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 […]
Evergreen Queer and Trans Center Coming to Campus this Fall The Center is Being Created After Student Pressure
By Sylvie Chace The Queer and Trans Center (QTC) will open it doors week 3 of fall quarter on the second floor of the library building in room 2147. The center will occupy First People’s Multicultural Center’s old location, as First Peoples is relocating to library room 2151 on the […]
Confrontation at Convocation Student Protest Highlights How Evergreen Addresses Conversations About Race
By Jon Fitzgerald Before Orientation started, I had set out to write an article about DisOrientation Week, a series of student-organized workshops bringing social justice issues to the forefront that’s put on by the Black Cottonwood Collective, an anarchist student group. But I can’t talk about DisOrientation, or Orientation, without […]
Nazi Truck Spotted in Olympia Only the Most Recent Illustration of White Supremacy in the Pacific Northwest
By Arash Muntazir Neo-Nazi activist Jimmy Marr has long been on the radars of national organizations on both ends of the political spectrum, from the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that monitors and combats anti semitism to the white supremacist hate group, The White Genocide Project. His flamboyant racism and anti-semitism, […]
Andie Giron Cover Artist Statement
I have spent the last three years in Olympia, growing, running into the same 13 people on the Westside, and most importantly, learning that I could bring parts of my freaky, outrageous inside world to the outside. My art is inspired by the different behaviors of humans, humor, what they […]
Things We Learned the Hard Way So You Don’t Have To A Beginner’s Guide to The Evergreen State College
By Jennifer Hicks & Sedona Wall Hello and welcome to Olympia! Ready or not you have been set free among a sea of flannels and beanies. Navigating the music scene, the kick it spots, the fashion, and the food in this city can seem like kind of an inside secret […]
Merging Art and Entrepreneurship Gallery Boom Comes to Downtown Olympia
By Ruby Love If you were around this past summer, you may have noticed some changes to a building in downtown Olympia. The block-wide building, recognized by most as the location of Planned Parenthood, is outlined by Fifth, Adams, and Legion, and has been sporting mysterious papered-over windows. A little […]
Stuff to Do Local Events for 9/26-10/12
By Rachel Carlson Standing with Standing Rock Fundraiser Monday 9/26. Olympia Film Society at The Capitol Theater. 6:30 pm Come show your support for the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, known as NoDAPL, by taking in the film “Trudell”. Doors are at 6:30, and the show begins at 7 […]
Horoscopes For the Week of Sep. 26
By Sylvie Chace After a summer filled with retrograde after retrograde, this fall has finally mellowed out with both Mercury and Pluto stationing direct last week on the 21st and the 23rd. Mercury, the planet ruling communication and day-to-day expression, is at home now in Virgo. Mercury is also trining […]
Body Party Welcome Back!
Dear Body Party, What’s going on here? Why are we still doing this? What’s the point? Just Checkin’ in, -Body Party Hey there Body Party! Nice to hear from you. It’s been a while! For all you new comers out there (and all of those Cooper Point Journal veterans who […]
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