The mission: Attend as many Evergreen events that are free for students as I can! The back story: I’m a senior and to be honest I’ve only attended one Evergreen event during my time here. I’m similar to most other students in that I have a 16 credit program and […]
Technology with Postmodern Ethics
Photo: A copy of “Race After Technology,” courtesy of Daniel Mootz By Daniel Mootz A report published in Science (vol. 366) on Oct. 25, 2019, revealed alarming racial disparities in a cost-based (proxy) algorithm “widely used” by healthcare providers. Dr. Zaid Obermeyer and his colleagues found that “the choice of convenient, seemingly effective proxies for ground truth can be […]
Evergreen’s Equity Symposium: The Paradox of Race
Photo: Equity Symposium Event Coordinators pose for photo booth picture by Britt Pierro Workshop by Carolyn Prouty, Article by Allegra Simpkins Carolyn Prouty told her audience that “there is no biological marker, or indicator, to differentiate race,” during her lecture last Friday at Evergreen’s annual Equity Symposium. Her workshop, entitled The Paradox of Race, dove into the world of misunderstanding and misinformation regarding […]
Evergreen’s Equity Symposium: The Social Construction of AZN
Photo: Amira Caluya’s Equity Symposium presentation by Britt Pierro Workshop by Amira Caluya, Article by Miette Deschenes “There is no monolithic Asian American experience.” This was one of the most prominent messages of The Social Construction of AZN, a workshop that was held Friday morning during the Equity Symposium. The workshop was hosted by Amira Caluya, Trans & Queer Center coordinator at […]
Byron Howard: Evergreen Alumnus Finds Success as Disney Filmmaker
By Miette Deschenes With the recent launch of Disney+, Disney’s new online streaming platform, over 500 films are available to watch (for those who are willing to add another $6.99 a month to their collection of streaming services). It’s an exciting development: Disney has always been notorious for having a limited number […]
Spoiler Warning: Pulp Fiction Blows, Actually
Photo: “Uma Thurman playing Mia in Pulp Fiction (1994)” by Davide Moroni is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 By Alice McIntyre On Oct. 13 of 1994, one Demian Parker reviewed what he called “the motherfucking movie of the decade,” Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, in the pages of the Cooper Point Journal. 25 years […]
Life After the Intellectual Dark Web
Photo: “Dr. Jordan Peterson delivering a lecture at the University of Toronto in 2017” by Adam Jacobs is licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Daniel Mootz Professors have always paved the way for discussion—for debate, doubt, and dialogics. It is what makes them invaluable to the learning process. They assert, assess, […]
Inclusive Excellence Dialogue Featuring Chassity Holliman-Douglas
By Talia McCaw In the wake of the protests of 2016 through 2017, The Evergreen State College created the vice president and vice provost for Equity and Inclusion position. This position inevitably brought Chassity Holliman-Douglas to our school. Throughout her time here, she has worked to implement equity and inclusion for the […]
Spoiler Warning Joker: A Review
Photo: TDK Wallpaper by Luke M. Schierholz is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped from original By Alice McIntyre Incel panic swept through the media in the days before the release of Joker. Some argued that the film, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, would inspire real-world harm. The film’s depiction of the descent of a mentally ill clown-for-hire into violence recalled […]
Care and Contracts: Providence Nurses Battle the Bosses
Photo by Shayna Clayton By Alice McIntyre On Oct. 30, nurses at St. Peter Hospital represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 voted to authorize a strike, after five months of contract negotiations and a June 27 protest. The nurses also voted down a previous contract proposal in 544-1 […]