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A living symbol of
injustice
Johnny Legrand-Beall
Staff Writer
Photo by David Kasnic
Shoreline's Kari Fiske prepares for a serve from Green River's Yuki Nakamura on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at
Shoreview Park. New budgtet proposals could push the tennis program out of SCC. > See page 14
Weekend class goes green
Wes Abney
Business Manager
A new certificate program specializing in solar power is starting this
spring.
The class represents an effort by
SCC to provide alternative energy
education and training.
The class is called Solar Thermal
Space Hot Water Design & Install, listed under the Zero Energy Technology
heading. Solar energy uses sunlight
to convert heat into electricity, which
essentially becomes free energy for
home or commercial use. The only
cost is the solar panels, everything
else comes from the sun.
Mike Nelson, an avid alternative
energy enthusiast, teaches the class.
“I went off the grid [city power
lines] in 1976,” he said. “It has been
through solar and wind energy, and
general conservation of energy.”
As part of living off the grid, Nelson
produces 100 percent of his own electricity, and is not connected to any
city power lines.
During the five-week program,
students take classes on Friday
and Saturday. This allows working
students to still participate in the
index
program.
“My wife and I take Adult Education
Classes, and she was looking through
the catalog when she saw the class,”
said student Scott Bushnell. “She
said ëIsnít this what you were thinking about doing in California?í It was
what I needed, so I jumped on and
registered.”
Although there are exclusive programs around the country specializing in alternative energy systems,
they are rare and expensive. The
certificate program offers a local alternative to profit driven training
seminars.
“It is a significant savings to go to
SCC and learn on the weekends,” said
Bushnell.
Beyond saving money, the program
also offers industry opportunities.
“The program makes students
into system designers,” said Nelson.
“They are the people who provide
guidance to installers, consumers,
and contractors.”
Upon completing the program, it
is possible to go straight into the job
market.
“We're looking at this course as a
possible business venture,” said stu-
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dent Lisa McKitrick. “What drew me
in were the Zero Energy House and
the new certificate program.”
The program has been mentioned
on local national public radio, and
is looking to expand in the fall. Like
most growing industries, solar programs have generated a worldwide
interest.
“This is an industry that is going to grow rapidly through the first
half of the 21st century,” said Nelson.
“Worldwide, a year ago, 6,000 megawatts were installed. This year, 12,000
megawatts were installed.”
With high demand driving oil and
energy prices higher, a shift is being made towards renewable energy
sources that are not harmful to the
environment.
“This [the solar industry] is growing in a geometric progression,” said
Nelson. “The dominoes are falling.
Along with the course offered this
quarter, two more classes are being
offered next fall. With Shoreline being
the first in the state to offer this technical education, they will continue
to spearhead the alternative energy
movement.
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TECHNOLOGY 10
James Yee is a living symbol of mistreatment to detainees. He raises objections for
the mistreatment of prisoners and fights the ignorance of
Islamaphobia. His 10 months at
Guantanamo Bay have left him
with an eye opening experience
of the travesties we are still dealing with to this day.
Yee is a former U.S. Army
officer and graduate of West
Point. He served as the Muslim
Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay
Cuba.
Yee
was
stationed
at
Guantanamo Bay to help the
camp commanders learn more
about the religious practices of
Islam. He also spent his time
objecting to the cruel, degrading, and unethical treatment of
the prisoners. Despite claims of
“cleaning up” at Guantanamo,
“Since I have left four prisoners
have committed suicide, and
many others have gone on hunger strikes,” Yee said.
Yee was officially recognized
twice for outstanding performance at Guantanamo, and
was looked up too by many.
But in September of 2003, while
coming home to visit his family, he was arrested and imprisoned for 76 days. He was falsely
accused for spying, espionage,
and aiding the alleged Taliban
and al-Qaeda prisoners. For
these charges he was facing the
death penalty.
While imprisoned, Yee endured the same cruel treatment
as the Guantanamo Bay prison-
ers. Solitary confinement and
sensory deprivation techniques
which are supposed to only be
used for enemy combatants,
were used on Yee. “Every candidate running right now supports
the closure of Guantanamo
Bay,” Yee said.
While in prison, a female
agent tried to turn Yee’s wife
against him, by claiming that
he was having an adulterous affair with women on base. The
agent had pictures of Yee with
the women to show his wife. Yee
had been in many pictures, but
a few were selectively chosen
to try to upset his wife so she
would give the government evidence against him. Still, there
was no evidence to uncover to
begin with.
Why did this man get locked
up? What was the government
trying to keep quiet?
Yee has a very important insight to share with the world. He
has seen things that we will never see. As the Muslim Chaplain,
everyone in Guantanamo knew
him. He had a personal experience with the mistreatment,
the racism, and the culture
bashing.
Apparently, for the U.S. government this man was too much
of a liability. So they imprisoned
him under false pretenses and
tried to ruin the name of an innocent man.
Come see Yee on May 14, or
look for his book. “For God and
Country: Faith and Patriotism
under Fire,” which was written
with journalist Aimee Molloy.
James Yee at SCC
On Wednesday, May 14, Shoreline Community College
will be hosting a discussion with special guest speaker
James Yee. Former Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay.
Times and locations of the event are listed below:
9:30 & 10:30a.m. - Room 2308
"Guantanamo: A Muslim chaplain's struggle for human
rights and Justice" special presentation by Chaplain Yee.
11:30 a.m. –PUB Room 9208 (Quiet Dining Room)
Brown bag lunch with SCC students and faculty.
12:30 p.m. - Room 2308
Campus-wide address
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2 Power of One Leadership Conference empowers Project
Pride to take action
Vivian Luu
Editor-in-Chief
Members of Project Pride, a student club for Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning
(GLBTQ) individuals and fellow activists on campus, recently attended the Power of One Leadership
Conference at Portland State University. They completed a series of workshops and connected with other GLBTQ groups in the northwest.
Project Pride President Sam’ Birran and member
Matt Hicks attended the conference with SCC Library
Archives Paraprofessional Debbie Doepping. Cecelia
Martinez Vasquez of the SCC Women’s Center organized the trip.
The conference’s theme was “Queering Academics”
and focused on empowering students to take action
for GLBTQ rights on college campuses and in the
community.
Power of One workshops covered many topics, including individuals’ roles in homelessness, transgender lifestyles and career management.
“The workshops I went to helped me figure out how
to organize our club on campus,” said Birran. “When
I came back to the Project Pride meeting, I was able to
present an effective club meeting with lots of role play
activities and discussion.”
At the conference, Hicks recalled viewing
“TransGeneration,” a Sundance documentary about
four transgender students. He also participated in a
discussion with one of the students from the show.
“I went to the workshop because I wanted the experience of being trangender as much as possible," Hicks
said. “After watching the film and talking to other students at the conference, I realized how ostracized and
secluded some of these students can feel at times.”
Hicks also attended a workshop that focused on
challenges that queer individuals are likely to face in
the workforce, such as homophobia.
“We’re lucky enough that we live in Seattle, where
being gay is accepted for the most part,” said Hicks.
“But in [other areas of the country,] you can get fired
just for being gay. There’s that much discrimination
going on.”
Hicks and Birran are now planning on bringing
their resources to SCC in hopes of empowering students to take steps toward promoting a safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of their sexual
orientation.
Announcement
Apply to be a member of the Student Body
Association Parliament (a.k.a. the Student
Government)
There are 10 positions open for next year.
May 14, 2008 is the last day to submit
applications.
• Minister of Social Justice
• Prime Minister
• Minister of Records
• Minister of Finance
• Minister of Government
• Minister of Constitutional affairs
• Minister of Treasury
• Minister of Communication
Pick up applications in the library and the
Student Leadership Center (on the third floor of
the PUB).
If you have questions,
Contact: Bryan Hill or Lisa Smith
(206)546-6996
(206) 546-4654
[email protected]
[email protected]
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SCC students Matt Hicks (left) and Sam ' Birran (right) met with Power of One Conference
speaker Kendal Clawson (center, top) with Faculty member Debbie Doepping (center,
bottom). Clawson is the Executive Director of Portland's GLBTQ community center.
Project Pride will be hosting a presentation on GLBTQ rights in May, as well as a
showing of “Red Without Blue,” a documentary on a successful man who struggles
through an identity crisis when his brother
undergoes a sex change.
“This conference left me with the feeling that Project Pride needs to not only be
open to what club members want, but what
students want to see and need to see,” said
Birran. “[Matt and I] feel that we need to
give back what we learned to the campus.”
Birran recalled that while she was putting
up Project Pride posters around campus,
an individual came up to her and asked her
for a poster. Birran willingly gave her one,
but the individual crumpled up the poster,
threw it on the ground and uttered profanities at her.
Birran also mentioned that she has had to
re-post Project Pride flyers in the library several times because they were taken down.
“This is constantly happening, whether it
is reported to the college or not,” said Hicks.
“This is what [Project Pride] is trying to prevent. I doubt anyone would like to be treated
with so much disrespect, so I don’t see why
someone should have to put up with this on
a day-to-day basis just because they’re gay,
lesbian [or transgender].”
Class is in session
for Vietnamese
clubVietnamese Club
teaches members
Janelle Kohnert
Copy Editor & Distribution
Manager
Son Tran, President of
SCC’s Vietnamese Club, is
teaching its members to read
and write in Vietnamese.
