The First of Three General Assemblies Opens Discourse on Student Issues BY AMANDA FRANK Students gathered on Jan. 13 for the first of several open forum student assemblies to share ideas and connect with other communities at Evergreen. The students discussed ways for the student population to work together to reclaim […]
Building Student Power
Working Toward Organizing and Democracy Within the University BY JAMES GUTSCH The plutocracy of higher education is so institutionalized that students are unable to have their voices heard within their own alma mater. Patrick St. John, a Pennsylvania native educated at Moravian College and currently residing in Boston, facilitated all […]
From Monkey-Wrenches to Politics
Balancing Direct Action & Political Pressure By Ray Still When Alyssa Estec was 12, she convinced some of her friends to destroy some construction equipment that was tearing up the forest in her hometown. Alyssa Estec: I lived in a rural area. The whole reason we lived there was because […]
Confessions of a Fangirl
My Unapologetic, Critical Love of Pop Music BY SERENA IMANI KORN For the first 10 years of my life, I was passionately dedicated to the boy bands and pop divas of the 1990s. I wasn’t ashamed that I could lay out an entire dance routine to my favorite Backstreet Boys […]
The Beef at The Reef: The Reuben vs. Tot-chos
We all know that the students and faculty at The Evergreen State College often have a penchant for disagreement. We sit in classrooms and heatedly debate politics, gender roles, colonialism and which fungi spores are the most essential. We are taught by faculty to not make assumptions but to research […]
Artist Statement: Anders Rodin
BY ANDERS RODIN I grew up on an island. Always having the ocean in view is kind of like looking at a photograph of the earth from space. It reminds you that there are limits, that we live on a finite amount of space with shorelines and atmospheres that protect […]
Local Punk Band Gag Detests Police, Embraces Sex & Violence
Student Submission BY DAVID JAQUES “Put your gun to your head. Pull your trigger–now you’re dead.” “I’m a punk. I’m a freak. I hate you and you hate me.” “Ha ha ha, blah blah blah; either way you die.” These are the lyrical maxims of GAG, amongst others, expressing nihilistic […]
Clothes–Minded Memories
BY SARA FABIAN Nostalgia is the feeling and emotion we experience when remembering the past and longing to be in a moment again. Something as big as a photograph, or as small as a smell, could trigger our memory and take us back in time. Clothes play an important role […]
Marauding Mollusks
Clams Take Three of Four in Basketball Doubleheader BY JAMES GUTSCH Evergreen Women v. Northwest Christian University The last time the Evergreen Women played on their home floor, they fell in a double-overtime heartbreaker to the 20th-ranked Oregon Institute of Technology. They weren’t going to let it happen again. Instead, […]
New Monthly Open Mic at HCC
BY BLAINE EWIG Walking into the usually empty and harshly-lit Housing Community Center building for its first installment of a monthly open mic series, it was surprising to find a relaxing atmosphere complete with mood lighting, music and a good-sized crowd. The night kicked off with beatboxing and freestyle rapping […]
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