavior and talking to himself, and that he was energy fees are collected from students, 90% of this and Student Appreciation Night are opportunities to now in the men's restroom on the second floor of A-Dorm. total amount goes towards purchasing green tags, which bring the community together through the celebration When the suspect was asked what he was doing and if he could has consistently been found to be enough to offset the of sports and fun activities; there wi II be lots of chances present some identification he immediately became defensive total amount of energy used on campus. The remaining to get involved in contests and win prizes. Rallying and stated he did not commit any crime. During the course of I 0% of the total amount of money collected goes into around the basketball teams this weekend is another contact the suspect continually made unkind comments about a fund, which is under the jurisdiction of the Clean way that Umoja supports and recognizes some of the the officers and police officers in general under his breath, hard-working student athletes of color at Evergreen. as well as many other comments that could not be discerned. The events also represent the ways Umoja strives to When asked what he had just said he would state that it was promote community involvement, support and togeth nothing important. Su_spect stated he was not a student, was erness. Umoja is an organization dedicated to fostering a transient, and was playing pool because he had missed his a unified identity among Black, African American stu bus. The RA exited the scene and the suspect made a com dents and students of African descent, how ever one ment about her figure. The comment was difficult to discern Nrw Book~ ' may choose to identify, at Evergreen. Umoja's vision is so the officer asked what he had said, and he stated that it was nothing. Suspect was issued a criminal trespass citation, and 1 0%1 off with to bridge generations and cultures by promoting diver sity and unity through the inclusion of African/African was given courtesy transport to the Harrison Avenue Safeway. <:urn.. nt Colh•g(• II> American based arts and activities, history and tradi When suspect was asked if he had any weapons prior to let tions. In addition, Umoja's goal is to uphold the spirit ting him into the patrol vehicle, he stated that if he had a gun \Ve Buy Books Evel')·d.ayt of fellowship and contribute to an environment that he would have pulled it on the officers when they first con 509 (4th P\'lf 352.0113 embraces cultural expression here on campus. If inter tacted him. Suspect was asked why he would do that. He said something that wasn't discernible, and then that he was just Mon-Sat 10-9, Sun 11-6 [email protected] ested in being involved with this group, please contact Danielle Keenan at [email protected]. joking. End of report. 4 Cooper Point Journal February 15, 2007 arts & entertainment The Phrontisterion's ''Lysistrata'': The mother of an anti-l'Vhat? sex-comedy Mexican poetry
By Jais Brohinsky and Micah from sex until peace is declared. Women and the self-proclaimed, dildo-sucking By Grant Miller Slawinski-Currier turning sexual objectification into power 'sluts'. While not a statistical certainty, this great enough to end a war seems ground seems to point the befuddlement of themes "I was at the university on the eigh Heard about the strip tease, full frontal breaking- anti-war and empowerment mes due to the girl-on-girl groping and the men's teenth of September when the army occu nudity and enormous black erections? sages are especially important in these times heavy-breathed groans throughout the more pied the campus and went around arresting Bear with us -we'll get there. First, we of middle eastern occupation and resur important dialogue, as noted by Afsheen and killing indiscriminately. No. Not many examine the responsibility of theater before gent colonial feminism. Truly, an appro Fatemi's comment, "It's weird how they people were killed at the university. That was approaching the spectacle that was this priate lens through which to view this situ associate freedom of speech with nudity." in Tlatelolco. May that name live forever in production. ation and the play would start with Cynthia Perhaps our investigation should be our memories!" An individual's interpretation of reality Enloe's question, "Where are the women?" as critical of an audience that can't glean This is Auxilio Lacouture, "The mother is formed by imposition through social which is not to ask, as an audience member pro-woman, anti-war significance over tits, of Mexican poetry," and the protagonist of institutions such as education, religion, did, "Where's the pussy?" dicks and ass. Perhaps we should adopt a Roberto Bolaflo's "Amulet," hiding in a bath government and entertainment. 1 However, What happened between discussing Freudian lens connecting the uproarious room stall during the Mexican army's occupa an individual's interaction with these social war and female empowerment and the cat laughter when the Commissioner grabs tion ofthe National Autonomous University of institutions can effectively transform them, calls for 'pussy'? Perhaps an investiga the Herald's cock or when the Spartan and Mexico in 1968. thus changing a social interpretation of tion into the idea of the spectacle will help. Athenian delegations bemoan the possi The Tlatelolco massacre was the result reality (manifested through organization) The concept of the spectacle "represent[s] bility of "falling back on loving boys" to of student demonstrations in Mexico City, a and its impression on the individual.2 This an effort to theorize the implications for disguised aggression against homosexuality slaughter by the Mexican army that ended capacity to transform is agency and is con capitalist society of the progressive shift -more specifically, male homosexuality, as with the estimated deaths of over a thousand stantly actualized through reiteration of lan within production towards the provision Kleonike and Myrrhine were cheered for people. guage, performance and daily actions- no of consumer goods and services, and the fondling and making out. Perhaps. But we Bolaflo uses the demonstrations of Mexico matter how mundane.3 