The club has 24 members,
three of which come to the
PUB cafeteria at 1 p.m. ever
Tuesday and Thursday to
learn Vietnamese. The club
has two other non-Vietnamese speaking members, but
they’re unable to attend the
PUB cafeteria meetings due
to scheduling conflicts.
Riley Dinh, a club member
who attends the Vietnamese
teaching sessions, said
that Tran is a good teacher.
However, the group gets easily distracted easily when
other club members drop by
to visit."
Tran is excited to teach and
wants interested students to
join Vietnamese Club. “We
are trying to reach out to everyone we can,” Tran said.
Most members who are
currently learning to read
and write Vietnamese from
Tran already know how to
speak it. For instance, club
member Theo Ngo is full
Vietnamese and has learned
to speak Vietnamese from his
parents, but never learned to
read or write it.
Tran started teaching
Vietnamese to his eager club
members late last quarter,
and has succeeded in teaching them spelling and vocabulary so far. “I think I’ve done
my best,” Tran said.
Vietnamese Club usually organizes activities
with other clubs on campus. They worked with
the International Program
Mentors to host a pumpkin
carving activity in October.
The club also has bowling nights on Thursdays and
is planning an on-campus
Vietnamese movie day on
May 1 in the PUB.
The Vietnamese Club welcomes new members of all
nationalities to their meetings in the PUB cafeteria
from 1:45 p.m. to 3 p.m. each
Friday.
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BRIEFS
Visitors' lot leads to parking
trouble
Janelle Kohnert
Copy Editor & Distribution Manager
Lately, the visitors’ parking lot in front of
the 1000 building at SCC has been creating
problems for many students.
It seems imperative that SCC students
learn the rules of the -ot so that unaffordable parking tickets and the appeals process
for tickets can be avoided.
According to Gibler, at the beginning of
each quarter about five to 10 parking tickets are issued per day in the visitors lot. The
number of tickets issued each day declines
gradually as students learn that the visitors
lot is not intended for them.
From all of the parking lots at SCC combined, “We probably average somewhere
between 20-40 tickets a day,” said Gibler.
Three quarters ago the Safety and Security
department found that 30 percent of issued
tickets were appealed. It is unknown what
percentage of appeals are successful, but, “it
depends on what the student says in the explanation portion of the appeal, past tickets,
the nature of the violation,” said Gibler.
All parking lots on campus are checked
daily, and the visitors lot isn’t checked more
often than other lots on campus, according
to Gibler.
Visitors to campus can park in the visitors
lot by getting a free parking pass from the
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Speechless SCC
1000 building.
The parking lot attendants can find out if a
car in the visitors lot belongs to a student by
analyzing their databases.
Students can park in any lot directly on campus with a parking permit, including the greenwood lot. The Sears lot is free for all students
and a shuttle runs between the school and the
Sears lot from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.
Some students may be eligible for a free carpool parking permit, which allows students to
park in the Greenwood lot for free.
Earth watch goes to Washington
Ivanhoe
Contributing Writer
Mother Earth is not a human being, so she
is ineligible to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Still, one wonders how she
might vote if she were eligible. The three major candidates all have positions on environmental issues, and, perhaps more importantly,
Senate voting records, that we can look at.
As an executive officer, the president is
tasked with enforcing existing environmental
laws, and signing international treaties on the
environment. The president oversees and appoints the leadership of several federal agencies who help carry out the nation’s environmental agenda, including the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Department of
Transportation, the Department of Energy,
and the Department of Agriculture.
Compiled here are some of the facts, figures,
and quotations from our major presidential
candidates.
The Democrats
Both Clinton and Obama have position
documents on their websites relating to energy and environmental issues. The differences
between the two are nuanced, and lie more in
what they do not address than what they do.
The Clinton campaign’s “Powering America’s
Future: Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Address the
Energy and Climate Crisis,” claims that Clinton
calls for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050,
and the production of 25 percent of America’s
energy from renewable sources by 2025. The
Obama campaign’s “Barack Obama’s Plan to
Make America a Global Energy Leader” sets
exactly the same goals.
SCC Safety and Security on the web
The SCC Safety and Security recently revamped its website and
added the following features:
- New emergency procedure posters: Students can now access the new
emergency procedure posters online. The posters are brightly colored
and have been pinned up around
campus.
- Domestic violence resources:
These links online are designed to
be a starting point for victims of relationship and other forms of domestic violence.
- Parking brochure: Where can you
park on campus? What do you need
to do to avoid a huge parking fine? All
of that information is online now for
your viewing pleasure.
Contact information for Safety
and Security personnel is also available online for questions and incident reports.
Both candidates support a “cap-and-trade”
system in which a finite number of permits will
be auctioned to businesses that will give them
allowances for how much greenhouse gas they
can produce. The total number of permits
in existence would not change, so the total
amount of greenhouse gas emissions would
theoretically remain constant.
Obama and Clinton support tax incentives
to businesses and families who invest in renewable energy. They also favor regulating
fuel efficiency standards, and regulating energy companies’ profits so that they make their
money based on energy efficiency rather than
total energy consumption, although they both
leave that regulation up to the states.
Additionally, both candidates want to create “green collar” jobs in the energy industry to
help create the infrastructure to make macroscale renewable energy possible. Both support
phasing out incandescent light bulbs in favor
of compact fluorescents, though Obama’s plan
seems slightly more aggressive. Meanwhile,
both want to reduce dramatic deforestation,
but Clinton’s plan also calls for reforestation.
Knowing their positions during an election
cycle is only half the picture—their Senate voting records can also be revealing. The League of
Conservation Voters (LCV) is a non-profit environmental organization that tracks the votes
of every member of Congress and contrasts
their votes with how the LCV would vote.
Since the beginning of the current congressional session, Clinton has voted with the positions of the League of Conservation Voters 73
percent of the time. The remaining votes are
not votes against the LCV’s positions, but rather non-votes. By contrast, in the previous sessions, she voted with the LCV 89 percent of the
time, and 92 percent of the time a year earlier.
Senator Obama voted with the League of
Conservation Voters 67 percent of the time so
far this session. Most of the remainder are nonvotes, but he did vote against an amendment
on water resources that the LCV supported.
Most senators, regardless of party, rejected this
amendment, although Clinton supported it. In
the previous session, the LCV gave Obama a 96
percent rating.
The Republican
John McCain is much more difficult to
pin down. His rhetoric seems environmentfriendly, but neither his campaign website nor
his voting record give a very clear picture of
what kind of leader he would be on environmental issues. “He has offered common sense
approaches to limit carbon emissions,” says
his campaign site, “by harnessing market forces that will bring advanced technologies, such
as nuclear energy, to the market faster, reduce
our dependence on foreign supplies of energy,
and see to it that America leads in a way that
ensures all nations do their rightful share.”
The League of Conservation voters gives
McCain a 0 percent rating for the current session, however, because he failed to vote either
way on any of the votes being tracked by the
LCV. He received a 41 percent rating for the
previous session of Congress, and a 56 percent
the year before.
In spite of these low ratings, according to
Grist, an environmental news website, the LCV
endorsed him for his 2004 Senate election over
Democrat Stuart Starky. Like his democratic
opponents for president, McCain has opposed
drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, and supports a cap-and-trade system
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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SCC's American Sign Language
(ASL) Club will be hosting its fourth
annual ASL Bowl on May 3 from 9:30
a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in the gym.
Started (and hosted) by ASL professor Richard Jacobs (RJ), the bowl is
an activity designed to help boost
students' confidence in using ASL on
a comprehensive and conversational
level. Anyone including SCC students
who are taking ASL class or not will
have opportunity to learn ASL from
Professor RJ as well as watching five
high schools from Washington State
competing.
Interested? Head over to the gym
on May 3 between 9:30 a.m. and
11:45
p.m. You'll experience the most silent event with full of flying hands
you have been to. Also, you would be
surprised how much you will learn
from this free unique event.
Safe Sex and Sexually Transmitted
Diseases/Infections
(STDs/STIs)
Info Booth
Join Shoreline Community Colleges
5th Quarter Nursing Students for information about responsible sexual
behavior at the booth set up at the
entrance to the computer lab of the
library on Monday, April 28 from 9:00
a.m. to 1 p.m. Take our quick STD
Challenge Test and enjoy candy and
free condoms as giveaways.
CORRECTIONS
The following are corrections for
Vol. 43 No. 11.
The Ebbtide seeks to provide its
readers with fair and accurate information. Send us an email at
[email protected] if you have
question or comments regarding
out published material.
• The illustration for “Income Tax:
Debt or Decpetion?” on page 6 was
drawn by Phillip Kelly.
• Jonathan Legrand-Beall’s name
was spelled incorrectly in the staff box
on page 2.
• The photo in the A&E section
without a "cutline" was a photo of
"Boy's Life," a play that was recently
performed at SCC.
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OPINIONS
The military ad is a pox on the Ebbtide
Conor Williams
Staff Writer
As a new writer for the Ebbtide, I was dismayed
to hear that there is a full-page ad dedicated to
the U.S. Army among these pages. I understand
the need for financing, but is it appropriate for
a college newspaper’s funding to come from the
U.S. Army? I find the answer to be an emphatic
“No!”
