Student Voice

    Two Iranian speakers came to campus to give a lecture on Thursday, Feb. 25. The event was sponsored by Middle East Solidarity, with most of the event planning by Merci Mohagheghi. The speakers, Hamid Dabashi and Shadi Mokhtari, are both Iranian human rights activists.

If you wander by COM 117 on a Thursday evening, you're likely to hear a roomful of voices rising and falling like a siren wail, or melding in intricate four-part harmony. Open the door, and you'll find yourself in the presence of the Evergreen Singers, a choir open to all Evergreen community members. Directed by Marla Beth Elliott and accompanied by pianist Stephanie Claire, each quarter, the Singers tackle a new repertoire to be performed in a free recital at the end of the quarter.

Challenge Week for the Hunger and Homelessness Campaign begins on Monday, March 1, and continues to Sunday, March 7. To raise awareness about the struggles homeless and unemployed people face economically, students can pledge to take the food stamp challenge on Thursday or Friday, which states that they will do their best to live off only $30 a week, the way someone might if they were on food stamps. On Thursday, March 4, the campaign will be merging with the 7 p.m.

Washpirg's Homelessness and Hunger campaign is suggesting that the students of the Evergreen State College attempt the food stamp challenge. The homeless of the United States receive an average of twenty-one dollars in food stamps a week, and we are asking you to attempt to limit your spending for food to twenty-one dollars for the week of March 1st. The goal for this challenge is to help spread awareness of the struggles of being homeless and to hopefully create empathy for these disadvantaged persons.