Biologists from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Woodland Park Zoo, Oregon Zoo, and the U.S. Army released the frogs this fall into Dailman Lake on the Fort Lewis Military Reservation in Pierce County in a collaborative effort to return the endangered frog to a portion of its historic habitat.

The frogs, most weighing less than two ounces, were collected as fertilized eggs last spring, and “head-started” in captivity at the zoos and the Cedar Creek Corrections Center near Olympia to improve their chance of survival once they return to the wild.

The frog release is the second in a five-year collaborative effort led by WDFW to establish a self-sustaining population on the Fort Lewis site. Approximately 600 frogs reared at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park and Oregon Zoo were released at the same location last year.

This year, two Cedar Creek inmates raised a number of the young frogs through the Sustainable Prisons Project, a partnership between The Evergreen State College and the Washington State Department of Corrections that allows incarcerated men and women to participate in science-based conservation projects.

The Dailman Lake area was chosen for the reintroduction because it contains diverse wetlands that can sustain a frog population and is largely protected from human activity, said Jim Lynch, Fort Lewis wildlife biologist.

All of the frogs released last year appear to have survived predators.

“We were encouraged with these findings, but direct observation was limited because the frogs are very effective at concealing themselves,” Lynch said.

This year, to improve data collection, about a quarter of the released frogs will be equipped with a tiny microchip that can be scanned by a wand reader.

In 2010, biologists will begin looking for egg masses to determine if the frogs have established breeding populations.

The Oregon spotted frog historically ranged from southwestern British Columbia to northeastern California, but is now known only in Klicikitat and Thurston counties in Washington. Loss of habitat, predation by non-native species such as the American bullfrog and disease have decimated its numbers, which prompted its listing as a Washington state endangered species in 1997.

“Frogs worldwide are known as sentinel species that play an important role in ecosystems,” said Marc Hayes, senior research scientist and project lead for WDFW. “When they disappear from their habitat, these ecosystems can be disrupted.”

The U.S. Department of the Interior recently awarded WDFW a grant to coordinate range-wide recovery projects for the Oregon spotted frog and associated species. A portion of the grant supports the Fort Lewis project.

“Restoring native wetland species such as the Oregon spotted frog and protecting habitat over broad areas are examples of an ecosystem approach that WDFW and partners are taking to help restore the state’s biodiversity,” said Phil Anderson, WDFW director.

Partners involved in the reintroduction program at Fort Lewis include WDFW, Fort Lewis Military Reservation, Woodland Park Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, Washington State Department of Transportation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Evergreen State College, Washington State Department of Corrections, Port Blakely Tree Farms, Washington Department of Natural Resources, NW Zoo & Aquarium Alliance, U.S Geological Survey, Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Centre and The Nature Conservancy.

• 12:00pm – 6:00pm Cooking
• 7:00pm – 8:30 Dinner

The First Christian Church
701 Franklin Street
Olympia, WA 98501

Meet at the Evergreen bus loop at 11:30 am and we’ll take the bus down together!

For more information or to pre-register call (360) 867-6137 or email Hilary.

On Tuesday November 24th at Noon, Amy Goodman, award-winning investigative journalist and host of Pacifica's "Democracy Now" will appear at The Evergreen State College Longhouse in a benefit for KAOS-FM Olympia Community Radio and Thurston Community Television. The event is in support of her new book "Breaking the Sound Barrier." The book will be available at the event. Seating is limited; tickets are available at the door the day of show or online at buyolympia.com.

About Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press.

Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media."

Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers. She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

Her daily reporting and groundbreaking work from Nigeria and East Timor has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored.

About the Book

Breaking the Sound Barrier: By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan, Foreword by Bill Moyers

Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the "experts" who, in Goodman's words,"know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong," this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear.

About KAOS

Licensed to the Evergreen State College, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio has been the South Sound's only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-seven year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County's largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About TCTV

Thurston Community Television is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation/membership organization that provides public, educational, and government access television in greater Thurston County, Washington. TCTV provides access channel management, training and production support to local residents, groups, government agencies and educational institutions. TCTV's programming is seen on access channels on the Comcast cable system in Thurston County. Membership is open to any Thurston County resident or non-profit organization located in Thurston County. TCTV believes that community access media is an appropriate and powerful vehicle for promoting greater awareness and understanding of the larger community and the diversity of its people. To that end, TCTV provides communications resources to build a stronger community.

About the Longhouse

The Longhouse exists to provide service and hospitality to students, the college, and surrounding Native communities. With a design based in the Northwest Indigenous Nations' philosophy of hospitality, its primary functions are to provide a gathering place for hosting cultural ceremonies, classes, conferences, performances, art exhibits and community events. The Longhouse provides the opportunity to build a bridge of understanding between the regions' tribes and visitors of all cultures. The public service mission of the Longhouse is to promote indigenous arts and cultures through education, cultural preservation, and economic development.

Contacts

John Ford
KAOS
360-867-6894
fordj@evergreen.edu

Deb Vinsel
TCTV
360-956-3100
dvinsel@tctv.net

A collaborative effort between the college, regional artists, chefs and organizations committed to creating opportunities for future generations of community leaders, the first annual Art of Living brunch and art auction welcomed some 150 attendees. Artwork included creations by Nikki McClure, Cappy Thompson, Perri Lynch, Tom Anderson, Tina Hoggatt and other established and emerging artists.

Proceeds from the event directly benefit student scholarships and the newly renovated Evergreen Gallery. Sponsors included Heritage Bank, The Evergreen State College Alumni Board of Directors, Capital Medical Center, Platform Gallery, Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters, and The Evergreen State College Organic Farm.

The event took place October 11, 2009 and the college intends to continue hosting the event in the future as a means to help support student scholarships.

Gill will speak on Veterans Day, November 11 from 10:30 a.m. to Noon

Olympia, WA-- Steve Gill is a Program Manager for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs who is responsible for the Veterans Estate Management Program in Olympia and the Transitioning Warrior Program in cooperation with the Warrior Transition Battalion and the Solider and Family Assistance Center on Fort Lewis.

As a leader in the Transitioning Warrior Program, Gill helps to heighten awareness and increase soldiers’ capabilities to manage combat and operational stress by providing recent veterans with education, programs and tools that help them with both mental and logistical transitions out of places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gill served honorably in the U.S. Army from 1994 to 1998 as a Human Resources Specialist at Fort Lewis, WA and Seoul, Korea. He is an accredited Veterans Service Organization Representative with the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources by the Society for Human Resources Management.

Gill has received the Washington Governor’s Award for Customer Service as a member of the Veteran’s Benefit Enhancement Team and he is a member of The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Gill received his undergraduate degree and Master of Public Administration from The Evergreen State College.

The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505. Directions are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

Featuring Keynote Speaker Mike Gregoire, Washington’s First Gentleman and U.S. Army Veteran

• Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
• The Evergreen Longhouse, Room 1001
• 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505

We will recognize Evergreen’s newly admitted veterans with a ceremonial presentation of the challenge coin medallion.

Presented by the Veterans of Evergreen Transition and Success Team.

More on Mike Gregoire:

Mike Gregoire’s daughters will tell you he is the calm, easy-going history buff who spent countless hours carting them from soccer practice to piano lessons, from ballet to church groups. He is the best backpacking companion, one patient gardener and the ultimate dessert chef. Around the Gregoire dinner table, he is the one who will goad others into a heated debate and then recline in his chair calmly taking in the scene.

Mike Gregoire was born and reared in Everett, Washington. His mom taught elementary school in the Everett school district for 35 years. His father worked as a private contractor and union carpenter. A graduate of Everett High School 40 years ago, Mike remains connected to many of his high school friends — he and his football buddies regularly get together to practice the art of poker.

Mike graduated from the University of Washington with a history degree in 1968. While student teaching at a Seattle high school his final year, he considered pursuing a career as a teacher. During finals week of his senior year, Mike received his draft notice. While his classmates celebrated their graduation day, Mike began basic training at Fort Lewis.

After completing field artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Mike was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the air defense artillery corps. He then served a tour of duty as a platoon leader and convoy commander with the “Delta Express” in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

Upon returning to Washington, Mike met Chris in September 1971, when they were both working for the Department of Social and Health Services. For their first date, Mike packed a picnic lunch and took Chris on a hike. After several hours of wandering, Chris realized they were lost, and started wondering if Mike’s navigational skills had been left behind in the Delta. Three years later, however, Mike navigated Chris perfectly down the wedding aisle. He and Chris have two adult daughters: Courtney, an attorney, and Michelle, a recent college graduate. For the next 30 years, Mike worked as a health care investigator for the state of Washington. Retiring in July 2003 certainly hasn’t slowed him down. He harvests a bumper crop of tomatoes, apples and pears; stays active in St. Michael’s Parish; and fits in an occasional racquetball game.

Mike’s service in the military spurred a lifelong commitment to veterans’ affairs. He is particularly concerned about the effects of Agent Orange and veterans’ mental health issues. He is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the American Legion and the Vietnam Veterans of America. As Washington’s First Gentleman, or “First Mike” as he prefers to be called, he tours the state to meet with veterans and active military personnel. He lobbies the Governor over dinner on veterans’ issues and is committed to making sure our state lives up to its commitments to our servicemen and servicewomen.

Mike Gregoire is an advocate for children’s and family literacy. As a parent, Mike recognizes the importance of reading with children. He also knows that strong reading skills prepare young people for academic success and a lifelong love of learning. Mike is traveling across the state to visit schools and libraries. He reads to elementary school students and thanks teachers, principals and librarians for their good work. He has visited at least one elementary school in each of the state’s 39 counties.

Evergreen Noted Among Colleges that Demonstrate High Levels of Commitment to Public Service as an Academic Aim and Educational Approach

Olympia, WA -- Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium released data today on a faculty engagement survey of the Western Region.

The first of its kind to collect faculty engagement data on service learning and community-based research across a multi-state region, the survey included more than 2,500 faculty members at 47 campuses across California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

So What is Service Learning?

Service-learning is education based in inclusive community assistance, activism and outreach. Students engaged in service learning activities attain academic goals via service to their community. Also examined in the survey, community-based research involves collaboration between researchers and community members in the design and implementation of research projects aimed at meeting community-identified needs.

The Evergreen State College was notable for its use of service learning in teaching of social sciences, cross-cultural and international relations, education and the humanities. In each of these areas, Evergreen reported higher use of service learning than Western Region averages.

Service learning at Evergreen was also characterized by a focus on learning that promotes socially beneficial aims. The most reported issues addressed by service learning efforts according to responders at Evergreen included cultural awareness, education and literacy, environmental issues, health care, homelessness, immigration and refugee assistance, low-income assistance, parks and gardens, visual and performing arts, and vulnerable youth.

Researchers working on the project collected common data across the Western Region in order to identify current faculty service-learning and community-based research practices; possible strategies to motivate and support new faculty to do service-learning and community-based research; best practices by which to support faculty who already incorporate service-learning and community based research into their work; and the potential impacts of service-learning and community-based research on faculty, students, campuses, and communities.

Established in 1992 and hosted at Western Washington University, Washington Campus Compact and its membership of 35 two- and four-year colleges and universities work to promote service learning as a means to provide meaningful experiences for students to become active, engaged leaders in their communities, further the civic and public purposes of higher education and strengthen communities. Washington Campus Compact is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, a national organization comprised of more than 1,100 higher education institutions committed to the civic and public purposes of higher education

Participating Campus Compacts will be able to use data in the survey to shape strategic directions and programming as well as learn more about how faculty members are involved in service-learning and community-based research; how to support faculty; and how service-learning impacts faculty, students, and community members. “A research effort of this kind hasn’t been done in our region,” said Jennifer Dorr, executive director of Washington Campus Compact. “This research points to the significant impacts that service-learning has on faculty, students, and communities.”

The research project was funded by Learn and Serve America Higher Education, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service and directed by Washington Campus Compact.

For more information visit:

• Washington Campus Compact at http://www.wacampuscompact.org/
• The Evergreen State College Faculty Engagement Survey Quick Facts (PDF)

Free and open to the public

Representatives from more than two dozen graduate schools from Washington, Oregon and beyond will be on hand to field questions and provide counseling on next steps to pursuit of graduate education. Learn about Evergreen's Master of Public Administration, Master in Teaching and Master of Education, Master of Environmental Studies programs as well as a wide range of other graduate degree opportunities. The fair will feature degree options from the Northwest and across the country. Some of the participating schools include the University of Washington, Prescott College, Willamette University, Walla Walla University School of Social Work & Sociology, Lewis and Clark College, Antioch University--Seattle, Saint Martins University, Bainbridge Graduate Institute and Vermont Law School, among others.

Prospective graduate students will learn about undergraduate requirements, the importance of standardized tests, transcripts and other credentials needed for graduate school admission, and interdisciplinary study options. For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/career/events, call 360-867-6193, or email: knightn@evergreen.edu

The event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Library Building Lobby, second floor.

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505

Directions: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour

The Longhouse Holiday Native Art Fair will be held on Friday December 11, 2009 and Saturday December 12, 2009 at the Longhouse on The Evergreen State College campus in Olympia.

The fair hours will be 10 AM to 5 PM on Friday and 11 AM to 6 PM on Saturday.

Entertainment includes Rona Yellow Robe Walsh (Chippewa Cree) with Native Flute at 2 PM on Friday December 11 and a children’s story hour at 4 PM on Friday in the Cedar Room. Bobbie Bush (Chehalis) will offer children’s story telling again on Saturday at 2 PM.

Indian tacos, fry bread and beverages will be offered for sale by Tahoma Indian Center. To learn more visit http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/

The Evergreen State College is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, Washington. For directions visit: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm

"The Role of Chemistry in the Development of Regional Styles of Beer and Ale" at The Evergreen State College

Who

Dr. Mark Thomson of Ferris State University

What

Learn about how beer is made and the role that chemistry or microbiology plays in the process? We will briefly discuss the basic process of beer fermentation from a small-scale perspective. From malting the barley and mashing the malt, through fermentation and conditioning, to packaging the finished product, particular attention will be paid to the role of chemistry in the development of regional beer styles and traditions. Connections will be made between steps in the process and results in the final product including color, bitterness, aroma, body, and taste. Many of these connections will illustrate the subtle, but important role that small chemical details can play. For those interested, information will be available on judging standards and style guidelines for local and national Homebrew Competitions provided by the BJCP or Beer Judge Certification Program.

