CxPJ Reporting Service

Evergreen students have never been timid in standing up for their rights and beliefs. With so many battles going on at once, it is important that students not become fractured but reinforce attitudes of mutual support. While tuition hikes and budget cuts will likely be taking a leading role in the coming months, the Student Code of Conduct remains a hotspot and a potentially uniting struggle for Evergreen students.

At their meeting on Nov. 13, the United Faculty of Evergreen enacted a proposal to create a scholarship to offsett the recent tuition hike. The proposal was brought forward by Anita Lenges, a professor for the Masters in Education program, and Joe Tougas, Professor of Philosophy. The scholarship, entitled the Evergreen Faculty Union Solidarity Scholarship, is a needs-based scholarship for $850, the exact amount that tuition was raised for resident undergraduates.

In fall quarter of 2000, Evergreen student Sky Cosby began selling a few radical, underground books on campus. Shortly afterwards, he created a student originated study on opening an independent bookstore and drafting a business plan.

A couple years later, Cosby opened the doors to Last Word Books in downtown Olympia. Every quarter since its opening on May Day of 2002, Last Word Books has sold used books on topics ranging from anarchy and counterculture to administrative law and philosophy. Chances are, if you aren’t a freshman and you’ve been on Red Square more than once, you have seen him or the Last Word stand.
However, when he arrived on campus this fall, ready to set up his table as he had done for almost ten years, Cosby was informed by Conference Services that he was no longer welcome on campus as a vendor and would not be sold a permit. When he asked why, Conference Services said their hands were tied; a moratorium had been instituted over the summer banning book sales. Why did this happen, who was at the bottom of it, and is this the kind of treatment Evergreen alumni can expect from the campus?

A coalition of Olympia anti-war and community organizations will hold a rally and march on October 7th to demonstrate against the war in Afghanistan. The date will mark the US invasion’s 8th anniversary.

The march is part of a worldwide outcry against war and imperialism. A national day of action has been called by Students for a Democratic Society to demonstrate against the war in an attempt to bring attention to the recent troop surges and rising death tolls in the region. Richard Holbrooke, President Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2008, "As the war [Afghanistan] enters its eighth year, Americans should be told the truth: it will last a long time — longer than the United States’ longest war to date... the 14-year conflict in Vietnam."

or...Criminal charges and lawsuit threatened against street theater performance

Campus police have suggested criminal charges and an Evergreen staff is threatening civil action against a street theater performance that occurred on Red Square on May 13.