By Tari Gunstone Plants have a long history of being used medicinally and therapeutically to improve mood, well being, and ailments that affect mental health. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, the Cooper Point Journal is focusing on a resource for free herbal consultation and medicine right in downtown […]
Evergreen’s Living Laboratory
By Tari Gunstone Also known as Evergreen’s “living laboratory,” the 700 acres of undeveloped forest and 3,000 feet of beach our school offers is right on the doorstep of campus. If you are new and haven’t had the chance to explore yet, you will soon discover the winding trails of […]
evergreen.snap Raises Privacy Concerns
By Danny Loose In September of 2015 a developer called Squid’s Inc. launched an app called “Fleek College Stories” was made available for download acting with a third party app in correspondence with the photo communication app Snapchat. The way it works is that Fleek geotags (establishes metadata to a […]
Prison Obscura Opened Last Thursday at the Evergreen Gallery
By Jules Prosser & Ruby Love Prison Obscura is not for the faint of heart, nor for those who choose and cherish gentle ignorance. The experience of Prison Obscura can be compared to the nature of the moon. People like us exist on a planet on which we only see […]
Everybody Pees A Conversation About the Importance of Gender Free Bathrooms
By Jamine Kozak Gilroy Having spent the break with two small children, with a household ban on “potty talk”, I’m coming back to the adult world, and I want to talk about bathrooms. Everybody pees, and I believe strongly that anywhere you take your pants off should be a safe […]
Evergreen’s Yik Yak The Upside of Internet Anonymity
By Asa Kowals-Rose Certain corners of the Internet are well-known to be cesspools of vulgarity and intolerance of every kind. Often, it seems that the root of this nastiness is one’s ability to hide behind a username. This online anonymity can embolden mean-spirited individuals, giving them the courage to type […]
Drugs in OlympiaAn Overview of a Scene In Transi- OH MY GOD MY FACE IS ON INSIDE OUT AND I’M PRETTY SURE MY RA IS A CANNIBAL -tion
By Sam Miller Hi, my name is Sam Miller. I am a transfer student from Grays Harbor College. I’m 32 and I have lived in Olympia for 20 years. I have been completely sober for 7 years. I went to school to be a State licensed Chemical Dependency Professional. I […]
On The Rise: City Hall Wants a Denser, More Affluent Downtown—What Will It Mean for Us?
By Issac Scott After dark on Friday night, downtown Olympia bustles and hums with a disoriented mood that creeps out from cafes and bars, casting in stark relief the city’s conflicting identities. Olympia is the flowing spring of Northwest outsider art and radical activism. Drums echo through an alley murmuring […]
Harm Reduction at Evergreen? Some Say the College is not Doing Enough
By Felix Chrome Opioid use is rising nation wide. Evergreen is not exempt from this trend, which is putting new focus on the college’s drug policies. “There is opiate use in the residence halls, there has been since I’ve been here,” said Sharon Goodman, director of Residential and Dining Services […]
What Nicki Minaj and Tinder Taught Me About Sex and Love
By Kathryn L. Herron I’ve never met Nicki Minaj, but I trust her. Following the release of her latest album, The Pinkprint, Onika Tanya Maraj has been dubbed “the best rapper alive” by Complex.com. She broke the Billboard Record for the amount of No. 1 singles released by a female rapper—more […]
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