FIRST LABOR UNION STRIKE IN 12 YEARS Imagine a college campus without student support staff – no Residential Directors, student advisors, or records and registration staff. Recruitment and admissions staff would be missing, the Counseling Center deserted, the Financial Aid office a ghost town. The Evergreen State College resembled this […]
Union Strike at The Evergreen State College
OLYMPIA – The Evergreen State College is at a standstill as members of the Student Support Services Staff Union (SSSSU) urge community members to join and observe the strike. Participants are gathered at all 12 entrances to the college to block traffic and encourage passengers to join the cause or […]
Comedy Night Brings Up-And-Coming Comics to Campus
On April 10 the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition, Feminists In Solidarity Together (FIST), and the Generation Friends Comedy Arts Coalition came together to co- sponsor Comedy Night, a stand-up event featuring Hannah Boone, Elicia Sanchez, and Hari Kondabolu. Boone, a current Evergreen senior, is one of the most prolific stand-ups […]
TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege
The first floor of Seminar II B overflowed with students waiting to watch TEDx on February 26, forcing the excess to relocate into live webcast rooms around the school. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), a nonprofit organization, lends its name to independently organized events worldwide that support their mission of […]
Darby’s Café: 1995 Olympia Original
by Giulia Cole Stepping off of 5th ave and into Darby’s Café felt like teleportation into retro Olympia. A ceiling-to-floor mural of different colors covered one wall, another drenched in The Wizard of Oz memorabilia. Upon sitting down at a small table by the street-front window, the servers greeted me […]
PASS Holds Forum to Discuss Assault Rifle Petition
History repeats itself at Evergreen with the discussion of arming our campus police with semi-automatic rifles. The student group, Police Awareness and Student Safety (PASS), has created a petition in support of arming campus police in reaction to the recent number of mass shootings across the country. On January 28, […]
Hellships Break Out With “Leaden Hum”
by Issac Scott The first thing you notice about Hellships when they play live is their sheer brutality. Sure, a lot of bands play loud. Every high school metalhead has their Marshal half-stack of amplifiers turned to 11. But Hellships bring a new kind of intensity to their instrument that transforms […]
LOVE THIS GIANT | David Byrne & St. Vincent
Independent solo artist St. Vincent and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne released the long-awaited collaborative album Love This Giant on September 11, 2012. The unity of aesthetics and content in Byrne’s newest collaboration, plus Clark and minus his usual partner Brian Eno, innovates with easily recognizable elements of urban […]
The Outdoor Program: Mt. Rainier National Park
The Outdoor Program recently took a trip to the northeast area of Mount Rainier National Park. On Sunday, October 7, TOP staff led a group of Evergreen community members on a hike up around Burroughs Mountain. The journey gave the explorers spectacular views as the weather held out for them. […]
The Lady Geoducks Hold Off Their Predecessors
Women’s basketball started off great during last Saturday’s season opening exhibition game, defeating the Evergreen women’s basketball alumni team. Though the team comes into the season ranked ninth in the Cascade Conference, the team and Coach Monica Heuer are confident that this team can overachieve based on that expectation. “With […]
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