To me, this is a ploy by the Army to take advantage of the insufficient funding of a college newspaper to further their agenda, which is to attract
as many recruits as possible.
Right now the Army needs people. That’s why
we’ve become familiar with “stop-loss.” The operations of the U.S. military are currently too farreaching for their enrollment.
So, instead of scaling back those operations,
they look for venues in which they can promote themselves and attract more unsuspecting
recruits.
As a body, the U.S. military is currently engaged in an occupation which is basically outand-out illegal according to the U.N. and the
Geneva Conventions (Iraq) and a war that is legal but has been almost completely cast aside
(Afghanistan).
The U.S. Army needs these wars to continue,
because they are currently using them to prop
up our failing economy. The wars are also being used to pour money into some of the richest
corporations in the world, including Raytheon,
Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and our
beloved Boeing.
Have you noticed the U.S. Army’s claims that
they’ll pay for up to 75 percent of college tuition
or, as in the ad featured on one of these pages
says, you can “Earn up to $40,000 to start the
business of your dreams or buy the home you always wanted?” Sounds good, doesn’t it?
Well, people have exposed the Army by finding
that these claims are not actually true, and that
only a certain percentage of recruits can access
the funds advertised.
There’s a limited amount of money available to
recruits; not everyone can benefit from the perceived 75 percent tuition coverage or $40,000.
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If you aren’t eligible for more money, or if
you are denied, then good luck paying for
yourself! Same goes for that dream house.
The Army has no obligation to give you the
money they say they’ll give you.
A more devious revelation is that when
you sign a contract with the Army, you are
held to that contract indefinitely. You may
sign up for only two years, but the Army
can change the terms of your contract at
any time. Surprisingly enough, you cannot.
But, if you break the agreement, you can be
prosecuted.
That sounds fair, right?
Do you think that military recruiters really care about you? That’s why they’ve become recruiters. They can easily give the
impression that they care about your wellbeing, while they really have nothing to do
with you after you’ve signed up. You are just
another tally on their sheet as they try to fill
their recruitment quota.
The sad fact is that the Army needs people to continue their aggressive use of force
in the Middle East.
They don’t care who you are, and they are
willing to bend regulations if you sign on
the dotted line. All they want is that signa-
ture because after that, you are theirs.
If you are thinking about joining the
Army, I beg you to reconsider, especially if the ad in this paper has influenced
you.
Look at what the U.S. military is doing in the world: An illegal occupation, 820 military installations in over
39 countries, a standing army warned
against by Jefferson and Washington
and complete support of a military industrial complex warned against by
Eisenhower. Please, please think better
of it. Your life may depend on it.
Street kid fundamentals
Johnathan Legrand-Beall
Staff Writer
This is the coldest spring I
remember. It’s especially hard
for people who do not
live in a warm, fully
heated home. I’m
looking outside at
the snow falling.
The kids that
make the streets of Seattle their home
have taught me far more then I ever
thought they would. The first thing I was
asked when I walked up to their stage
downtown was, “Do you need a fresh pair
of socks?” This threw me off. I’m not accustomed to this type of lifestyle, such
generosity and compassion. Unless
you have lived on the streets you will
probably never understand it.
A sixteen-year-old girl had
a suitcase full of warm clothes
for her friends. Hats, socks, scarves, etc… I
thanked the girl for her socks offer. I was then
openly greeted by many kind hearted homeless kids. Although a few of them gave me
their first names, most did not, and asked to
not be quoted or sourced. These kids aren't
very trusting, but why should they be?
When I asked a group of them if they have
ever gone to shelters, they laughed at me.They
told me that the few shelters that they have
4 heard of ask for too much money. This mirrored the two hours of research I did on the
phone pretending to be a homeless kid. I was
not even able to find a place for the night. It
is not a simple task.
The more I asked, the more upset I got.
What if you had nothing? No one to call,
no food or shelter. The only thing to turn to
is what you’ve learned from your parents,
or what you’ve learned from other street
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kids,or maybe what you’ve learned from the
older homeless drug addicts. Some homeless kids take the easy answer to a cheap
happiness. A moment to forget, to feel okay,
at least for a while.
Drugs are the therapy of the streets. It
helps the homeless get by. Pan handling and
selling drugs gives them the money to eat.
What a cycle. They’re pushed into it! One girl
stated that her parents had both died and
her aunt never wanted her. Another girl’s
parents were drug addicts and she came to
the street to get away from them.
There are many situations, most involve
neglect, abuse, drugs, or horrible parenting. Forced to spend the little money
they can scrounge up, the homeless
kids choose between drugs, food, or
shelter. They’re pushed into crime
for survival so they can try to have all
three. School is out of the picture for many of them, because
this lifestyle has consumed
them. What would school mean to you when
you have no one encouraging you to go?
Foster homes are another option, but
homeless kids are tired of the endless cycle
of moves and the slim possibility of finding
adoption parents.
Many people are quick to judge
these kids, because they feel they
have made poor choices. I say, how
dare you! You have never looked through
their eyes. You have never lived their life. You
never experienced what they went through
to get where they are. You have no idea what
they have experienced since they’ve been on
the streets. Don’t judge. Just be sympathetic.
Just be caring.
OPINIONS
No parking… tickets!
Erika Ewing
Staff Writer
There is one thing that I hate more than
speeding tickets, and that is parking tickets.
I really feel that parking is just the city’s way
of making more money on people’s basic
needs. Our school is doing the same.
Think about it, people. We all pay tuition
which is expensive in itself. Then we pay for
overpriced textbooks, even though they say
that we’re getting a good deal. But to charge
for a parking pass is so cheap of SCC. To
charge overpriced parking tickets on top of
that is even more cruel.
What is more annoying is that our security guards are the ones giving tickets instead
of actual parking staff. Go ahead and steal
the classroom television, just as long as you
have a student parking pass.
The reason I’m upset is that I know I’m
speaking for many people. I am the voice for
the student who is late to class when a parking spot opens for them, the student who
only has one class a day, the one who is here
for even less than an hour and visitor parking seems safe. I’m the voice for those who
just want to park their car in a lot at their
school with “no strings attached.”
I am new here, and since I’ve been here
all I hear about or have worries about is the
parking situation. Complaining about it
won’t do much, so instead I have gathered
the facts. The surrounding colleges and universities in the greater Seattle area also have
parking lots. Here’s how our parking prices
compare to theirs.
Shoreline CC: requires student park-
ing passes ($25 purchase) + $25 no student
pass parking, $25 Student in Visitor parking
(Student parked in visitor parking= $50)
Edmonds CC: Free Student Parking
North Seattle CC: $16 parking tickets for
parking lot
Bellevue CC: Free Student Parking
University of Washington: Free Student
parking
Looks to me like the parking fees for this
school are pretty Looney. But like they say
in Looney tunes “If you can’t beat ‘em, join
‘em.” I’ve spoken to parking experts such as
Officer Becky Gibler who has a glass-halffull perspective on the parking situation.
“It really breaks down to .50 cents a day,”
said Gibler. “So try to buy the quarterly permits. It really actually saves you money.”
Also, from what I have been told the daily
parking permits end up to be more money
than they’re worth.
As for me, I’m parking far away and walking to school because I would rather not
get a ticket. Even though the neighborhood
people hate it, they don’t issue parking tickets. They can complain and get “no parking”
signs put up in front of their houses, and I’ll
just park my car a tiny bit farther away.
If we all make our voices heard about the
parking situation perhaps the fees, the permits, and the hassle will just disappear and
we can all be happy with the parking at our
school. I say no more parking passes and no
more overpriced parking tickets.
MAN ON THE STREET
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Torture memo sheds new light
Conor Williams
Staff Writer
Since the start of the war in Afghanistan
and the occupation of Iraq, ‘torture’ is a
word with which we have all become too
familiar.
From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, story
after story has come out regarding torture
carried out by American troops, intelligence
agencies, or their surrogates.
Though many people have suspected otherwise, we’ve always been told either that
the torture was isolated and not approved
by the government, or that the information
we were using the torture to procure was so
important that could not be avoided.
In fact, the government will not even
clearly define what they consider to be torture, but that’s a discussion for another day.
With the recent release of a previously
classified memo written by former Office of
Legal Consent deputy John C. Yoo issued on
March 14 2003, it has become obvious that
the mandate for torture came from the top.
This document opened the floodgates for
the use of torture, stating that criminal statutes prohibiting torture did not apply because, “such criminal statutes, if they were
misconstrued to apply to the interrogation
of enemy combatants, would conflict with
the Constitution's grant of Commander in
Chief power solely to the President."
The memo also states, “If a government
defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner
that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to
prevent further attacks on the United States
by the al Qaeda terrorist network," seemingly blanket-qualifying all types of abuse.
This is a far cry from the parroting of the
phrase “We do not torture,” used constantly
by Bush himself after various torture scandals broke out over the last four years.
In fact, Bush recently admitted in an interview on ABC that he was aware of his national security advisers’ approval of specific
interrogation methods to be used on ‘high
value’ al Qaeda suspects.
“I'm aware our national security team
met on this issue,” Bush said in an interview,
“And I approved.”
Surprisingly enough, the national media
have not jumped on such statements from
Bush or the dirty specifics of the Yoo memo
even though they seem to provide evidence
of impeachment worthy offenses from the
Bush administration.