When

October 21st, 2009 at 6 p.m.

Where

The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505; Seminar II Building B-1105

Cost

Free Admission, No Reservations Required

An additional opportunity

Dinner with the speaker at 7.30 p.m. at Budd Bay Café in Olympia www.buddbaycafe.com; RSVP for dinner reservations only by 10/18/2009 at bopegedd@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6620

Saturday, October 17, 2009 starting at 1 pm.

Where: “House of Welcome,” Longhouse Education and Cultural Center
The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA, 98505

Schedule:

1:00 p.m. - Opening Ceremony

1:30 p.m. - Open House (light food and refreshments served)

2:00 p.m. - Program (including acknowledgments, dedication of new Longhouse art, dance performances, potlatch (giveaway). The celebration will feature: Twana Seowin Society (Skokomish), Hottowe Family Dancers (Makah), Quinault Indian Nation Dancers, Kuteeya Alaska Native Dance Group and Siy?y? (Squaxin Island) as well as dedication of new art installations by John Goodwin “Nytom” (Makah) and Andrea Wilbur-Sigo (Squaxin Island) and Steve Sigo (Squaxin Island)

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to: the Ford Foundation, The Evergreen State College Foundation, the Lucky Eagle Casino and ARAMARK.

To participate:

RSVP by 10/12/09 to 360.867.5344 or email.
More information is available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College Foundation is hosting its inaugural Art of Living Brunch and Art Auction from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 11 in the Daniel J. Evans Library on the college’s Olympia campus. The majority of the money raised will support student scholarships, with a portion also supporting the Evergreen Art Gallery. Tickets are now on sale to the general public at www.evergreen.edu/artofliving. Tickets are $100 each and include brunch. Seating is limited.

The event will include art in a range of media by artists including Nikki McClure, Cappy Thompson, Perri Lynch, Tina Hoggatt and other established and emerging artists. Many of the artists are Evergreen alumni. “Experience” items such as studio tours, dining and travel will also be up for bid. In addition, those attending will have an opportunity to make direct contributions to student scholarships which will be doubled by matching gifts from other Foundation donors. The event Web site includes a growing preview gallery of items available in the silent and oral auctions.

The event includes hors d’oeuvres by local chefs, pastries by The Bread Peddler, specialty items from Ranch House BBQ, coffee by Batdorf & Bronson Roasters and a gourmet four-course brunch featuring organic, locally-grown produce.

“The Art of Living event is a celebration of art, cuisine and community,” explained Lee Hoemann, Vice President for Advancement and Executive Director of The Evergreen State College Foundation. “It’s a collaborative effort between the college, artists, chefs and organizations committed to creating opportunities for future generations of community leaders. It will also be a lot of fun and a great chance to see and purchase some fantastic art.”

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/artofliving.

"Day of Caring is an annual United Way event that matches volunteers with community service projects at local nonprofit and community organizations. This year our volunteers have increased by 30 percent to more than 600 individuals working on 48 different projects, due to our collaboration with The Evergreen State College and the Volunteer Center. Day of Caring also officially kicks off United Way’s 2009 giving campaign, with a goal is to raise $1.4 million to help meet local human service needs," Pam Toal, Executive Director reports.

Ellen Shortt Sanchez, Director of the Evergreen Center for Community Based Learning and Action, states, "Evergreen has a 20-year history of encouraging new students to engage with the community. Community to Community service day is an activity during new student orientation week. Collaborating with United Way and the Volunteer Center, students will join Day of Caring sites to learn about community needs. The Evergreen Center for Community Based Learning and Action and the academic program Community Connections are encouraging students to respond to national problems with local solutions. We are expecting 150 students to volunteer at 16 local organizations."

This year the Volunteer Center managed the project and team database and helped United Way develop many new and innovative projects to engage volunteers in meaningful work. Examples include "On Board!," a class for people who are interested in joining a nonprofit board of directors, and "Building Bridges," another class where individuals can learn how to volunteer effectively with low-income families and individuals. Finally, United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council members are providing one-on-one mentoring with girls at the local Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County.

"We really wanted to develop a portfolio of volunteer opportunities for this year’s Day of Caring," said Sara Ballard, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center. "It’s important for people to see that they can help in a variety of ways. We worked hand in hand with businesses and community organizations to create unique projects for this year’s event."

NINE WHOLE DAYS??

Well… the KAOS Fall Membership Drive could be shorter - - it’s up to the listeners.

Here’s how it works: for every $4000.00 in paid memberships KAOS receives before 5pm Wednesday October 14, KAOS will shorten the drive by one day. If KAOS gets enough paid memberships to eliminate the entire nine days – they will eliminate the 2009 Fall membership drive and get right back to music, news and information.

New or renewing members at the $60 level or above--who also bring in a new paid member at the same level (or above)--will receive double thank-you gifts!

How to join KAOS: Visit http://www.kaosradio.org and click on join.

Artists include: Victoria Adams, Nicholas Brown, Timothy Cross, Michael Dailey, Steve Davis, Caryn Friedlander, Nicole Gibbs, Joseph Goldberg, Philip Govedare, Lee Imonen, Patrick Kelley, James Lavadour, R.T. Leverich, Norman Lundin, Nikki McClure, Anna McKee, Richard Misrach, Lynda K. Rockwood, Glenn Rudolph, Kirby Stanton, Barbara Earl Thomas, Wes Wehr, Brett Weston, Don Worth, Claude Zervas.

Evergreen wishes to acknowledge the artists and lenders who made this exhibition possible: private collectors, Francine Seders Gallery, Grover/Thurston Gallery, James Harris Gallery, Catherine Person Gallery, The James F. Holly Rare Book Collection of the Evergreen State College Library, The Evergreen State College Art Collection.

Evergreen Gallery

Hours: Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Location: Daniel J. Evans Library Building, main entry level, room 2204
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW
Olympia, WA 98505
(360) 867-5125
www.evergreen.edu/gallery

With assistance from partners including The Evergreen State College, Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, The Wild Fish Conservancy, People For Puget Sound, the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Restore America’s Estuaries program, an undersized 3-foot wide culvert at the mouth of campus’s Snyder Creek will be removed and replaced by a 14-foot wide box culvert. The cost of the culvert project totals $214,000, and is covered by contributions from The Evergreen State College, the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, and the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program.

The new fish passage will serve fish species such as coho salmon, chum salmon, cutthroat, and possibly steelhead. The bottom of the culvert will hold native stream bed. According to Jamie Glasgow of Wild Fish Conservancy, “Fish won’t even know they are in a culvert as they pass through it.”

Fish will once again gain access to almost one mile of spawning and rearing habitat. The work will also restore the natural processes of sediment, wood, and water transport - processes that researchers have found to be vital for fish and forest health. A work team, including contactor Horsley Timber and Construction, an engineer from Fisheries Consultant, Inc., an archeologist from the Squaxin Island Tribe, and fish biologists from Wild Fish Conservancy began construction on August 31 and construction will continue through September 6.

Bulkheads, barrier culverts, and other shoreline obstructions are threats to salmon habitat throughout the Puget Sound, and this project represents a potential model for actions around the Sound to restore fish access to critical breeding and rearing habitat. Restoring these habitats also has wider ecosystem benefits beyond the benefits for salmonids because it restores the ecological processes that shape diverse habitat structures. The shoreline of the College is one of the largest remaining stretches of undeveloped shoreline in south Puget Sound and thus restoration adjacent to that shoreline provides an opportunity for significant impact.

Horsley Construction was contracted by Wild Fish Conservancy after a competitive bid process. This method of public works required an innovative agreement between Wild Fish Conservancy and the college. Jamie Glasgow is the project manager for Wild Fish Conservancy.

Snyder Creek flows into Eld Inlet at Snyder Cove at the northwest corner of The Evergreen State College in Olympia.

Highlights:

• The Evergreen State College included in ‘America’s Best Colleges’
• Evergreen receives accolades for its commitment to teaching and for its “learning community” approach.
• America’s Best Colleges recognition latest in a series of strong showings for Evergreen in college rankings.

The Evergreen State College has been recognized among top colleges in the 2010 edition of America’s Best Colleges by U.S. News Media Group. The popular rankings, which include more than 1,400 schools nationwide, are available at http://www.usnews.com/colleges and will also be published in the September issue of the U.S. News & World Report magazine.

Evergreen was categorized among the best universities with options for Masters Degrees in the Western Region.

Evergreen was also recognized in the accompanying article “A Strong commitment to teaching” which noted the college as a top college and the only public college in the West that was identified for its “unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching” as measured by a peer assessment survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.

Evergreen’s distinctive “learning communities” approach was also highlighted by a peer assessment survey conducted by US News. Under the category “learning communities,” in the article “Programs to look for” Evergreen was listed among only 26 nationwide. Learning communities are a way of structuring curriculum to link together coursework so students find greater coherence in what they are learning and achieve more interactions with faculty and peers.

Over the past 26 years, the U.S. News college rankings, which group schools based on categories created by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has grown as a research tool for students and parents considering higher education opportunities.

The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts and sciences college that consistently achieves national recognition--most recently from The Princeton Review, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, and Sierra Magazine -- for its distinctively rigorous and thoughtful educational model, affordable price and commitment to sustainability. More on other recent awards is available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/news/home.htm

Sierra magazine has named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. From Harvard’s 17 LEED-certified buildings to Penn’s biodiesel recyclers, the magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that are making a true impact for the planet, and marks Sierra’s third annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The complete list is available online at http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools

The Evergreen State College placed sixth on the list. Initiatives at the college include a pervasive focus on working toward sustainability and justice by integrating these topics into the graduate and undergraduate curriculum and student academic experiences, leadership in environmental design and organic agriculture, and sound conservation policies, including protection and preservation of natural spaces on campus.

“We're thrilled to see The Evergreen State College making a real commitment to greening its campus,” said Carl Pope, the Sierra Club’s executive director. “The next generation of students cares deeply about stopping global warming, and schools like Evergreen that take the initiative to become environmentally responsible are doing the right thing for the planet and are better poised to attract the best students.”

The announcement comes just weeks after the Princeton Review noted Evergreen as one of its 15 ‘Green Honor Roll’ colleges for receiving a score of 99, the highest possible green rating score possible. More on this: http://www.evergreen.edu/news/archive/2009/07/princeton

This year’s top-20 coolest schools are taking dramatic steps to curb climate change. Whether it’s UCLA, with 38,476 students, The Evergreen State College with its 4,696 students, or the College of the Atlantic with 321 students, Sierra’s list shows that schools of all sizes are taking action.

Sierra’s Top 20 coolest schools of 2009 are:

1. University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, Colorado)
2. University of Washington at Seattle (Seattle, Washington)
3. Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont)
4. University of Vermont (Burlington, Vermont)
5. College of the Atlantic (Bal Harbor, Maine)
6. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington)
7. University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
8. University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
9. University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
10. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)
11. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
12. University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)
13. Arizona State University at Tempe (Tempe, Arizona)
14. Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
15. University of Florida at Gainesville (Gainesville, Florida)
16. Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)
17. Willamette University (Salem, Oregon)
18. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, North Carolina)
19. Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
20. New York University (New York, New York)

Sierra magazine has 1.2 million readers and is a publication of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental group. For full descriptions of each winning school’s green efforts, visit Sierra magazine online at: http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools

Only about 15% of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges are profiled in the book, which is The Princeton Review's flagship annual college guide. It includes detailed profiles of the colleges with school rating scores in eight categories, plus ranking lists of top 20 schools in 62 categories based on The Princeton Review's surveys of students attending the colleges.

Says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's V.P., Publishing and author of "The Best 371 Colleges," "We commend The Evergreen State College for its outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book. We also work to keep a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character. We make our choices based on institutional data we gather about schools, feedback from students attending them, and input from our staff who visit hundreds of colleges a year. We also value the opinions and suggestions of our 23-member National College Counselor Advisory Board, and independent college counselors we hear from yearlong."

In its profile on The Evergreen State College, The Princeton Review praises the school for its focus on interdisciplinary education, its strength in environmental studies, and its strong emphasis on collaborative learning. The Princeton Review quotes from Evergreen students. Among their comments about their campus experiences: "the professors at Evergreen are more than teachers, they are your partner in education and dedicate themselves to facilitating the students’ learning."

The Princeton Review's 62 ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" are entirely based on its survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several topics and report on their campus experiences at them. Topics range from student assessments of their professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food. Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their student body's political leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life.

The school profiles in "The Best 371 Colleges" also have ratings that are based largely on institutional data that The Princeton Review collected during the 2008-09 academic year. The ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 that are tallied in eight categories. Among them are ratings for Admissions Selectivity, Financial Aid, and Green, a rating The Princeton Review introduced in 2008 that is a measure of school's commitment to environmentally related policies, practices and education. The Evergreen State College ranked 99 (the highest possible score) on the Green Rating, placing it among only 15 schools on the Green Rating Honor Roll.

The Princeton Review posts the school profiles and ranking lists in "The Best 371 Colleges" on its site at which users can read FAQs about the book, the survey, and the criteria for each of the ratings and rankings.

"The Best 371 Colleges" is the 18th edition of The Princeton Review's annual "best colleges" book. Over the years, the book and its ranking lists have been favorably cited by former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (among others).

The schools in "The Best 371 Colleges" are also part of 640 colleges and universities that The Princeton Review commends in its website feature, "2010 Best Colleges: Region by Region - Northeast / Midwest / Southeast / West."

The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is known for its tutoring and classroom test preparation courses, books, and college and graduate school admission services. Its corporate headquarters is in Framingham, MA, and editorial offices are in New York City. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.

The Maori artist Takirirangi Smith who crafted The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center’s first waka (war canoe) at The Evergreen State College is returning for Tribal Journeys 2009 featuring canoes and international cultural activities at end of journey events from Monday August 3, 2009 until Saturday August 8, 2009 in Suquamish, Washington.

Canoes will arrive at 1:00 p.m. on August 3 at the new community house, “The House of Awakened Culture” that is located near the waterfront in downtown Suquamish. The event on the Port Madison Reservation in North Kitsap County will feature cultural events, learning adventures and family entertainment.