With agency comes accompanying 'colonization of everyday prefer to consider David Wolach's obser in September 1968 as the fuel for his novel-a responsibility. Therefore, if every spoken life. "'6 In other words, the characteristics vation: "Lysistrata" lends itself to a regres somewhat vague and hallucinatory account of and written word, every gesture and ritual associated with late-stage capitalism (e.g. sive reading. The challenge now is to turn the events of'68 and the literary movement of 7 ized movement either reinforces or desta consumerism and the society of leisure ) its normative standard on its head." We poets and writers that hung around the Mexican bilizes social norms,4 these words and ges become ingrained in social norms, which posit that this challenge is in fact a respon bars and cafes. tures ought to be held accountable. There manifest through specific works of indi sibility - to be at the very least attempted. "Amulet" is a dreamy monologue by exists a direct proportion between public viduals. However, these internalized symp In the words of Adorno, "A work of art Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan poet who availability and a greater possibility for toms serve to distract and insulate, in that that is committed strips the magic from a moved to Mexico City and hung around the change. That is, the more public a word they reinforce the status quo without ade work of art that is content to be a fetish, writers ofthe National Autonomous University or gesture, the greater its agency, and, we quate analysis. In this case, commoditized an ideal pastime for those who would like of Mexico. On the day the army occupies argue, the greater its responsibility. sex and sexuality divert attention from the to sleep through the deluge that threatens the university, Lacouture is hiding in a bath Theater combines word and gesture play's inherent messages, namely opposi them, in an apoliticism that is in fact deeply room stall on the fourth floor of the Faculty of through the act of public performance tion to war and the challenging of gender political."8 Philosophy and Literature department, waiting and thus has a responsibility in produc roles. Ultra-sexed comedy, in and of itself, to be apprehended. During the occupation, this tion. The extent of this responsibility is When questioned about the spectac is not irresponsible. However, when such bathroom stall becomes the focal point for debated. Should theater provide an insight ular rendition, the person responsible for sex is so removed from its transformative Lacouture's narrative. It is from this point that into the human condition? Should theater the adaptation explained that "Lysistrata" potential that it loans itself to the sole ser her past, present and future dance across the be didactic, cathartic, mobilizing, absurd? is historically anti-war before sexualized, vice of entertainment for entertainment's pages of" Amulet" and whisk the unassuming While we make no claim to expertise, we but that the impetus behind this version sake, it has entered the realm of spectacle reader through 184 pages of what seems like a agree with Theodor Adorno when he asserts was entertainment. It was further clari and functions to reinforce an insulated well-recollected daydream. that an artwork's social import and function fied that while Aristophanes wrote forty interpretation of reality. This spectacular There is a haze in Bolaflo's work, a sort of must be understood in relation to each other one comedies, only seven survive - that removal ensures a lasting impression - if hallucination that hinges on prosaic vision, and with Bertolt Brecht who argues that in fact most Greek comedies performed nothing more- and thus is more an adver a thread of thinly veiled prose that barely theater must not be self-evident - it must in competition have been lost- and while tisement for the Phrontisterion 's annual obscures the truth that hides behind narra present a situation to an observer who must this may have been a good time to empha play than it is theater. It is this spectacular tive. Bolaflo writes: "Maybe it was madness then draw his/her own conclusion.5 Indeed, size the anti-war message, wars are always removal and concomitant reestablishment that impelled me to travel. It could have been in an instantaneously interconnected world happening so ... entertainment was chosen that we find irresponsible, tasteless and madness. I used to say it was culture. Ofcourse in which social norms are in constant flux, instead? While a 1950s erotica in which thoroughly disappointing. culture sometimes is, or involves, a kind of the unavoidable ignorance of every person women's only powers come from their madness." should not be furthered by fantasy, mis bodies and flailing dildos may be enter Jais Brohisnky is a senior enrolled in a And "Amulet" is a novel that presents representation or spectacle. Instead, the tainment to some, it's certainly not ubiqui contract studying theater and is writing/ itself as it is: madness. A work of horror that ater should approach performance aware tous. One young man thought the play·was producing a musical. Micah Slawinski doesn't appear to be so. In the opening para of its agency and its responsibility, transfer "great," another - biting his lip -said, "it Currier is a senior enrolled in The Art of graph, Lacouture states: "This is going to be a ring the former to the audience while main was okay;" a woman behind me - before the Book. horror story. A story of murder, detection and taining the latter. Sound boring? Perhaps leaving during intermission - used the horror. But it won't appear to be, for the simple a viewing of the Phrontisterion's produc words crude and crass to explain why the reason that I am the teller." Although the book tion of Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" would stripping and dancing eroded all respecta I. Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashion reads nothing like a Dean Koontz novel, it change your mind. bility; and one young woman thought that ing, 1980 does recount horrol'-not ghosts and monsters, As advertised, this production of they shouldn't have half-assed a burlesque 2. Michel Foucault as cited in Saba Mahmood, rabid dogs, or netherworld clowns, but rather "Lysistrata" was to be an anti-war sex show under the guise of"Lysistrata," espe Politics of Piety, 2005 the book recounts power, ideology, repression comedy. Historically, "Lysistrata" has been cially with S&A funds. 