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IN THIS ISSUE NEWS 4 411 on the Jail Tax Learn a little more about the proposal for the mega-jail. And don’t forget to vote!
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Ask Gwen Find out whether or not three’s a crowd.
STUDENT LIFE 6 Voyeurism
FEATURES 8 Prof-ile
Belingham residents recover from a peeping tom both on and offcampus.
9 Black Minds Matter Educate yourself on black men in higher education with Dr. J. Luke Wood.
Check out who we interviewed this week!
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Spooky Recipes Check out this ghoulish delights.
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Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Lead Photographer Writers
Erasmus Baxter Kira Stussy Hailey Hoffman Julia Berkman Gwen Frost Josh Hughes Hailey Murphy
Adviser Jeff Bates
The Women’s Soccer team has been doing exceptionally well this season with a current win-lose record of 15-1. Photo by Hailey Hoffman // AS Review
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EVENTS Black Minds Matter Nov. 6 // 4:30-6 p.m. // FR 102 // Free The WWU AS Social Issues Resource Center is hosting this Live Stream lecture series. This series started Oct. 23 and will occur every Monday until Dec. 5. Every week, different speakers are invited to talk about different issues concerning black men and boys in the education system.
Drive Trains and Brake Adjustments Nov. 7 // 4-6 p.m. // VU 150 // Free This clinic is absolutely free and you will learn tons of valuable information about bikes.
Open Mic Night Nov. 7 // 8-10 p.m. // Underground Coffeehouse // Free This event is hosted by AS Productions. Come either to watch or to participate. This event will occur every Tuesday unless otherwise posted.
American Horror Story’s Naomi Grossman: Disability and Media Nov. 8 // 7-9 p.m. // AH 100 // Free Naomi Grossman, kown for her role as Pepper in the TV show, American Horror Story, is coming to Western to talk about disability and media. This event is open to the public.
Wednesday Night Concert Series: The Wednesdays with Thee Unsound Nov. 8 // 7-9 p.m. // Underground Coffeehouse // Free This week’s Wednesday Night Concert Series will be featuring The Wednesdays
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A Moment Apart ODESZA
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Boo Boo Toro Y Moi
Nov. 9 // 3-6 p.m. // Meet at VU 150 // $26
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Across the Multiverse Dent May
This an all-levels trip for all the ladies out there that want to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Have fun riding through Bellingham’s trails and meeting new
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Antisocialites Alvvays
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HEAVN Jamila Woods
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Glamour Child Moonrise Nation
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Aromanticism Moses Sumney
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Colors Beck
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Dedicated to Bobby Jameson Ariel Pink
and Three Unsound. Come enjoy!
Womxn’s Mountain Biking
Rick and Morty Trivia Night Nov. 9 // 7-9 p.m.// Underground Coffeehouse // Free Think you’re a Rick and Morty fan? Well, come and test your trivia knowledge and have the opportunity to win some awesome prizes!
Sunny Rock Climbing Nov. 10-12 // all day p.m. // Meet at VU 150 // $170 There will be a class day where the Outdoor Center will teach about the skills needed for outdoor climbing and then you will go on a weekend excursion, exploring the beautiful climbing opportunities Washington has to offer.
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Dumbness Cherry KUGS is the Associated Students’ student-run radio station. Listen online at kugs.org. If you’re interested in getting on the waves, pick up a volunteer application in the station’s office on the seventh floor of the VU.
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Award-winning poet performs at Western
BY GWEN FROST
On November 2, Western housed poetry goddess Denice Frohman, the incredible 2013 Woman of the World poetry champion. Frohman now has 7.5 millions views of her poems online, but when Denice Frohman was young, she felt like she was “not the right kind of girl.” Frohman began poetry and performing her freshman year of college, and believes she wouldn’t be here now if it hadn’t been for that year. After a student asked “Why did you start writing?” Frohman responded “I didn’t think poets looked like me or sounded like me…I wrote myself into a place that I felt I belonged.” She advised to take advantage of open-mics on campus, because “who knows, you could be doing it for a living 15 years later.” Sponsored by the AS Womxn’s Identity Resource Center and the Women, Gender and Sexuality studies program, Frohman began her performance with an emphasis on collective liberation, saying “I’m tryna get free.” The dialogue between performer and audience helped Frohman do what she does best, where every viewer gets to “interact with the work in real-time.” She performed her first poem, a anthem-esque calling named “A Woman’s Place,” because “in this world, we’re convinced to be smaller versions of ourselves.” “I write poetry first as a gift to myself, to heal, to take back power,” Frohman explained, and dedicated the night’s performance to Puerto Rico. She discussed the male gaze, and how she used to judge her own worth by the attention men gave her. She remembered a man that she visited summer after summer, for piragua (grated ice and syrup) and the only man she ever wanted anything from; so, “sexually, he’s my boo.” She touched on gentrification, and said “praise everything we build under the table,” because we are “America’s thumping baseline.” Frohman discussed the criminalization of homelessness and undocumented peopl, and how it is hypocritical due to America’s dependence on undocumented labor and participation. The definition of citizenship “is flimsier than we believe it to be,” she said. She spoke of the manifestations of what a border can be, beyond a physical border. Her third poem illuminated the blood and sweat pressed into the development of the U.S. She gave a shout out to the Blue Group again, and advised to “write toward a hopeful place,” even when it’s rough in this country. She made jokes about first kisses, followed by critical analysis’ of the domination of the English language in the U.S. One poem was a celebration of her mother, in a country
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What’s the deal with the jail tax?