Torture is not a reliable method of retaining information. It is an illegal act, and the
use and endorsement of it by our own government is only making the world more
dangerous for American citizens, and especially American soldiers. It needs to stop.
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Empowering humanity
Dr. Ernest Johnson has a cure
for cultural intolerance
Rezina Habtemariam
Contributing Writer
“You see?” Ernest Johnson often asks his students enthusiastically. That's just the way he is:
He wants his students to draw
their own conclusions after he
teaches a lesson.
Referred to as Dr. J by his
students, Johnson teaches
Multi-Cultural Studies, African
Cultures and African American
History (parts I & II) here at
SCC. He has traveled around
the world and uses his life experiences to teach. “Teaching
Multi-Cultural studies is my
form of struggle, it’s my form of
protest,” Dr. J said.
Born in 1953 into a military
family, Dr. J lived in several states
throughout his adolescent and
teenage years. “I was born in San
Pedro, California… I attended kindergarten in Germany
and grades first through third
in Tacoma,” Dr. J said. “I was in
Pomona, California for fourth
grade, New Jersey for fifth
through seventh grade, Virginia
for eighth through tenth grade
and San Francisco for eleventh
and twelfth grade.”
Though he lived during the
Civil Rights era, Dr. J was not
engaged in social movements
at first.
“It was 1968 and I remember
being in middle school and one
of the white boys known to be
racist walked up to me and said,
‘Your leader has been killed,’
with a cheesy grin on his face.
I asked him what he was talking about and he said, ‘Martin
Luther King was shot and killed.’
I just said, ‘Who told you he was
my leader?’ and the boy looked
confused and walked away,” Dr.
J said.
“I didn’t really know about
Martin Luther King, I was just
in total ignorance and oblivion
about what was going on… I
didn’t have a sense of what the
movement was really about,”
Dr. J said. “Gradually by the time
I was in high school, I was becoming more politicized and realized that there was this movement going on in the world.”
After receiving his BA in psychology from the University of
Hawaii (UH) in 1975, Dr. J became a lecturer in Ethnic Studies
for the next two years. During
this time, a Muslim man from
New York named Alwad arrived
on the UH campus on a mission
to teach Islam. After creating a
buzz, Alwad met Dr. J and introduced him to Sudanese graduate students.
“I thought they were exemplary people who were humbled but dignified,” Dr. J said.
He began learning the basics
of Islam and was interested in
its message. Adwad would constantly tell Dr. J that he must
go to “Suuudan, the land of the
Suuufi’s,” a message that still
plays in Dr. J’s mind.
In 1977 Dr. J went to Sudan
along with a Sudanese graduate
student and met a Sufi (dimension of Islam) Master.
Dr. J spent the next nine years
in Sudan studying with Al Ustaz
Mahomed Taha, a renowned
Sufi Master. A free thinking Sufi
Muslim, Ustaz criticized traditionalists who wanted to return
to what they believed were the
best days of Islam, during the
seventh century.
“They believed the best days
were in the past, Ustaz believed
the best days were still to come,”
Dr. J said. Ustaz was later executed by traditionalists for his criticism and for creating his own
independent ideology within Islam. “These are the same
people causing the genocide in
Darfur,” Dr. J said.
“Sudan went from being one
of the most noble countries on
the continent to a pariah where
genocide occurs… Now when
people think of Sudan, they
think genocide,” Dr. J said. “The
war is ruled by religious fanatics who have done so many unspeakable things.”
While in Sudan, Dr. J attended
the University of Khartoum and
received his masters in African
Languages. Later Dr. J attended
the University of Washington to
get his PhD in linguistics. He began teaching at SCC in 1997.
Dr. J tooka study abroad trip
to South Africa in 2003. “The experience of South Africa is just
so interesting… It’s a society going through change,” Dr. J said.
“It went through an era of apartheid, an era of Jim Crowism like
the U.S., and it is coming out of
it at a more accelerated rate than
this country did.”
“The trip to South Africa
changed my life. It opened up
my eyes to another world outside of my own,” said Linnea
Lassiter, one of Dr. J’s former
students.“I would have never
gone on the trip if it weren’t for
Dr. J. He has introduced a new
way of thinking for me and he
really challenges all students.”
The fact that Dr. J can reach
all students in his classroom
resonates with student Sohalia
Ganje. “He has the ability to empower you and make you feel
proud of who you are,” she said.
“His passion inspires you to be
passionate about issues in the
world and you leave his class
feeling so powerful.”
“I decided that one way to
contribute to society was to get
an education and speak truth
to power,” Dr. J said. “Through
multi-cultural education, you
can empower all of humanity, rather than a sub-group of
humanity.”
Photo BY daniel berman
Dr. Ernest Johnson teaches his Multicultural Studies class Wednesday April 23, 2008.
Walking for those who can't
Christina Bolt
Staff Writer
Members of SCC clubs joined friends, families,
and co-workers on April 13 for the walk for Mulitple
Sclerosis (MS), in Seattle held by the National MS
Society.
The walk started at 9:30 a.m. at Husky Stadium and
traveled to Gasworks Park where a live band and the
Seafair clowns entertained walkers. The walk then
progressed back to Husky Stadium, a trip that totaled four miles.
Members of the Premedical Sciences club here at
Shoreline formed the SCC team.
“I was the team captain and we wanted as a club to
do at least one fundraiser during the year. One that
would get the attention of other people in our community and get them interested in being involved,”
said Rachel Palko, president of the Premedical club.
Palko has participated in the MS Walk in previous
years, and the American Cancer Society’s Breast
Cancer Awareness walk.
The Premed club chose to do this event because
“Our pac west is greatly effected by MS, having some
of the highest concentrations in the world,” said
Palko.
MS is an autoimmune disease that attacks the
central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves). Symptoms range from mild numbness of
limbs to severe numbness, with the possibility of paralysis. Symptoms are unpredictable and vary from
person to person. Often the disease hits people between 20 and 50 years of age.
“My old co-worker, Captain John Rockstead (who
has lived with MS for ten years), has touched so many
people that some old friends I haven't seen in nearly eight years, I ran into literally on the walk,” Palko
said. “They had (also) formed a running team to raise
money for MS.”
The SCC team raised $1700, which contributed
to more than $1.3 million raised during the entire
event.
For those who were unable to attend and would
still like to donate, the MS society is still accepting donations for the Seattle walk until May 16. You
can donate by going online to www.nationalmssociety.org/donate/index.aspx. Make your donation
or pledge on behalf of the Shoreline Community
College team.
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The Dalai Lama shakes the hand of Washington State governor Christine Gregoire, during the Seeds of Compassion
event Heartbeats for Humanity Saturday March 12, 2008 at Qwest Field in Seattle, WA.
Seeds of Compassion
planted in Seattle
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Members of the Seeds of Compassion organization dance on the field prior to the start of the event.
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The 14th Dalai Lama bows during the Seeds of Compassion event Heartbeats for Humanity, held
Saturday March 12, 2008 at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington.
Wes Abney
Business Manager
The 14th reincarnation
of the Dalai Lama, Tenzin
Gyatso, visited Seattle to advocate worldwide peace for all
people.
His Holiness was in Seattle
from April 11 to the 15, and
he spent the week reaching
out to the greater community
with his vision of compassion.
Through uniting to plant
“seeds” of compassion, his vision
to enlighten people touched an entire city.
“The true expression of non-violence is compassion,” His Holiness
said. As the free
leader of an entire
religion, and the exiled leader of a nation, it takes
a lot to identify and love everyone in the world- but it’s exactly what he advocates.
Earlier in the week, he received an honorary degree from the University of
Washington, and addressed
students after the ceremony.
“He laughed almost the
whole time,” said student
Brianna Ahron. “He even joked
about how he didn’t have to
study [for the degree].”
After the ceremony, stu-
dents had the opportunity to
ask questions, and get a personal feel for what his message meant.
“I felt that his message of
compassion was really strong,”
said SCC Student Body
President Ivanhoe. “In person,
it was fun to see his demeanor… he had a very good sense of
humor.”
Since
his last visit in 1993, Seattle
has changed significantly, and
it was fitting that the main
event honoring the Lama was
held at Qwest Field. In front of
an estimated 65,000 people,
a two hour event honored his
vision.
The event started with a
thousand people marching
across the field, each representing the different peoples
and cultures in the state of
Washington.
After the procession, several
speakers welcomed the Lama,
before finally handing over
the microphone for the main
event. Even with all the build
up, the Dalai Lama started his
speech by emphasizing that
he was simply human.
"Some people believe the
Dalai Lama has some miracle
power," His Holiness said.
"That's totally nonsense.
I'm
just one human being."
Reaching
beyond his
laid back
demeanor
towards life
is his encompassing love
for all people.
He spoke of
ways to have compassion
and understanding for people,
and he emphasized that nonviolent and open communication is the only way to solve
problems.
As part of his speech, he also
talked about war and the potential disarmament of nuclear weapons. He said that
people must first disarm from
the inside, and that we should
then work to do the same for
the world.
“I felt that he had a really
Name: Tenzin Gyatso
Reincarnation: He is the 14th Dalai Lama
About him: He was recognized at age two as the
14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, and from
that point was taken into training to become the
leader of a nation. He is the exiled leader of Tibet,
and the free spiritual leader of Buddhism across
the World. He has received both the Congressional
Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize, and is
recognized as the most active and important
peace activist on the planet.
good message about goals for the future,” Ahron said. “He said our ultimate goal should be to become a nonmilitary world.”