3. Judith Butler as cited in ibid and the bloody truths of state sanctioned vio a provocative play challenging ideas of war One might argue that the anti-war line 4. ibid lence. All ofwhich get left out of horror novels, 5. Bertoli Brecht, 'Theatre for Learning', The Tun at the end, "let's not make the same mis because they can be found in newspapers, and gender and the interaction between the lane Drama Review, 1961 two. As the Athens and Sparta enter their take twice," was sufficient in challenging 6. TJ. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life, 1986 everyday, tucked away in the forgotten pages twentieth year of war, they are running out the audience. However, out of ten specta 7. ibid of a collective superego of amnesia. of warriors. With men in charge of gov tors asked "what mistake were they talking 8. Theodor Adorno, 'Commitment', Aesthetics and ernment, Lysistrata and her Greek sisters about?" only one answered, "war?'' The rest Politics, 1977 Grant Miller is a senior enrolled in a con see no end in sight and, taking matters into may have missed it between the gyrating, tract about the weather. their own ... hands, swear an oath to abstain garter-belted, Beyonce-bouncing booties
McMahon started his reign as a modern tossed in a few oldies. Midset McMahon show, but no, McMahon did something most Jack's Mannequin: piano rock king when he started the southern revived "Punk Rock Princess/ Heroine" from rocks tars wouldn't dare to do. He poured his California band Something Corporate in Something Corporate~· Leaving Through the heart out. 1998 and after years of success and touring, Window album. Instead of playing the pop With tears in his eyes and adoration in a compassionate in 2004 decided to take a break from the band ular rock version, McMahon played the orig his voice he thanked everyone in the crowd to start a deeper, darker solo project known inal form of the song as a ballad leaving many for supporting him, as a person and musi as Jack's Mannequin. of the female fans swooning for more. cian, and that each and every fan in the room rock star The crowd packs into the tiny venue stop He later played "Arizona Last Straw" played a huge role in his life. This impressive ping to buy overpriced t-shirts and make which was an online release and after hearing gesture was stridently applauded and given sure their Converse are tightly strapped to lyrics like "How did he become the presi a proper encore, which included a cover of By Alyssa Coker their feet. After three opening bands, end dent? And I stayed awake for a day or two The Police's "Message in a Bottle." I thought about the world drank gin and The concert ends with McMahon While the businessmen are heading home less set changes and mounting anticipation watched the news," it quickly became clear using the top of his piano as his stage and and the Pike Place Market is closing their suddenly, the lights dim and the beginning of why this politically charged song never saw exiting valiantly ready to take on the next city doors, I st Avenue is buzzing with excite "Holiday From Real" begins to play out of the store shelves. on the West Coast Winter Tour. The crowd scat ment. With a line rounding the block, the the massive stacks of speakers hanging vicariously from the ceiling. The Following a fully energized set, the band ters onto the streets, bearing the cold, but still Showbox was about to open their doors to crowd begins to push as far forward exited the stage, but the crowd wanted wishing this night would never end. hoards of Jack's Mannequin fans. Maybe as possible, demanding for the band to more. They chanted for a few minutes and Engines start, headlights fade, but the you've never met one of these devotees, but McMahon made his return, front and center, sound of Everything in Transit con if you have you know quite well that they grace the stage. Finally, out of the darkness the band members appear, McMahon coming completely solo. However, instead of playing tinues to echo through the dark, empty are a committed, enthusiastic, group of teens a song, he took a few minutes to address the streets. and early twenty somethings, many of which out last, and getting a deafening welcome. With only one album under their belts, fans. Most bands will take a minute to say had been waiting in the cold since ten in the Everything in Transit, the set list was creative something like, "Seattle is the best town! We Alyssa Coker is a senior enrolled in eve morning to catch a glimpse of their piano and included all of their debut songs, but also love our fans here!" and continue with their ning and weekend classes. hero, Andrew McMahon. communiques from lib 2304 Cooper Point Journal February 15, 2007 5
THE LANGUAGE SYMPOSIUM Advertisements and unspoken language
ByJais Brohinsky and which itself will point to the larger, cultural norms and formations are constantly being implications on society. By submitting to an Monear Fatem..i system of meanings directing the creation of either reinforced or undermined. authority, be it an institution, a book, another individuals. The result is what Foucault calls the par person or an idea, one positions one's self We live in a nation where the average While Greenblatt accepts, and uses, soci adox ofsubjectivation, in which "the very pro as a subject. However, this identity is not American is bombarded by thousands of ety'S' molding of an individual, he avoids cesses and conditions that secure a subject's static, and the resulting self will change. The advertisements a day. From billboards and approaching the individual's effects on the subordination are also the means by which she authority that molded an individual will be television commercials, to magazines and society. This view is limited in that it doesn't becomes a self-conscious identity and agent" subverted, and another will take its place. dancing hot dogs, the ads we see often pro allow for change and transformation, in (Mahmood, 