BY JULIA BERKMAN
If you’re reading this in print, Whatcom County ballots isn’t even the first time a jail tax has been proposed. In 2004, are due tomorrow! If you’re reading this online, you’re too $31.7 million was collected after a tax passed, yet none of the late (Drake, am I right boys??). If you’re looking to get more money went to either building a new jail or renovating the informed about your vote, the hot-button issue this time current one. Mayor Linville’s op-ed addressed the efforts bearound (besides a certain Freddy Kreuger look-alike candiing done to allocate funds, but it’s a struggle to know where date) is the proposed jail tax. to start. Whatcom County is split on the jail tax proposal: some Most people against the new jail advocate for reformative against it because of their distaste for max incarceration, oth- justice. This means more rehabilitation and mental health ers for it because of the reform it offers. Junior Ignacio Perez, programs offered as an alternative to incarceration. Accordwho is campaigning against the tax for the Whatcom County ing to the WCD, of the 60 percent of untried individuals in Democrats, is against the jail tax for a number of reasons. jail, more than half of them will never be able to afford bail. “The current facility is a risk to both staff and inmates, and “We have a bunch of poor people who are just stuck in this the lack of space to separate inmates and provide treatment is jail taking up space and most of them are just drug offenders. inhumane. No amount of remodeling of our existing jail will If you really want to crack down on drug use and abuse you provide enough space for programs, recreation and opporwant to try to target the dealers who are distributing, but the tunities to our incarcerated population,” said Bellingham reality is the dealers can afford bail and afford good lawyers Mayor Kelli Linville in an Op-Ed published in the Bellingand don’t end up facing the same prosecution that users do,” ham Herald on Oct. 31. Perez said. Perez does agree. He, along Perez suggested that with the rest of Whatcom offenders who commit “ilCounty Democrats (WCD), legal crimes, but not crimes Step 1: Have a paper ballot. believe renovations to the against humanity” should Failed Step 1? Print a replacement ballot here: https:// jail are needed. However, he be placed in facilities that goo.gl/Y1aEd3 thinks building a larger jail is would actually restore their Step 2: Fill it out. Make sure to find information about unnecessary. quality of life. Mayor Linville any issues you don’t understand online. “A lot of people are acknowledges the value of Step 3: Put it in an envelope. concerned about the quality reformative justice. Step 4: Bring it to a drop-off location, like: and safety of the current jail, “Both the County and the WWU Bookstore which is a valid concern, but City of Bellingham have been Sehome Haggen this tax isn’t the right soluinvesting in alternatives to jail WCC Campus tion. It doesn’t make sense for years, and are committed to build a super jail when 60 to increasing those investpercent of the people in our jail haven’t been convicted yet ments in incarceration prevention to both treat people more and only few of them are violent offenders,” Perez said. humanely and drive down the costs to our taxpayers. But Crime in Whatcom County has steadily declined in the these incarceration prevention efforts do not negate the need past decade, according to an infographic being disseminated for a new jail facility,” Linville said in her op-ed. by WCD. Linville’s op-ed in the Herald is all positive- more Linville also touched on locking up violent offenders. space for rehabilitation and activities, better care, more priva“Our criminal justice system is designed with both punicy. All basic human needs covered. tive and restorative elements, and while we need to provide What Linville and other supporters of the jail tax fail to the option of rehabilitation to those who commit crimes, our mention is the extreme amount of strain this tax would put community also expects that we will keep violent or dangeron other public programs. ous people off our streets,” she wrote. “Conservative estimates put [the price of the new jail] at Incarceration rates have gone up in Whatcom Coun$203 million, but Cascadia Weekly uses $206 million. That’s ty- ninefold between 1970 and 2014, according to WCD. a lot of money in taxes and the fact that it maxes out the However, violent crime rates have actually decreased over the increase on the public spending safety tax means that if we past two decades. need more funding for EMS, police, rehab or mental health “We should be focusing our incarceration system more [programs] over the next 30 years, we won’t be able to do on trying to put people in a situation where they don’t cycle it because we’ve maxed out the increase,” Perez said. This through the prison system. Once you get into jail you're means that public funding for safety programs could be cut, more likely to go to jail again in the future, just because of the at least until the debt from building the jail is payed off. way our prison system is set up,” Perez said. The debt might not be payed off for a long time. WCD “Building the new mega-jail isn’t going to really change estimates that, based on the cost per bed, this new jail would student life, but it will affect the community and students be one of the most expensive jails ever built in the U.S. This have the power to swing the vote in a positive direction.”
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Vigilant students counter white pride posters BY JULIA BERKMAN
The day after Halloween, posters appeared all over North America reading “It’s Okay To Be White.” Here on Western’s campus, you may notice that there are no “It’s Okay To Be White” posters left to be found. That’s because Western sophomore William Zayas and Whatcom Community College student Nora Boehm followed two men hanging them up and ripped them all down. A bigoted message board on often controversial site 4chan devised a plan last week to “produce a shit-storm:” a national pro-white poster campaign. Predictably, the campaign is taking social media by the reins. Zayas and Boehm were headed home from the Rec Center on Tuesday night, October 31, around 10:45 p.m. when they saw two men in black hoodies hanging posters on Wright’s Triangle, the triangular sculpture by Richard Serra by the Art Annex and Ross engineering buildings. “There was no reason to put any kind of thing on a sculpture and the intent (from what I saw) did not seem like they were trying to spread any sort of positivity, they were just trying to stir things up,” Zayas said Thursday. Boehm and Zayas decided to follow the men to see if anything could be done. They found at least 10 more posters on their walk from south to north campus that evening. “They weren’t putting signs anywhere where it was really well-lit and people could see them. They were all in pretty dark areas,” he said. “That was another clue to me they knew what they were doing was wrong.” Zayas, who is Filipino, Puerto Rican and Black, has rarely felt unsafe on Western’s campus before. “There’s a lot of crazy things that go on here,” Zayas said, citing evangelical preachers and bigots in red square. “But I just try to put my head down and do my work.” However, after Tuesday night, Zayas said he would feel less safe as a person of color on campus because now he knows there are people out there who agree with these posters. As anyone who has taken an intro sociology or race-theory class knows, white pride is a coverup for racism.
scene of the crime. They did. While Zayas hung back and called Campus Police, Boehm confronted the two men. “We talked to Campus Police and they told us they couldn't do anything because of freedom of speech, but they could charge them for vandalizing the sculpture. The cop came up to us,” Zayas said. “It seemed like he was just really lighthearted about the whole situation and he just wanted to dismiss us from the scene as soon as possible.” When asked about the posters, the two men only had one stock reply, according to Zayas: “What, is it bad to be white?” Their reaction was planned ahead of time as part of a ploy for alt-right 4channers to sway “normies” (aka people who don’t lean in a particular political direction) onto their side after seeing the drastic negative reactions in the media to a “completely innocuous message.” “The idea is to get the left and the k***s to go apeshit over something so innocuous. Doing something ‘more aggressive’ is counterproductive. The main message we're trying to spread is not whats [sic] on the paper, but how the left and the k***s react to it,” posted a 4chan user to the original thread. So, here at the AS Review, we won’t go “apeshit” and feed the trolls. You can take a look at the Politically Incorrect 4chan thread and find out for yourself whether or not they’ve got it right. No, it’s just the facts here. Facts are, this poster is technically correct. It is technically okay to be white, just as it is technically okay to be a man or to be straight. You can’t choose to be born into your privilege, but you can choose how you use and control it. It’s okay to be white as long as you’re using your whiteness as a sword to cut down racists. Anything less than that, and you might just be the normies 4chan is reaching for.