The Canoe Journey is a time of healing, hope, happiness, honor and hospitality. People attending the event can expect to be thrilled at the sight of a bay filled with beautifully carved canoes coming in to land.

The events mark the 20th anniversary of the historical 1989 “Paddle to Seattle.” This was the first traditional intertribal canoe voyage in over a hundred years, leaving the shores of Suquamish for Seattle. The 1989 Journey with nine canoes continues this year in central Puget Sound with approximately 80 canoes expected to participate.

Mr. Takirirangi will paddle the waka carved with fellow artist John Smith. The waka usually resides at The Evergreen State College Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

Canoes will arrive in Suquamish from diverse locations including Hood Canal, Washington’s West Coast, Mainland BC, the San Juan Islands, Westcoast Vancouver Islands and the Inside Passage of British Columbia.

More information is available at http://www.tribaljourneys2009.com/ and http://tribaljourneys.wordpress.com/

NEW YORK, July 27, 2009, Noon EDT -- The Princeton Review – known for its education services helping students choose and get into colleges -- today reported its second annual Green Ratings of colleges: a measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99. The company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings.

The Princeton Review named 15 colleges to its "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll" – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year's rating tallies.

The Princeton Review’s "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll"

This list, published in "The Best 371 Colleges," salutes 15 institutions (eight private and seven public colleges) that received the highest possible rating score of 99. It includes:

(in alphabetical order)

• Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
• Bates College (Lewiston ME)
• Binghamton University (State Univ. of New York at Binghamton)
• College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor ME)
• Colorado College (Colorado Springs CO)
• Dickinson College (Carlisle PA)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia WA)
• Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
• Northeastern University (Boston MA)
• University of California - Berkeley
• University of New Hampshire (Durham)
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• Yale University (New Haven CT)

Said Robert Franek, V.P. / Publisher, The Princeton Review, "The 'green' movement on college campuses is far more than an Earth Day recycling project. It is growing tremendously among students and administrators alike. This year we saw a 30% increase in the number of colleges participating in our Green Rating survey. We thank the nearly 700 institutions (697 vs. 534 last year) that supplied us with the data we requested to tally their scores. Many have shown extraordinary commitments to environmental issues and to the environment in their practices and programs. We are pleased to play a role in helping students who care deeply about these issues identify, get into, and study at these schools."

Franek noted the rising interest among students in attending colleges that practice, teach and support environmentally responsible choices. Among almost 16,000 college applicants and parents of applicants The Princeton Review surveyed this year for its annual "College Hopes & Worries Survey," 66% of respondents overall (and 68% of students vs. 59% of parents) said they would value having information about a college's commitment to the environment – a 4% increase from last year's respondents. Among that cohort, 24% of respondents overall (26% of students vs. 18% of parents) said such information would "very much" impact their (their child's) decision to apply to or attend the school.

The Princeton Review has dedicated a resource area on its website for students and others interested in learning more about the rating and the benefits of attending a green college. The area has information on colleges with exemplary environmental programs, questions to ask on school visits, and links to organizations that promote higher education and campus sustainability programs.

Criteria

The Princeton Review developed its Green Rating criteria and institutional survey in 2007 with ecoAmerica , a non-profit environmental organization that continues to participate in this project. The criteria for the rating cover three broad areas: 1/ whether the school’s students have a campus quality of life that is healthy and sustainable, 2/ how well the school is preparing its students for employment and citizenship in a world defined by environmental challenges, and 3/ the school's overall commitment to environmental issues. The institutional survey for the rating included ten questions on everything from energy use, recycling, food, buildings, and transportation to academic offerings (availability of environmental studies degrees and courses) and action plans and goals concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions.

About The Princeton Review College Ratings and College Rankings

The Green Rating scores appear in the profiles of the 697 schools that The Princeton Review posted today on its site, . The ratings are also in profiles of those schools in the 2010 editions of three Princeton Review books: "The Best 371 Colleges" (on sale July 28, $22.99), "The Best Northeastern Colleges" (on sale August 4, $16.99), and "Complete Book of Colleges" (on sale August 4, $26.99), all published by Random House.

The Princeton Review college ratings are scores on a scale of 60 to 99 in eight categories that it reports in some college profiles on its website and in its college guides. The ratings are based primarily on institutional data. In addition to the Green Rating, other rating categories include: Financial Aid, and Fire Safety (for which The Princeton Review also reports Honor Rolls of schools receiving its highest possible score of 99), and Admissions Selectivity. Schools from which The Princeton Review does not receive sufficient data in a category to tally a rating receive a score of 60* (sixty with an asterisk).

The Princeton Review college rankings are lists of schools in 62 categories (in rank order 1 to 20) based entirely on the Company's surveys of 122,000 students attending the schools in its book, "The Best 371 Colleges." The survey asks students to rate their own schools on dozens of topics and report on their campus experiences at them.

About The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review (NASDAQ: REVU) has been a pioneer and leader in helping students achieve their higher education goals for more than 25 years through college and graduate school test preparation and tutoring. With more than 165 print and digital publications and a free website, , the company provides student and their parents with the resources to research, apply to, prepare for, and learn how to pay for higher education. The Princeton Review also partners with schools and guidance counselors throughout the U.S. to assist in college readiness, test preparation and career planning services, helping more students pursue postsecondary education. The Company is headquartered in Framingham, MA with editorial offices in New York City and test preparation locations across the country and abroad. The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University and it is not a magazine.

About ecoAmerica

ecoAmerica (www.ecoAmerica.org) is an environmental nonprofit that uses consumer research, partnerships, and engagement marketing to shift the personal and civic choices of mainstream Americans. ecoAmerica partnered with The Princeton Review to develop the initial concept of the Green Rating and provided strategic planning and partnership building expertise for its development. Other programs ecoAmerica has launched include The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, Nature Rocks, and GreenCareers by MonsterTRAK.

Criteria for The Princeton Review Green Rating of Colleges

The Princeton Review tallied the Green Rating scores based on institutional data it obtained from the colleges during the 2008-2009 academic year in response to ten survey questions that asked:

1. The percentage of food expenditures that goes toward local, organic or otherwise environmentally preferable food
2. Whether the school offers programs including free bus passes, universal access transit passes, bike sharing/renting, car sharing, carpool parking, vanpooling or guaranteed rides home to encourage alternatives to single-passenger automobile use for students
3. Whether the school has a formal committee with participation from students that is devoted to advancing sustainability on campus
4. Whether new buildings are required to be LEED (environmental certification of equipment/appliances) Silver certified or comparable
5. The school's overall waste diversion rate
6. Whether the school has an environmental studies major, minor or concentration
7. Whether the school has an "environmental literacy" requirement
8. Whether the school has produced a publicly available greenhouse gas emissions inventory and adopted a climate action plan consistent with 80 percent greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 targets
9. What percentage of the school’s energy consumption, including heading/cooling and electrical, is derived from renewable sources (this definition included “green tags” but not nuclear or large-scale hydropower)
10. Whether the school employs a dedicated full-time (or full-time equivalent) sustainability officer.

Universities Join UN-led Initiative to Combat Climate Change

Nairobi, 23 July 2009 - Six universities from the US, UK, Spain and China have become the first academic institutions to come on board the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net) - an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action to de-carbonize our economies and societies.

They are the pioneers among hundreds of universities, colleges and other academic institutions worldwide that are taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote "greening" of their campuses and invest in low-carbon research and development.

UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner said: "The Climate Neutral Network was inspired by a simple idea that a transformation to a low, even zero emission future is a learning process. It is therefore fitting that universities from all over the world should join this global networking platform and help make the best knowledge on climate neutrality available to all."

"As think tanks, creativity hubs and change agents in our societies, we welcome universities on board the CN Net and hope that they will bring their vast libraries of knowledge to the Network and use it to accelerate the global transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient future."

From using renewable sources of energy such as wind, sun and biomass to developing fuel cell vehicles to encouraging neighbouring communities to take on the low carbon challenge, the new CN Net participants are taking leadership on the issue of climate change at the local, national and international levels.

In the United States alone, 645 colleges and universities are moving towards climate neutrality as part of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), and many of these schools are perfect candidates for the CN Net.

"Colleges and universities are arguably the most important institutions to address climate disruption because they can model climate neutrality on their campuses, and they can teach their students the skills and knowledge they need to address the climate crisis," said Anthony D. Cortese, coordinator of the ACUPCC and president of Second Nature - a nonprofit organization working to help colleges and universities make the principles of sustainability fundamental to every aspect of higher education.

The first universities that have joined the Climate Neutral Network are:

College of the Atlantic, Maine (USA): The College was founded in 1969 on the premise that education should go beyond understanding the world as it is, to enabling students to actively shape its future. It has pioneered a special interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education - human ecology - with the view to developing the types of leaders needed by all sectors of society in addressing the compelling and growing human needs of our world. College of the Atlantic has been carbon neutral since December 19, 2007. It achieved this by reducing and avoiding its greenhouse gases emissions, and by carefully calculating all other emissions (including that of visitors to campus), which are offset. All electricity is now purchased from a low-impact hydroelectric generator in Maine, and a wind turbine powers the farmhouse on the college's outlying organic farm (which supplies some of the produce to the college's dining hall). The college has completed an energy audit, established a bicycle plan, encourages telecommuting when possible and has switched all possible incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs.

Evergreen State College, Washington (USA): The Evergreen State College has established a national reputation for leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinary academic programs. Evergreen has been a leader in environmental education from the beginning, and in recent years, the College has advanced its commitment to sustainability. Evergreen is engaging the local, regional and global community to demonstrate and enact clear policies to address the world-changing challenges of climate change. The College has set a goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2020 and currently purchases 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) from renewable energy sources, representing 100 percent of the school's annual electricity usage. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Evergreen State College's purchase of more than 16 million kilowatt-hours of green power is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 1,600 average American homes each year or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,100 passenger cars annually. Furthermore, Evergreen's most recent energy savings and conservation plan will reduce carbon output by 500 tonnes and save $73,000 per year.

Malaga University (Spain): Malaga University (UMA) is a public institution which promotes outstanding research and teaching within the European Higher Education Area. With a university community of just over 40,000 people, over the last decade UMA has sought to promote the internationalization of its teaching. UMA offers an extensive catalogue of specialized teaching and postgraduate study with particular focus on urban biodiversity. In the sustainability field, Malaga University has created a solar thermal surface of 2000 m2 for a renewable energy heating source. The University is also in the process of building a solar photovoltaic panel surface of 8000 m2 with a production capacity of 1 megawatt with plans to eventually use geothermal energy with a tri-generation plant on the campus. In the year 2012, Malaga University will finish subway transportation between the Central City and the University City. In addition, the university plans to introduce more sustainable transportation (bicycles, hybrid vehicles) and create 264.905 m2 of urban forest and green zones.

Middlebury College, Vermont (USA): Middlebury is ranked as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward. Indeed, the college claims that the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns-for some through the study of the environment. Middlebury College has set a goal of carbon neutrality by 2016. The implementation strategy adopted by the College relies on a switch of the fuels it uses for heating, cooling and cooking from fossil based to renewables. Toward that end, the College recently built a $12 million biomass gasification system which uses wood chips from nearby forests and mills. This has cut Middlebury College's carbon footprint by 40%, or 12,500 metric tonnes, cut fuel costs by $750,000/yr. and has put $800,000 new money into the local economy.

Tongji University, Shanghai (China): Tongji University was established in 1907 and is one of the oldest leading universities in China, operating under the State Ministry of Education. It offers degree programs both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including a School of Environmental Science and Engineering and an Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, which was created in partnership with UNEP. The name Tongji signifies "cooperating by riding the same boat." Tongji University certainly understands that we are all part of a global "boat" that needs to deal with the rising tide of climate change and Tongji has begun developing green technologies. The Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center helped develop fuel cell vehicles, which are now being tested in a six-month road testing in California. Principals of Tongji Fuel Cell Vehicle Engineering Center have expressed that this was the first time for China's fuel cell vehicles to participate in international demonstrations. These fuel cell-powered sedans can reach 150 miles per hour and cover up to 300 miles after one Hydrogen charging. Tongji University also uses solar energy, reuses water, and has energy-saving technologies. In the Wenyuan Building, the university does not only maintain the historical features of the building, but also builds the concept of eco-building by using technologies such as geo-heat pumps, thermal insulation systems, rainwater collection and recycling systems.

University of the West of England, Bristol (UK): The University is committed to a range of actions that address climate change through its Sustainability Strategy for 2008 to 2012, including clear reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. The University developed a carbon management plan in partnership with the Carbon Trust that aims to progressively reduce dependency on fossil fuels and contribute to achieving the UK target of an 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. From 2006 to 2007, the University reduced its carbon emissions by more than 23%. Some aspects of their strategy involve calculating the University's carbon commitment, reducing energy use in buildings, encouraging public transportation, and implementing an energy awareness campaign. The University is also a founding member of the West of England Carbon Challenge, an innovative project that is challenging all businesses, public and third sector bodies in the Bristol city-region to commit to making an annual cut in emissions for four years to reach a cumulative total of at least 10% by 2012.

Quotes from some of the new CN Net members:

"We are pleased to have this opportunity to join with a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." - Scott Morgan, Office of Sustainability, Evergreen State College

"Middlebury College has set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 for several important reasons. We recognized early on that the threats of climate change are serious and that they can only be addressed through coordinated local and international efforts by all sectors of society. By taking leadership on this issue we are expressing that concern and showing that there are solutions that make sense from a sustainability perspective - solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the local economy, and strengthen the vitality and health of surrounding communities. We joined CN Net because it provides a means for adding our voice and our examples of leadership to a growing international movement to take substantive, effective action to address the challenge of climate change." - Jack Byrne, Director, Sustainability Integration Office, Middlebury College

"The University of the West of England, Bristol is delighted to support the UN's Climate Neutral Network. We look forward to actively participating, learning from the successes of fellow members and sharing the outcomes of the actions that we have taken to reduce our own carbon dependency. Joining this new Network is further evidence of the University's strong commitment to sustainability. The University is already taking vigorous action to reduce the carbon footprint of its operations - we cut gas consumption by 46% between 2006 and 2007 - and we seek to ensure that our students - the leaders and thinkers of tomorrow - are aware of the challenges and opportunities of creating a sustainable and low-carbon future. We also carry out key research into climate change issues through an Institute dedicated to sustainability. In addition we are responding strategically to the challenges of sustainability and climate change via a Sustainability Board, chaired by the Deputy Vice Chancellor." - Professor James Longhurst, Associate Dean and Professor of Environmental Science, University of the West of England, Bristol

For more information, please visit: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=593&ArticleID=6255&l=en

In order to reduce landfill trash on campus, Greeners have turned to reusing, recycling and composting waste instead. The Evergreen Organic Farm, and Silver Springs Organics, a local commercial composting facility, picks up an average of 6000 lbs. of compost each week. At present, Silver Springs accepts the bulk of it; however, many Greeners hope to see the Organic Farm expand its compost capabilities in the future.