Ultimately, His Holiness said, everything comes down to an individual
commitment to love and non-violence
for all people. He said that knowledge
and even prayer aren’t enough to make
a change, and he emphasized that it
is a personal decision that everyone
needs to make.
“He encouraged us to be peaceful
and think about our fellow humans,”
Ahron said. “It was a really fulfilling
and thought provoking experience.”
Overall, more than 150,000 people
were expected to hear the Dalai Lama
speak during his time in Seattle. He
spoke prior to a concert featuring the
Dave Mathews Band, Tim Reynolds,
and Death Cab for Cutie, and met with
different groups throughout the week.
Through meetings with people representing every walk of life, the Dalai
Lama was able to leave many seeds of
compassion in the hearts of viewers.
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 packs in the action with long-range headshots and realistic guns.
Somewhere over
the Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Erika N. Ewing
Staff Writer
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six
Vegas 2 is colorfully awesome and
a bestseller for the PC, X-Box 360,
and the PS3 for that very reason.
The game is rated M for Mature,
for cheesy dialogue with swear
words, spraying bloodshed.
The game is equipped with
more than realistic guns, action
and great game tactics. One treat
the game offers is the ability to
shoot an enemy from around
the corner without leaning over.
Doing this makes it hard to aim,
and the bullets go bonkers but it’s
cool to be able to do.
Also with Rainbow Six Vegas 2
comes the snake cam, which allows your Bishop character to
slither a tiny camera under the
door to see how many enemies
you get to shoot in the next room.
This game includes rappelling
down buildings, crashing through
windows and long-range head
shots.
The game begins with a prologue which doesn’t really continue the “to be continued” aspect of
the first Vegas release. Instead of
Logan, you become ‘Bishop.” This
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shape and mold your own character. Face paint is included. When
creating your character, it actually matters what equipment and
body armor you choose, because
it makes all the difference with
your characters ability to move.
Act I scene I begins in France
where you must handle a hostage
situation.
After that dent in your day,
you finally make it to Sin City.
I hope you’re feeling lucky because you’ve got lots of terrorists
to kill as you and your team make
your way through the unlit city of
Vegas.
I will note that the two other
crew members of your squad are
very reliable, so if you feel like getting up and grabbing a beer from
the fridge most likely your enemy will be taken care of thanks to
your squad. At times the controls
to order your crew around get a
little redundant: “Come!” “Hustle
Hustle” “Hold” “Wait”. It reminded me of how much I wanted to
kill Ashley in Resident Evil 4.
Unfortunately the game did
not hit the jackpot with all of its
attempts to be completely flawless. The gun motion is not real-
istic with only the up, down, left
and right movements. This is a
flaw that has bothered many perfectionists in the past. Excuse me
Tom Clancy, but I thought you
spent two years on this game, and
you steal the same lame gun holding graphics from the original
Doom? Did you think I wouldn’t
notice?
Also, it kind of sucked that in
two player mode the screen is
split vertically instead of horizontally. I guess that’s a hint for those
of us without HDTV, but no one
likes it.
It’s still awkward to use the general term “terrorists” in reference
to enemies, but I think we can all
move past that sugar coated generalization and choose a real enemy to refer to when we're shooting them.
Other than that happy little
note, this game is a great addition to the series. Seriously, buy
an HDTV and then buy this game
and play it with your friends.
Because of the awesome multiplayer set up and the elongated
story mode this game has a high
replay value, so what happens in
Vegas stays in Vegas.
Do a double take for 'Take 2'
Joe Louie
Staff Writer
Several months back, Electronic Arts (EA) filed an
unsolicited buyout offer of Take 2 Productions at a
price of $26 per share. To the casual hardcore gamer,
these events usually don't get noticed. Games just
get made. But, if you are a fan of the Grand Theft
Auto (GTA) franchise, and you're one of the teeming masses that can't wait for the fourth number
in the series, you really should have been paying
attention.
If the buyout had been successful, GTA 4 probably
would have been delayed until the fourth quarter of
the year in order to make the holiday season more
profitable. Take 2, on their own, needed this title to
come out as soon as possible. Don't get me wrong,
they aren't in dire straights. GTA simply would allow a greater cushion for the next year. Among their
own intellectual properties, they have a larger number than EA does.
This seems strange, overall. EA has the best selling
game in history in its lineup, The Sims, which just recently got major press attention for having reached
the coveted 100 million-unit mark. I suppose this
means that they're riding a high horse.
Take 2 originally stated that EA had undervalued their stock at $26, and declined the initial offer. Shortly thereafter, EA put in another bid, again
at $26, going far enough to open a section of their
website regarding their offer. Overall, it was laughable. On April 17, Take 2 had its shareholder's meeting, where they encouraged their stockholders to
deny the bid.
The landscape of the design industry can change,
and will. Whether it’s crushed by 800 lb. gorillas in
the case of Activision/Vivendi, or steadfast independents like Valve; both are necessary. Creative juices
will flow easiest from the smaller companies that
aren't bound by sales figures, and the behemoths
will maintain the franchises that have the broadest
appeal. This valley of innovation is great for gamers,
providing the best content possible.
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Master professors
give lessons to
SCC students after
a performance
Tae K Kim
Design Director
“One, two, three, four…rush!
Soft…sharp! Fade, fade, fade…
Good.” The concert was "A
Master Class" held in room 818,
deep inside SCC’s music building on April 18.
A Master Class was hosted by
SCC’s music department faculty. Students who enrolled in
the private piano lesson class
performed first for an audience. Their performances were
followed by comments and advice from guest masters Betty
Mallard and David Renner, who
are both distinguished associate professors of piano at the
University of Texas.
After each student’s performance, they commented on
their posture, corrected their
rhythms and dynamics, and
even exchanged opinions about
the pieces being played.
Even though the audience
numbered around 20, the students were really paying attention to the performance and
comment session. “It’s very interesting, (seeing) the student
interacting with the teacher,”
said SCC music student, and audience member Travis Minet.
The program featured a variety of piano solo selections,
such as Beethoven’s Pathetique
and Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in
B-flat minor.
“(It adds) another perspective,” said SCC music faculty
member Nancy Matesky. “It’s
a really good opportunity for
students who are interested in
music.”
“It’s very helpful,” music
transfer student Lisa Serova
said. “Different teachers make
me think where to go.”
The music department is
not planning to hold "A Master
Class" again this year. It’s not a
regular event, but if more students want this kind of recital,
it seems that there’s a possibility it could happen more often.
According to Matesky, the budget isn't a problem, but the student participation matters. If
more students know about the
master class concert and are
willing to participate, it may
happen again.
Fascinating Rhythms:
A Musical Tour of the Americas
With Helena Azevedo and guests Jeff
Junkinsmith, Nancy Matesky and Doug Reid
Photo BY TAE KIM
From left, SCC student Nora Nelson and Professor David Renner discuss Nelson's performance in the Master Class.
Flying
Fingers
Lauren Fast
Staff Writer
The piano faculty at the School
of Music, University of Texas at
Austin, played a piano recital at
SCC on April 20.
The faculty, Betty Mallard and
David Renner, played what is called
a “four-hand recital.” The two of
them played five pieces total, from
composers. W.A. Mozart, Gabriel
Fauré, Franz Schubert, and Moritz
Moszkowski.
On Sunday, April 27, SCC will
host a faculty piano recital. Helena
Azevedo, a piano teacher at
SCC, will be playing eight pieces
with guest faculty musicians Jeff
Junkinsmith, Nancy Matesky and
Doug Reid.
Azevedo has been playing the
piano since she was five-years-old.
Her mother was a classical pianist,
so she grew up surrounded by pianos and music. “There were pianos all over the house when I was
child,” said Azevedo, “It was almost
just like air!” She now teaches every type of piano class available on
campus.
Her upcoming recital, titled
“Fascinating Rhythms: A musical
tour of the Americas”, will have a
variety of ballads from North and
South America, including pieces from Argentina, Brazil, and the
United States.
Reid will be joining Azevedo on
the saxophone in two American
pieces. Also, Matesky will be accompanying Azevedo on the piano in a
Brazilian piece. Junkinsmith, who
is a composer in addition to being a
teacher at SCC, wrote an American
piece that he and Azevedo will play
together. Azevedo will also play
three pieces alone.
Junkinsmith’s
piece,
"Rashomon," gets its title from
Akira Kurosawa’s famous film, A
Meditation on the Nature of Truth.
The film is about a bride and groom
who are confronted by a robber
in a forest that they are walking
through, and they each proceed to
tell their own version of the story.
The groom, who is killed, tells his
story through a medium.
Other upcoming piano-related
recitals include the Spring Evening
Recital, Ann-Marie Caldwell’s private concert, “Piano Juries”, and
the Student Recital.
The Spring Evening Recital is
a once-a-year recital in which all
graduating music majors play one
final concert at SCC. Each student
will perform a solo piece on May 9
at 7:30 p.m. in the music building
in room 818.
Caldwell, who is the first person
to graduate with an Associates in
Arts from SCC, will be putting on
her own concert on June 4 at 7:30
p.m.