Nora Boehm (left) and William Zayas (right) encountered the posters after leaving the rec center Halloween night. Photo courtesy of William Zayas “When I think of pride in your identity, I think of pride in your culture like, ‘I’m proud to be Swedish, I’m proud to be Pakistani!’ I don't think of ‘I’m proud to be white.’ When I see people saying it’s okay to be white, I think of colonialism and what comes with that and I don’t necessarily think that anything positive will come out of it,” Zayas said. AS President Simrun Chhabra agreed. “It’s always been okay to be white. It’s always been okay in every space,” Chhabra said. “These posters are pointless because everyone has known this for so long. This takes up space where people of color, especially native and black folks, need to heal.” Zayas and Boehm lost sight of the two men, but doubled back to Wright’s Triangle to see if they would return to the
Students respond to Spacey allegations
CW: Sexual assault, violence Actor Kevin Spacey came out as gay last in the same statement as acknowledging and apologizing for sexually assaulting a 14 year-old in 1986. Spacey, who was then 26, made sexual advances on fellow actor Anthony Rapp that he now does not remember, but offered his “sincerest apology for what could have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.” In the second paragraph, Spacey concluded that he was now choosing “to live open as a gay man.” This obvious conflation of homesexuality and sexual misconduct has very serious, and real implications for the gay community everywhere. "This exposes the gay community to a million tired old criticisms and conspiracies," movie critic Richard Lawson tweeted. Lawson also said that the “psychology of the closet is dark and cruel and self-punishing” and “that Spacey has dwelt in that for years is sad. But 14 is 14.” Lawson illuminated a widespread conflict many feel after Spacey’s statement: wanting to
Editor’s note: We have decided to print the abbreviated version of the anti-semitic slurs to give a sense of the prevalence of, and normalcy of, bigotry within the group organizing the posters.
BY GWEN FROST support someone who has decided to be open with their own marginalized sexuality, but also wanting to be critical of a perpetrator of sexual violence. The effect of Spacey’s contentious statement has hit close to home for many Western students including Evelyn Hobbs, AS Queer Resources Center Coordinator. “Everybody’s pissed for the same reason, because the problem with any minority is that anytime someone fucks up, they become the poster child of that minority,” Hobbs said. When people have unconfirmed prejudices and then one person of a minority confirms those prejudices, people will often use that person as an example to generalize an entire group of people and label them in unfair ways. An important distinction illustrated by Hobbs was the emphasis of what really lies at the root of most sexual assault; power dynamics. “Sexual attraction is not what causes assault – it’s a power thing,” Hobbs said.
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Students feel unsafe after voyeurism BY JULIA BERKMAN
CW: This article contains discussion of voyeurism and explicit sexual acts Lately, Bellingham has become less of a city of subdued excitement and more of a cesspool of shady perverts. With at least four instances of indecent exposure, voyeurism or attempted break-ins on or around campus in the past few weeks, Western students on and off-campus are on guard from peeping toms. Two instances of indecent exposure or peeping tomfoolery were reported on campus in the past two weeks, both on the Ridge. Off campus, two houses of students living in the York District called authorities after a man was spotted peeping in their windows, and in one case masturbating. Shayna Nowicki awoke early on Oct. 13 to find a man in a mask masturbating outside her window. Nowicki, along with roommates Sophie Marinkovich and Sydney Stewart, called 911 and were met at their house by authorities. “I was yelling ‘I’m going to call the police,’ which I actually wasn’t going to, because I just don’t like calling the police, but I did it anyway,” Nowicki said, in an interview at her home on Nov. 1. “I generally don’t feel safe around police officers, however I felt like the police that came to our house listened to us and they had a crime scene investigator and a K9 unit. It seems like they want to figure it out. I mean, I don’t know what they can do at this point,” said Stewart, a human services major. Reports of a man shining a flashlight in windows or masturbating outside student residences have been in the news since last year. The Bellingham Herald puts the number of reports in the teens. “Some of the cases show similarities, such as the suspect exposing himself or masturbating in a public place. In other instances, the suspect attracted the attention of people inside a home and exposed himself near a door or window,” wrote Herald reporter Denver Pratt in an article from Oct. 27 entitled “She saw him in the window’s reflection, then he exposed himself. Do we have serial peeper?” One thing is always the same: the peeper is gone by the time police arrive. “It just seems ridiculous that he wasn’t caught. The cops were in cars, I don’t understand how they didn’t find him if he was on foot,” Nowicki said. Stewart agreed. “It took them 10 minutes to come to us at least. A person can be gone in ten minutes,” she said.
