By Chloe Marina Manchester As of Friday, September 15, professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have resigned from their positions at The Evergreen State College after alleging a hostile work environment. A settlement of $450,000 was granted to them after they filed a $3.85 million tort claim against the college […]
THE COPS DESERVE YOUR BURNING HATRED
reprinted submission courtesy of the Arcade Projects This article first appeared as a submission in the 2023-2024 Disorientation Manual: a student and working-class guide to the Evergreen State College, a compilation zine written and edited over the summer of 2023 and distributed by the Arcade Projects. The following introduction and […]
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 […]
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 […]
POC Talk
The relief of Brett Weinstein and Heather Heyings’ resignation was accompanied by the hardest of eye rolls following the news of the $500,000 settlement they will be receiving. As POC, the settlement reminds us that the damage and trauma that has been inflicted upon our community by a combination of […]
A Year in Review Campus Protests at Evergreen
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy 2017 was a historic year for The Evergreen State College, blasting us into the public discourse and bringing with it unprecedented media attention. The quick succession of events and over saturation of outside media sources has created confusion over causality and what, exactly, went down last spring. […]
A Year of Events A Time Line of Protests
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy Recent protests were a response to tensions that have been mounting through the entire academic year. Here is a summary of some of the events that lead to student action— September 21 Student Protest at Convocation Two student protesters took the stage during a question and answer […]
Campus Police: Not ‘Just Here to Help’
By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy Police, on or off campus, are positioned as protectors of the safety of all citizens, an illusion that comes in conflict with the reality of violence routinely committed against protesters, regardless of the tactics protesters choose to employ. Instances of police aggression against protestors in the form […]
The Truth About the Evergreen Protests
By Jacqueline Littleton Dr. Bret Weinstein of the Evergreen State College shared this headline on Twitter: “The Shrieking Mob of Students Confronted the Professor for Opposing Racism.” The mob of students in question were protesting what they see as problems with the culture of The Evergreen State College at large; […]