BY JAMES GUSTCH Arguably the best season in Evergreen Women’s Basketball history came to a bitter end on Tuesday night. The fifth place Geoducks fell to fourth place Southern Oregon University in the Cascade Collegiate Conference quarterfinal, by a score of 70-80. Sammi Clark had 22 points in her final […]
‘Clam’tastic: Evergreen Dominates on Senior Night, Bids Farewell to Coach Heuer
BY JAMES GUTSCH Evergreen Women 61 / Pacific Warner College 59 Just days after long-time Women’s Basketball Coach Monica Heuer announced her retirement, and while Evergreen was still fighting for home-court advantage in the playoffs, the Geoducks knew it was not the time to let up on the gas pedal. Sammi Clark […]
The Dead Prez Riot Part 2
Revisiting the Controversial Story BY JOSH WOLF Click here to read part 1 The Dead Prez riot has become commonly associated with The Evergreen State College. Yet, despite the number of students and police officers at the event, eyewitness reports are numerous and conflicting. Did Officer Meyers racially profile Kaylen […]
Falling Short of High Expectations
BY JAMES GUTSCH Competing against Olympic medalist Erik Kynard and former NCAA National Champion Dusty Jonas in the high jump, Evergreen Freshman Anthony Johnson couldn’t quite recreate the magic he has been showing all season. One of just two collegiate athletes invited to compete in the United States of America […]
Evergreen Grad Sues Olympia Police for False Imprisionment
BY JOSH WOLF I spoke with Evergreen alum Paul French (aka Strife) about why he is suing the Olympia Police Department. French spent two months in prison and argues that he was falsely convicted of assaulting an officer. He is currently suing the OPD for damages. His trial starts on […]
Network Outage on Campus
BY RAY STILL An unplanned network outage could be a college’s worst nightmare. Students would be unable to do their online work, teachers would be cut off from communicating with their students, and the main college website would be down for hours on end. Luckily, The Evergreen State College’s Network […]
Water to Beer: A Timeline of Industry and Drinking
BY CASSIE JOHNSON-VILLALOBOS Olympia’s history as a brewery town goes back to just seven years after Washington turned from United States territory to a state of its own. A relatively unbroken legacy spanned from the 1896 establishment of Capital Brewing Company by Leopold Schmidt until 1983, when Olympia Beer […]
Homelessness at Evergreen
Student Submission BY KATARZYNA SLIWINSKA, Homelessness Census intern at the City of Olympia My interest in homelessness among students of higher education was sparked by my work as an intern, contracted to conduct the Thurston County Homeless Census Report. As we were nearing the end of January, I began my research […]
The Dead Prez Riot
Revisiting the Controversial Story Part One in a Three-Part Series BY JOSH WOLF Six years ago this Valentine’s Day, an estimated 200 students surrounded Evergreen Police Services Officer April Meyers. Meyers had just arrested black breakdancer Kaylen Williams, who was watching the crowd gather from the back of Meyers’ patrol […]
Life is Just a Game, but Baseball . . . Baseball is Serious.
BY JAMES GUTSCH For the burnt-out high school athlete who didn’t make the jump to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, college club sports is an opportunity to relive past glory, while still clinging to those precious drops of youth. Playing without the pressures of varsity athletics allows players to focus […]