TOP: Sophie Marinkovich (left) and Sydney Stewart (right), roommates of voyeurism victim Shayna Nowicki, display their tattoos that Marinkovich designed to symbolize that their home is still a safe female space. Courtesy of Sydney Stewart BOTTOM: Marinkovich drew the design the tattoos are based off after speaking to police about the incident. Courtesy of Sophie Marinkovich
“Shayna’s window isn’t directly facing the street, so you couldn’t just walk by and know it was a girl’s bedroom from a glance. You’d have to scope it out. This person was not casual, he was set up wearing a mask and condom. He knew what he going out to do.” The subject not only peeped into Nowicki’s room, but also knocked on her window so she would wake up. This was between 3 and 4 a.m. “At first, I couldn’t tell what it was, so I turned my lights on, which I think made him able to see me more. At that point I freaked out and I was slamming on the window and telling him to go away. He didn’t,” Nowicki said. That’s when Nowicki and her roommates called the police. Less than 24 hours later, a house on North Garden reported a man of similar build and height masturbating on their back porch around 9:45 p.m. That weekend, two voyeuristic events were reported on the Ridge, according to Western Alerts. Late Saturday evening at the Gamma lounge, a student reported a man attempting to break in by rattling the door and knocking. When they refused to let him in, the man exposed himself to the student and then ran off. University Police were contacted, but he was not found. The next day, Oct. 29, a Western student and her friend from
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#OurVP: Students fundraise for Ana Ramirez
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BY HAILEY MURPHY
Students across Western are raising money for their elected Associated Students VP for Governmental Affairs, Ana Ramirez. When Ramirez was elected as AS VP for Governmental Affairs last spring, a complication arose– Ramirez is an undocumented student. Without Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and without citizenship, Ramirez wasn’t allowed to fill the position. “Federal law indicates undocumented individuals cannot hold a position that includes compensation, such as an Associated Students elected position which includes pay,” Paul Cocke , director of University Communications and Marketing, said However, there has been some disagreement by students as other universities in California and Eastern Washington have found ways to compensate undocumented students in similar positions through scholarships or other means. Despite this, since Ramirez doesn’t have DACA (her application is currently pending), she was told she’d either have to work without pay or step down. This led to the creation of the AS Consultant for Governmental Affairs position by the AS Board, which is now Ramirez’s official title. This position demands 19 hours of work each week, just like the board positions. But Ramirez doesn’t get paid, nor does she have the right to vote with the board. “I feel like, honestly, people don’t appreciate my work here in the AS,” Ramirez said. “They don’t appreciate that I have to be here 19 hours a week, and everyone else gets paid to here, and I don’t. People just expect me to keep working without acknowledging that I’m doing this for free, in my free time.” Western’s lack of leniency with Ramirez has frustrated much of the student body and has spurred action to help
Ramirez. A GoFundMe page had been made. Additionally, Students for Anti-Racist Action (SARA) held a fundraiser on November 2 and 3 to contribute to the GoFundMe. “Part of what we do as a club is fundraise for causes led by people of color,” SARA member Maddy Gehr said. “We saw that Ana was not being fairly compensated for her labor and organized this event as a way to get her some compensation and to bring attention to the treatment of her and other undocumented students on campus.” SARA sold goodies to students passing through vendor’s row. Whether it was a baked treat, a piece of art or a button, students relinquished just a few bucks to help their elected representative. They also had a jar for donations, and a computer open to the GoFundMe page. The page was created by Ramirez’s friend and Western graduate Alan Alatorre. It’s raised $1,310 as of November 1. “I honestly can’t believe people would want to donate money to me,” said Ramirez. “It’s just mind blowing... Especially because money is really important. [Students] don’t have a lot of opportunities to get money.” While the fundraisers won’t equal what Ramirez should be making (the position pays $950 a month), it’ll certainly supplement her funds at this time. Meanwhile, she’s proposed to the board that funds allocated for her salary get redirected to the Ethnic Student Center and Representation and Engagement Programs. SARA hopes this fundraiser will not only provide assistance to Ramirez, but will also shed light on an underrepresented group of students. “While we are organizing the fundraiser, our goal is really to draw attention to the issues that Ana and the Blue Group are
Students have created a GoFundMe page for Ramirez to help compensate for not being paid while still working 19 hours a week. Hailey Hoffman // AS Review
dealing with,” Gehr said. Blue Group is a club of undocumented students and their allies who have advocated for undocumented students on campus and in Bellingham.. SARA believes that Western must do more to value undocumented students. They’ve called for President Sabah Randhawa to follow through with his claims that undocumented students on campus are valued. If Ramirez’s situation isn’t being properly addressed, then this claim has little merit, they say. Cocke says Western’s hands are tied. “Our existing policy is in Section 5 of the WWU Student Employee Handbook: Student Employee Eligibility. This requirement is transparent and consistent: students who are not legally eligible to work cannot be employed at Western,” Cocke said. “Western values undocumented students and has a deep commitment to inclusion… We will continue to consult our legal and policy experts as we look for the best solutions.” Even her volunteer position is seen as work in the eyes of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, according to Cocke. Without any further explanation from adminstration about why other university’s solutions would not work, ,Ramirez will simply be our consultant for Governmental Affairs until her DACA is approved at some point in the future. But if you want to help, you can donate to the GoFundMe at: https:// www.gofundme.com/unpaid-undocumented-asvp-for-gov. If Western’s lack of action upsets you, find SARA or Blue Group on Facebook and join their effort to support our VP for Governmental Affairs and undocumented students on campus.
SARA members Ryan Klise and Mady Gehr raise money for Ana Ramirez on vendor’s row. Hailey Hoffman // AS Review
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November 2 AS Board of Directors meeting BY HAILEY MURPHY On the morning of November 2, 2017, the AS Board gathered in Old Main 340 for their weekly meeting. Besides fixing typos, approving new committee members and discussing what’s to come in future meetings, here are the highlights. Resource and Outreach Programs Laptop Proposal Erick Yanzon, AS VP for Diversity, proposed using funds not to exceed $4,000 (as estimated by IT Manager Jeremy McAllister) from the AS Repair and Replacement Budget to purchase three Microsoft laptops for the following ROPs: Womxn’s Identity Resource Center, Social Issues Resource Center, and Veteran’s Community Coordinator. One laptop will be given to each office, for the use of it’s employees. Currently, the computer equipment for ROP is insufficient for the amount of employees in these offices. Particularly for the Womxn’s Identity Resource Center, who employs four people, as well as a work study position and volunteers. Due to the structure of the room, there is no way to have more than two computers in the office, and thus students are limited on their computer access. This is also a problem for the Veteren’s Community Coordinator, who works out of Old Main but doesn’t have a work area that meets the needs of the position. Alexander LaVallee, AS VP for Business and Operations, posed the question of why the ROP can’t use the tablets that are available for checkout at the info desk. Considering the limited supply of tablets, the info desk’s desire to keep them within the building, and the AS Board’s use of them for meetings, it was decided that the ROP doesn’t have consistent enough access to the tablets. There are too many people requiring access to them, particularly with the overlap of office hours within the ROP. The motion passed with majority. Redirection and Reaffirmation of the Non-Academic Building Fee LaVallee proposed a motion last week to redirect $110,000 per year from the Non-Academic Building Fee to the expansion of the VU and the Bookstore, specifically for the expansion of the Multicultural Center. This $110,000 comes from a $45 fee each quarter on student tuition. While this redirection had already been passed by the board, a change of language was needed within the
document. Originally, it was stated that the student fee may be increased by the AS Board in any year. LaVallee changed this language to “increased or decreased” to ensure that the student fee be properly assessed and modified by future board members. The AS Board agreed to this change in language with a majority vote. Student Enhancement Fund Charge and Charter LaValle proposed a motion in which modifications were made to the Student Enhancement Fund Charge and Charter. Instead of the committee having two students at large, it was changed to three. This change was made to ensure that the committee has a higher student population than faculty population. LaValle believes that there could be issues of bias within the committee. To ensure proper use of Student Enhancement Funds, more students will be involved in the committee in following years. Info Items: Election Committees AS President Simrun Chhabra came forward to clarify and review three different AS Election committees. These are the Election Advisory Committee, the Elections Board, and the Election Appeals Panel. The Election Advisory Committee makes recommendations on how the AS Board should hold the AS Elections. The Elections Board reviews any grievances brought forth from the student body regarding the fairness of the AS election. The Election Appeals Panel makes a final decision regarding the disqualification of a candidate, if an appeal is made by the Elections Board. These three committees coordinate to ensure a just election. Julia Rutledge, AS VP for Activities, asked if the Election Board historically has had a hard time filling the seats. As it turns out, the Elections Board has 12 studentsat-large positions, which?with is unprecedented for AS committees. Never have all the seats been filled. Additionally, the Board may never meet. They’re only called together in the case of a grievance during the election. This is a problem because at least five students need to be at the meeting, and they often have about 24 hours to get everyone together after a grievance has been filed. “I don’t see how sustainable this is,” Yanzon, AS VP for Diversity said, in referring to the Election Board. “I don’t see the rationale behind having three bodies.”
