By Issac Scott George Bridges will be Evergreen’s next college president. That was the word from the Board of Trustees on Monday, Mar. 16 at an announcement ceremony in the Longhouse, where Bridges appeared beside current president Thomas “Les” Purce. Bridges will officially start the job on October 1, […]
Student-Led Campaign Saves Evergreen Gallery from Closure
By Zachary Newman The Evergreen Gallery has been saved from closure, after students and community members organized a campaign to keep it open, despite budgetary concerns. The gallery no longer faces the proposed December 2015 closure date, but funding has only been ensured for the next two years. “The good news […]
Blowing Clouds The Business of Vapor in the E-cig Scene
By Ira Zuckerman For the sole purpose of this article, I inhaled the vapors at the South Sound Vapor Lounge. Usually, all an outsider sees through the heavy fog are scattered crowds of hunched-over smokers. Once through the door, I entered a world of vapor. Now, it was the outside world […]
New Proposal Would Limit Washington Tuition Rates ‘College Affordability Program’ Clears Senate Higher Education Committee
By Issac Scott College students in Washington may soon get a break. A new bill in the state senate would limit how much public colleges could charge for resident tuition, and make the state pay colleges the difference. Evergreen students could see savings of around $1,700 a year starting next year. […]
China May Ban the Import of US Shellfish Analysts Fear Damages to Washington Economy
By Seth Leuck Neighbors are tricky. Sometimes they borrow your hammer and don’t return it; sometimes they don’t cut their grass when they should and every once in a while they place a countrywide ban on your shellfish exports. According to the Food and Drug Administration, China is purportedly considering another […]
Broken Water Releases ‘Wrought’ Over beers at Le Voyeur, Broken Water talks about Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, and Making Bros Cry
By Josh Wolf The show ended with the guitar screaming face down in the drums. Jon Hanna left his guitar lying nervously on Kanako Pooknyw’s drum, while Pooknyw yelled improv into the microphone and clashed down upon her bellowing drums. Hanna’s long grunge-blond hair veiled his ambivalent gaze as he […]
Luis Pedraja is Who We Need President Endorsement
By Issac Scott Evergreen’s new president will take office next year during a time of major transition for the college. Les Purce’s successor will be asked to steer Evergreen out of a multifaceted quagmire. Enrollment hasn’t been this low since the 1990’s, and needed state education funding is tangled in a […]
Farmworkers and Students Picket at Olympia Grocery Store, Demand Boycott
By MEXA de Evergreen and the Evergreen Farmworker Solidarity Collective As students, members of the Olympia community, and consumers of food, we picketed in front of Safeway, on Saturday February 28th, 2015, to demand that the store respect the boycott of Driscoll Berries, Haagen Daazs and Yoplait. This boycott was […]
Washington Is Poised To Fight Against Fossil Fuels Lessons From the Keystone XL Movement, and What Washington Can Do
By Josh Wolf As massive fossil fuel proposals come to the Pacific Northwest, the region is poised to become the new focal point for environmentalists. With popular support, and political pressure, Washington could lead by example in denying construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure. There are currently 20 large fossil fuel […]
Rosemary Engstrom Artist Statement
I am composing a hole in this saucy donut and slapping you with it. I am coughing up your spineless strawberry and licking it so sweetly. I am drizzling a moment through your male gaze. I am your fish and you are my delicate lips. I am carving you to […]
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