17). The paradox of subjectiva Advertisements are viewed by millions of mote more than the product being displayed. which individuals necessarily pm1icipate. We tion views power as an omnipresent, strategic people whose identities are formed and Does a slim, airbrushed woman wiping sweat diverge from Greenblatt in redefining the self relation of force and understands that it is the shifted in relation to culture and society. In from her brow as she poses, head back and fashioning of an individual as involving an power dynamics themselves that create sub this growing consumerist nation, advertise chin up, in her brand new pair of running interaction between the internal self and the ject and dominate. Applying the idea to the ments have become one of the main mediums shoes sell the sneakers as much as an ideal of external world. This external world is com interaction between individual and society, from which social norms and societal expec beauty, strength or even lifestyle? Does the prised of the various social structures forming the paradox of subjectivation suggests that tations are presented. war-painted Richard Gere fingering prayer society (e.g. religion, politics, family, civil the social interpretation of reality that shapes The advertisements that line the inside of beads above the blue-lettered caption 'I am subway cars are those of products pressuring African' promote AIDS awareness as much as us to conform our identities in exchange for project pandemics of disease, race and class Bonds based on consumption are created while promises of better bodies and jobs, purer across an ocean? camped outside of malls in line for a Tickle Me Elmo water and women, and a safer, AIDS/guilt What we endeavor here to do is analyze the free America, all while we equip ourselves, authority within visual advertisement and its or while ordering the new Bacardi mixer at a bar. our children, and our accessory poodles with interaction with social norms that con~ibute objects we buy based on our desire to connect to cultural identity. ordinance, pop culture, etc.), other autono an individual's interpretation allows that indi to a consumer community. Stephen Greenblatt, in Renaissance Self mous selves, and the events, ideas, and rela vidual the possibility of affecting the social Bonds based on consumption are created Fashioning, pulls from Geertz's idea of the tions manifested by the interactions of the interpretation of reality that created it. while camped outside of malls in line for a impossibility of human nature independent former with the latter and vice versa. In other Greenblatt notes, as one of ten common Tickle Me Elmo or while ordering the new of culture in defining self-fashioning as "the words, while we agree that individuals are governing conditions in self-fashioning, that Bacardi mixer at a bar. The socially estab cultural system of meanings that creates socially created, that one's personal inter one must submit to "an absolute power or lished visions of reality that are the ingredi specific individuals by governing the pas pretations of reality are necessarily formed authority situated at least partially outside ents of a Super Bowl advertisement result in sage from abstract potential to concrete his within the confines ofa social interpretation of the self' and that "self-fashioning is achieved a society that fashions itself and its relation torical embodiment" (3). Self-fashioning is reality, society is at the same time maintained in relation to something perceived as alien, ship to issues of class, gender, race and beauty employed by Greenblatt to "grasp more sen and changed (or, to borrow from Judith Butler, strange, or hostile" (9). Therefore, in order to based on the common desire to obtain com sitively the consequences of [language as a established and destabilized) by the individ create a conscious identity, one must fashion modities. Thus, such a society is controlled collective construction] by investigating both uals within it. an interpretation of reality that stands as an by those who sell. the social presence to the world of the literary This notion of individuals affecting society authority against another interpretation, an There exists a responsibility for estab text and the social presence ofthe world in the . at large hinges upon Saba Mahood's butler alien. It's as if the self is a lump of clay with lishing norms and we seek to hold each image literary text" (5). That is to say that by ana heavy idea of agency as determined through no form except that which authorities and accountable. Interested? Want to hear more? lyzing the language of an author, one may reiteration; i.e., repeated enactment creates aliens mold - like a relief cast, with author Contact us at [email protected]. arrive at an interpretation of that author's cul social norms; social formations are repro ities defining positive space and aliens the turally influenced perspective of reality. By duced through the reenactment of social negative, the two working together insepa Jais Brohinsky and Monear Fatemi analyzing the structures and transformations nonns; and within each individual reenact rably to create shape. The paradox of sub are seniors producing a book about the of an author's language, one may arrive at an ment exists the possibility for failure. Agency, jectivation applies to these meta-dynamics relationship between advertisements and interpretation of that author's self-fashioning, therefore, permeates every action since social of self-fashioning, as well the overarching identity