In addition, all private piano
lesson students will be playing in
“Piano Juries,” which is their final
for the quarter. This will also take
place in the music building. Each
student plays their own piece, and
the best “juries” are chosen to play
at the Honor’s Recital, which will
take place as part of the Student
Recital on May 23 at 12:30 p.m. in
the campus theater.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Events
18Upcoming
– 15Upcoming
uary
18
April 11 - April 25
MUSIC
4/27
Faculty Piano Recital
“Fascinating
Rhythms:
A Musical Tour of the
Americas.”
Campus Theater. 3 p.m.
General: $15. Discount $10.
SCC/Kids $5.
Ben Folds
University of Puget Sound –
Fieldhouse. 7:30 p.m. $25
5/3
Flight to Mars
The Showbox. 8 p.m. $18.
5/4
Joe Jackson
The Moore Theatre. 7:30
p.m.$37.50 - $47.50
5/9
Spring Evening Recital
Room 818. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Kate Nash
The Showbox. 8 p.m. $17.50
Alan
Jackson
Dinner
Experience
Tacoma Dome. 5:30 p.m. $15
Performing arts
4/25
Jimmie “JJ” Walker
Giggles Comedy Club. 8 & 10:15
p.m. Call for reservations.
4/26
Olympic Ballet Theatre
Presents Giselle
Edmonds Center for the Arts.
7:30 p.m. $30.
5/2
Duane Goad
Laughs Comedy Stop. 10 p.m.
$15
MOVIES
4/25
Harold and Kumar Escape
From Guantanamo Bay
Kal Penn, John Cho. Rated R.
Check your local listings.
Baby Mama
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler. Rated
PG-13. Check your local
listings.
Back to the Future. Michael
Fox, Christopher Lloyd. Rated
PG. Midnight. The Egyptian
Theatre.
Alien
Sigourney Weaver.
Rated R. Egyptian Theatre.
Midnight showing.
Irina Palm.
Marianne Faithfull, Miki
Manojlovic.
Rated R. Varsity Theatre. Show
times TBD.
4/18
Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Jason Segel, Kristin Bell.
Rated R. Check your local
listings.
12 Fasten your
seatbelts
Vivian Luu
Editor-in-Chief
With so many popular movies spewing the same
cheesy lines and going cookie cutter on us, it’s good
to get some change… and that’s what “Backseat” is all
about.
Dad: How could you go to college for four years and
not do drugs?
Ben: Dad, I was studying!
It starts when two friends screw up their lives. Ben,
played by Bob Rogue (“Oz,” “Guiding Light”), gets in a
fight with his girlfriend Shelle, played by Aubrey Dollar
(“Hard Luck,” “Failure to Launch”). Colton, played by Josh
Alexander (“Law & Order,” “Under New Management”),
fails at an audition for a Warner Brothers’ film after stripping for the casting director.
In an attempt to rebuild their egos, Ben and Colton
embark on a road trip to Montreal to meet Donald
Sutherland, a famous actor. Little did they know, they
signed up for more than they thought when they took
off in Ben’s uncle’s used car.
Ben and Colton meet strange (yet interesting) people along the way who serve as foils to their seemingly messed-up personalities. Colton hooks up with a
14-year-old-looking high school girl at a gas station. Ben
reunites with his cousin, who’s supposedly in the mafia
in Albany, New York.
Ben’s cousin also brings along his friend who only
communicates through instant messaging… but starts
talking when the crew brings a stripper named Candi
into their hotel room.
One thing leads to another, and Colton throws a party
at the hotel. The hotel manager tries to find five grams of
cocaine that Colton planned on bringing to Montreal for
some friends. Left with no choice, Ben and Colton make
a run for Canada, leaving their seemingly dull lives behind them, placing their hope in what lies ahead.
While critics may (and will probably) call “Backseat”
a schizophrenic amateur film, you may (and will probably) be surprised to find this film loaded with modern
cinematography techniques.
Elements of the plot also allude to a lighter, more
youthful version of Oscar-winning “Sideways” (2004),
a film about two friends searching for themselves in
California’s wine country.
Running at 89 minutes, “Backseat” is definitely a movie to see in the next few weeks. The film is open to all
at Landmark’s Varsity Theater. For more information on
“Backseat,” visit www.backseatthemovie.com.
PHOTO BY TAE KIM
The Egyptian Theatre has started its new season of midnight features
with movies such as "Back to the Future" and "Dune."
Midnight at The Egyptian
keeps insomniacs
entertained
Lindsay Ginn
A&E Editor
As summer comes around the bend,
the nights get longer and the late-night
events continue to pour in. Seattle’s
historical Egyptian Theatre jumps on
the bandwagon once again with their
“Midnight at the Egyptian” series of
Friday and Saturday night movies.
Not only is the Egyptian Theater a popular fixture in the heart of Captiol Hill, it’s
been a prominent establishment there
for almost 100 years.
Built in 1915, the building was originally a Masonic Temple, where Freemasons
would gather for meetings and rituals.
The building’s first motion picture experience occurred in the early 1980s,
when the Seattle International Film
Festival (SIFF), North America’s largest film festival, decided to make the
Egyptian their home. Landmark purchased the theater in 1989, and the rest
is history.
From the outside, the building appears
to be like any other building – no flashy
signs, miles of brick, and a small covering
over the entrance. However, once inside,
you’re transported back to the 1920s with
rich colors and tall, ornate ceilings remi-
niscent of an old opera house.
Don’t expect to see the newest blockbuster shows when attending a midnight
screening, though. The Egyptian proudly
displays classics from all eras of motion
pictures. From Sin City (2005) to Harold
and Maude (1971), you can expect a wide
variety of cinematic excellence.
As their series name implies, each
screening starts promptly at midnight.
There are only midnight shows on Friday
and Saturday nights, with a new film
screening each weekend. The schedule
of this season’s run is as follows:
4/25 & 4/26: Back To The Future
(1985)
5/2 & 5/3: Naked Gun 2 ½: The
Smell of Fear (1991)
5/9 & 5/10: Blade Runner (The
Final Cut) (1982/2007)
5/16 & 5/17: Dune (1984)
Each ticket costs $9.25, but with your
SCC (or any) Student ID card, it’s only
$8.25. Show up about 30 minutes early
to obtain a decent seat and cut down on
your time spent waiting in line.
The Egyptian Theatre is located at 805
East Pine Street, Seattle, and they can be
contacted by phone at (206) 781-5755.
How I spent my Hawaiian vacation
Jonathan Lavigne
Associate Editor
Three words: Full. Frontal. Male.
Nudity. Okay, really that was four
words but two of them could've
been hyphenated. If that doesn't
pique your curiosity, nothing will.
Welcome to “Forgetting Sarah
Marshall.”
Jason Segel, best known for his
roles on TV shows such as “How I
met your Mother” and “Freaks and
Geeks” is the owner of said fully
displayed genitals. This is his first
starring role in a feature film, but
the role of Peter Bretter is tailored
to him-- he did after all, write the
movie.
The idea behind the movie is a
simple one that we have all faced
before. What do you do when
your superstar girlfriend (Sarah
Marshall played by Kristen Bell
a.k.a. Veronica Mars) dumps you
for the generic pop idol of the day
Aldous Snow (relative newcomer
n APRIL 25, 2008 - may 1, 2008 n THE EBBTIDe Russell Brand)?
The obvious answer is to get
back on the horse or take time
to regroup with oneself. Or you
know, go to Hawaii because that's
what the ex was always talking
about doing. So Hawaii it is. But
she just happen to be there with
her new beau too. Crap. Might as
well hook up with someone else, in
this case hotel receptionist Rachel
Jansen (Mila Kunnis from That 70's
Show), while your there and drive
her nuts.
Segel, a veteran actor from the
school of Judd Apatow (40 Year Old
Virgin, Knocked Up) knows how
to deliver the funny. Not only because of the nudity, but the actor
displays a vulnerability in his self
deprecating ways.
For example, the movie starts off
with the breakup, which all things
said, should be sad right? Not when
it happens while you're completely naked. Getting dumped while
naked makes everything funnier,
to the audience at least. While being interviewed for an article in
the New York Times, Segel even
admitted that the breakup story
was based on actual events. He
couldn't wait for her to leave because he wanted to write it down.
All in all, this is a cute film that
will make you smile and laugh
for a while. This film is highly recommended for fans of Superbad,
Knocked Up and Dracula based
puppet shows.
SPORTS
Unsurfacing
SCC's softball ace
Lavi Aulck
Sports Editor
SCC freshman Athea Surface is no
stranger to success after being thrust
into a new situation. In her sophomore
year at Lake Stevens High School, Surface
was put into the starting lineup after
a line drive broke the jaw of the team’s
then-"ace," Krista Crosson. The result?
Surface finished the year with 12 wins and
one loss, including a complete shutout in
the championship game of the 2005 girl’s
fastpitch 4A district championship.
Now playing her first year of college
softball, Surface again finds herself stepping up and becoming a major part in a
team’s success.
Pitching and playing first base, Surface
has helped push SCC softball towards the
playoffs not only on the pitcher’s mound,
where she leads the team in wins (5) and
innings pitched (67) as of April 22, but
also in the batter's box, where she leads
the team in home runs(4) and RBIs(21).
“I’ve always been pretty successful
pitching so it’s just been keeping up and
staying in shape with that,” Surface said.
