Photo: The Flaming Eggplant by Alice McIntyre By Allegra Simpkins A beloved Evergreen establishment, The Flaming Eggplant, will re-open its doors this coming Winter quarter, after a brief closure to implement some changes to the café. These changes are preceded by ten years of operating at a loss that ultimately generated a serious budget crisis and a debt […]
Hot Spot Fixed: William Ward, Evergreen Students Share Their Thoughts
Photo: Hot Spot by Brittanyana Pierro By Miette Deschenes The beloved hot spots on campus, which had been around for years and reached dangerously high temperatures, were repaired over summer break. Student reactions to the repairs vary wildly. According to William Ward, Associate Vice President of Facilities Services, the repairs have been a long time coming, despite […]
How to Form a Student Group
By Allegra Simpkins Congratulations! You’ve been admitted. You’ve signed up for classes. You’re scared shitless and you have no friends…yet. But you’re interested in a lot and would like to meet like-minded students with similar interests and maybe even make some lifelong friendships. The question is, HOW? By joining or […]
Moving Out: Reimagining Homelessness
Photo: “Washington State capitol” by Stephen Colebourn is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original By Daniel Mootz Human grief, and its burdens, compound. Loss begets tragedy in malignant cycles that are all newsworthy, and that are each inherently profound. All grief is linked together in different chains of events, recurrent and impactful, heavy and immense. Everyone is, to some degree, both part […]
Maren Moreno: Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: Art by Maren Moreno Note: This article contains a discussion about sexual assault and its representation in media. Maren Moreno is a filmmaker attending Evergreen whose body of work provocatively confronts societal topics. Her latest film, Revenge Angels, tells the story of Fern, a naïve college freshman whose world is completely altered after […]
Indigenous Activists Demand Climate Action
Photo: Protesters holding sign on Capitol steps. Courtesy of Paul Chekoten By Alice McIntyre On Oct. 5, Indigenous climate activists of Washington held a rally of over 200 at the State Legislature to demand the declaration of a climate emergency. Demonstrators holding banners and signs critical of Governor Inslee’s environmental policies gathered peacefully to listen to several speakers, primarily from Indigenous […]
Horoscopes
By Your Cosmic Best Friend Aries (March 21 to April 19): The cosmos are in YOUR favor! Take some strong risks and go out on a limb this week. That insecurity that’s been holding you back, time to let that ish gooooo. This is the time! Fall is the season […]
Hey There! with @HeyMariah
Photo by @HeyMariah Welcome to Evergreen! Fall 2019 Whoop-Whoop! Is it just me or does it feel like it’s already been an entire school year since we last had classes? Probably because here at Evergreen our classes don’t start until OCTOBER, which just seems wild. It seems like every other student in […]