How do I get over a cold? Sincerely, Asfgsjkdf Gurl drank some hot toddies and that’s gonna clear the f*ck up As an attractive rich white man, how do I find my place in Olympia and my purpose at Evergreen? Insincerely, Dude with ‘Tude My dude, with that abserd money […]
Armed for the Job
“We don’t trust you with the guns you have,” a statement made by Austin Nolan during a live Q13 Fox report, is a statement based on false and sensationalized institutions of fear, paranoia and angst. I walk on eggshells everyday, painstakingly mindful of my vocabulary, tone, and what ideas I […]
Gun Control: Where Do We Draw the Line?
I can’t think of an instance where any one citizen would actually need a personal nuclear warhead. For that matter, I can’t think of an instance besides the ol’ ‘mutually-assured destruction’ that a government would want one either, but that’s an entirely different story. There is a spectrum of weapons […]
Wasted Advice: 1/31/13
I am a bisexual man, and I have a crush on a straight male classmate. It makes it a little hard to focus on my class work when he’s being humorously flirtatious. What should I do? Hopefully- Options to Gayge Well OG, The same thing the rest of us do! […]
How to Listen to Jokes: A Supremely Biased Guide
I try to tell jokes. It’s what I want to do. In a long-term way. Like preferably, down the road, for money. It’s a weird thing. I know. It doesn’t not have to do with personal insecurities and a deep-seated desire to somehow please people. As far as career paths […]
Continuing Thoughts on Israel/Palestine
The Final Entry: A Summative Reflection and Looking Forward The occupation is still happening, and now that I understand better U.S. complicity in human rights abuses in the region, I can’t stop thinking about it and trying to do what I can here in the U.S. and, more importantly, here […]
Does Evergreen Prioritize ‘Trustafarians’ Over Washington Residents?
I am a transfer student. I spent a little over three years at South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) earning an Associate of Arts with Anthropology Emphasis and a vocational certificate in land rights and ethical cultural preservation. My first two years of community college were possible because my mother […]
Aramark: Is There Really a Better Option?
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]