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By Gar Russo The drivers can adjust the volume of the By Amanda Helser is recommended that you check with your voice high or low. ~ne driver told me that doctor prior to taking this herb. Riding a bike is like taking a vow of she has been 'called into the office' twice If you didn't already know about poverty. The biker could always get a cheap because her volume was not set high enough. ~lympia's gray winter days, you surely know Ginko (Ginko Biloba) car like everybody else or at least ride the She said that she was turned in both times by by now. The lack of sunshine can affect your Ginko, believed to increase blood flow bus, but coasting through the falling flakes a rider who was a member of the eight person energy as well as your mood. Not to worry! to the brain, increases the rate of nerve cell of new snow on a bicycle is like rocketing Intercity Transit board that brought about the You can take control of your health with the transmission. Depression is influenced by through the stars on an intergalactic journey, screaming buses. He is a blind rider, she said, aid of herbal remedies, proper diet, exercise these neurotransmitters (Landis, 293). Ginko and feeling the sting of the freezing rain is and "thinks the world should be built around and sleep. is primarily used to improve mental clarity, to know one is alive. Riding a bike is the him." She continued: "All any blind person Herbs hold complex healing properties in but has mood lifting benefits as well. closest thing to flying that is commonly has to do is to tell the driver where he wants their simple, natural form that aid in healing Specific nutrients are beneficial to mental done since people stopped riding horses. A to get off. That's what we got drivers for." and prevention. The great thing about herbs health, for example, B-complex vitamins biker has to be aware of the natural world The rider and his dog are now being used is that most are easy to find, and look and are sometimes referred to as "brain nutri and plan for the changes. Life is too easy on the cover of the 2007 bus schedule as smell interesting. When using herbs as a tea, ents" (Landis, 294). Interestingly, B vita and bikers gain strength and creativity from warm and fuzzy propaganda, but the talking tincture or topically, I feel more comfort mins are synergistic, meaning that one B adversity -like great art tends to come from buses may be more about building the sur able knowing that my body recognizes herbs vitamin relies on the presence of another great suffering. veillance society and the socialization of the and knows how to use them because of their B vitamin to be optimally effective, for A peddler can't get through the winter public for further changes than f,or helping familiar plant form that makes up a large part example B6 and B 12. Some studies have with a windbreaker, sandals and an umbrella blind friends. of the human diet. Used in its whole form, shown a direct link between depressed people running from building to car and car to My theory is that the internal voice fea herbal treatments rarely have side effects due and B vitamin deficiencies. "The processing building in I-..r;n Hirgy releases endorphins into the bloodstream) used to make cell membranes, which help levels by inhibiting monoamine oxidase. in the neurotransmission of serotonin. EFAs increases the wind chill. Plastic grocery bags anticipating what comes next. The technique It doesn't cause a lot of the unpleasant side are inevening primrose, borage, flaxseed or taped over the biker's shoes with grey duct on the buses can help stop troublesome non effects of prescription anti-depressants like black currant oils. tape are a survivalist's secret and will pre conformist thinking and will keep us all more headaches, anxiety, insomnia or heart prob For more information on herbal reme vent wet, frigid feet. Shoestrings wrapped cow-like. Moo! lems, but it can take a month or more for dies, check out "Herbal Defense: positioning around the pedals can cause a catastrophic Another element of the talking buses is the the effects of St. John's Wort to kick in. yourself to triumph over illness and aging" fall, but plastic grocery bags rip away when surveillance of the drivers. Talking buses are According to David ~verton, PA-C, R.N., a by Robyn Landis and Karta Purkh Singh they get caught in the crank. Some bags are hooked up to the global positioning satellite. physician's assistant and expert on brain bio Khalsa. It is my favorite herbal reference better than others. That is how the voice from space knows what chemistry, "(St. John's Wort] is specifically because it always explains why. Dr. Weil's Babylon has no use for bikes. It would is 'approaching'. The talking buses are for used concurrently or transitionally with anti website, www.drweil.com has helpful arti sell us square wheels and then make us buy headquarter's surveilling convenience and depressant drugs to help patients taper off the cles of herbs and how to prepare them. Also, the upgrade to round ones if it could. Bikes to track the drivers' location and activity: drug ... [He] suggests that two can be used spend an afternoon exploring Radiance's wall don't need oil changes, good gas mileage is speed, braking, doors opening, stops, starts, safely together in this manner if your practi of glass jars filled with herbs, spices and thirty miles on a gallon of beans, and when waits, everything. tioner has experience handling both prescrip teas. They have a wonderful library of well theE-bombs pop off in the upper atmosphere Beyond crowd control and the surveil tion drugs and herbal medicine" (Landis, ness books and very knowledgeable, helpful they will be the only things rolling. Bicycles lance of the drivers, the screaming buses 292). St. John's Wort should be taken with staff. Ifyou're interested in seeing a licensed haven't changed much in a hundred years are pregnant with the future. Already at the food and some people experience hypersen herbalist, come into the student health center and thus bike riders haven't been socialized downtown bus station, video surveillance has sitivity to sun exposure. St. John's Wort can where we can give you a list of referrals. to desire the latest add-ons. Trendy changes been installed. They gave up trying to chase be taken as tea, tincture or capsule at a rec To your good health! don't go much beyond fat tires to skinny ones away undesirables with classical music run ommended dose. If you are taking oral con and skinny ones to fat ones. Nice fenders ning through tin speakers, and instead joined traceptives, St. John's Wort has been known Amanda Helser is a senior, a student med and baskets don't turn heads except maybe the mainstream of the expanding surveillance to decrease the birth control's efficacy, so it ical assistant and is enrolled in Food. in the Last Friday Critical