by Chase Patton “Geoengineered Transhumanism: How the Environment Has Been Weaponized by Chemicals, Electromagnetics, & Nanotechnology for Synthetic Biology” is the third book in a trilogy by Elana Freeland on the topic of geoengineering. It goes even further into depth about how humanity and the environment are being transformed to […]
Slouching Towards Evergreen
by Clara R. Riggio I’ve been spending a lot of time walking around campus lately, probably making up for the time I lost to the virus. I’ve also been reading a healthy serving of Joan Didion and her style of writing has influenced my own voice and the ways that […]
Feasting in Evergreen’s Forest
by L. Kravit-Smith As we begin to approach late fall on the Evergreen State College campus, trick-or-treating isn’t the only chance for collecting candy during fall; mushroom season is upon us! These fall and winter months are the most productive season for many mushrooms in this area, and after the […]
Skyrocketing Prices for Housing in Olympia – Zillow and Friends to Blame?
By Melisa Ferati The 2021-2022 school year began Sep. 27. I began looking for housing in July for anything from 1–2-bedroom apartments to rooms being rented out. As of the first week of October, I am still searching – and so are many other students and local youths. Real-estate agent […]
To Our Favorite Team of Virgins…
Thank you for visiting our beautiful campus and leaving. We know that your visit wasn’t all that you hoped it would be. Word on the street was that your team of pseudo-reporters were in search of pussy, among other things. Unfortunately, the college’s administration is busy typing cliché PSAs and […]
Dark City (1998): Movie Review
by Chase Patton From New Line Cinema, “Dark City” (1998) is a classic 90’s neo-noir masterpiece, directed by Alex Proyas. Alex Proyas is the imagination behind such movies as “The Crow,” “Knowing,” and “I, Robot.” “Dark City” is a timeless film similar in story and style to “The Matrix” and […]
Christianized Traditions: Halloween
by Adam Nichols The night between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 was the Celtic New Year. Samhain (pronounced sah-win), meaning “summer’s end,” was a festival held to commemorate the coming of winter. Since the colder seasons were commonly associated with human death, it was believed that on this night, the […]
OPINION: I Miss Fearing Ghosts
by Michael Richards Welcome back to campus! The first week of the school year here at Evergreen has brought about a lot of drama and distasteful actions as we here hit not only with a pile of homework we didn’t expect and residual COVID anxiety, but a slew of wannabe […]
An Interview With Our Professor Peter Bohmer and the Crisis of Our College
By Patrick Hamilton From 1987 until his retirement in Spring of 2020, Peter Bohmer worked as a professor of Political Economy at Evergreen. On a cloudless May afternoon, my friend Magnus Cain and I sat down with Peter on his porch here in West Olympia. We asked him to reflect […]
Spoiler Warning: Go Play Disco Elysium. Now. Posthaste.
By Alice McIntyre The 2019 role-playing game “Disco Elysium,” developed and published by ZA/UM, is phenomenal. This column has been, and will continue to be, essentially a place for me to gush about media I like and think CPJ readers ought to check out. On this occasion, though, I really […]