During the winter academic quarter, Evergreen took part in a national competition called RecycleMania. Students, staff and faculty joined efforts to better educate people on proper recycling practices. During the 10 week competition, a group of students, staff and faculty met bi-weekly to coordinate waste reduction efforts across campus. With the help of Sherry Parsons in the office of Facilities Services, coordinators Lindsay Raab, Natalie Pyrooz and Halli Winstead tracked the weights of campus landfill trash, recycling and compost over the 10 week period; the results were then posted on the Evergreen Sustainability website. The RecycleMania team held two waste audits on campus that served as educational tools for everyone involved. Recyclable waste in landfill trash bins was weighed and recorded on a chalkboard for everyone to view, and later analyzed and communicated to the campus community. Other RecycleMania activities included weekly email trivia, creating art from discarded materials, and fieldtrips to Silver Springs Organics.

Students and staff in Residential and Dining (RAD) Services also took steps toward zero landfill waste. When college students move out of their dorm rooms at the end of each academic year, a lot of landfill waste is created. In its effort to strive toward campus sustainability, Evergreen sought ways to mitigate this influx of refuse by offering alternatives for usable and recyclable goods.

In June 2009, RAD Services was able to divert waste both from students moving out, and from the apartment remodeling project. Reusable goods that student residents did not want to take home were collected by the PODS project (portable on-demand storage), sorted, and donated to local non-profits. This project, in its fourth year, is organized by Resident Director Melissa Turkington. Preliminary observations indicate that collections doubled since last year. The program is exemplary in thoughtfully giving back to the community rather than ignoring the environmental and social implications of adding volume to landfills.

New this year, RAD Services was able to donate much of its old furniture that is being replaced due to remodeling some of the apartments. As policy dictates, these goods typically have gone to state surplus in previous years. However, due to the age and condition of the furniture, surplus has not been able to sell these goods, which then may end up at a recycler or possibly in the landfill. Through an agreement with state surplus based on past experiences, RAD Services sought out non-profits who would be able to reuse the goods. RAD Services was able to donate most of the furniture to local non-profits, and recycle approximately 80% of the remodeling waste.

The Waste Reduction and Sustainable Purchasing Work Group of the Sustainability Council at Evergreen continues to focus on two main goals. The first goal is to influence Evergreen’s purchasing decisions toward products and services that are more environmentally friendly. Evergreen's paper usage has decreased almost 25% since fiscal year 2006. “Double-sided printing is encouraged, as well as going ‘paperless’ as often as possible,” said Kathleen Haskett, Purchasing and Contracts Manager. “Many faculty are teaching class without distributing or requiring paper; digital media is used whenever possible.” In addition, the Library and computer labs on campus use a print management system to lessen accidental duplicate printing. The college purchases 100% post consumer recycled content, chlorine/acid free paper, manufactured with 100% certified renewable energy by Grays Harbor Paper of Hoquiam. In addition, Kathleen has proposed a revised purchasing policy for the college that will further support sustainability.

The work group’s second goal focuses on reducing and recycling as much waste as possible, particularly electronic waste. Aaron Powell, Director of Computing and Communications, is drafting an e-waste policy to present to the Policy Oversight Group in the near future. Powell and others across campus continue to work on reducing the amount of printers on campus, and experimenting with green products, such as soy based ink.

It is an ongoing process to update signs, educate people, and keep up-to-date on proper sustainable practices. Sustainability on campus requires effort on both an institutional and individual level. Greeners face many obstacles working toward sustainability on campus, yet they continue to make progress toward their goal of zero landfill waste. For more information about The Sustainability Council at Evergreen, please visit: www.evergreen.edu/sustainability

By Lindsay Raab and Natalie Pyrooz
Members of The Sustainability Council at Evergreen

Meydenbauer Center

11100 NE 6th Street
Bellevue, WA 98004
August 1, 2009
10:00 a.m.

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Mariott Portland Downtown Waterfront

1401 SW Naito Parkway
Portland, OR 97201
August 2, 2009
2:00 p.m.

Event participants will learn more about conducting a well-informed college search at an information session and college fair. Sponsored by Colleges That Change Lives, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of a student-centered college search process, these programs are free to the public and pre-registration is not required.

Three Northwest Colleges have been featured in the book, including Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington), Reed College (Portland, Oregon), and The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington).

Evergreen is described in Colleges that Change Lives as “one of the three best in the Northwest.” The top 20 college guide also notes that Evergreen was opened to prepare “young people to live effectively in a new kind of world” and that “taxpayers everywhere should demand colleges like this one. . .”

For more details about Colleges That Change Lives and upcoming events, visit www.ctcl.org

The updated 2010 edition of Fiske Guide to Colleges features 44 Best Buy Schools. These institutions are selected based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance. The Evergreen State College is a Fiske 2010 Best Buy School.

The list of Best Buy Schools—which doesn’t rank the schools against each other—evaluates more than 330 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Fiske researchers combined cost data with academic and other life-style information about each college or university to determine what institutions offer "remarkable educational opportunities at a relatively modest cost."

The Fiske Guide accepts no consulting, advertising or other fees from colleges.

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Fans of science will love the sixth annual Science Carnival set for Friday May 29 and Saturday May 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day

(Olympia, Wash.)  The Science Carnival is free and open to the public. The event offers hundreds of presentations from Evergreen science students with an emphasis on demonstration, hands on participation and fun. Designed for students kindergarten through grade 12 or anyone in the community with an interest in science, the Science Carnival will feature distinct presentations such as Kids and Chemistry, Mapping other Planets in our Solar System, Mendelian Genetics, and Making Biodiesel, including experiments that will engage the minds of school children and teenagers.   Participants can choose from as many as a dozen presentations at any given time. Each presentation lasts 30 to 60 minutes and many popular topics will be repeated over the two days.

Topics covered will include chemistry, computer science, biology, food science, health science, optics, physics, criminal science, astronomy, marine science, and others. Anyone with an interest in the physical world will enjoy the Science Carnival, the largest event of its kind in Washington State.

Preview the science carnival online

http://academic.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival/

(Olympia, Wash.) Ruth Parker, a nationally recognized expert on mathematics instruction will speak on changes needed in the teaching of mathematics so our communities’ children will have greater access to opportunities.

The event takes place on Thursday May 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Olympia High School’s Performing Arts Center, 1302 North Street, Olympia, WA. The presentation, sponsored by The Evergreen Center for Educational Improvement at The Evergreen State College and the Mathematics Education Collaborative (http://www.mec-math.org) is designed for parents, educators, and community leaders — or anyone else who would like to learn how to better prepare children in essential skills for the workplace of today and tomorrow.

For more information contact:

Lynne Adair: adairl@evergreen.edu
Anita Lenges: lengesa@evergreen.edu, (360)867-6150

UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Evergreen State College President Thomas "Les" Purce and legendary musician Arthel "Doc" Watson at the University's spring Commencement Ceremony. The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 16, on UNC Asheville's Quad. Purce will give the commencement address to some 385 graduates.

Purce has served as president of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a nationally recognized public liberal arts institution, for nine years. Purce has also held top-ranking administrative roles at Washington State University and Idaho State University. He has been a civic leader as well. Purce was the first black elected official in Idaho, serving as city councilman and then mayor of Pocatello. He later served as director of Idaho’s departments of Administration and Health & Welfare. In the private sector, Purce was partner and CEO of Power Engineering Inc., a large electrical engineering firm in the Northwest.

Purce has helped guide The Evergreen State College into its national reputation for interdisciplinary academic programs serving some 4,400 students. Instead of letter grades, professors give individual written evaluations; and rather than choosing a department or major, students design their own curriculums. Evergreen's 1,000-acre campus, including forests and salt water beaches, serve as inspiration for the college's dedication to sustainability. For example, a self-imposed student fee dictates that 100% of the college's electricity comes from "green" sources, L.E.E.D. gold certified buildings make up the campus, and more than a quarter of the food served in the dining hall is from local or organic sources.

Watson, a native of Western North Carolina, is a legendary guitar player, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk and country music. Blind since the age of one, Watson attended North Carolina’s school for the visually impaired in Raleigh. Though he did well in the classroom, his true love was music. Watson got his big career break at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, and recorded his first solo album the following year. He has toured and recorded to rave reviews ever since.

His signature playing style and traditional mountain roots propelled Watson to an award-winning, patriarchal role in the American folk and bluegrass music revival. He has won seven Grammy Awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1997, Watson was given the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton and in 2000 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. But perhaps one of his most lasting marks on live music was the founding of the popular MerleFest music festival held every April in Wilkesboro, N.C. The festival, named in honor of Watson’s late son, draws more than 85,000 fans each year. Even at age 86, Watson continues to serve as festival host and center stage performer.

For more information about Commencement, call UNC Asheville's Office of the Provost at 828/251-6470 or click on www.unca.edu/commencement/.

More than 1,200 students will receive their diplomas before an audience expected to number more than 7,000. The college will award bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees, as well as joint BA/BS degrees and masters degrees in teaching, public administration and environmental science.

Live Broadcast

KAOS radio will broadcast the ceremonies live, including the annual keynote address. KAOS will broadcast commencement on Friday June 12th, starting at 1 p.m. at 89.3 fm, KAOS Olympia Community Radio.

The ceremony will be available again this year as a live webcast and in pictures.

View the 2009 Graduation Photo Presentation

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Super Saturday, an event that has traditionally followed on the Saturday after graduation, will not take place this year.

2009 Graduation Speakers

Guest Speaker: David Whyte
A poet, lecturer and corporate consultant, David Whyte’s poetry reflects a living spirituality and a deep connection to the natural world. Whyte studied Marine Zoology in Wales and trained as a naturalist in the Galapagos Islands. Whyte has worked as a naturalist guide, leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in various parts of the world, including treks among the mountains of Nepal. He is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, conducting workshops with many American and international companies. In corporate settings, Whyte uses poetry to bring an understanding of the process of change, helping clients to understand individual and organizational creativity, and to apply that understanding to vitalize and transform the workplace.

Faculty Speaker: Alan Parker
Alan Parker is an Evergreen faculty member and also serves as the Director of Evergreen's Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute. He is a citizen of the Chippewa-Cree Tribal Nation, and grew up on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Northern Montana. He is a former director of the National Indian Policy Center and a former Chief Counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, before coming to Evergreen, Parker was the president of the American Indian National Bank. He was recently appointed to serve as Secretary to the United League of Indigenous Nations. Alan received the Juris Doctorate from the University of California-Los Angeles, and has spent many years practicing law.

Undergraduate Student Speaker: Casi L.A. LaLonde
After losing her job with Weyerhaeuser in 2006, Casi LaLonde attended Grays Harbor Community College to finish her AA degree. She was introduced to Evergreen's Grays Harbor program through the dislocated workers program. LaLonde was admitted to Evergreen's Olympia campus in Fall 2007 to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She plans to continue at Evergreen in the Masters of Public Administration Program. LaLonde is a single mother of one and hopes to work with at-risk juveniles.

Graduate Student Speaker: Amanda Marie Peterson
A transfer student from Tacoma Community College, Amanda Marie Peterson entered Evergreen as an undergraduate student in Fall 2004. Peterson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2007 and continued at Evergreen as a graduate student in the Masters in Teaching program. She served as a student-teacher in Tacoma at Henry Foss High School teaching senior English and Meeker Middle School teaching eighth grade reading, math and algebra. After graduation, Peterson hopes to obtain a job teaching middle school in the Tacoma Public School district.

The festival is now a part of history, but KAOS marches on – with their Great CD and Vinyl Sale, Saturday May 23rd on the second floor of the College Activities Building at the Evergreen Olympia Campus. From Noon to 7pm, you can build your library, feed your turntable and SAVE on THOUSANDS of CDs and – for the first time, vinyl albums from the KAOS vaults. There will be outside music vendors as well; vendors interested in selling at the event should contact John Ford at 360-867-6894 or fordj@evergreen.edu.

Synergy: The 8th Annual Sustainable Living Conference is being held at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The dates for the 2009 conference are Wednesday, May 6th through Friday, May 8th.

This conference has grown to be a powerful platform to engage and address the intertwining themes of ecology, design, culture, health, and social change.

Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of student organizers. The title of the event reflects a belief that the solutions to the world’s problems can only be solved though collaboration, where the whole becomes more then the sum of its parts.

This year’s conference will include presentations by notable leaders in their respected fields. Speakers include the Rhizome Collective's Scott Kellogg, CEO of Natural Capitalism Hunter Lovins, and Sustainablebusiness.com founder Kevin Wilhelm.

Aramark will be serving a locally sourced and organic meal option each day in the Greenery. Synergy is a free event and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. Parking is $2.00 per day. Synergy is funded by the Evergreen State College Services and Activities Fee Allocation Board.

For more information and a complete schedule of activities, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

• Attend a registration and academic planning workshop
• Meet freshman program faculty and Evergreen staff
• Learn more about the curriculum
• Meet other new students
• Register for your first academic program for fall quarter

Learn more by visiting the Academic Advising Office web pages where you'll find links to a full schedule and complete information.

Olympia, Wash, April 20, 2009 — The Evergreen State College announced today that it was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the 2008-2009 Individual Conference Champion for purchasing more green power than any other school in the Cascade Collegiate Conference.

Since April 2006, EPA’s Green Power Partnership has tracked and recognized the collegiate athletic conferences with the highest combined green power purchases in the nation. The Individual Conference Champion Award recognizes the school that has made the largest individual purchase of green power within a qualifying conference.

