Month: April 2017

By Felix Chrome On Monday, April 10, inmates at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington began a hunger strike in protest of what they consider to be inhumane conditions in the Detention Center and unjust long detainment periods prior to seeing a judge or being assigned a court date. […]

Hidden Marine Treasures
Evergreen Debuts New State of the Art Aquarium Facility

By Val Arias If you dare enter the labyrinth that is the connected basement of LAB I, II and the Arts Annex, you may happen upon a remodeled wing of this eerie space. Located directly one floor below the biology and chemistry lab spaces on the first floor of LAB […]

City Finalized Downtown Design Guidelines

By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy Recent events like the removal of the parklet in front of Burial Grounds and the wall a local business owner built around her neighboring spice shop have peaked my curiosity about the City of Olympia’s downtown Strategy and the city’s priorities for downtown. On Wednesday, April 12 […]

Rising Spring Convergence
Conference Brings Discussion of Pipelines, Colonization to Campus

By Sylvie Chace The Black Cottonwood Collective is hosting the Rising Spring Convergence, an event spanning three days, from April 21 to the 23. The Rising SPRING (Stopping Pipelines and Resisting Infrastructure on Native Ground) Convergence is an event and opportunity to listen to and learn from indigenous water protectors. […]

Student Perspective on Day of Absence

In this week’s POC talk I spoke to students who attended the reversed Day of Absence this year. For those of you who don’t know or did not participate, Day of Absence (or DOA) is one part of a two day event where focus is placed on issues surrounding race […]

Stuff 2 Do
April 19–May 3

By Sylvie Chace CASV Presents: Self-Defense and Physical Self-Confidence Thursday 4/20. Campus Recreation Center room 116. 4pm. Free. Evergreen’s Coalition Against Sexual Violence presents this event as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The group’s facebook page for the event states: “As part of our programming for Sexual Assault Awareness […]

Megan Bailey
Cover Artist

Interview by Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy Megan Bailey is an Evergreen State College student who utilizes house paint in their eerie still lifes that play with perspective. We sat down with them to talk about what they’re currently working on. You can see some of their work in person at Allsorts […]

Evergreen’s Photo Collection
The Story Behind TESC’s Extensive Collection & Why You’ve Never Seen Them

By Ruby Love Did you know that Evergreen owns a large collection of photographs, including prints from artists like Diane Arbus, Edward Weston, and Jerry Uelsmann, not to mention dozens of Andy Warhol’s Polaroids? Likely not—you probably have never seen a single print. We spoke with Gallery Director Ann Friedman […]

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