The Board agreed the matter would need further discussing. The motion was tabled. University Strategic Planning Feedback Eric Alexander, Associate Dean of Student Engagement and Director of VU Organization, and Bill Lyne, English Professor, presented their strategic plan for Western at the board meeting. Alexander and Lyne are members of the strategic planning committee, which has been drafting a strategic plan for Western. This plan outlines the goals for the uUniversity from 2018 through 2024. These goals include providing education grounded in liberal arts and sciences, gaining an understanding of the land on which Western is built, creating an inclusive environment and providing equal opportunities for all. The strategic plan went through a number of focus groups before coming to the AS Board. At the meeting, they were seeking the board’s opinion on the plan so they can continue to make edits. The final draft is due in December for approval by the Board of Trustees Among the board, one thing was clear: the language used in this plan needs to be not just inclusive, but focused. “I’m sick of the word ‘inclusion’... We need to center the goals around these folks [underrepresented students],” said Yanzon said. When asked to clarify, Yanzon said that thinking of underrepresented students, whatever their identity may be, is not good enough. These folks should be at the center of their attention– simply including them doesn’t do enough to allow these students to succeed. In reply, Lyne admitted, “You’re probably never going to find that in an institutional document.” The Board continued to discuss how the language in the document needs to be more focused on the group that their speaking on. For example, the section on sexual assault prevention should be survivor-focused. The section on indigenous lands must be focused on indigenous people. In addition, the AS Board acknowledged the need for more cultural classes to be taken by the student body. The GUR system is meant to expand the knowledge of the student body, but that’s not always the case. “There’s a way to get through the GUR system without ever challenging someone’s idea of identity and privilege,” said LaValle said.
Black Minds Matter BY HAILEY MURPHY
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Talking about the experience of black men in education
To experience a free livestream lecture from San Diego University addressing issues facing black men in higher education, visit Fraser 102 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. every Monday through fall quarter. Black Minds Matter is a livestream lecture run by professor J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. The course shines light on the experience of black men in higher education. It also strives to provide support based in extensive research to help students of color succeed. Additionally, Black Minds Matter draws parallels between students of color engaging their minds in the classroom, and people of color engaging in advocacy in the Black Lives Matter movement. “The Black Lives Matter movement has shed light on two invariable facts,” said Wood, in an introductory video to the course. “First, that black men and boys are criminalized in society. And second, their lives are undervalued by those who have sworn to protect them. In educational settings, these same two unwavering facts hold true.” Wood believes that, in the same way black bodies are in danger in the streets, black minds are in danger in the classroom. Their ideas are less valued by the institution that’s supposedly there to serve them. The course will address this issue by discussing overrepresentation in special education, exclusionary discipline, the school to prison pipeline, unconscious bias, stereotypes, microaggressions and more. The livestream lecture will feature commentary from Wood, as well as interviews, speeches and guest lecturers. Some guests on the livestream include Patrisse Cullers, Black Lives Matter co-founder, and Tyrone Howard, professor of Urban Education and associate dean for Equity and Inclusion at the University of California. Wood has been a voice for underrepresented students for many years. He received his Ph.D in Education Leadership and Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education in 2010. He’s the co-director of the Community College
Equity Assessment Lab, which performs research on community college campuses to advance opportunities for students of color. He also serves as the Director of the Joint Ph.D. program in Education and as Director of the Ed.D. Program in Community College Leadership. In 2016, Wood spoke at The White House to advocate for more racially inclusive STEM programs. Lastly, he’s written over a dozen scholarly books on black men in education. With his extensive research on the topic, the course is bound to be educational and interesting. I think this is a super important subject,” said Yaritza Esqueda, coordinator of the Social Issues Resource Center. “The amount of [black] men in prison is incredibly disproportionate to the amount of white men who are in prison… A lot of the factors are contributing to the school to prison pipeline as well as countless other societal problems.” The Social Issues Resource Center will be hosting the livestream, and they hope to specifically see future educators in the audience. “This is a really great opportunity for future teachers specifically,” said Esqueda. “But [also to] anyone else who is interested and willing to dedicate their time to these livestreams... I encourage educators to be present and dedicate their time to this event, and see it as a lifetime dedication to education.” The first hour of the seven remaining lectures is the public portion of the class. Groups and individuals across the nation will tune in. After that, the livestream will be turned off and the class will continue for the students taking the course at San Diego University. To listen to Black Minds Matter, go to Fraser 102, 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m Mondays throughout fall quarter. If you can’t make it to the livestream, you can go to jlukewood.com/bmm to register as an individual participant, or you can wait a few days and view the streams on Wood’s youtube page.