Mass Parade and society. The downtown bus station is down Bike Show. town suspect nation. Everyone is watched all Camille says that "the bike Nazis won't the time. ~neofthe 'security' guards inves- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ talk to you anymore if they see you riding tigates every bus that arrives and sometimes in a car," so the ideological purity of bus even boards the bus and checks out every riding may be in doubt. But life is a com single face. promise and the bus ride is a perk of the stu The inhuman, innocuous, placid presence dent ID. The latest thing on the Intercity of the voice from space is socializing riders is the talking buses. They started showing to the next step in the brave new world of up last November and have since become surveilling convenience: video cameras on the screaming buses with both internal and the buses linked up to face recognition tech external speakers. Citizens who live near bus nology. The only way to avoid that will be to stops must be crazy by now because of the get on your bike and ride for the hills. loud beeping and announcing every time the bus shows up. Gar Russo is a senior with an emphasis in art. 7-YadirioM&. CR{e.§ world FotJeArt- F~~ ... TY~~e § swe~ts~opfYee c;oo~s. covu:.erts, T11e~teY, FOY~A-~M-S., T~stl::::l o..-g~ Vl.ic Foo~, Wilderness Field Instructors Wanted 111 'S-~A-~L~ ~""'0 COIM.IM-IA. VI-it l::::JI Interested in becoming a Wilderness Field Instructor? Stop by the CAB on the 14 of February 10-4 pm and talk to Naomi about joining SU~S. 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Day are remain a mys Fluoxetine prescript " I need to die!" In my high schooljour- But I've learned in my older age that tery. It almost doesn't (i .e. Prozac)," "Center nals, all the memos say the same thing, altruism is just synonym for delusion or good matter. for Counseling: 943- more or less. I keep them around to remind PR. Hobbes and Rousseau were right: it all Whatever it started 3227." For my longer myself that even if I haven't discovered my comes down to self-interest. as was certainly not trails of thought, wall own logical conclusion, at least it's not all In comic books and Jerry-Bruckheimer intended to end up the putty adheres cutouts downhill. movies, all the villains who irrationally hurt way it is now, which of typewritten mind-puke. "I just saw my Silver lining sucks without the contrast people for the sheer hell of it, and all the (I think) is a perfect example of commer face for the first time in months; white-collar of old storm clouds. heroes who labor to rescue a never-ending cialization. It was not until the 1840s that slavery carries the smooth touch of shaving This is in Substance Free housing, so it line of civilians in distress: Why? For Valentine cards were produced. gel." Etc. didn't happen here, but some places, some- what? Creator Esther Howland sold $5000 This, I'm writing in Substance Free times, marijuana is my anti-drug. The way You give me the ability to climb walls and worth of cards, which at the time was a stag housing, which I totally obey. heroin and crystal meth addictions make life shoot webs, I'll probably help folks too, but gering amount. In the 160-something years I swear. insane to the breaking point, ganja does the I' II damn well get the girl first. since, the number of cards sent has increased "Student Counseling services: 360- opposite for me, turning down the volume Here in the real world, there are no vil to over one billion each year in the United 867-6800." B~llow that: "NO SPACE. Crisis on a malfunctioning fight/flight response. lains, just competing heroes with differing States alone. Hotline: 360-586-2800." This is all stuff I Maybe there are better ways to cope, but my agendas. We don't like to think of it this way, A typical holiday card is generally need to not forget. Post-its don't know any. "NO SPACE. Crisis but Hitler (and Alexander Graham Bell and between two and five dollars. That's not In my desk are even thicker piles of blah, Hotline: 360-867-6800." Winston Churchill, by the way) was trying to at all factoring in the chocolates, flowers, notes from spring semester at U. Delaware. • And yeah, I totally understand why do a service to humanity by creating mortal balloons, teddy bears and engagement "In nature. man has unlimited fonnal freedom Housing insists on treating me like a child, godliness out of racial cleanliness. rings or the countries Canada, Mexico, but extremely limited practical freedom, as with it's force-fed meal plans and enthusi No villains, no heroes. "There's no jus the United Kingdom, France and Australia this inevitably creates a war of all against all. astic invasions of privacy, because the sad tice; it's just us." Just me. Sitting at my com that also celebrate Valentine's Day. That Social contract theory is based on the idea truth is that most of the lost boys and girls puter, recalling the week over which I've amount of money is unfathomable to of enlightened self-interest; that is, people around me couldn't- scratch that, can~ be written this piece: the tears and the drugs me, not to mention totally unnecessary. recognizing that cooperating towards mutu- trusted to remove their own garbage or posi and the staring at my reflection in disgust Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ally beneficial goals achieves more for each tion themselves face-down when they pass and fear, the cigarettes, the mornings that begins with the diary entry "Random individual than constant infighting. In effect, out from alcohol abuse. start at noon and take an hour to get out of thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004. Today the social contract (and therefore modern Just like I understand treating all con bed because why the fuck should I bother? is a holiday invented by greeting card com society) is essentially an extremely refined victs like animals, or all queers like nancy and the answer, on the lips of someone !love panies to make people feel like crap." For a agreement among people not to kill each boys; you can't argue with evidence that's in or the ink on a rediscovered Post-It, written good percentage of us, it's true. It's Hallmark other." front of your face. to-and-from