The Evergreen State College beat its conference rivals by purchasing more than 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, representing 100 percent of the school’s annual electricity usage. The Evergreen State College is buying utility green power products from Puget Sound Energy and Tacoma Power, which helps to reduce the environmental impacts associated with the campus’s purchased electricity use.

EPA estimates that The Evergreen State College’s purchase of more than 16 million kilowatt-hours of green power is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 1,600 average American homes each year or has the equivalent impact of reducing the CO2 emissions of more than 2,100 passenger cars annually.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference’s collective green power purchase of more than 31 million kWh of green power is equivalent to the annual electricity use of more than 2,600 average American homes or the annual CO2 emissions of nearly 3,500 cars.

“Each year our college and university Green Power Partners raise the bar for clean, renewable energy use,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “By taking action on its campus, Evergreen State College is helping to move our nation into a clean energy future.”

Twenty-two collegiate conferences and 44 schools competed in the 2008-2009 challenge, collectively purchasing more than 1 billion kWh of green power. EPA will extend the College & University Green Power Challenge for a fourth year, to conclude in spring of 2010. EPA’s Green Power Challenge is open to all U.S. colleges, universities, and conferences. In order to qualify, a collegiate athletic conference must include at least one school that qualifies as a Green Power Partner, and the conference must collectively meet EPA’s minimum conference purchase requirement. For more information, visit: http://www.epa.gov/grnpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm.

Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro. Green power is considered cleaner than conventional sources of electricity and has lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change. Purchases of green power help accelerate the development of new renewable energy capacity nationwide.

From edible forest gardens to a salmon-safe certified organic farm to campus housing options in which students consciously choose a different way to relate to their natural world, Evergreen provides students with the opportunity to embark on new ways of thinking. Purchasing Green Power is an important part of Evergreen’s commitment to sustainability.

About The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

About the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership

EPA’s Green Power Partnership encourages organizations to purchase green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. The Green Power Partnership currently has more than 1,000 Partners voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, small and medium sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, trade associations, as well as colleges and universities. For additional information please visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower.

For more information about EPA’s College and University Green Power Challenge, visit the Challenge Web site at http://www.epa.gov/grnpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm.

One lane will be worked on at a time in order to accommodate normal traffic with minimal delays. Flaggers will be directing and controlling traffic throughout the project. Intercity Transit will continue their normal services and maintain their normal routes and schedules in this area.

Thanks for your understanding and patience as we implement this important project. Please contact Brian Anderson if you have questions and concerns.

April 14th at 7 pm

Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Olympia

Topic: Bee colony collapse disorder

Speaker: Bob Bower - Owner of Four B’s Farm and appointed representative from Washington State to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Bower has just returned from Maryland after attending a meeting with five other agencies to discuss this crisis. He will share the latest research on colony collapse disorder including possible solutions and what individual gardeners can do to help mitigate the destruction of bee populations.

The event will take place at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 1530 Black Lake Blvd. SW in Olympia

Gallery opening, art exhibition

April 2, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm (exhibition continues through April 29, 2009)
The Evergreen State College Gallery, Main Floor of The Daniel J. Evans Library at Evergreen

Basia Irland is a sculptor and installation artist, a poet and book artist, and an activist in international water issues. Her thoughtful interdisciplinary projects combine beautiful artworks, a fascination with research, and a participative engagement with the viewer.

The exhibition at Evergreen Gallery, A Gathering of Waters: The Nisqually River, Source to Sound includes a survey of Irland’s earlier artworks, which provides context for her recent project created while working as an artist-in-residence. Through this grass-roots participatory project, Irland has sought to connect people and bring more attention to ongoing efforts for protecting and honoring our rivers and streams. While exploring the effect of human controls and demands on rivers, it celebrates the people who work to conserve our watershed.

This project is generously supported by a gift from the Tom Rye Harvill Award.

Irland is Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History. She has created projects about water issues throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in 22 permanent collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Public Archives of Canada, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She has received numerous grants and awards including a Fulbright Senior Research Award to Southeast Asia. In 1999, Irland produced a documentary that was shown on PBS: A Gathering of Waters: The Rio Grande, Source to Sea. A monograph on her art, titled Water Library, was published in 2007 by University of New Mexico Press.

More Information: Opening Day Slide Show | The Evergreen Gallery

Artist’s web site: http://www.unm.edu/~basia/BIRLAND/

About KAOS

Licensed to the Evergreen State College, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-six year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County’s largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About TCTV

Thurston Community Television is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation/membership organization that provides public, educational, and government access television in greater Thurston County, Washington. TCTV provides access channel management, training and production support to local residents, groups, government agencies and educational institutions. TCTV’s programming is seen on access channels on the Comcast cable system in Thurston County. Membership is open to any Thurston County resident or non-profit organization located in Thurston County. TCTV believes that community access media is an appropriate and powerful vehicle for promoting greater awareness and understanding of the larger community and the diversity of its people. To that end, TCTV provides communications resources to build a stronger community.

About Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 750 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.

Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.”

Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.

Goodman is the winner of the 2007 Gracie Award for Individual Achievement for a Public Broadcasting Host, from American Women in Radio and Television, and is a 2007 honoree with the Paley Center/Museum of Television and Radio’s She Made It Collection, which “celebrates the achievements and preserves the legacy of great women writers, directors, producers, journalists, sportscasters, and executives.” She was the 2006 recipient of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her daily reporting and groundbreaking work from Nigeria and East Timor has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored.

About the Book

Where are the millions marching in the streets to defend human rights, civil liberties, and racial justice? Where is the mass revulsion against the killing and torture being carried out in our name? Where are the environmentalists? Where is the peace movement?

The answer: They are everywhere.

Standing Up to the Madness is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America--everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in--and also offers advice on what you can do to help.

Standing Up to the Madness tells the stories of everyday citizens who have challenged the government and prevailed.

WHO: Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman

WHAT: Benefit for KAOS 89.3fm & TCTV

WHEN: Sunday March 29, 5:30pm, doors open at 4:30pm

WHERE: Capitol Theater, 206 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501

TICKET COST/LOCATIONS: $10 General Admission
Tickets are available at Rainy Day Records, Traditions Fair Trade, at the door the day of show or online at buyolympia.com.

CONTACTS:
KAOS - John Ford, 360-867-6894 / fordj@evergreen.edu
TCTV– Deb Vinsel, 360-956-3100, dvinsel@tctv.net

Members of International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers Arrives in Early May

(Olympia and Tacoma, Wash.) The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers was formed almost five years ago out of a deep concern for “the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.” The Council, which includes spiritual leaders from across the world, assembles to pray, share ancestral wisdom and counsel the world from multiple perspectives of distinctive cultures.

The Evergreen State College welcomes four North American members of this council of leaders of nations. The Grandmothers will share their views on the environment, resiliency, peace and knowledge in a time of unprecedented global change.

Schedule

On Saturday, May 2, the week of events opens with the keynote presentation, the Traditional Salish Welcome Ceremony and Presentation by the Four Grandmothers from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., with reception and food provided by The Lucky Eagle Casino. The free, public event will take place at The Evergreen State College, Daniel J. Evans Library, 2nd Floor Lobby, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, Washington 98505.

During the Welcome Ceremony and keynote presentation, the elders will share their knowledge and experience of indigenous science, spiritual healing and ceremony, peace and prayer. The purpose of their conversation is to engage thought on the world’s spiritual, earthly, and cultural resources through examples from the experience of the grandmothers and from a deep reservoir of cultural wisdom.

On Tuesday, May 5, the visiting council members will pair up for two distinct, free public talks entitled “Ancestral Teachings for Times of Unprecedented Change.”

Mona Polacca and Rita Pitka Blumenstein will deliver their message at Evergreen’s Tacoma campus on May 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (This talk will be telecast live at Evergreen’s Olympia campus in Lecture Hall 1.) The Tacoma campus is located at 1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98405

Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance and Council Chair Agnes Baker Pilgrim will speak on that same theme May 5 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Evergreen’s Olympia campus, Lecture Hall 1.

Anyone attending one of the previous events is invited to join in honoring and thanking the visiting council members at the Closing Ceremony and Reception on Friday, May 8, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Seminar II, E1107.

Visit this page for directions to Olympia and Tacoma campuses: www.evergreen.edu/tour

If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation for this event, please contact Meredith at inocenc@evergreen.edu; (360) 867-6348 or TTY/TDD 360.867.6834.

About the Grandmothers

The concept of the council of elders is an ancient form of governance ruled by a circle rather than a hierarchy of command. Councils of elders are emerging in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. The four elders are here as North American representatives of an international council formed out of concern for the destruction of Mother Earth, indigenous ways of life, and the wellbeing of humanity. They will visit and teach at Evergreen, local schools, and in the wider South Sound communities. The first council gathering was a time of hope and inspiration. The grandmothers are women of prayer and women of action. Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the Earth. Their solidarity with one another creates a web to rebalance the injustices wrought from an imbalanced world; a world disconnected from the fundamental laws of nature and the original teachings based on a respect for all of life.

• Rita Pitka Blumenstein serves as the first certified tribal doctor in the state of Alaska. She is a Yup'ik mother, grandmother, great grandmother, wife, aunt, sister, friend, and tribal elder. Well known as a traditional healer, teacher, and artist, she has spent over forty years investigating, producing, and passing on many aspects of Alaska Native culture such as song, drumming, skin sewing, basketry, storytelling, and use of plants for dyes and medicinal purposes. She has traveled and taught in 167 countries.

• Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is a Lakota keeper of the traditional ways, great grandmother, Native American Church elder, and bead worker. She lives with her sister, Beatrice Long-Visitor Holy Dance on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. With her sister, Grandmother Rita initiated the Council’s Youth Ambassador program. She is involved in the Grandmothers’ efforts to encourage the Vatican to rescind several Papal Bulls and edicts that set the stage for the "doctrine of conquest" that has had such far-reaching effects on the treatment of indigenous peoples.

• Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Chairman of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, is the oldest known living female member of her tribe, the Takelma Indians, originally from southern Oregon. An alumna of Southern Oregon University, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in Native American Studies, she is a historian, storyteller and cultural instructor. She has been honored as a "Living Treasure" by her tribe the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, and as a "Living Cultural Legend" by the Oregon Council of the Arts.

• Mona Polacca is a Hopi/Havasupai /Tewa elder. She has a Master of Social Work degree from Arizona State University where she is working on her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary justice studies. She is also on the faculty of the Turtle Island Project, a non-profit program dedicated to promoting a vision of wellness by providing trans-cultural training to individuals, families, and healthcare professionals. Grandmother Polacca has worked on issues of Native American alcoholism, domestic violence and mental health for the elderly native peoples.

More information on the activities of the grandmothers at Evergreen from May 2 to May 9 can be found at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/springcolloquium/home.htm

More information on the International Council of Indigenous Grandmothers can be found at http://www.grandmotherscouncil.com

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The week of events is presented by the Willi Unsoeld Seminar Series, The Evergreen State College Diversity Series and the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center, in collaboration with First Peoples’ Advising Services and academic programs across the college. 

The Willi Unsoeld Seminar Series welcomes distinguished visitors who reflect the values and philosophy of Willi Unsoeld, a founding Evergreen faculty member, philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. Unsoeld was well known for his first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, in which they made the first successful traverse of any Himalayan peak. For this feat, President John F. Kennedy presented them with the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society’s highest honor. The annual Unsoeld Seminar is endowed as a “living memorial” in honor of Willi Unsoeld who lost his life in an avalanche on Mt. Rainier in 1979.

The Diversity Series was established by Evergreen’s Office for Diversity Affairs to engage the community in conversations about multicultural equity and social justice. The series serves to remind us that our communities are comprised of many cultures, and that everyone benefits when we rely on varied ways of being, knowing, teaching and learning.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center opened on the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College in 1995. The Center’s primary public service work is to promote indigenous arts and culture. In the beginning, the center focused on six local Puget Sound tribes and their artists; today staff work with indigenous artists throughout the Pacific Northwest region, nationally, and with other Pacific Rim indigenous peoples to promote indigenous arts and cultures through a wide variety of programs.

We are honored that the Lucky Eagle Casino will provide the generous donation of food for the reception following the Welcome Ceremony and keynote presentation on Saturday May 2.

Saturday April 25th, 2009 Reggae Fun to Follow Procession of the Species

After the Procession of the Species in downtown Olympia, The Evergreen State College is continuing the community celebration with Give Peace a Dance, a gathering of music of New Monsoon, a rock and experimental band form San Francisco, Kore Ionz, a reggae, rock and roots band from Seattle and Pachamama with afro-beat, reggae and ska from Los Angeles.

Tickets are $7 for students with ID (from any college or high school) and $10 general audience admission at the door. Advanced purchase tickets are available at a discount $5 for students, $7 general admission) from The Evergreen State College bookstore, Traditions Café, Rainy Day Records and BuyOlympia.com.

The event takes place at The Evergreen State College, College Recreation Center, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA 98505. Parking is free on Saturday. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Dancing is optional, but encouraged. Bleachers are available for the audience as well.

Directions to the campus are available here: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm The show is sponsored by The Evergreen State College, Student Activities; KAOS community radio, and MEChA.

For more information, please see http://www.evergreen.edu/activities/ or call (360) 867-6220.

The award recognizes professional distinction, regional and national leadership within NASPA, and extraordinary service. The acronym NASPA stands for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

Costantino also was recently recognized with the Region V Fred Turner Award for Service to the Profession at the Western Regional NASPA Conference in November.  The Turner Award recognizes significant state and regional leadership, significant advancement of NASPA, and continuous service to NASPA for more than ten years.  Also in November, President Les Purce received NASPA’s Region V President’s Award for advancing the quality of student life over a sustained period of time by supporting student affairs staff and programs.

Representing over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses in 29 countries, NASPA is a leading voice for student affairs policy and practice.  NASPA members commit to serving college students by embracing core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and a spirit of inquiry.

NASPA members serve a variety of functions and roles, including positions as vice president and dean for student life, as well as professionals working within housing and residential life, student unions, student activities, counseling, career development, orientation, enrollment management, racial and ethnic minority support services, and retention and assessment.  

