Andrew Sernatinger

Evergreen tends to run in about three year activist cycles. It’s a fairly observable phenomenon that a group of students will show up either as fresh persons or transfers, learn about issues together, start to work on common projects and then form a cadre, affinity group, collective or whatever you’d like to call it.

Those people come to their own after a while of learning about the issues, seeing how Evergreen works and developing organizing skills. But at some point, that group will phase out and take their knowledge with them. A new group will start at the beginning and there’ll be a gap of time where activism reaches a low point.

Food is one of the few issues at Evergreen that just about everyone agrees is political. Food touches every issue, from sustainable farming to indigenous sovereignty to worker solidarity to prison abolition. Even the volume of academic programs having to do with the science, politics, culture and gender of food have increased in the last few years. So its not surprising that food has been the site of the most struggles at the college.

The Flaming Eggplant Café

The Student Conduct Code Disappearing Task Force (dtf) presented its draft of the new Code on Wednesday, May 27th (week 9 of spring quarter) as part of their revision process.

“…all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. …the first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce.”