Children learn like this: creating, playing, thinking, mimicking, impressions, tactile wondering, repetitive characters, signs, and symbols. Sacred ancient forms of understanding. Physical feeling, wandering emotions. Repetitive situations and patterns; developmental behavior. This is how (good) stories are told. Fables have characters that carry the same steps and leave the same […]
Handwritings: ‘boring, dumb & fine’
BY BLAINE EWIG In Handwritings’ first album, lo-fi indie rock is brought back to its roots with sounds akin to those of Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. With prominent and purposeful feedback, they take what many listeners might perceive as flaws and make them into strengths. In Handwritings’ first album, lo-fi […]
Exploring Me: LGBTQ Style & Identity
BY SARA FABIAN Identity is one of the most compelling and controversial concepts within human nature. Fashion is inevitably intertwined in the constructions and reconstructions of identity—how we represent the contradictions within ourselves in our everyday lives. Through style, individuals announce who they are and who they hope to become. […]
Playoff Drought Continues for the Geoducks
BY JAMES GUSTCH Arguably the best season in Evergreen Women’s Basketball history came to a bitter end on Tuesday night. The fifth place Geoducks fell to fourth place Southern Oregon University in the Cascade Collegiate Conference quarterfinal, by a score of 70-80. Sammi Clark had 22 points in her final […]
‘Clam’tastic: Evergreen Dominates on Senior Night, Bids Farewell to Coach Heuer
BY JAMES GUTSCH Evergreen Women 61 / Pacific Warner College 59 Just days after long-time Women’s Basketball Coach Monica Heuer announced her retirement, and while Evergreen was still fighting for home-court advantage in the playoffs, the Geoducks knew it was not the time to let up on the gas pedal. Sammi Clark […]
The Dead Prez Riot Part 2
Revisiting the Controversial Story BY JOSH WOLF Click here to read part 1 The Dead Prez riot has become commonly associated with The Evergreen State College. Yet, despite the number of students and police officers at the event, eyewitness reports are numerous and conflicting. Did Officer Meyers racially profile Kaylen […]
Falling Short of High Expectations
BY JAMES GUTSCH Competing against Olympic medalist Erik Kynard and former NCAA National Champion Dusty Jonas in the high jump, Evergreen Freshman Anthony Johnson couldn’t quite recreate the magic he has been showing all season. One of just two collegiate athletes invited to compete in the United States of America […]
Evergreen Grad Sues Olympia Police for False Imprisionment
BY JOSH WOLF I spoke with Evergreen alum Paul French (aka Strife) about why he is suing the Olympia Police Department. French spent two months in prison and argues that he was falsely convicted of assaulting an officer. He is currently suing the OPD for damages. His trial starts on […]
Network Outage on Campus
BY RAY STILL An unplanned network outage could be a college’s worst nightmare. Students would be unable to do their online work, teachers would be cut off from communicating with their students, and the main college website would be down for hours on end. Luckily, The Evergreen State College’s Network […]