More information on NASPA awards can be found at
http://www.naspa.org/fdn/pillars.cfm
and
http://www.naspa.org/programs/awards/annual.cfm

Download the NASPA News Release: News Release PDF | News Release DOC

It takes five consecutive wins to claim the championship with the final game March 17. The Geoducks will play their first game in Branson against 11th-seeded Bluefield College of Virginia in the first round. The Geoducks will contend with the Rams at 11:45 a.m. PST on Wednesday March 11. All games in the NAIA tournament are available in live video stream format through the NAIA website: http://naia.cstv.com/.

For more information on the tournament and the full tournament bracket visit: http://naia.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/naia/sports/m-baskbl-div2/auto_pdf/2009Bracket_1st.

Thursday March 5, 2009, 7 pm

Sem II E1105 

A founding faculty member of The Evergreen State College, Willi Unsoeld was a philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. He was well known for the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, for which President John F. Kennedy presented them the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society’s highest honor.

Join members of the Evergreen community for a night of storytelling as we honor and remember Willi Unsoeld, who with student Janie Diepenbrock, perished in a slab avalanche on Mt. Rainier on March 4, 1979.

Note: While this event is not part of the Unsoeld Seminar Series, information on this year’s Series is located at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/springcolloquium/home.htm

All are invited; faculty, please consider announcing this to your students.

As the event grew and developed over time, it required an investment of hundreds of staff and volunteer hours each year, months of planning, and a net expense of about $20,000 annually. While Super Saturday will remain an important part of our campus history and will be missed by many, the decision to retire the event will allow us to redirect resources to other college priorities, which is especially important as we work to address significant state budget cuts.

In recent years the event drew an estimated 15,000-20,000 people to the campus, making it the single largest community event held on campus.

While Super Saturday is coming to an end, Evergreen's connections to its community continue. In addition to its primary role in providing higher education opportunities, some of Evergreen's other contributions include free and low-cost community events and performances, public access to facilities, and student volunteers' support for local organizations.

Donations to The Evergreen State College Annual Fund, supporting student scholarships, are gratefully accepted.

If a person can be judged by the lists in which he appears, Robert McChesney is shaking things up in America. For Evergreen alumni, he is a greener to be proud of and a credit to his alma mater:

• 2008 - Utne Reader's "50 visionaries who are changing the world"
• 2006 right-winger David Horowitz's "101 most dangerous professors in America"
• University of Wisconsin-Madison's top 100 classroom teachers
• 2001 Adbusters Magazine's "Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism.

This event presented by the academic program "Political Economy of the Media: U.S. Historical & Contemporary Realities," with support from "Beyond the News: Media, Theory and Global History," the Media Artist Studio, the Office of Alumni Relations and the Center for Sustainable Entrepreneurship.

Official Biography

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2008 the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their "50 visionaries who are changing the world."

In 2002 he was the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization and served as its President until April 2008, when he stepped down to devote more time to other interests.

McChesney also hosts the "Media Matters" weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on NPR-affiliate WILL-AM radio - http://will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area.

His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has written or edited seventeen books. McChesney's most recent book is The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press); this is the companion volume to Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (New Press, 2007).

In 2008, his 1999 book Rich Media, Poor Democracy was awarded the ICA Fellows Book Award, which recognizes books that "have made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field, as well as the broader rubric of the social sciences, and have stood some test of time." McChesney's work has been translated into eighteen languages.

In 2001 Adbusters Magazine named him one of the "Nine Pioneers of Mental Environmentalism." In 2006 right-winger David Horowitz included McChesney on his list of the "101 most dangerous professors in America." While teaching at Wisconsin, he was selected as one of the top 100 classroom teachers on the Madison campus.

In addition to his academic work, McChesney serves on the Board of Directors for several nonprofit and noncommercial media organizations. From 2000 to 2004 he served as co-editor of Monthly Review - www.monthlyreview.org - the independent socialist magazine founded by Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman in 1949. Prior to entering graduate school in 1983, McChesney was a sports stringer for UPI, he published a weekly newspaper, and in 1979 was the founding publisher of The Rocket, a Seattle-based rock magazine. At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in McChesney's hometown of Cleveland, the founding of The Rocket is credited as the birth of the Seattle rock scene of the late 1980s and 1990s. In his spare time, McChesney writes on professional basketball for a number of websites.

“Given the economy, this year will be more challenging for KAOS, as it will be for all non-profits,” said John Ford, station Development Director. “Thankfully, many listeners realize that KAOS provides commercial-free programming and community voices that they can’t get anywhere else, and it’s a service that requires them to pay their share. Our hope is to get more committed listeners to give at a level that fits their situation. Every donation at all levels still adds up to a stronger station for all KAOS listeners.”

All funds raised are used to support the programming and training activities of KAOS Olympia Community Radio. Celebrating 36 years of community service, KAOS has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service, offering a wide range of independent music, local and global news, and community information since 1973. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

A Queerly Disabled Employment Non-Discrimination Act:
A Few Cutting Remarks about Transgender Ex/Inclusion.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
7:00 p.m.

Recital Hall/Communications Building
The Evergreen State College - Olympia

Distinguished historian Susan Stryker surveys the history of transgender discrimination and activism in the United States in order to shed light on current controversy over the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Susan Stryker, PhD, is a researcher, writer, queer historian, artist, and a filmmaker. She was executive director of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco from 1999 until 2003. In addition to numerous scholarship articles and magazine pieces, she is coauthor of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (1996); contributing editor of the transgender studies special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (1998); author of Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (2001); co-director of the Emmy Award-winning public television documentary Screaming Queens: The Riot of Compton’s Cafeteria (2005); co-editor of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Transgender Studies Reader; and author of Transgender History (2008). She held the Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair in women’s studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, 2007-08, and is now an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Indiana University.

Cal Anderson was Washington state's first openly gay legislator, serving in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and in the Senate from 1994 to his death in 1995. The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is a forum to capture the spirit of reasoned discussion of public policies and ideas that marked Cal Anderson's career. During his time in the legislature, he led the on-going battle for equal civil rights protection for gay and lesbian citizens and introduced many bills related to AIDS programs.  His wide-ranging commitment to public service included work for campaign finance and regulatory reform, motor-voter registration, veterans' issues, environmental protection and open access to government.  The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is funded by an endowment held by The Evergreen State College Foundation.

Contact Mary Ann at steelema@evergreen.edu or (360) 867-6106 or Jason Wettstein with questions.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to education. Evergreen has been noted as one of the nation’s top colleges by the Princeton Review, Colleges of Distinction, and US News & World Report. The book “Colleges That Change Lives” (www.ctcl.com) by former New York Times education editor Loren Pope, praises Evergreen as one of the three best liberal arts colleges on the West Coast. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) notes that Evergreen excels in areas that lead to student success. According to NSSE, Evergreen students read more, write more, study more and engage more actively with faculty and each other than at the vast majority of American colleges and universities. To learn more, visit www.evergreen.edu.

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The grant will help defray the cost of variable speed drives that reduce the energy used by the two chillers that provide chilled water for air conditioning at Evergreen. The drive works by varying the speed at which the chiller runs depending on the amount of chilled water needed for the air conditioning load. The proposed chilled water system with variable speed drives has the potential for 27 percent or 226,442 kilowatt hours per year savings over the previous system.

In 2008, PSE provided more than $18 million in conservation and energy efficiency grants to businesses and organizations in their service area. The Evergreen State College has been a partner in PSE’s green energy program since October 2005.

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Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., is an Arab-American writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist whose work has long been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls "the stinkin' hot desert." He professor and Research Social Scientist based at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona--- his alma mater.

He teaches geography, as well as interacts with faculty and graduate students engaged in creative writing and ecology research. He continues advising or consulting with many non-profits--including the Renewing America's Food Traditions collaborative.

For his literary non-fiction, grassroots conservation and community-based ethnobiology projects, Nabhan has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, a MacArthur "genius" award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and Environment, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology, and a Quivira Coalition award for excellence in science that contributes to "the radical center."

His numerous books include: Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods; Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine; Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods; Arab/American: Landscape, Culture and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts; Salmon Nation; Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity; The Forgotten Pollinators, The Desert Smells Like Rain, Cross-pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry; Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story; Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy; Coming Home to Eat and compiled and edited, Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions published by EcoTrust. Nabhan's books have been translated in five languages, and he has lectured at universities in Mexico, Lebanon, Peru, Oman, Guatemala, and Italy, including Slow Food's University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.

When not gardening, caring for heritage breeds of sheep and turkeys, he is active in the Order of Ecumenical Franciscans, the Orion Society and the local foods movement.

From: http://www.garynabhan.com/

Event sponsored by: The Evergreen State College Provost Office in conjunction with the Curriculum in the Bioregion Project; Sustainability and Justice associated programs; Greater Olympia Slow Food

Evergreen State College contact: Martha Rosemeyer, 360-867-6646

President Les Purce received NASPA’s President’s Award for advancing the quality of student life over a sustained period of time by supporting student affairs staff and programs. 

Representing over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses in 29 countries, NASPA is a leading voice for student affairs policy and practice.  NASPA members commit to serving college students by embracing core values of diversity, learning, integrity, collaboration, access, service, fellowship, and a spirit of inquiry.

NASPA members serve a variety of functions and roles, including positions as vice president and dean for student life, as well as professionals working within housing and residential life, student unions, student activities, counseling, career development, orientation, enrollment management, racial and ethnic minority support services, and retention and assessment.

More information on NASPA awards can be found at http://www.naspa.org/programs/awards/annual.cfm

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:30 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will be open Wednesday, December 24th.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will not open until 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 23rd.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed, Monday, December 22, 2008.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for updates on further potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed today, Friday, December 19, 2008.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for updates on further potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:30 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu shortly after 6 a.m. tomorrow for an update on potential campus delay or closure on Friday, December 19, 2008.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus will not open until 10 a.m. Thursday, December 18th.

Please check www.evergreen.edu for an update on potential campus delays or closures.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

Students: If you have an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

• Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
• Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
• Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM.
• Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions

Due to poor weather conditions, The Evergreen State College Olympia campus is closed effective at 3:00 p.m. today.

Please check www.evergreen.edu shortly after 6 a.m. tomorrow for an update on potential campus closure on Thursday, December 18, 2008.

Alternately, you can call (360) 867-6000 and press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus shortly after 6 a.m..

If you had an evaluation scheduled today, please contact your faculty to confirm or reschedule.

Get weather updates via email or cell phone by signing up for e2Campus

The Evergreen State College has recently adopted the e2Campus emergency notification system that enables the school to send urgent news via text-messaging to your cell phone and/or email.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages).  This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness (and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances.  We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency.  Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Evergreen students scored the college strongly on the NSSE category Academic Challenge. They indicated that they spend more time preparing for class, engaging in coursework that requires synthesizing, analyzing, applying theory to practical problems, and making judgments about the value of information. They also reported reading more assigned texts.

Compared with other first-year and senior-class students who reported to NSSE, Evergreen respondents indicated that they more frequently gave class presentations and contributed to discussions in class. They also indicated that they more often worked with other students on projects during class and outside of class, as well as discussed ideas from reading and classes with others outside of class- all measures of Active and Collaborative Learning. In terms of Student-Faculty Interaction, Evergreen students more often discussed ideas from class with faculty members outside of class. Evergreen first-years and seniors were less likely to come to class underprepared and more likely to report that they worked harder than they thought they could to meet their instructors’ expectations. They also reported greater institutional support for their academic success than their counterparts at other institutions.

Evergreen first-year students and seniors were significantly more likely to have participated in several enriching educational experiences than students at other colleges and universities, engaging in more independent study and more frequent conversations with students who are different from themselves in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, political opinions, or values. Seven-hundred and twenty-two four-year colleges and universities participated in the survey. Evergreen conducts the National Survey of Student Engagement annually as part of its ongoing institutional assessment plan. The National Survey of Student Engagement works on the premise of providing a more complex reading on quality, with recognition that holistic assessments of many disaggregated factors provide for more accurate and useful comparisons on issues of concern for student learning than rankings systems that set institution wide averages of institutional resource measures.

While Evergreen also does well in traditional regional and national rankings, Evergreen’s regular participation in the National Survey of Student Engagement provides an additional national context and multi-year trend data through which to examine educational practices, emphases, and challenges. The survey had high participation at Evergreen with a response rate of near 30 percent of the 1550 students sampled.

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"In The Know" Radio

November 20, 2008

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Host: Let’s face it. The world could use a little more KAOS. Now, thanks to a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), it’s going to get exactly that.

This week the CPB awarded Evergreen’s community radio station $78,872 to add HD transmissions alongside its current signal at 89.3 on your FM dial. To find out what all this means, we talked to John Ford, KAOS’s director of development, long-term volunteer, and tireless promoter and champion.

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Host: So John, what’s all this really mean? What’s HD and why is it good for KAOS?

John Ford: First of all, let’s be clear. HD doesn’t stand for anything. That’s just a marketing thing. HD is the name of a digital format for radio broadcasting. Adding HD transmission capability will let KAOS broadcast additional ‘channels’ alongside our regular signal.

Host: Do analog listeners need to worry about upgrading their equipment to keep their beloved KAOS coming in strong?

JF: Any FM radio will still get 89.3 FM, but HD radios will get that plus the new digital channels, let’s call them “KAOS 2,” “KAOS 3,” and so on. You’ll have to have HD equipment to get the new channels, but plain old FM will always be there—a far more equitable arrangement, especially for folks with limited resources. Unlike the digital TV push which eliminates analog TV and forces everyone to get new sets or subscribe to cable, this does not force folks to “switch.”

Host: So, I assume that with more airwaves, KAOS will be growing. Can we also assume that the station will keep its community-centered philosophy and its core reliance on volunteers for programming?

JF: Definitely. Those additional channels will be dedicated to additional programming. Personally I’m very excited about the prospect of more [broadcast] space for more service to the community—and more volunteers

Host: I understand the $78,872 will pay to purchase and install new transmission equipment over the next couple of years during the CAB remodel. Does this funding come with strings attached?

JF: Well, the total costs for the project are budgeted closer to $100,000—we’re still hammering out the final figures—so it will require additional funding from the station. And we may ask our listeners to help us meet that goal. We’ll be letting folks know our needs as we get further into the project.

Host: Thanks so much and good luck with going digital.

JF: Thank you. It’s a big win for non-commercial, community radio in the South Sound area.

