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 […]
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 […]
“A Culture of Incompetence:” Public Records Lawsuit Spells Public Relations Nightmare
by Alice McIntyre Photo: John Carmichael Addresses the Board of Trustees in a July 2020 Virtual Meeting, THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE. On Aug. 26, former Cooper Point Journal news editor Daniel Vogel filed a lawsuit against The Evergreen State College and the State of Washington, alleging Evergreen “systematically and repeatedly […]
Basic Need Insecurity Rampant Among Students at The Evergreen State College
Submitted By JC Wortham of the Evergreen Basic Needs Student Team The Evergreen State College, like many schools across the country, got hit with the brunt of the impacts of the pandemic. This exasperates a lot of issues and hardships students faced even before the pandemic. Though organizations and schools […]
Interview with Artist Pearl Jade
By Avery Quinn Pearl Jade is a 21-year-old musician and visual artist currently residing in their hometown of Anacortes, Washington. I had the pleasure of interviewing them over Zoom. Look for them in the coming months as they move back to Olympia and at https://pearltottenhammusic.bandcamp.com/music. avery: What have you been […]
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 […]
Love in the Asian & Pacific Islander Communities
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As I reflect on this last article I’m writing for this school year, I think back to the first article I wrote last Spring—“Being Asian American in the Time of COVID-19”. While this article is near and dear to me and the issues I discussed in […]
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, […]