By Zachary Newman This past Election Day saw the lowest voter turnout for a midterm election since 1942. On November 4th, 36.3 percent of Americans mailed in ballots, waited in lines, did whatever they felt they needed to do to be heard. The voter turnout for the 1942 Federal Election […]
Woah, That Election Just Happened Here’s The Good News
By Issac Scott & Felix Chrome If you’re anything like 63.7 percent of eligible voters, you probably didn’t vote in the midterm elections this year—either because you forgot, couldn’t figure out how, didn’t care, or you think voting is just uncool/not part of the anarchist revolution. Hey, we here at the […]
Survey Asks Students To Shape CRC Remodel
By Jaye Hashimoto Holy shit, the CRC is getting remodeled! Or at least, it has a chance to be, that’s not yet decided. Why? Because that’s up to us. We’re voting on it later this year. And this, my friends, is very, very important. The current facility was the product […]
My Inebriated Journey
Screaming Females at the Palace Flophouse
By Garrett Bekemeyer The night began with the purchasing of two bottles of Johnny Bootlegger and a pack of cigarettes, followed by a hasty drive to the Eastside fueled by Little Big Town singing to our caravan the tales of being born and raised in the boondocks. We arrived at the […]
System Change Not Climate Change
Voices From the People’s Climate March
By Matt Fu For the last 10 years, I have been a part of a civil lawsuit in New York City over the wrongful and illegal detainment conditions almost 2,000 of us endured during arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Despite our lawyers’ claims of unjust treatment, the experience […]
A Brief Statement from the Flaming Eggplant Collective Cafe
Local, Organic, Sustainable, Progressive, Small Business, and Cooperative are buzzwords we often hear in association with horizontally structured projects such as The Flaming Café. We want to acknowledge that although these are things we value, we also want to challenge and subvert capitalism as an economic and sociopolitical system that […]
Welcome to Olympia!
Tips from a local to make living in Olympia easier for us all By SERENA IMANI KORN So, you’ve decided to move to Olympia and attend The Evergreen State College. As an Olympian, born and raised, I’d like to welcome you to our wonderful community. I offer you a gift […]
What is an Evergreen Education Worth?
The Student and Alumni Perspective BY SERENA IMANI KORN and AMANDA FRANK The value of an Evergreen education rates differently on different scales. Some rank it as being worth more than you can study, and others say it’s a terrible return on investment. But Evergreen is such a unique educational […]
A Call to Imagine
STUDENT SUBMISSION BY ALI MEDIATE “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” – Class Theme of 2014 I think imagination means staying curious about what’s possible. It implies an ability to think critically and to think independently from what’s considered “normal.” Imagination is used to think conceptually, beyond […]
‘I Learned Writing is Not Something I Have to do Alone’
Undergraduate Experiences with Writing at Evergreen STUDENT SUBMISSION BY ISOBEL BANG As a senior in college, and person passionate about writing, I decided I would do something different with my studies this year: an undergraduate research project. I worked with faculty member Emily Lardner to come up with a project […]