“Hitting has come around for me a lot
this year. In high school, my coaches never had me hit but Lance (Swehla) decided
that I’m going to hit. I had to get mentally
focused for (hitting).”
In fact, Surface admits that her offensive production has surprised even herself and attributes her success at the plate
to both a new mindset and Coach Lance
Swehla’s instruction.
“I wasn’t expecting to be hitting as well
as I am now,” Surface said. “A lot of the
credit goes to Lance. He helped me prepare for it. A lot of it was also mental. Just
being able to know you can do it and step
up while still being relaxed.”
Surface has been working with Swehla
since she was a 14-year-old playing on
one of Swehla’s Select teams. She believes
the relationship she has with Swehla was
the deciding factor in her coming to SCC.
“I had been offered a few scholarships
by other community colleges,” Surface
said. “A Texas school even offered me a
full-ride scholarship but I decided to stay
closer to home if I was going to a two-year
school. The fact that Lance is the coach
here at Shoreline is what set it apart from
the other local schools.”
While on campus, Surface is pursuing a degree in psychology- a move that
she hopes will be a stepping stone to a
career as a social worker. Off campus,
Surface cares for her 79-year-old maternal grandmother who was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s disease two years ago.
Surface and SCC’s softball currently sit fourth in the Northwest Athletic
Association of Community Colleges’
North Division, holding the division’s last
playoff spot. To make their postseason
dreams a reality, Surface believes she and
her teammates must focus on consistency in offense.
“There are games where we hit really
well and there are games where we don’t,”
Surface said. “We need the whole lineup
to hit consistently. Personally, I think I
need to keep up what I’m doing and not
let it get to me that I’m doing well. I have
to maintain the same mentality and keep
at it without tailing off.”
Photo BY DANIEL BERMAN
Athea Surface brings a double threat to the SCC Softball team, excelling in pitching and hitting well this season.
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SPORTS
Photo by David Kasnic
Shoreline's Kari Fiske returns a serve from Green River's Yuki Nakamura in the match between SCC and Green River on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at Shoreview Park.
Love means nothing
Cross country could soon replace tennis program
Lavi Aulck
Sports Editor
SCC’s tennis team finds itself off
to a slow start to the 2008 seasonone that could possibly be the college’s last in competitive tennis.
Heading into a three-match
Spokane road trip, the men’s team
finds itself 1-1 thus far in the young
season while the women’s side remains winless at 0-3. Coach Eric
Moujtahid-Webster believes both
team’s losses are attributed more
to the team’s attitude rather than a
lack of talent.
“Our basic problem at this
point is that we’re not quite match
tough yet so I’m not all too concerned about the losses per say,”
Moujtahid-Webster said. “At this
point, the players are as good as
any of the players in the NWAACC
(Northwest Athletic Association
of Community Colleges). They
don’t know how to win yet. Teams
in the past knew what they had to
do to win and they set about doing that. This team is kind of clueless right now; they’re experienced
but they’ve forgotten what it takes
to win.”
Though Moujtahid-Webster admits his men's team has not lived
up to his pre-season expectations,
he feels his undermanned women's squad is set to perform better
than what he expected at the start
14 of the season
“I have more hope for the women’s team now,” Moujtahid-Webster
said. “They’ve really turned a corner
and are better than I thought they
would be. The men’s team hasn’t
really lived up to my expectations.
They are capable of doing better
than what they’ve shown. Once
they realize that, they’ll hit the right
path and do well.”
Despite the apparent talent on
Moujtahid-Webster’s roster, the
team’s future is very much in doubt.
An increased interest in cross
country in the NWAACC and a decreased level of tennis participation throughout the NWAACC has
pushed tennis behind cross country in the athletic department’s
budget proposals for the 2008-2009
school year.
Doug Palmer, SCC’s athletic director has submitted two different
budget proposals for 2008-09 to
the Student Body Association (SBA)
government. As Palmer describes,
one proposal requests enough
funds for both a cross country and a
tennis team at SCC, while the other
requests sufficient funding for only
a cross country team.
Palmer believes the decision to
favor cross country over tennis in
the budget proposals was due to
both the possibility of cross country bringing more full time-enroll-
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“There’s no doubt cross country will bring more FTEs while being a more cost-effective measure,” Palmer said. “At one point
in the 1980s, the NWAACC had 20
to 23 tennis programs. Now they’re
down to five men’s programs and
six women’s programs. Cross country, meanwhile, is starting to gain
popularity. They now have 13 cross
country teams in the NWAACC and
a few colleges are thinking about
adding on in the next few years.”
According to SBA Treasurer,
Lucas Meserve, one of the two
budgets submitted by Palmer will
be approved by the Budget and
Finance Committee by the end of
May. Meserve would not comment
on the likeliness of either budget
being approved.
“(The approval of the budgets) is the Budget and Finance
Committee’s decision,” Meserve
said. “Our first meeting will be April
28. Then we will be meeting every
Tuesday and Thursday through the
13. I will probably set up times for
deliberations sometime next week.
I suspect deliberations would probably take place the 15, 20 and the
22.”
Both Palmer and Meserve believe a decision about the athletic
department budget is unlikely to
come before May 15- the deadline
for informing the NWAACC whether or not the college will have a tennis team.
“May 1 was the tentative deadline but the NWAACC has pretty
much told us that they will extend
it to May 15,” Palmer said. “(If there
isn’t a budget in place by the deadline,) it would be easier for us to
say we’re dropping tennis and then
add it back. If we say we’re going to
keep it, then we’re held to that by
the NWAACC.”
Regardless of which budget is ac-
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cepted, Palmer does not expect to
have a cross country team in place
for a few more years.
“I’m not planning to bring in
cross country next year as a varsity
sport,” Palmer said. “It’ll be a club
sport for probably a year while we
hire a coach and he’ll go out and
recruit the following year. I’m not
looking at having a team until probably 2009-10.”
Coach Moujtahid-Webster declined to comment on the budgeting situation.
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SPORTS
Sonic’s Seattle days
numbered?
Conor Williams
Staff Writer
Was the Sonics 99-95 win over the
Dallas Mavericks their last game in
Seattle? If so, the team was given a
hearty send off by its fans. While it was
not a sellout crowd, the attendance was
over 16,000 and the crowd was very vocal all night.
Chants of “Save our Sonics!” started
up throughout the game and the crowd
really got going when former Sonic star
Gary Payton, in attendance for the first
time this season was introduced in the
second quarter.
Though I was not able to attend the
game I did watch it on television, giving
myself perhaps a final dose of Seattle
Supersonics basketball.
As a longtime fan, it was a strange
experience. The Sonics were the first
sports franchise that I ever cared
about I remember playing with my
dad in our backyard, pretending to be
Tom Chambers or the ‘X-Man,’ Xavier
McDaniel.
Seeing Gary Payton arise to a raucous
reaction from the crown reminded me
of sitting at Key Arena while I as in high
school, cheering my lungs out for the
great Sonic squads of the mid-90’s.
As the game wound down the crowd
continued to rock the arena, and there
was an extended “Save our Sonics!”
chant that went on for three minutes
or more at full volume.
The game ended bittersweet as the
Sonics’ most prized player, rookie sensation Kevin Durant, scored four points
in a row to give Seattle a 98-95 lead.
Durant, who averaged 20.3 points
per game despite being the focal point
of opposing defenses all season, is
one of the most talented young players in the league. Seeing him shine in
the clutch against a playoff team was
exciting but discouraging at the same
time, considering that the Sonics may
be playing in Oklahoma City next year.
The only hope for keeping the Sonics
STANDINGS
Men’s BasEball
NWAACC NORTH
in Seattle rests on the potential of two
lawsuits. One is a June trial that will determine whether the Sonics must honor their Key Arena lease, which runs
through 2010. The other is a potential lawsuit by former Sonics majority
owner Howard Schultz in which he will
claim new owner Clay Bennett violated the terms of the sale agreement by
not attempting to keep the Sonics in
Seattle.
Now, after another impressive performance by Durant (42 points, 13 rebounds) in a win over the Golden State
Warriors, the season is over.
The National Basketball Association
Board of Governors has voted to allow
the move to Oklahoma City, so all paths
are clear for Bennett’s group if the lawsuits are resolved favorably to them.
As a longtime fan it hurts me to think
that the Sonics’ time in Seattle may be
up, but I’ll always remember the Sonics
of my youth, and I’ll always remember
their final game in Seattle.
NHL Playoffs' second round
Conor Williams & Jonathan
Lavigne
Staff Writer & Associate Editor
One round of the NHL playoffs is
over and now only eight teams remain
in competition for the Stanley Cup.
The Nashville Predators and Boston
Bruins scared their powerful opponents, Detroit and Montreal, though
the Predators and Bruins lost. The
Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche and
Philadelphia Flyers all beat higherseeded teams, though none of those
results could really be classified as
upsets.
Herculean effort from Jeremy Roenick
in game seven against Calgary to advance, and they will need the rest of
their vaunted forwards to step up if
they want to stand a chance against
the confident Stars. Stephane Robidas
(1 goal, 5 assists, 32 hits) continued
to prove invaluable to Dallas. If the
undersized but feisty defenseman
can continue to rally his teammates
against San Jose’s talented forwards,
the Stars will give the Sharks all they
can handle. Evgeni Nabokov and
Marty Turco
are two of the
league’s
best
Western Conference SemiFinals
Detroit Red Wings (1)
vs.