KUGS top album review of the week: “A Deeper Understanding”
BY JOSH HUGHES
Since you’re obviously an avid reader of the AS Review, you’ve spent months, years scanning your eyes down the “Top Ten Records” on KUGS of the week. Looking for something you’ve yet to hear or hoping to see one of your favorite records of the year on the list, it’s a handy way to showcase what students around Western have been jamming to lately. While the heydey of college radio rock has certainly passed, KUGS lets us hold on to the excitement of being part of an alternate space where Alvvays and John Maus replace Imagine Dragons and Ed Sheeran on a hypothetical Top 40. With that in mind, this is the start of an ongoing column where I will give a quick review of the number 1 album at KUGS for the past week, starting with The War On Drugs’ excellent 2017 release “A Deeper Understanding”: Adam Granduciel is the brainchild behind glossy rock group The War on Drugs, and his latest album under the moniker progresses the impeccable
production of 2014’s “Lost In The Dream”. Granduciel’s songs still play out well past the five minute mark, include krautrock influenced guitar breakdowns and run with the electric charge of a caffeinated Bruce Springsteen, but this time around there’s an even more noticeable sense of absolute perfectionism. When the songs soar and creatively build momentum, as they often do, there’s a pervasive feeling that Granduciel spent hours and nights pouring over the smallest of elements to achieve his exact vision. This is calculated rock for slow nights. Songs like “Thinking of a Place” and “Pain” rank among The War On Drugs’ best songs, each taking at least two minutes to reach a first chorus. “Place” specifically, at 11 minutes, centers the album and immerses the listener in a series of ‘80s swelling synths and harmonica solos. But where a jam band might self-indulge in an exercise like this, The War on Drugs refrain from overstimulation and bom-
bast. Never in the album’s hefty 66 minutes does an arrangement cave in on itself or overwhelm. The album’s biggest fault, then, lies in its melodic elements. While most tracks bring a unique groove to The War On Drugs’ impressive back catalogue, certain songs like “Nothing To Find” show the band falling too heavily on their past achievements. Yet even when a guitar line sounds uncannily similar to something you’ve already heard, Granduciel soaks the whole album in a hazy mist that feels both approachable and strangely alien. For such a conventionally influenced group, there’s really nothing else that sounds like The War on Drugs right now. “A Deeper Understanding” does little more than delicately improve and modify the tried and true formula of the band’s last LP, but it’s also likely their strongest record to date.
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Ask Gwen BY GWEN FROST
I have a wonderful girlfriend who I’ve been in a relationship with for a while, but we’ve both agreed our sex life is getting a little stale. We’ve been considering mixing it up with a threesome for a while, and I know one of my best friends would be interested. What steps can we take to make sure nobody gets hurt? How would I go about initiating it? Should we talk about it before or let it unfold naturally? Sincerely, Two Peas in a Pod Dear Two Peas in a Pod, I think this is a good idea. There is nothing unnatural about wanting to share intimacy with more than one partner. Early editions of the Kamasutra from 400 BC include depictions of three-way (and more) sex. Bathhouses in Pompeii, Italy had adornments of three-party intercourse, and Greek Mythology was heavily influenced by the menage a trois. The Greek god Dionysus of wine, fertility and theatre had many orgies in the days of ancient Greece. In January 2016, Pornhub rated “threesome” as the No. 2 search for female users, and the No. 13 search overall. This is very situation-specific issue. The dynamics of friendship and sexuality are in bed together here, and you don’t want anyone to end up feeling upset or pressured. I suggest casually bringing up the concept of threesomes in general, and ask interested parties how they feel about threesomes (maybe casually bring up a hypothetical situation). If they seem interested, ask if they would consider engaging in this kind of romance with you (this can make it easier to ask for consent in the moment, if you’ve already talked about it previously). However, you definitely don’t want to end up in a situation where two people have discussed it, and the other is just sort of cornered into it; this tends to happen when a couple will discuss the notion and then make their move on an unknowing third-party. Every person involved in a sexual act deserves equal consent and equal respect; if you are a couple, this third (or fourth) person should be taken as seriously as if it was a 1-on-1 situation. If you’re part of a couple and are nervous that things are going off course into something you’re uncomfortable with, maybe have a signal like saying “I need water” so you can take a break and reevaluate. Agreeing on possible third-parties before, and what you are both comfortable with, can help avoid this uncomfortable situation. Also, if you’re reading this as a possible third-party candidate to a threesome with a couple, trust me, you’ll be ANYTHING but left out (these people have the same cup of coffee all the time, but you are a flavoring they have never tried- neither of them). Also, I find that ALL people can be worried that someone will feel left out during group-sex, but this is anything but the truth. There are so many more places to put your hands, the crook of your neck, your mouth… I wouldn’t worry about going untouched (c’mon, SIX hands). Sometimes you don’t know how you’ll feel after engaging in a multiple-person sexual engagement. Should it happen again? How will you know? My best advice is to communicate as openly as possible with ALL parties, as to not let peer-pressure coerce someone into doing something again that they don’t want to- it’s harder to say no to two people than just one, in some cases. Sometimes moving forward after a threesome there can be a little bit of tension, because it can occur where some desire the crazy playground of casual intimacy that threesomes can offer. And sex complicates everything, for better or worse.