Host: That was John Ford and I talking earlier today. In addition to Mr. Ford, who spearheaded the grant effort, we want to congratulate Andy Corn, Jerry Drummond, Tom Mercado, and Rob Rensel for their contributions to the project. If all goes according to plan, KAOS will broadcast its first official digital program within a year of returning to its new and improved station, which will be constructed during the CAB remodel in 2009-10.

<<Cue Joni Mitchell, "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio">

***** The above is a somewhat fictionalized retelling of a true story.*****
Radio Copy by John McLain, Academic Grants Manager at The Evergreen State College

More on KAOS

Evergreen’s KAOS radio station recently received top honors from the Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best college or university radio stations. Development director John Ford said he believes it’s the station’s strong community-oriented service ethic, combined with a focus on local and independent music that makes KAOS distinctive among others surveyed. The station emphasizes local speakers and issues, allowing content to be shaped by the needs of its public. KAOS gets the opportunity to grow creatively in ways larger stations cannot, due to its unique non-commercial and educational status. According to Ford, KAOS programming showcases a wide variety of voices never heard on commercial radio.

The Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College is pleased to announce its 2008 national grant recipients. Twenty four grants were awarded to Native artists, organizations and tribes throughout the United States.

Four grants up to $5,000 were awarded through the National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists program and twenty grants up to $2,000 were awarded through the National Native Creative Development Program.  The Longhouse’s national re-granting program is made possible by the Ford Foundation’s IllumiNation Program, which was established to strengthen Native arts and cultures throughout the United States.

The National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists program is designed to create opportunities to promote Native arts and cultures within urban and rural Native communities throughout the United States.   The grant provides an opportunity for a Master Native Artist to teach other Native artists, whether established or emerging, within a community setting.  Organizations may apply for funds to support a master Native artist to be in residence for the purpose of teaching a form of visual or performing arts to Native artists within the community.

2008 National Native Master Artist Initiative: Artist Teaching Artists include:

M. Cochise Anderson (Chickasaw/Mississippi Choctaw), Ed Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock), Clarissa Hudson (Tlingit) and the Yakama Nation Language Program

The National Native Creative Development Program (NNCDP) addresses the professional development needs of individual artists.  Grants are awarded to artists that are interested developing a website, traveling to artist gatherings, and purchasing tools, supplies, materials, and studio time, etc.

2008 National Native Creative Development recipients include:

Marcus Amerman (Choctaw), Shawn Brigman (Spokane), Raven Chacon (Diné), Victor A. Charlo (Bitterroot Salish), Kelly Church (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians), Wade Fernandez, Sr. (Menominee), Erin Genia (Sisseton-Wahpeton), Pauline Hillaire (Lummi), Anna Hoover (Aleut), Clarissa Hudson (Tlingit), Janice Jackson (Tlingit/Tsimshian/Haida), Sonya Oberly (Nez Perce), Sandra Osawa (Makah), Michael Peters (Squaxin Island), Shaun Peterson (Puyallup), Joseph Seymour, Jr. (Squaxin Island), Cedar Sherbert (Santa Ysabel Iipay), Ronald Washington (Northern Arapaho), Melanie Yazzie (Diné) and Rona Yellow Robe-Walsh (Chippewa-Cree)

For more information about the Longhouse grant programs, visit http://www.evergreen.edu/longhouse/grantprograms.htm

- Wesley L. Creel, president and founder of Colleges of Distinction

Olympia, WA – The Evergreen State College recently received the designation “College of Distinction” in the newly-released 2008-2009 edition of Colleges of Distinction. Unlike traditional numeric-based college guidebooks, this book recognizes and appeals to students’ unique interests, realizing what may be “the best” college for one student, may be vastly different than the best for another.

Approximately 40 colleges in each of the six geographical regions in the United States were selected as meeting four key criteria that make a college truly exceptional: engaged students, great teaching, vibrant communities, and successful outcomes. These are the “hidden gems” of higher education institutions - as determined by a review board of academicians, guidance counselors, and parents.

"Obtaining a bachelor’s degree shouldn’t be a means to an end,” says The Evergreen State College director of admissions, Doug Scrima. “The colleges included in this guide book are truly invested in transformative learning. Prospective college students and their family members will appreciate this guide because it cuts through the ordinary to help you find the extraordinary."

Colleges of Distinction were required to go through an application process to be considered, be nationally recognized by education professionals, employ outstanding teachers that provide innovative learning experiences, have an active campus and community that allows for personal development, and be highly valued by employers for outstanding preparation.

GEAR UP – an acronym for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs – has been an Evergreen tradition since 2002. GEAR UP grants are designed to increase the rates of college attendance by working with students beginning in middle school. The national program is focused on reducing poverty by supporting students’ efforts to prepare for college and encouraging retention in schools.

The second of two GEAR UP grants received by Evergreen will be used to serve Clover Park and Oakville school districts. Approximately 2,800 students have participated in GEAR UP to date. The new six-year grant will provide for direct services to another cohort of students -- approximately an additional 2,800 students --- including mentoring programs, information for families and professional development for teachers. The work relies heavily on partnerships with school districts and twenty six community groups.

“The whole purpose of GEAR UP, starting with the sixth and seventh grade is to help students graduate and enroll in college,” says Dr. Kimberly Lees, GEAR UP director. “And, this is not just about the students, the parents are a critical piece of the support system in the lives of students,” adds Lees.

“GEAR UP helps the parents navigate the complicated process of choosing a college and gaining financial aid, as well as making vocational choices,” says Lees. “We give the parents the nuts and bolts information and start them off early in planning, including college visits, tutoring, and considering career options. Our grant is meant to help us go out and enlist the resources of community partners.”

Dr. Phyllis Lane, dean of academic and support services notes that the program “provides help to restore communities, enhance cultural resources and share what we know.” She notes that previous GEAR UP funds have resulted in a development of a culturally aware and relevant curriculum that did not exist for the Confederated Tribes of Chehalis.

“GEAR UP allows us the opportunity to change the course of history,” says Lane. “We have the opportunity to help students to learn, help their families to learn, and to help the students help themselves.”

Carletta Garraway, educational specialist at Lake High School in Clover Park, says GEAR UP “creates vision and possibilities. The one thing I have learned in working with the kids is that they can learn that possibilities are unlimited.”

Garraway emphasizes that GEAR-UP’s goal is to create both college readiness and “college-worthiness.”

“We do not sell kids short,” explains Garraway. “We create hope for our students where everyone else is giving up on them. We bring resources to the table and build avenues to explore and build confidence among students. We also focus on the parents. . . . We are the navigating agents, and help families navigate through the educational process so students are able to be more successful.”

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement, commitment to community service ethics and professions, and emphasis on putting learning into action.

For more information, please visit www.evergreen.edu/gearup

Bill Ransom has completed a new book of poetry and prose called The Woman and the War Baby. The collection draws upon Ransom’s experiences as a firefighter and advanced life support emergency medical technician during the 1980s and 1990s in the Olympic Peninsula’s Jefferson County, his participation and familial adaptation to the damage caused by warfare, his volunteer work with humanitarian groups in Central America, and his personal mental travels and experience of atmospheres replete with action and implication.

Published by Blue Begonia Press, the book features cover art and images by Evergreen faculty member Joe Feddersen and Ransom’s translations of poetry by faculty member, Zhang Er. Ransom received a grant for the book from the Seattle-based nonprofit arts organization, Artist Trust. The Woman and The War Baby includes poems from his published book, Last Call, and his CD, War Baby. The book is Ransom’s seventh poetry collection.

Ransom, Evergreen’s academic dean of curriculum, has also published numerous other books, including a book of poetry, Finding True North from Copper Canyon Press, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 1973, Ransom founded the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference at Centrum, the arts colony located at Fort Worden State Park. Held each summer, this gathering is renowned for its intensive, weeklong writing workshops, which are taught by notable authors, as well as its readings, panel discussions and social events.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

She is appearing at 8 p.m. Wednesday at The Evergreen State College Experimental Theater, 2700 Evergreen Parkway N.W., Olympia.

More information: 360-867-6833, or online at Evergreen Expressions

UPDATE: The Lynda Barry event has SOLD OUT:
To satisfy the overwhelming request for tickets we are offering an alternative – a live feed/overflow option in the Recital Hall.
Tickets for this will be $4 and available at the Communications (COM) Building box office beginning at 6:30 pm, night of show.

She will speak 7 p.m., Thursday, November 13, in the Recital Hall, Comm. Bldg.

Sponsored by Common Bread and The Evergreen State College President's Office

Tice will speak on the theme of this year’s event Thanking Those Who Serve, providing insights into life after the traumatic experience of combat. College officials will also unveil a new Evergreen Veterans Medallion, which will be presented to Evergreen students, staff and faculty who have served in the U.S. armed services at a ceremony later in the academic year.

Severely wounded in one of the most horrific battles of the Vietnam War, Hamburger Hill, Tice has been called a National Treasure for his work to help veterans through their experience of war and recovery. His personal story of familial stress, increasing recognition of lasting effects of war and work at reconciliation with the past provides an inspiring story to anyone who wishes to better understand the lives of veterans today.

Since retiring from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in December 1998, Tice has been writing, consulting and presenting on PTSD treatment, as well as providing direct clinical treatment with physically disabled combat veterans from WWII to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Steven's therapeutic approach is to treat PTSD as an emotional malady and not a mental illness. In Tice’s view, symptoms of PTSD are expectable outcomes when individuals participate in or are exposed to traumatic events outside the norm of human experience.

About Steven Tice

Steven Tice, MA, CTS received his Master of Arts degree in 20th Century US Social History from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1981, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Secondary Education from UNLV in 1976. He has been certified as a trauma specialist through the international Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists since 1992. Steven is a Washington State Registered Counselor.

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia
College Recreation Center Gym

Free and open to the public

Representatives of more than two dozen graduate schools from Washington, Oregon and beyond will be on hand to field questions and provide counseling. Learn about Evergreen’s Master of Public Administration, Master in Teaching, Master of Environmental Study and Master of Education programs as well as a wide range of other graduate degree opportunities. The fair will feature nearly 50 degree options from the Northwest and across the country. Some of the participating schools include the University of Washington, University of Puget Sound, Seattle University, St. Martin’s University, Prescott College, Willamette University, Lewis and Clark College, and Vermont Law School.

Prospective graduate students will learn about undergraduate requirements, the importance of standardized tests, transcripts and other credentials needed for graduate school admission, and interdisciplinary study options.

For information, visit www.evergreen.edu/career/events, call 360-867-6193 or email.

John “Jack” Longino, a nationally recognized specialist in Neotropical Myrmecology, the scientific study of ants, joined researchers from the University of Connecticut, the Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet of Jena, Germany; and the University of California in providing this analysis. The Neotropic zone includes more tropical rainforest than any other ecozone, extending from southern Mexico through Central America and northern South America to southern Brazil, including the Amazon rainforest. This geographic area contains the vast majority of terrestrial biological diversity.

The service is available to all current students, faculty and staff of The Evergreen State College.

Once you sign up for the service, the school can text your cell phone and/or email with timely information about emergencies and school closures (no general or non-urgent messages). This replaces the prior FlashAlert system, so if you want these notifications, you will need to sign up for e2Campus.

Depending on your personal cell phone plan, there may be a nominal fee from your carrier to receive text messages, but there is no charge from the school to use the service.

To sign up, go to http://www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness
(and see additional directions below to help guide you through the simple registration process).

While the introduction of e2Campus is designed to improve on past emergency communication systems, no single system can guarantee the ability to reach all subscribers in all circumstances. We are working on further improvements for on-campus communication in case of emergency. Here are some other resources for information on weather delays and closures.

Additional Information Sources Campus Closures/Weather Delays

Evergreen Web site: www.evergreen.edu
Evergreen switchboard: 360-867-6000 (press 1 for operating status of the Olympia campus).
Radio: KGY/1240 AM (Olympia); 1320 AM (Aberdeen); 1170 AM (Centralia); 1030 AM (Shelton); KIRO 710 AM; KOMO 1000 AM

Evergreens’ Tacoma campus follows Tacoma School District decisions (see http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/Pages/SchoolClosures.aspx)

Weather conditions in Washington can vary widely from location to location. Students, faculty and staff should always evaluate the conditions where they are and make their own decisions about travel.

Steps to register for e2Campus alerts:

1. Visit: www.evergreen.edu/emergencypreparedness
2. If you prefer *to receive emails only*, proceed to the link, Click Here To Sign Up Using EMAIL Only under the Create Account button. Otherwise create a username and enter email and cell phone number. Additional options for RSS readers, additional emails, etcetera will be available on successive pages after you create your account.
3. After you create your account, watch your email and/or cell phone for verification messages designed to ensure correct and reliable communications to phones and email addresses.
4. With email: it is particularly important to check that the resulting message did not enter your junk email folder, and to add the email address to your safe list if it did. Due to the variety of security levels associated with email accounts, networks, spam filters, and computer systems, this step is crucial to ensure an open channel for emergency messages. In Microsoft Outlook, for example, if you do not receive a verification message in a few minutes, please check the junk email folder. To do this, right-click on the message from e2campus@omnilert.net and choose . The procedure for safe-listing messages will vary with different email systems and networks.

Cell phones will receive a verification code via text message that you enter into the Web site ensuring that your phone received the test message and can therefore receive text messages in the future.

If you fail to follow the link in the email to verify your registration or fail to enter a cell phone code onto the Web site when prompted, your cell phone or email will not be registered with the system.

To edit your e2Campus account:

1. Visit: www.e2campus.com/my/evergreen/.
2. Login using the Username and Password you registered with.
3. Click on the Services tab to edit your information.

'A Gathering of Waters' explores the effect of human controls and demands on rivers and celebrates the people who work to conserve river resources. Irland’s first Gathering project, begun in 1995, was conceived as a symbolic carrying of Rio Grande/Rio Bravo's waters from source to sea, to re-establish people's connection with the river and with each other along its 1,875 mile length. Irland’s new project focuses on the Nisqually River - the only river in the United States that begins within a National Park and ends in a National Wildlife Refuge. Basia Irland, Professor Emerita, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History has created other “Gatherings” in New Mexico, Colorado, Canada and England.

This project is generously supported by a gift from the Tom Rye Harvill Award.