myself, saying, "I love you and and American Greetings' genuine and suc This is the same school of thought that "Enlightened self-interest dictates that I'm proud of you. Things will get better." cessful effort. ultimately produced "Give me liberty or when a society fails to provide a net gain lfthere's any truth to be found in this, it's For others, it's a day invented by nonnal give me death," American democracy and for any individual participant, the individu that life lessons can't always be packaged people to make others feel loved. A lot prob Walmart. al 's obedience to that society's laws becomes into fortune-cookie theses. ably fall in the middle and either don't care, Logical conclusions can be so illogical and immoral." U. Delaware again. Sometimes, all you get is to be heard. straddle the fence, want to believe one side depressing. "There's no point in agreeing not to shoot if but actually believe the other or lie to them This is in Substance Free housing, you still end up with a face full of lead." Casey Jaywork is a freshman enrolled selves or others about where their affinna because college is full of choices. Me, I got I) I could fake a suicide note to get into in Tradition and Transformation. He can be tions really I ie. pay money I don't have to cancel my housing counseling, beating out the other crazies with reached at [email protected]. Some go all over the map year to year, contract and move off campus, 2) live in filth, desperate ingenuity (assuming I don't pro- depending on whether or not they have a Valentine. While I'm not against Valentine's Day, I don't support it either. Hypocritically, I consistently and predictably buy into the excuse to give lovey-dovey presents and candy to my friends, family and Valentine. I support the idea of expressing love. nme travel: is it possible? But what I hate and don't support about the holiday is that it's the only day of the year when giving love is expected. Every day should be Valentine's Day. Love is By Danny Siegel of information, he has denied these offers in mental conditions to operate a Jacobs Ladder. something that should and needs to be hopes of finding investors with more phil A screw thrown at the vortex reportedly dis expressed as often as the words are thought. Don't panic! If you anthropic intentions for which he has found appeared then reappeared half a second later. The pressure and anxiety of one little are one of those extraor at least one. His arresting officer commented on another word leaves many people, myself included, dinary few inclined to Although my own views on space and creation of Marcum's, a microwave oven paralyzed to trust it. The expectation that travel backwards in time don't lead me to believe that traveling converted into a cigarette lighter. goes along with it is daunting. time in order to kill to a point in which we once belonged would Now, John Titor's story, albeit incred Everyone has or at least has heard a your grandfather in his lead us to believe that we had in fact done ible, is either true or, at the very least, an horror story of the words "I love you" not infancy, according to so as the subatomic particles which make up amazing piece of well researched and his being returned, laughed at, run away from some theoretical phys matter are already known to travel backwards torically accurate science fiction. His tale, and/or ignored. In some ways, that makes icists, it would not destroy the universe as and forwards in time whereas conscious as told in 2000-200 I, involves the utiliza Valentine's Day the most likely day of the we know it. Whew! Unfortunately, suggests ness, in my muddled view, moves sideways, tion of Kerr micro-singularities created at whole year to not say it. Would love be so Ronald L. Mallett Ph.D., you would not be leaving the past in the wake of the present, CERN's LHC facility in 2036 to bring back intimidating if there weren't billions upon able to travel farther back in time than the the experiment would be in a position to give an IBM 5100 which has the hidden and billions of dollars, television commercials, point in which you powered up your time credence to the philosophical standpoint of subsequently confirmed function of emu magazine advertisements, MTV specials and machine. Assuming of course that your a predetermined fate bound by some hidden lating and debugging mainframe systems movie stars associated with the word? infant grandfather owned and operated a time formula that defines the actions of quantum (systems running UNIX will face similar How would the world and the relation machine, you would still not have any affect, mechanics or that we are predetermined to threats of Y2K proportions as their clock ships in it be different if we were taught at all, on the grandfather you leave behind act in every possible way simultaneously as ends in 2038). Micro-singularities (tiny black from the day we were born that love is or yourself. It is my understanding that Dr. quantum theory suggests. Exciting! A fasci holes) are a theoretical product of the high the most important thing we can give? Mallett's view oftime, grounded in relativ nating article, "The Conceptual Possibility energy collisions only capable at the LHC So then what's the point? Why did I istic and quantum theory, most closely resem of Time Travel" written by George Berger facility. Creating a stable singularity, how spend hours deliberating over what to give bles the paper on which you draw a timeline in The British Journal for the Philosophy ever, is not only difficult, since it requires my Valentine and stand in front of aisles than the timeline itself. of Science, Vol. 19, No. 2. (Aug., 1968), being soaked in energy resembling that of and aisles of cards ready to have a nervous Dr. Mallett is currently in the planning pp. 152-155, is a worthwhile read for those the core of our sun only billions of times breakdown? stages of demonstrating the principles of a inclined to do so. hotter, but would also be pretty dangerous Why is there so much pressure to love proposed time machi.ne. Working closely Beliefs aside, I've listened to and read if dropped. Good news though, we may all some one more on this one random day than with Dr. Mallett is an