By Jon Fitzgerald Last week, members of the community started contacting members of City Hall to open up a shelter for the coming wind and rainstorm, which was expected to have up to sixty mile an hour winds and large amounts of rain. Despite calls for a shelter to open […]
Stuff To Do Halloween
Wednesday 10/26 Evergreen Costume Swap Student Activities. 2pm. Free. Not sure what your costume is going to be yet? Student Activities is hosting a costume swap this Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 2-6 p.m.! You can pick up someone’s past costume or get some final touches for one you’ve been working […]
Dirty Politics Make for Good Art Mark Peterson’s “Political Theater” Now Showing at Galerie Fotoland
By Ruby Love This month, Galerie Fotoland said goodbye to Jim Lommasson’s Exit Wounds (if you didn’t see it, you should look it up, although you have no excuse unless you’re an incoming freshman…it was up all spring and summer), which the Cooper Point Journal previously covered. On October 10, […]
Rachel Carlson Cover Artist
I take photographs because they let me represent myself through an image. I feel stronger when I am taking photographs, I feel a sense of purpose. I enjoy documenting other artists at work and my personal work is often about double standards in society, marginalized voices, and longing. My work […]
Couple Arrested for Attempting to Bribe Stabbing Victim Defendants Believed to be Neo-Nazis
By Felix Chrome On October 5 at around 5:20 a.m. police raided two houses, which sit on the same property and share the same address, on the westside of Olympia. Two residents Cassie Hickam and Robert Fechtner were arrested on suspicion of attempting to bribe the victim of a stabbing […]
Voices Behind the Student Protest at Convocation
By Tari Gunstone Two students interrupted this year’s convocation with a sign reading, “Evergreen cashed its diversity check but doesn’t care about black students.” These students, Lawrence Walker III and AR Rushet, spoke with the CPJ about their motivation for this protest and issues of racism at Evergreen. They felt […]
Protest Follows Year of Controversy over Racism at Evergreen Contextualizing Bias on Campus
By Forest Hunt After students interrupted convocation in protest, the guest speaker, Naomi Oreskes, as well as George Bridges and the other administrators facilitating the convocation events chose to continue with the planned schedule and told the student protestors they could speak at the end. This did not sit well […]
Olympia Zine Festival The Second Annual Fest Featured Zines, Workshops, and Activities
By Micheal Martinez-Esquibel When I walked into the Olympia Center, I was first greeted with three tables covered in paper. Little did I know, those little pieces of art were what I had come for. I looked on the table and found a small folded piece of paper, decorated with […]
Monica Jane Frisell Cover Artist Interview
By Ruby Love Last year, Evergreen graduate Monica Jane Frisell decided to sell most of her stuff and buy a 1988 Toyota SeaBreeze with a plan to travel the country making portraits and interviews with the people she met along the way. She’s spent the last several months gutting and […]
Purce Hall Remains Unfinished Construction on the new Lecture Hall Slated to be Completed Soon Despite Delays
By Chloe Marina Manchester Construction of the new lecture hall, or rather, destruction of the old one, began July 2015. Originally, the new building, known as Purce Hall, was planned to be complete and ready for use by June 2016. However, current plans indicate the building will be ready by […]
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