Colorado Avalanche (6)
A classic playoff rivalry is
renewed here. The Wings
and the Avs have met five
times in the playoffs since
1996, playing some very
memorable series’ along
the way. While they have
not met in the post-season since 2002, both
teams still have players
who were there during previous battles and the historic intensity will return. Detroit
has decided Chris Osgood will be
their starter in goal, as he supplanted
Dominik Hasek in the first round. On
the Colorado side, goalie Jose Theodore
is hot, allowing two goals or less in all
four of the Av’s victories. The two sides
match up well with each other, and this
should be a terrific series. Prediction:
Wings in 7
San Jose Sharks (2)
vs.
Dallas Stars (5)
tDallas surprised some people by
dispatching Anaheim, and they are
here to give the powerful Sharks a run
for their money. San Jose needed a
nothing for granted. With Saku Koivu
centering the first line with Alex Kovalev
and Chris Higgins, and a second line
formed with the Kostitsyn brothers and
Thomas Plekanec, Montreal has good
power up front.
Philadelphia is no pushover though.
They have the same grittiness and power forwards that gave Montreal so much
trouble against Boston. Daniel Briere
and Vaclav Prospal are the two players with the most points in the playoffs
so far. Martin Biron hasn’t been very
impressive during his series against
Washington, but then again, he was
trying to block shots by Ovechkin.
Montreal goaltender Carey
Price will only keep getting better Flyers forward
to a conference final berth.
Prediction: Montreal in 6.
Pittsburgh Penguins (2)
vs.
New York Rangers (5)
goalies, so
this could
be a low scoring affair. Prediction:
Stars in 6
Eastern Conference Semi-Finals
Montreal Canadiens (1)
vs.
Philadelphia Flyers (6)
Montreal has beat Philly in all four
games they played against each other
this season, outscoring them 15 to 6. If
the previous series against Boston have
taught them, Montreal should take
Pittsburgh won in four
against Ottawa, a team who
were considered favorite to
win the cup at the beginning
of the season. Led by superstars Sydney Crosby and
Evgeni Malkin on the attack
and Marc-Andre Fleury minding the net like a full-fledged vet,
Pittsburgh could go far.
New York made the late acquisition
of both Scott Gomez and Chris Drury
to bring more strength to their front
line with Jaromir Jagr. Vezina trophy
candidate (for best goaltender) Henrik
Lundqvist has played solid games
against New Jersey in the previous series, maintaining a 9.17 save percentage. The depth the Rangers bring to the
table is quite impressive.
Expect a fairly balanced duel on both
sides of the ice, in the attack and in net.
After the dust settles, the Rangers veterans will edge past the rookie Penguins.
Prediction: New York in 6.
TEAM
division RECORD (W-L)
EDMONDS
EVERETT
BELLEVUE
OLYMPIC
SKAGIT VALLEY
SHORELINE
DOUGLAS
14-2 12-4
7-5
7-9 5-7
2-10
1-11
WOMen’s SOFTBALL
NWAACC NORTH
TEAM
LEAGUE RECORD (W-L)
BELLEVUE
OLYMPIC
EVERETT
SHORELINE
SKAGIT VALLEY
PENINSULA
EDMONDS
18-0
14-6
12-6
10-8
8-12
3-17
1-17
RESULTS
Men’s BasEball
date
opponentresult(w/l)
APR 12
APR 13
APR 19
APR 20
EDMONDS
EDMONDS
OLYMPIC
OLYMPIC
L 10-0, L 5-4
L 11-0, L 5-2
L 8-6, L 8-1
L 5-2, L 8-0
WOMen’s SOFtball
date
opponentresult(w/l)
APR 12
APR 13
APR 15
APR 17
APR 22
SKAGIT VALLEY L 6-1, W 5-4
BELLEVUE
L 9-1, L 14-4
EDMONDS
W 8-0, W 13-0
SKAGIT VALLEY L 9-8, W 3-1
EVERETT
L 2-0, W 13-5
SCHEDULE
Men’s BASEBALL
date
opponent
TIME
APR 26
APR 27
MAY 3
MAY 4
MAY 10
MAY 11
EVERETT
EVERETT
DOUGLAS
DOUGLAS
SKAGIT VALLEY
SKAGIT VALLEY
1:00*
1:00* HOME
1:00*
1:00* HOME
1:00*
1:00* HOME
WOMen’s SOFTBALL
date
opponent
TIME
APR 25
APR 29
MAY 2
MAY 3
MAY 6
BELLEVUE
OLYMPIC
PENINSULA
SKAGIT VALLEY
EDMONDS
2:00
2:00
1:00 HOME
2:00
1:00
* doubleheader
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All’s Fair in
Dear L&W
I’ve started seeing a guy and I really like the
time we spend with each other. It’s still too
early to call it anything though. We see each
other irregularly at best. Then my ex, who
still has feelings for me called me up last
week and asked to see me when he’s back
in town. We were together for three years,
and at first things were good, then slowly
they got worse. By the end it was like 70-30
percent bad. I still have feelings for him, I’m
just not sure what to do about it. Should I
see him anyway? Should I tell the other guy
about it?
-Between the old and the new
Dear Between the old and the new
Why do you have feelings for an ex-boyfriend
who you felt 70 percent bad about? Come
on... I thought ending a relationship meant
actually ending a relationship. Chances are
good that the only reason he wants to see you
is to get you in bed anyway. Let’s be realistic
here. And don’t try to tell me “he’s changed”
either. We all know that’s B.S.
As for telling your current guy about it, why
would you? If you’re not in a relationship and
you think it’s “too early to call it anything”,
treating him like a boyfriend and filling him
in on your sex-fiend ex is a great way to send
him running.
Screw your head on straight and ditch the
stupid ex. Take it slow with the new guy and
try not to dump your personal past baggage
on him in the “getting to know you” phase.
Move away from “between the old and the
new” and just move on already!
Dear L&W
My girlfriend and I are thinking about moving
in with each other. She has a really cool place
and I wouldn’t mind ditching my roommate
for new pastures. We get along wonderfully
and both have the same philosophy when it
comes to “house maintenance.”
The problem is, I have a cat. My girlfriend
doesn’t hate cats, but she’s not sure if she
wants one. I’ve had this cat for three years
and have been dating her for six months.
Right now I’m at her place four to five
nights a week and I mostly just come
home to clean the cat litter and play a little with my cat, which my roommate
feeds for me. I really don’t want to have to
choose between the cat and the girl. But
it seems I might have to. What can I do?
-Cat in a bind
Dear Cat in a bind
Okay, your main problem aside, why the
hell are you thinking about moving in with
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someone after only six months? Are you insane? Before you start throwing cats out of
your proverbial window, maybe you ought
to look at the situation from a sane standpoint. Unless you’re looking for a green
card or planning to steal all her stuff and
bounce, give it a little time, would you?
As far as the cat goes, I have one thing to say:
Animals are not disposable! The fact that you
already abandon your cat four to five nights a
week borders on cruelty. If she’s not allergic,
and she really wants you to move in, you have
to tell her that it’s you and the cat, or nothing.
Your cat deserves better than that.
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Liz Sternberg
Staff Writer
Landlords are the decision makers of the
kingdom in which you
live, and more likely
than not, they are bothersome creatures that
thrive on making your
life
uncomfortable.
Here are some examples
of landlords that I have
encountered.
The
do-it-yourself
landlord: The roof had
been leaking for over a
week. My furniture was
askew to avoid getting
drenched and when it
rained I would be forced
to listen to a rhythmically piercing plop-plopplop sound. I called my
60-something landlord
about the problem. The
landlord readily came
over in his overalls and
work boots and pranced
around on the slippery
wet roof, placing random sheets of metal
where he thought there
was a leak. Of course
he failed to fix the leak
a few times. All I could
think was: "Good God!
Get down from there old
man, and hire a professional before you fall
and break your neck!
The compassionately stupid landlord: She
gave the key to our house
to an old lady across the
street. While I did not
feel threatened by this
old lady, my roommates
and I decided we’d rather hide the spare key
in some remote area
of our yard in case we
were ever locked out.
When I explained this
to the landlord she suddenly became offend-
ed. “Margaret has had
the keys to this house
for over 10 years. You
are insulting a relationship that was built upon
trust!” All I could think
was: This is the key to the
house that I live in (not
you) and I don’t want a
little old lady walking in
to my private dwelling,
even if she’s harmless.
What about my trust?
The consumer of the
deposit landlord: We
scrubbed our house solid after we had moved
out. There was not a
single dust particle to
be found. But apparently it was not clean
enough. The landlord
decided to bring in the
Maid Brigade and deduct the cost from our
deposit. The total bill
was for $500. All I could
think was: “What? A
$500
cleaning
bill!
Unbelievable.” It turns
out that our downstairs
neighbor (who had a
separate lease) was
blessed with the cleaning services of the Maid
Brigade as well, for free.
Our neighbor confessed
they had spent quite a
long time scrubbing his
fridge and he just didn’t
want to stop them. Our
deposit money was used
to scrub someone else’s
fridge!
As much as they frustrate me, landlords are
not evil, they are human, and all humans
are flawed. But beware
when considering your
next residence. When
you think it can’t get
worse, it will.