By Sylvie Chace With the recent new moon in the humanitarian sign of Aquarius, all the signs have been feeling a call to action. When our world is threatened, when our loved ones are in danger, or when we don’t feel safe ourselves, often there is a tendency to react […]
Fuck Civility! Student Response to Police Chief Stacy Brown’s Comments on Campus Protest
By Georgie Hicks The last issue of this publication included an interview of Stacy Brown, the new Evergreen chief of police. Within that article Brown made several comments that I found unacceptable and in need of dissection. Brown says that in her time as a student at Evergreen–she graduated in […]
Tell the Administration Seminar II Bathrooms Should be All-Gender
I have worked on changing the gendered bathrooms in Seminar II to all-gender for a year now, completing every step that the administration has thrown at me. I have been successful in this process before, changing the bathrooms on the first floor of the CAB to all-gender. As we broke […]
Wasted Advice February 1
Greetings. Welcome to Wasted Advice, wherein you ask for advice and I continue to get drunk and advise you. We both win. You can ask me the questions you can’t ask your resident advisor. Is there anyway around seeing people in oly who I’ve previously iced, other than moving or […]
Olympia Women’s March Attracts Crowds, Controversy
By Jon Fitzgerald On January 21, people on every continent gathered in a series of women’s marches as a declaration of unity and power. The marches, spawning from the original event planned for Washington, D.C., gained massive momentum as over three million people worldwide participated in what is now being […]
Evergreen “Welcomes” New Chief of Police Chief Brown Discusses Protests, Fears, and Plans for Future
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy On January 11, 2016, the new Evergreen chief of police, Stacy Brown, was set to be sworn in. Brown, who graduated from the college in 2006, was hired out of the Lewis County Deputy’s office where she had been working for 20 years, the last seven of […]
Police Program to Shed Light on Campus Safety Safer Steps Program Designed to Bring Awareness to Police Public Service
By Chloe Marina Manchester Safer Steps is a new program designed to raise awareness of the public services offered by campus police, such as unlocking doors, jumping cars, and escorting students who are afraid to walk alone around campus. Prior to the program, police already offered many of these services, […]
Trump Inauguration Prompts Protests & Demonstrations What’s Going Down in Olympia
By Felix Chrome Nationally and locally January 20 seems to have the potential to be a wild, action filled day, with a wide variety of events planned. There have been calls for protests and demonstrations of various forms to take place across the country on inauguration day, many using the […]
POC Talk Student Conduct Code Violations Used Against Direct Action
Recently there has been several instances of direct action at Evergreen involving the interruption of planned school events, including the protest at convocation, the opening of Purce hall, and more recently the welcome reception Evergreen’s new police chief. AR Rushet and Lawrence Walker III are two queer and trans disabled/nonable […]
Ashley Miller Cover Artist
IV. I leave the mess. Piss stains color paper, and cd cases crack under my heels. I put on nice shirts and look in the mirror. Two weeks later I carry the mess to the dumpster. I ask about my blood in the jar. You say you poured it in […]