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Seattle were celebrating Halloweekend at Ridgeway Kappa when they found a man in the common shower of the second floor women’s restroom around 4 a.m. One woman noticed feet in the shower but no running water, so she drew back the curtain to find a man who looked to be in his 30’s crouched hiding. He ran out when the student found him. “He was described as a white male, with dark brown hair, stubby facial hair, about 6 feet tall, weighing about 220 pounds and wearing a gray t-shirt, gray sweatpants and white socks. He was not wearing shoes,” said a Western Alert sent out on Monday. Many wondered why the Western Alert took more than 24 hours to be sent out. According to a Western Front interview with Paul Cocke, Director of Communications at Western, the alert was delayed until further investigation of the incident. However, most would argue that Western Alerts should be used for urgent matters rather than in-depth reports. Many students on the Ridge may have benefitted from a quick spread of information. Further off-campus, students won’t even get the luxury of a Western Alert when shit goes south. “I also wonder how many cases are happening that we aren’t even hearing about. In our situation we knew it was happening to us because we are us, but it wasn’t reported as an Western Alert. The only reason the other one [referring to the event on Oct. 29] was a Western Alert is because it was on campus. So now
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Also at the root of the problem is identifying what people know they can get away with. “Eric Garner was selling loose cigarettes and was choked to death. Spacey, he assaulted a 14 year-old and his TV show was cancelled,” Hobbs said. Even in Spacey’s statement, the only admission of confession is the lack of a total denial. He simply says he doesn’t remember, but if it did happen, he was very very drunk, which in his mind and our culture makes assault socially admissible. The assault of Anthony Rapp is also handled differently because of the marginalized sexuality being dealt with. “Donald Trump can assault people and become president,” said Hobbs. But all of Trump’s accusers were heterosexual situations, so the media possibly didn’t focus on them in the same way that they were with a homosexual one,
that things are happening with the police directly I don’t know how often people are hearing about things like this,” said Sophie Marinkovich, a studio art major and Nowicki’s roommate. It was up to Marinkovich, Stewart and their other roommates who attend Western to spread the news. Otherwise, students living in the York District outside of the Western Alert sphere may never know that they’re vulnerable. “All I have to say is that everyone needs to be safe and always go in groups of people,” said one victim (who wished to remain anonymous) in a Facebook post, “Especially girls. We are a target.” Nowicki is shaken following the incident on Oct. 13. “I like to go out alone, like to go to bars alone or whatever, but I don’t like doing that now. For a while it was making me unable to sleep, but that’s more or less gone away,” she said. “I think it would be healing for the people who this has happened to communicate with each other somehow. I don’t know if it would be a Facebook group or what, and I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t want to talk about it or admit that happened to them, but I’d like to see something like that happen.” If you or someone you know has been affected by voyeurism in Bellingham, they can talk to a counselor at CASAS or DVSAS if they are not a student.
where the media was more willing to believe that a homosexual man would be sexually devious. The problem has social ramifications beyond this specific situation. “It’s happened so many times before in Hollywood,” pointed out student, and former AS Review writer, Chris Beswetherick. “Why was a 14 year-old allowed at a party where there was alcohol?” Beswetherick identified the problem as more institutionalized within Hollywood, rather than specific to this situation in particular. At its very core, this statement seems counter-intuitive to Spacey’s interests as part of the gay communitywhy would he want to reinforce derogatory stereotypes about his own identity? “He can just walk away from us,” explained Hobbs. “He will be fine.”
Upcoming Outdoor Center Events BY JOSH HUGHES
The Outdoor Center (OC) offers a range of activities and excursions that students can attend throughout the year. With everything from instructional courses to casual moonlit hikes, all students need to do to sign up for trips is stop by the OC (Viking Union 150) during their weekly hours, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. While Winter and Spring quarter courses and events are still getting set up, here’s a comprehensive list of upcoming events students can still sign up for: Women’s Mountain Bike When: November 9 at 3 p.m. Cost: $20 Difficulty Scale: Easy Where: Meet at the OC What: A quintessential Bellingham bike ride for womxn only that explores some of the town’s interurban trails. A great way to get into mountain biking, the event also serves as a way of networking with other womxn cyclists and meeting people to go explore with. All levels of experience are encouraged to attend! Unlike other events, there is no pre-trip for this ride.
Sunny Rock Climbing Weekend When: November 10-12, pre-trip meeting on November 10 at 6 p.m. Cost: $170 Difficulty Scale: Moderate Where: Sunny Rock, meet at the OC for pre-trip What: Intended as an introductory to intermediate course for rock climbers, especially those without much outdoor experience, the Sunny Rock trip hopes to help students learn the ins and outs of outdoor climbing. The goal, besides having a fun weekend, is for students to acquire the skills needed to go sport climb on their own. The weekend long trip will provide transportation for students out to enjoy some of Washington’s world class climbing. Sunset Snowshoe When: December 2, pre-trip meeting on November 29 at 6 p.m. Cost: $45 Difficulty Scale: Easy Where: Mt. Baker, meet at the OC for pre-trip and details
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on trip What: If you’re already missing hiking season but unsure of how to keep roaming through the wilderness in the winter, try taking this daylong snowshoe excursion. The group will be going near the Mt. Baker ski area for the majority of the day to catch sunset at a vista looking eastward. Snowshoes provided for those in need, but bring your own if you have them! Intro to Backcountry Winter Touring When: December 9, pre-trip meetings on December 5 and 7 at 6 p.m. Cost: $65 Difficulty Scale: Moderate Where: TBD, pre-trip meetings in the OC What: An instructional course for students interested in winter backpacking, the trip will give students the tools and skills necessary to safely get out in the wintery wonderland of Northern Washington. Students will learn the basics of touring gear and backcountry travel, and is intended for students who already have some level of skiing or snowboarding experience under their belt.
Western’s B gallery has a lot to offer BY JOSH HUGHES
Don’t let the name fool you
Though it’s rather unfortunate name conjures up the ideas of ‘lesser quality’ and ‘amateur work’ Western’s B Gallery highlights some of the most interesting art the school has on display. With quickly rotating exhibits, the gallery showcases student work as well as other pieces that don’t exist alongside Western’s other two, more major galleries. With three exhibits left this quarter, the B Gallery, located in Fine Arts Building 118, has a diverse array of art that sometimes goes unnoticed by the average student. Abigail Kuchar and Ruby Jones’ show, Disintegration, runs through November 8 in the gallery, followed up on November 13 with a Chrochet Sculpture exhibit and on December 4 with a final Art 494 class show. Kuchar and Jones, two students who had an opportunity to study as artists in residency at Anacortes’ Shannon Point Marine Center, have subtitled their exhibit “ocean acidification in the Salish Sea”. The two worked alongside scientists and conservationists at the center through the “Communicating Climate Change Through Art” and “Marine Science and the Arts” internships. The product of their time there is Disintegration, which addresses climate change and the invisibility of ocean life that is struggling to stay alive in
the Salish Sea. Focusing on shellfish and other ocean calcifiers, the pieces evoke ideas about conservation and the fear of extinction— disintegration. Paintings of “oil slicked oysters” and a wall sculpture of sparse barnacles line the exhibit, commenting on the imminent dangers that wildlife face right here in our backyards. “‘Horror Vacui’ is a Latin derived statement meaning ‘fear of emptiness’ or ‘fear of the empty’,” says Kuchar says of her work and the exhibit. “Really I’m talking about the fear of emptiness in general. A fear of ecosystems becoming vacant, abandoned. A fear of people having to leave their homes and communities due to changes in climate, leaving behind empty homes,” reads her wall text at the entrance of the gallery. Disintegration speaks to the fear of erasure, and of ecosystems spiraling into oblivion if not cared for and conserved. The B Gallery will also host the Chrochet Sculpture exhibit from November 13 through 24, featuring a fibers and fabrics class exhibition. The gallery will close out the quarter with an exhibit of the work of students in Art 494, a course for advanced studio seminar credits.
