By Marta Tahja-Syrett. Ellen Shortt Sanchez is devoted to collaboration and advocacy. In her professional life, Shortt Sanchez attends to the partnership and academic needs of The Evergreen State College. As the director of Evergreen’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), she finds herself merging the divide between community […]
Master in Teaching Program Will Resume in Spring 2020
By DJ Pfeifle. The Master in Teaching Program at The Evergreen State College is being suspended until spring of 2020. Students currently enrolled in the program will continue as normal with the current structure. The suspension is the result of the program being restructured, which includes (among other things) moving […]
Student Wellness: An Interview With Evergreen Therapist Leslie Johnson
By Marta Tahja-Syrett. Leslie Johnson’s position as a mental health therapist at The Evergreen State College requires her to play many roles. In addition to doing individual therapy sessions, Johnson co-facilitates and runs groups centered around mental health. Along with this, she works on staff at Evergreen’s Evaluation and Referral […]
Police Services Purchased Cameras Disguised as Smoke Detectors
Although police purchased the cameras in response to break-ins, the school has scant policies on covert surveillance use. Evergreen and Washington State Patrol documents obtained by public records requests used in this story are available at the bottom of this page. By Daniel. Evergreen Police Services purchased three surveillance cameras disguised as smoke detectors and […]
Editorial Board: We Reject the Spying.
COOPER POINT JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD Related: Police Services Purchased Cameras Disguised as Smoke Detectors Evergreen has both a long history of political activism and a recent history of police surveillance and intimidation. These cannot coexist. A look at the Cooper Point Journal archives displays this foundational history: students in the 70’s […]
Activism at Shelton High: Students and admin clash over National Anthem
By Marta Tahja-Syrett. The Shelton High School community is debating whether or not it is appropriate to play the national anthem for a Native American veteran. On March 6, Shelton held an assembly honoring Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually treaty rights activist and environmentalist. Prior to the event, several students […]
Artist Interview: Rocky Thomas
By Brittyana Pierro. Rocky Thomas is a multimedia artist and first-year student at Evergreen. She recently transferred into the Studio Projects: Land and Sky program in order to pursue her love for art. Right now in class she is focused on a wood-carving project. The process of the project is […]
Horoscopes: The Wise Words of Lizzy McGuire
Live your dreams! You’ve just taken one more trip around the sun and you are glowing!
Evergreen Ranked as U.S.’ Top College
By Marta Tahja-Syrett This story is part of our April 1 edition. Since its establishment in 1967, The Evergreen State College has not once waned from its consistently favorable position in the public eye. Evergreen is a college renowned for its remarkable public relations, lack of hipster clientele, and ample faculty pay. The school also boasts of its […]
Highlights from the Spring 2019 Catalog
By Mason Soto & Georgie Fehringer. This story is part of our April 1 Edition. I’m Not Sure What This Is About But Everyone Keeps Nodding Much of our time as students, as people, as living beings, is spent not knowing what is going on. In this program, no one understands, and yet we sit and nod together […]