Photo: “Northern State Hospital” by Flickr user Cindy Shebley is licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Alice McIntyre I spent a week in a mental hospital. Most people should do the same. I say this without condescension and with only the slightest tinge of hyperbole. My time in inpatient mental care gave me valuable tools for emotional processing that everyone, even neurotypicals, can benefit […]
Spoiler Warning: Star Wars Never Existed and Never Will Again
Photo: Wikimedia user KAMIKAZON. Original logo by Suzy Rice. by Alice McIntyre When one thinks of Star Wars, the mind perhaps wanders to the realm of lightsabers and pioneering special effects, to action figures and Lego sets, or to epic battles acted out on a playground hillside, cut short by a ringing bell. Mine flashes back to my childhood […]
Evergreen’s Food and Agricultural Path
By Kris Hill The Paths of Study were created to better support students who already know what field of study they want to follow by making curriculum in an area more visible and more repeatable. The Food and Agriculture Path is designed for students focused on the intersection of sustainable food production, […]
Technology with Postmodern Ethics
Photo: A copy of “Race After Technology,” courtesy of Daniel Mootz By Daniel Mootz A report published in Science (vol. 366) on Oct. 25, 2019, revealed alarming racial disparities in a cost-based (proxy) algorithm “widely used” by healthcare providers. Dr. Zaid Obermeyer and his colleagues found that “the choice of convenient, seemingly effective proxies for ground truth can be […]
Evergreen Alumna Lynda Barry Receives Grant for Inspiring Engagement
Photo: A comic by Lynda Barry featured in The Cooper Point Journal in the 1970s, Marta Tahja-Syrett Cartoonist, teacher, and Evergreen alumna Lynda Barry has been awarded a $625,000 grant by the MacArthur Fellows Program. According to the MacArthur Foundation, her award is for “inspiring creative engagement through original graphic works and a teaching practice centered on the role of image making in communication.” “The […]
Socialist Trucker Joshua Collins says Hell with Heck
By Daniel. Joshua Collins is a truck driver, a democratic socialist, a small business owner and he’s running for congress – at 26 years old. Collins is challenging incumbent representative Dennis Heck in the Democratic primary. Heck, an Evergreen grad, has represented Washington’s 10th congressional district since the state legislature […]
Greeners Developing App to Help Blind Navigate
By Daniel In 2017, when Robert Kerekes Jr of Morris Plains New Jersey called Evergreen and threatened to “execute as many people on the campus as I can get ahold of,” the students in Senior Zack Hurtz’ program scattered. “Everyone was gone, and my professor is like, ‘hey, do you […]
Chaos In & Near City Hall: Dir. Simmons Did Not Communicate With 501c3s, Council
BY VINCENT AWKERMAN & DANIEL The Olympia Police Department (OPD) continues to clear camps on city property and enforce bans on sitting or lying on sidewalks, despite a ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which found anti-camping ordinances to violate the Eighth Amendment. According to the City’s […]
BODY PARTY: From URL to IRL
Hello! Welcome to BODY PARTY, a space to talk about sex, relationships, health, identity, and being a freak! Each week, our anonymous resident Body Partier will take YOUR questions and answer them, judgement free! To have your questions answered in print, send us a Q at ask.fm/CPJBodyParty! Dear Body Party, […]
Sheriff Declares No Wrongdoing in Death of Olympia Woman
By Mason Soto On February 7, Vaneesa Hopson roamed outside her apartment building before dawn, barefoot, searching for help, frantic and out of her normal state. She pulled a fire alarm, and a neighbor called the police. Within hours, she was handcuffed and held down on her cement parking lot […]