By Zachary Newman Seattle City Councillor and labor organizer Kshama Sawant will be the speaker for this year’s graduation ceremony. Sawant won a seat on the Seattle City Council in 2014, running as a member of the Socialist Alternative party, becoming the first socialist to win a Seattle-wide election in almost […]
Night At The Hands on Children’s Museum Unleashing Your Inner Selfie
By Sara Fabian The Hands on Children’s Museum is a place full of wonder, intrigue and play. Though usually a place for a child and adult accompaniment, the Adult Swim series which started in January of 2014 has opened the amusement to adults at night fall only a few times […]
What is May Day? Commemorating the Working Class Struggle at Home and Around the World
By Josh Wolf The Pacific Northwest has a strong history of protest, and on May 1, Olympia, Seattle, and Portland will continue the tradition of marching in the streets to celebrate May Day. While celebrating May Day in the region is anticipated and established, the manner of celebrating can vary […]
White People and Racism… Sometimes It’s Okay to Laugh
By Seth Leuck On Friday April 10, at Evergreen’s Longhouse, comedy was king. In front of a packed house, headliner and famous Australian comic Aamer Rahman, and openers Khadija Hassan and Abraham Tadesse brought the audience to their knees with jokes about everything from race, religion, and privilege, to masturbation and […]
Next Generation A Sober Look at the Generation PsYchedelic Conference
By Ira Zuckerman It was a beautiful spring weekend—birds were singing, weed-whackers were whacking, music was pumping out of the Circus Resurgence Club’s speakers—but the attendees of the Generation PsYchedelic (GenPsY) conference, a three-day symposium on integrating psychedelics into society and culture, where natural beauty was constantly raised to divine […]
Clean Energy Committee Funding Awards
By Paisley Gallagher Clean Energy Committee Outreach Coordinator I would like to send out a big “thank you” to all who applied for Clean Energy Committee funding. We saw a variety of project proposals from research, building projects, and speakers. The applications that were awarded are as follows: Daron Williams, […]
Vanishing Point Prepares New Issue of Student Literary Magazine
By Garrett Bekemeyer On the third floor of the CAB sits a room bursting with journalistic ingenuity. Room 332, not just the headquarters of the CPJ, is also the home of our school’s bustling young literary magazine, Vanishing Point. They are still a fairly fresh group, breathing new life into […]
Spring Arts Walk Previews
Olympia’s annual Spring Arts Walk is one of the city’s biggest events, with over 100 artists registered, and many more participating unofficially. Here is a collection of artists that we recommend who are presenting their work at this year’s Spring Arts Walk, which is set for April 24 and 25. […]
Best Bets: April 23 – May 6
Some picks for an alright time. By Issac Scott Saturday April 25 Outer Bass ft. SIXIS While still in school at Evergreen, Ben Wyss, AKA SIXIS, began his ascent into the high echelons of the world of progressive electronic music. In 2012, his self-released EP “Transhuman” topped the charts on […]
Winter Student Vote Results CRC Renovation Defeated; WashPIRG and GSU Initiatives Passed
By Kathryn Herron The results of the 2015 Winter Student Ballots are in. The Costantino Recreational Center (CRC) renovation fee was not approved, but the WashPIRG fee renewal vote and the Gwideq Student Union (GSU) fee advisory vote both passed. Roughly 42 percent of the students who were eligible to […]
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