“Really I’m talking about the fear of emptiness in general.” -Abigail Kuchar, Art Major
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where white supremacy now has a microphone. A country that tells one history of itself, where it is really only safe for white people. She discussed how having an accent is somehow viewed as “un-American.” However, there are some people, who “don’t fear whatever we’re not.” She said that “movements are always led by young people,” and “this is your moment.”
In 2016, Frohman performed at the White House, and met a woman who worked with NASA, where Frohman asked about the possibility of other life forms. The woman explained that there were over 10,000 galaxies, and humans haven’t even explored all of the first one yet. Frohman felt a fear, one she realized that emanated from a lack of knowledge. She realized that “we are socialized to be afraid of
anything that ain’t us.” Of anything we can’t control. She asked the woman,”‘What would you say to a life form if you were sitting next to it?” The woman responded, “I wanna know how they coexist, because we don’t know how to.”
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Wednesday Night Concert Series: The Wednesday’s and Thee Unsound BY JOSH HUGHES
This week at the Wednesday Night Concert Series on November 8, two of Bellingham’s rowdiest punk bands will be rocking out the Underground Coffeehouse. The Wednesdays, a “blues punk” group indebted to the ‘90s riot grrl acts, will play alongside Thee Unsound, an equally lo-fi, DIY and garage punk group. Composed of Vanessa Moreno, Kayla Daly, Mars Clark and Maddy Holup, The Wednesday’s released their debut album, “MOOD”, this past July. Even with its playful paper cut-out album art, the band does not spend any time sugaring up any part of their sound. While their vocals and harmonies are gorgeous, the first two songs, respectively titled “YFMU” and “YFMU Pt. II” (which both stand for “you fucked me up”), place The Wednesday’s in line with the grittiest of Sleater-Kinney’s discography. “And I just wanna die!!” goes the cathartic breakdown of album highlight “State of Nature”. The same song concludes with the line “the president doesn’t care about your baby”. The Wednesdays write no-BS lyrics that feel instantly relatable and completely genuine. The band runs through songs that deal with gender dynamics, crappy relationships, low end jobs and the never-diminishing relevance of figuring one’s self out. Musically, the band relies on surf inspired garage rock, built around a typical guitar-bass-drum arrangement. Much of the band’s individuality comes through, beyond their lyrics, with their sometimes sung, sometimes screamed harmonies that flutter in and out of the lead melody. There’s a scream halfway through “Adult Stuff ” that sums up The Wednesdays’ unapologetic sass and emo-
The Wednesday’s will be performing for free at the Underground Coffeehouse on November 8. Photo courtesy of The Wednesday’s.
A weekly prof-ile
Name: Hunter price Position: Assistant Professor of History Education background: PhD at Ohio State University in 2014, Masters at Ohio State and BA from Furman University in History. Hometown: Anderson, South Carolina Classes you are teaching this quarter: HIST 103 American History 1865, HIST 490 Borderlands and Frontiers in North America and HIST 499 Capstone Course Early American History Senior Research. Claim to fame (article published anywhere cool? is your cousin Brad Pitt?): One published article. I have a cousin who is in the movie Radio. The guy playing Harold Jones (my cousin) is Ed Harris.
QUESTIONS: What did you want to be when you grew up (as a kid)? A baseball player, you have to be much better at baseball in order to do that profes-
tional potency in one cathartic yawp. Thee Unsound, who will open the Wednesday night show, exist in a similar spectrum as The Wednesdays, but they take the intensity of punk to another level. Made up of Casey Proctor, Anthony Navarro and Chris Williams, the trio got their start playing at the Make.Shift’s Valentine’s Day Cover Show pretending to be The Hives. After that, they wanted to keep making music together, hence Thee Unsound came about. Having released a self-titled EP this past August, the band is rowdy as ever and ready to play new music on a short West Coast tour this November. Their sound, which fluctuates between the post-punk dread of Joy Division and Wire to a sunnier (albeit still wildly distorted) strut, makes Thee Unsound one of the most energetic bands from Bellingham right now. Songs like their EP highlight “Go Slow” burst with intricate guitar parts and a propulsive backbeat that play around Proctor’s haunting vocals. Proctor and Williams both handle vocal duties, adding to the versatility of their sound. While their style certainly comes from the broad umbrella term that is “garage rock”, Thee Unsound are still honing in on their identity as a band, refreshingly playing a variety of sounds that all work excellently together. As with all the Wednesday Night Concerts, this show will be free and open to the public. Each band will play for roughly 45 minutes, and the show will start promptly at 7 p.m. Next week come back for the last scheduled show of the quarter, Iffy Comma and Pop Secret.
Thee Unsound is a DIY and garage punk group that will be performing alongside The Wednesday’s this Wednesday. Photo Courtesy of Thee Unsound.
sionally. If it wasn’t that, I wanted to be a game warden for awhile. Which celebrity would you want to play you in a movie? What kind of movie is it? Harrison Ford in an action-adventure movie. What are you reading right now/most recently? What’s it about? Well, okay, I’m always reading like 15 different things because that’s my job, probably something that’s not immediately work related. “Sapiens”, it’s basically like a history of our species through its origins to the present. Aside from necessities, what are three things you could not go a day without? Coffee, (I mean, this is sad) but work, I’m a workaholic, and the sunshine. Which country do you want to spend 10 years living in? Lots of places I would live for one year, I don’t know about 10 years. You might be able to notice I have commitment issues. Five years, I will say, Italy, NOT Rome, and maybe Florence. If you could join any past or current music group which would you want to join? why? I would never wanna join a music group. I’m too much of a loner for a music group. I admire people who play music but it seems like one of the last things I’d ever want to do.