Interview with a Palenstinian Student Student Sumbmission BY KRISTINA ERICKSON How many times have we heard the same first-world voice in every ‘free Palestine’ article? These articles, which set an academically pretentious tone, are a great way to deliver your best Lakshmi Singh impersonation, but they also repel the complacent […]
Glass Blowing: Not Just for Bongs
Student Submission BY SOPHIE KRAUZA Are you a student, staff, or faculty member interested in learning more about glass art? Well, you’re not alone. Anyone in the community interested in learning more about glass art should join in and help me persuade faculty, admissions, and the deans that a glass […]
Last Word Books Looking for ‘Fresh Legs’
BY RAY STILL “We have to be out of this space by the end of February,” said Rob Ross and Sky Cosby, co-owners of Last Word Books and Press. “What we are going to do in the near future is going to radically eclipse what we’ve done in the […]
From ‘Urban Blight’ to Public Sanctuary
The West Central Park Project Works to Reinvent Neglected Lot with Help from Volunteers BY ISSAC SCOTT The vacant lot at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Division Street is getting a makeover, thanks to a group of committed local residents. The West Central Park Project is working to renovate the […]
General Assembly Facilitates Dialogue on Student Power
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 […]