experimental physi about reported events that give reason to share a micro-grave yet! The Z machine at any other of the year? Why do I feel like a cist with an expertise in laser technology. pause and consider the possibilities. One Sandia National Laboratories has been able failure on the years when I don't have some The much anticipated machine utilizes the story with details of a machine that some to produce temperatures reaching two bil one to have an aisle-three-panic-attack o.ver? theory that light creates gravity, which can what resembles that of Dr. Mallett's involves lion Kelvin and pressures that can and have Why is it not enough to just love ourselves? in turn slow time. By getting a beam of light a man, Michael Marcum, who was subse melted diamonds. to travel in a circle, according to his cal quently arrested for his nefarious appre Speculation suggests, if all goes well with Alexandra Tobolsky is a second-year culations, would create a doorway to that hension of the materials for his contraption. Mallett's experiments, we would see his tech transfer enrolled in Russia and Eurasia, point in time and space. Funding required One of six unused transfonners stolen from a nology at work within our lifetimes. So, time Thucydides and Democracy, Understanding for this experiment is estimated at or around Missouri power station was used in conjunc travel anyone? the Legislative Process and Evergreen ' one quarter million dollars for which he has tion with a modified laser extracted from a Singers. 'She is also the CPJ Letters and received offers several times over, but always CD player created, as he described, a circular Danny Siegel is a junior enrolled in Opinions Coordinator. She welcomes sub with the stipulation that his research be clas vortex. The configuration was originally Awareness. missions, comments and questions at sified. As an avid proponent of the freedom designed to establish the proper environ- TobAle2 4@evergreen. edu. 8 Cooper Point Journal February 15, 2007 sports Evergreen basketball still strong EVERGREEN BOX SCORES By Arland Hurd Men's basketball Evergreen hosted men and TESC vs. Northwest College women's basketball Friday February 9, 2006 night at the CRC, where Attendance: not given both teams played Northwest Total by period I st 2nd Total College. The women beat TESC 28 26 54 Northwest College with a Northwest College 25 28 53 score of 77-66. - The women's momentum gave the Geoducks a healthy lead with six minutes left in the game. Joy White # 10 had some impressive rebounds and got the women started on Women's Basketball the roll. Ultimately, Northwest' s TESC vs. Northwest College team brought their own rally February 9, 2006 but not enougn to take the Attendance: not given lead from The Evergreen State Total by period I st 2nd Total College. The women host TESC 31 47 77 ·cascade College on February Northwest College 31 35 66 16 at 5:30p.m. in the CRC. The men took to the court at 7 p.m. and got their rou tine in gear, with some of the pass plays and free throw they normally do. playing the way they n,eed to. practices. The dynamics that have resided in The men's next game is also on The men have lost four athletes this the team were alive and robust and February 16, starting at 7 p.m. season and their defense showed the when Howard #I passed around two strain. However, Geoduck men did defenders to Green #24 who assisted Arland Hurd is a senior enrolled in manage to rally an 8-point run in the Moore #5 for a two point lay up; the Mind and the World. first half, showing off their offense as crowd knew that the team was still Send the CPJ your sports photos Send your content to [email protected], or visit our qffice (CAB 316) Mondays from 3 to 5 p.m. Write for the The weekly deadline for content is 3 p.m. on Mondays. Cooper Point Journal Ema1J your work to [email protected] or stop by CAB 31 G. f;JtilN'I, J\.1111 1.. 1f~il'l,l f) NS Nf) ltr Jl\TJ\.1 I.J\.111 .. 1~!! -(~() N SI~ lt\Ti\'1'1 () N- J) l~lll) J.. INI~: -I~ I)IJ (~i\'1'1 () N- )Jilll(~ll 5, 2()()7 -I)I~ II()N S'l'lli\'1'1 () N- 1l1•1• 1.. 1c~1l'ri ct Ns 1l lTillt.Jlllt .. l~: S&Ll ()1~1~1(~1~, (~illl !J2() ()It l\7 1\71\'.l~lTJ~ llC.Ili~I~N .I~ I) IJ /(~() IIIII'I"ri~I~/S IJ S'l'iliN illl IJ.. I'IY 'I'IJilN IN ili•t•J.. J(~il'riCtNS 'I'() (~illl !J2() ()Jl I~ IIlli I.. 'rCt (~J.. I~ilNI~NI~ItC•Y @l~lTJ~IlC.Ili~I~N .I~I)IJ ·Ja!qJ·DJ·l01!P~ 800Z· LOOZ ' e lOJ Ju!~OOJ S! JIDJDOf JD!Od JadOOJ aq1 ' 'Moo~ ApeaJJI 1,uop no! Jl [0 Cooper Point Journal February 15. 2007 calendar On Campus Off Campus Thursday, 15 Monday, 19 8 p.m. Jim Malcolm Thursday, 15 7:30 p.m. Men's Basketball game. 8 p.m. Ether, Generation Unknown, Kelvin Traditions Cafe, 300 5th Ave. SW Charlie's Bar & Grill, 620 4th Ave. S 12 to I p.m. Cultural Anthropology faculty Geoducks v. Cascade College. CRC. candidate Patty Kelly, "Modern Love: Sexual $15, student/low income $10 $5 Commerce, Public Health, and the State in Saturday, 17 Friday, 16 Urban Mexico." SEM II, C2107. I 0 a.m. to II :30 p.m. LAN party. SEM II, Tuesday, 20 E II 05. Hosted by Student Video Garners 9 p.m. Sweet City Slang Jacob And Lily, The 3 p.m. EF Student Cultural Representation: Alliance. Eastside Club Tavern Hemlock Society, Usanatron Japan. LJ-1 I. $3 Le Voyeur, 404 4th Ave E 5 to 9:30 p.m. Family Fun Night Free, 21+ 17 3 to 5 p.m. SESAME Film Festival: & Student Appreciation Night. Saturday, Screening of"Arna's Children" followed by CRC lobby. Hosted by Umoja. I 0 p.m. They Shoot Horses Don't They, Son, Wednesday, 21 presentation by Palestinian teenager. LH 5. Man Plus 7 to 9 p.m. Skate land Dollar Night Le Voyeur, 404 4th Ave E 6 to 9 p.m. Non-violent communication 2725 12th Ave. NE Free, 21+ 5 to 7 p.m. Multimedia Lab workshop: Peak/ workshop. SEM II, D II 07. llosted by MIT. $1 w/ skates, $2 without skates. lntro Soundtrack. LIB 1404. 18 7 p.m. "The Vagina Monologues" hosted by Sunday, 6 p.m. "When the Levees Broke" film WRC. COMM Recitalllall. I to 4 p.m. Capoeira Angola Pal mares screening. LH 3. Hosted by WashPIRG, Midnight Sun, 113 Co lumbia St. Mindscreen, VOX, Carnival, PAC, & 7 :30 p .m. Men's Basketball game. $10 drop-in EPIC. Geoducks v. Warner Pacific College. 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