Over the years, the Evergreen community has been at varying levels of anti-establishment and anti-corporation. This isn’t news to me and it probably isn’t news to you. For many students, I am sure that was a huge plus coming to school here. One of the corporations that Evergreen students seems to […]
C-Dorm Flood Affects More Than Students’ Sleeping Schedule
Last Thursday morning, C-Dorm residents were woken by alarms set off by a busted sprinkler on the third floor. “A sprinkler head was tampered with, resulting in the letting forth of several hundred gallons of stagnant water,” said Matt Lebens, the RAD service employee who responded to the incident. When […]
“This is why I stand with Maddy Pfeiffer…”
“They’re asking us who believes in things.” – L.A. Times, “Anarchists targeted after Seattle’s violent May Day protests”, Oct. 19, 2012 Seattle certainly observed Law/May Day this past spring as both sprightly celebrations were contested by the very disorder the observances dispute. As protesters from the Black Bloc broke from their […]
Men’s Soccer Makes History
Geoducks play in first playoff match since 2005, but fall in Cascade Conference Final to Concordia The Men’s Soccer team’s season came to an end in the Cascade Conference Finals this past Saturday against Concordia in Portland. Concordia, the only team to beat Evergreen in conference play this season, won […]
Public Charter Schools Approved in Washington
The Initiative Those seeking alternative or customized education within Washington’s public education system will be happy to hear that state voters recently approved Initiative 1240, which allows for 40 new public charter schools to be authorized over a five-year period. These schools will be publicly funded but privately operated. This […]
The “Forbidden Zone” Screening
AKA the time Danny Elfman’s brother told me to smoke pot. Trapped in a Closet Locked in a poorly lit, narrow side room of the Capitol Theater, the performers yelled at me to go find them some marijuana. The group of Olympians dressed in a variety of costumes—skeleton suits, devil […]
So, Can I Smoke Yet?
At this point, you are probably wondering what exactly marijuana legalization in Washington means for the state. As it turns out, no one is entirely sure, although it will certainly not be cropping up wild at Evergreen any time soon. With a 55 % to 45% margin, Washingtonians voted to […]
Re-Election Equals Hard Work for Change
“A mix of minorities, young people and educated white professionals has now driven him (Obama) to two majority-vote presidential victories – the first Democrat to pull that off since Franklin D. Roosevelt,” taken from an NPR article. So the elections are over. I was starting to feel like that kid […]
‘Capitalism’ Rebuttal, the Beauty of Community Living
While I agree with last issue’s opinion piece (“Capitalism: America’s Misunderstood Economic Outcast”) on the unappealing nature of government cheese, I have to take issue with the author’s endorsement of capitalism as a political-economic system worth keeping around much longer. The grievances of capitalism’s critics are well known: environmental destruction, […]