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 […]
Guilty Pleasures
By Brooke Lynch Recently, I have been horrified to find that I have an affinity for 80s hard rock and metal. Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses and other bands whom I’ve had absolutely no love for have been popping up in my playlists and recent listens, and I […]
A Discussion with Talauna Reed, Running for Olympia City Council
By Miguel Louis This is an interview with Talauna Reed, conducted on the night of the 18th of May, 2021. ML: If you could start by introducing yourself. TR: My name is Talauna Reed, I’m from Olympia. I am running for Olympia City Council Position 5. I am an organizer, […]
A Press Conference With Homeless Residents in Olympia
By Miguel Louis On Saturday April 12, local homeless residents called for a press conference, so they could respond to the county’s new “scattered site mitigation plan” and the measures taken by the city as a result. The week before, the city undertook a new project at the Deschutes Encampment. […]
Evergreen Presidential Finalist Profiles
By Jacob Anderson-Kester On April 21, The Evergreen State College hosted a virtual event where students were invited to ask questions of the three finalists of the ongoing presidential search. Michael Dumont, Catherine Kodat, and Lee Lambert spoke with a panel of students who asked questions about the candidates’ histories, […]
Hyperpop Transness
By Brooke Lynch I don’t think I was ready for how catchy “800 db cloud” by 100 gecs was gonna be. As an 18-year-old, I was all about the distorted guitars and supposed rawness of punk and grunge, so an experimental electronic album was of no interest to me. But […]
A Conversation With Danielle, A Homeless Resident of Olympia
A Conversation With Danielle, A Homeless Resident of Olympia, On the City’s Response to Homelessness and the Incident At the Red Lion Hotel By Miguel Louis The following is an interview. Here is Danielle: My name is Danielle. I’m 31 years old and I’ve been homeless for going on four […]
We’re Still in a Pandemic, Nice Weather Doesn’t Change That
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As the months drag on and the weather starts to change, a pleasant Spring emerges from the chill of Winter and an increasing number of people are beginning to go out again. Travel posts and party pictures are slowly taking over social media sites—everything we should […]