By Sara Fabian Running parallel with activities at Evergreen’s Orientation Week, Disorientation Week is an extravaganza filled with a series of events that stand in opposition to common administration narratives. Organized by The Black Cottonwood Collective, an anti-authoritarian student group at Evergreen, their goal is to provide desired resources and […]
Affordable Healthcare in Olympia
Finding Healthcare Proves Challenging
By Felix Chrome For people with low income and no insurance, affordable medical care can be hard to find. Even for people with Medicaid, seeing a primary care physician isn’t necessarily possible. Olympia is a small town, and it can feel like there are not many options. Finding healthcare can […]
Night At The Hands on Children’s Museum Unleashing Your Inner Selfie
By Sara Fabian The Hands on Children’s Museum is a place full of wonder, intrigue and play. Though usually a place for a child and adult accompaniment, the Adult Swim series which started in January of 2014 has opened the amusement to adults at night fall only a few times […]
What is May Day? Commemorating the Working Class Struggle at Home and Around the World
By Josh Wolf The Pacific Northwest has a strong history of protest, and on May 1, Olympia, Seattle, and Portland will continue the tradition of marching in the streets to celebrate May Day. While celebrating May Day in the region is anticipated and established, the manner of celebrating can vary […]
White People and Racism… Sometimes It’s Okay to Laugh
By Seth Leuck On Friday April 10, at Evergreen’s Longhouse, comedy was king. In front of a packed house, headliner and famous Australian comic Aamer Rahman, and openers Khadija Hassan and Abraham Tadesse brought the audience to their knees with jokes about everything from race, religion, and privilege, to masturbation and […]
Next Generation A Sober Look at the Generation PsYchedelic Conference
By Ira Zuckerman It was a beautiful spring weekend—birds were singing, weed-whackers were whacking, music was pumping out of the Circus Resurgence Club’s speakers—but the attendees of the Generation PsYchedelic (GenPsY) conference, a three-day symposium on integrating psychedelics into society and culture, where natural beauty was constantly raised to divine […]
Track House Changes Hands After Years of Shows Olympia’s Busiest DIY Venue Loses Dedicated Show Organizer After Rent Dispute
By Josh Wolf In December of last year, Elena Kent realized her time as the Track House’s keeper was coming to an end. Over the past four years, Kent hosted over 400 events at her venue and home, the Track House. Before moving into the Track House in 2011, Kent had […]
Blowing Clouds The Business of Vapor in the E-cig Scene
By Ira Zuckerman For the sole purpose of this article, I inhaled the vapors at the South Sound Vapor Lounge. Usually, all an outsider sees through the heavy fog are scattered crowds of hunched-over smokers. Once through the door, I entered a world of vapor. Now, it was the outside world […]
Local Stores Gear Up for Record Store Day
By Blaine Ewig This April 18 will mark the ninth annual Record Store Day in the US. Record stores all around the country will be hosting free in-store performances, throwing parties, having sales, and selling special Record Store Day releases. Inspired by Free Comic Book Day, Record Store Day aims to […]
All-Campus Mentoring Day
By Kathryn L. Herron The process of writing an academic statement is a relatively new responsibility for Evergreen students. According to faculty member Shaw Osha, the academic statement initiative was the first requirement Evergreen passed in almost forty years. “Since students don’t get to declare a major, the practice of […]