Stuff 2 Do:

February Edition

By Miette Deschenes Winter quarter can be a difficult time. The sky is always dark, the air is cold and finger-numbing, and nobody wants to leave their dorms. And who can blame them? It seems like there’s no reason! Thankfully, there is actually a lot going on in the Olympia area this […]

FOUND PAINTING:

Seeking Artist

Photo of found painting courtesy of the author.  By Tzvi Silver A year and a half ago I was driving around with a friend and she spotted a free pile on Division Street that seemed especially lucrative. I slammed on the breaks. There was a huge canvas in the pile, done up in unpleasant colors: pukey purple mixed with […]

Spoiler Warning:

How Uncut Gems Wins

Photo: Adam-Sandler by CONNOR VICK is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Alice McIntyre Uncut Gems (2019) is a two-hour-and-fifteen-minute-long heart attack. And I love it. It seems highly unnatural to say that about a film starring Adam Sandler. Stranger still is the fact that Uncut Gems, in marked contrast to Sandler’s myriad rom-com roles of days past, is a […]

New Journalism:

Studio B, Unscripted

Photo: Talk Show Studio. VAZHA DESPOTASHVILI. Labeled for reuse on pexels.com By Daniel Mootz Al Jazeera’s English News network has a new talk-show program without a host. Studio B, Unscripted, consists of “just two notable individuals from different walks of life and ideas to share,” according to aljazeera.com. The first episode aired Nov. 15, 2019, and featured public intellectuals Marc […]

Evergreen Introduces New Scholarship Process

Photo: The Evergreen State College’s Scholarship Office sign. SHAYNA CLAYTON. By Miette Deschenes Evergreen has streamlined its scholarship application process this year. Hooray! Anyone who applied for a scholarship in previous years knows how convoluted the process used to be. Thankfully, applications have been simplified and it should be much easier to apply now. Here is a handy guide […]

Evergreen’s Food and Agricultural Path

By Kris Hill The Paths of Study were created to better support students who already know what field of study they want to follow by making curriculum in an area more visible and more repeatable.  The Food and Agriculture Path is designed for students focused on the intersection of sustainable food production, […]

No Fare is Fair:

Bobby Carleton on Fare Strikes, Police Brutality, and Direct Action

Photo: Olympia’s Transit Center by Shayna Clayton By Alice McIntyre Bobby Carleton is an Evergreen student and Olympia resident that has been involved with various community organizing projects around housing justice, food justice, and reproductive rights and is currently focused on advocating for fare-free public transit. Given Intercity Transit’s recent decision to eliminate fares starting on Jan. […]