Irland will be available to answer the public’s questions at her illustrated lectures on Tuesday October 21, 4 pm in Lecture Hall 1 and Wednesday October 22, 10 am in the Recital Hall, Communications Building.

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/gallery

Voter Registration Drive
Sept. 29 – Oct. 3, 2008

As the 2008 election nears, it is time to let your voice be heard. Take the time to join us on Red Square next week and join in the fun! Voter Registration Deadline is Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008.

Who Should Register to Vote?

• Anyone who has moved to a new residence within the city, county, state and from out-of-state.
• If you just turned 18 years old or will be 18 years old by the Nov. 4 election.

Where Can I Register?

• The GovDocs/Maps Desk located at the Library, 3rd floor
• The GovDocs/Maps and HeadCount.org tables on Red Square during the week of Sept. 29
• Olympia and Tacoma Campus: Sept. 29 – Oct. 3
• Online at www.vote.wa.gov

Voter Registration Drive Music Events on Red Square

• Live Broadcast on KAOS
• Monday Sept. 29, 3-5 pm
  Music by High Ceiling
• Wednesday Oct. 1, 1-3 pm
  Music by Z Kamp

• Use the nearest exit. Do not use elevator.
• Move quickly, remain calm.
• Take personal items (keys, purse, wallet, coat, shoes)
• Secure any hazardous materials.
• Close door when you exit.
• Go to evacuation assembly point designated by evacuation plan.
• Check in with officials, report any injuries, casualties, and hazardous conditions.
• Do not leave campus until determined that roads and bridges are safe.
• Do not re-enter buildings until advised by safety personnel.
• Check in with officials before leaving.

Building Fire

• Activate the nearest fire alarm.
• Evacuate the building following evacuation plan.
• Call 9-1-1
• If trapped in building, stay near floor to avoid toxic fumes, try to signal emergency personnel.

Wildfire

• Activate the nearest fire alarm, call 9-1-1.
• Close windows, do not evacuate building unless safe to do so.
• If building is on fire, follow evacuation procedures.

Earthquake

• If indoors, stay calm, don’t rush for the door.
• Drop, Cover, Hold under a table or desk - not in a doorway – turn away from windows.
• Protect your head and neck with your arms, close your eyes.
• Keep away from objects that might fall.
• After the shaking stops, check yourself and others for injuries and move toward the nearest exit. Remember that aftershock can occur at anytime.
• If outdoors, move to clear area away from trees, poles, buildings, wires.

Power Outage

• Turn off and unplug computers and other voltage sensitive equipment.
• For information about a prolonged outage, dial 867-6000 opt 1 for campus status announcement, listen to radio KGY 1240 AM/96.9 FM.

Suspicious Person

• Do not physically confront the person.
• Do not let anyone into a locked building or office.
• Do not block the person’s access to an exit.
• Call 9-1-1. Provide as much information as possible about the person, direction of travel, etc.

Suspicious Object

• Do not touch or disturb object.
• Call 9-1-1.
• Notify your supervisor and/or the building coordinator.
• Be prepared to evacuate.
• Follow evacuation procedures.

Shooting Incident

If shooter is outside building:

Turn off lights, lock windows and doors, close curtains.

Get on floor out of line of fire.

Move to a central area if safe.

Follow directions of uniformed police.

If shooter is inside the building:

If safe to exit, flee.

Call 9-1-1 to give location.

Do not pull fire alarm.

If flight not possible, lock doors, get on floor, remain silent.

Barricade door with something heavy.

Hide behind something that stops bullets.

If shooter comes into class/office:

Call 9-1-1 if it is safe to do so.

Hide behind something that stops bullets.

Fight the shooter, rush with lots of people, throw things, use improvised weapons to take the shooter to the ground.

If caught outside in the open:

Hide behind something that stops bullets. Wait for emergency personnel.

Run if safe, make a run for it, do not run in straight line.

Fight the shooter.

General:

When police arrive, put your hands up to show that you are not a threat to them.

US News and World Report also included The Evergreen State College as a Top College in the West and noted the national reputation of its learning communities and service learning programs. Evergreen ranked highly overall and was featured in the section, A+ Schools for B Students, a grouping for colleges that look beyond grades to other indicators of student success, also described as schools with “first rate programs and strong reputations.”

Evergreen is among The Best 368 Colleges selected by The Princeton Review. In addition to recognizing Evergreen’s academic quality, Evergreen scored well on The Princeton Review’s new Green rating—a measure of environmentally-related practices, policies and course offerings. The Evergreen State College scored a nearly perfect “green rating” of 98 of a possible 99. More information is available here: http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx?uidbadge=%07 and here: http://www.princetonreview.com/green/press-release.aspx?uidbadge=%07.

Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club, named Evergreen as one of the nation’s top 10 “coolest” schools for its efforts to address global warming and engage the campus in environmental conservation. Sierra’s list, “10 That Get It,” shows that schools of all sizes are taking action on global warming. Top schools earned points for policies in 10 categories: buildings, energy, food, investment, procurement, transportation, curriculum, environmental activism, waste management and overall commitment to sustainability. A perfect score in every category would give a school 100 points. Evergreen ranked No. 5 with a score of 88. More information is available here: http://www.sierraclub.org/greencolleges.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.

The Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS) Project had been in existence for seven years in 1998 when organizers, from groups as disparate as Junior League of Olympia, Capital Mall (now Westfield Capital), St. John's Episcopal Church and the Community Action Council made a desperate plea for supplies over Mixx 96.1’s airwaves. The response from listeners was immediate, and it spurred Mixx 96.1 KXXO co-owner and station manager Toni C. Holm (Evergreen, 1979) to action. In 1999, the station initiated an all-day radio marathon broadcast from outside the station’s Rockway-Leland Building studios at the corner of State and Washington in the heart of downtown Olympia.

Listeners responded enthusiastically from the beginning and 10 years later, LRS is able to help more kids than ever before, providing them with the school supplies, clean clothing, calculators, and backpacks needed for school. Holm herself has been in the trenches from then on, serving on the LRS board and, since instituting a workout routine some years ago, doing much of the heavy lifting for the group. (This may surprise some of her fellow alumni from her days at KAOS where she needed help to pick up anything over 10 pounds.)

"When we start the drive, we never know what's going to happen." Holm says. "It's a completely grassroots effort, with people responding to help other people, all locally. Yet in a year when everyone is feeling the pinch economically, our community responded more generously than ever with over $12,000 and a ton of supplies. We have a big horn to reach people and I love that we can put it to use in this way. There are going to be lot of happy kids with new backpacks & supplies this year! We live in a great community!"

Donations can be made year-round via checks to The Little Red Schoolhouse Project and mailed to: P.O. Box 6302, Olympia, WA 98507. Please call Community Action Council, 360-438-1100 extension 143 to volunteer.or see www.redschool.org for more information.

“Evergreen has a rich tradition of contributions to the local community,” explained Shortt-Sanchez. “Community to Community Action Day has been connecting Evergreen students to local groups working for community needs for 18 years. The event provides a community service – it’s expected to provide more than 1000 hours of service this year alone – and a learning experience for students new to the college. They get to know their community, understand its needs a little better and reflect on the positive contributions they can make.”

Students from Evergreen’s Community Connections college transition program will be participating in Community to Community Action Day as a required part of their coursework. Academic programs are supported to integrate service learning by a grant from Learn and Serve.

“The organizers of Community Connections have been working closely with the CCBLA on this event,” explained Evergreen faculty member Elizabeth Williamson. “We feel that helping students make a connection to the world beyond the campus is absolutely essential to helping them begin to put theory into practice, and we hope it will set an important precedent for them as they continue their work at Evergreen.”

Campus housing residents from Evergreen’s Green Living and Sustainability House – who choose to live with other students dedicated to helping their community and living sustainably – will participate as well.

Shortt-Sanchez said that, in addition to a wide range of student volunteer activities, during the last academic year Evergreen students contributed over 19,000 hours of community work through the Students in Service Americorps program. Students in Service is a program of the Washington Campus Compact. Community minded student workers receive tuition awards as recognition for community action. This provides the chance for students to integrate their studies with community service and to be compensated.

Community members are welcome to work alongside Evergreen students on Community to Community Action Day. For more information on volunteering, contact Ellen Shortt-Sanchez at 360-867-6859 by Monday Sept 22, 2008.

The project launched a service learning gathering Monday August 11 at The Evergreen State College. Participants from St. Martins, South Puget Sound Community College, Olympic, Centralia, Green River, and Clark Colleges joined Evergreen faculty and staff to investigate poverty and flood relief issues. Local organizations POWER (Parents Organized for Welfare and Economic Rights) and Lewis County Long Term Recovery Organization presented compelling stories of families struggling with poverty and communities affected by December 2007 floods.

This network of service learning efforts at seven local colleges will strengthen our regional ability to contribute to making our community better. The project plans to share the story of the power of student learning that makes a difference.

When: Wednesday, September 24, 12:00- 5:00

Who: Evergreen students new to college who participating in orientation week activities and college transition program “Community Connections” will join Center for Community Based Learning faculty and staff for an afternoon of service learning.

What: Community to Community: A Service Learning Day Sponsored by Evergreen’s Center for Community Based Learning and Action, funded by Washington Campus Compact Learn and Serve grant.

This year’s theme supports the Hunger Free Thurston County Coalition (Thurston County Food Bank, GRUB, and Left Foot Organics). Students are asked to lend their muscle and mind to:

“MAKE THURSTON COUNTY HUNGER FREE”

Sites include:

• Thurston County Food Bank – TCFB works closely with rural food banks in Rochester, Tenino and Yelm, providing direct food assistance and technical support. TCFB serves over 27,000 individuals annually.
• Lincoln School Garden – Elementary school garden used for school projects and lunches. Enhance the beauty of the school environment and familiarize students with the principles of our natural world.
• Yelm Earthworm – Provides countless individuals and companies worldwide, with valuable information and a comprehensive line products to assist them in vermiculture, vermicomposting, horticulture and organic farming.
• Olympia Salvage- Supports recycling building materials by salvaging and re-using materials for construction.
• Rachel Corrie Foundation –Programs that foster connections between people, building understanding, respect, and appreciation for differences, and that promote cooperation within and between local and global communities particularly the Palestine – Israeli conflict.
• Habitat for Humanity- South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with those in need of affordable housing in the Olympia area. Join community volunteers at the east-side building site.
• Left Foot Organics- Non-profit organization promotes self-sufficiency for people with developmental disabilities through growing organic food.
• USDA – Contribute to and learn about Habitat and Nisqually river restoration.

More information about this designation is available at www.bestworkplaces.org.

For more information about the National Center for Transit Research located at the University of South Florida and administered by the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) please take a few moments to visit their sites: http://www.nctr.usf.edu/ 

Nearly $1 Million given by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Lumina Foundation to Support Partnership for Native Student Success at Muckleshoot Tribal College.

Olympia, Wash. – The Partnership for Native American College Access and Success—a collaboration of five Washington state higher education institutions—has received $292,000 from the Gates Foundation, $195,000 from the Lumina Foundation and nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to strengthen postsecondary curriculum for Native students in Washington and create a clear pathway to a bachelor’s degree for Native Americans in Muckleshoot and Tulalip communities.

Grants from the Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation will support the two-year effort, which began in June 2008. The work builds upon ongoing work through The Evergreen State College’s Enduring Legacies Project, which established the initial partnership between Evergreen and Grays Harbor College to serve reservation-based students. That project also developed teaching resources and culturally relevant curriculum in the form of case studies on key issues in Indian country.

The partnership includes Antioch University, The Evergreen State College, Grays Harbor College, Muckleshoot Tribal College, and Northwest Indian College. It will use lessons learned in the process to suggest a policy agenda to improve preparation for college and seek greater public investment in postsecondary education for Native students in Washington. A report on Indian education in Washington will be produced for wide distribution under these grants. Among other things, the new report will provide up-to-date information on programs available to serve Native students across the state.

According to Michelle Aguilar-Wells, co-director on the grants and director of Evergreen’s Reservation-Based Community-Determined Program, the project represents an unusually deep partnership between institutions. “What brings us together,” she says, “is our commitment to high-quality education for Native students.” Antioch University has offered the only Native teacher education program in the state at Muckleshoot Tribal College for some years. In the fall, Antioch will expand the graduate programs offered. “Evergreen provides a strong program leading to a bachelor’s degree that prepares students for various careers in public service within or outside of tribal communities,” says Aguilar-Wells. Northwest Indian College and Grays Harbor College provide the foundational lower-division coursework with Grays Harbor College emphasizing online courses. “By working together,” adds Aguilar-Wells, “we can strengthen all of our programs.”

“We have been developing strong and diverse programs through partnerships since our start in 1996,” said Louie Gong, educational resource coordinator at Muckleshoot Tribal College. “But these new grants will take the concept of partnership to a whole new level,” he adds.

One of the innovations that will begin in the fall is a joint writing center that students in all of the different programs can use. “There’s just nothing like this elsewhere, and we’re really excited about it,” adds Gong.

Cheryl Crazy Bull, president of Northwest Indian College, said that the project provides many opportunities for their tribal college. “We will be exploring new approaches to education, especially in the first year of college, which is so critical to student success. And we will also be looking at how to improve inter-institutional advising and administrative functions from a student and tribal point of view.”

About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Patty Stonesifer and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. More information is available at: www.gatesfoundation.org.

About Lumina Foundation for Education

Believing that education is the foundation for individual opportunity, economic vitality and social stability, the Lumina Foundation's goal is to raise the proportion of the U.S. adult population who earn college degrees to 60 percent by the year 2025, an increase of 16 million graduates above current rates. To achieve this ambitious goal of increasing postsecondary degree attainment, Lumina Foundation, in partnership with other stakeholders, is focusing on three main milestones of progress: student preparedness, student success, and college productivity. Based in Indianapolis, the Foundation is led by Jamie P. Merisotis. For more information about Lumina Foundation for Education go to www.luminafoundation.org.

Researchers at The Evergreen State College in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Texas A&M have been working to increase food safety by reducing the populations of E. coli in the guts of sheep and cattle. The goal of the research is to increase understanding of the complex predator-prey relationship between bacteria (the prey) and bacteriophages (the viral predator). The research could lead to safer food.

E. coli O157:H7 is a dangerous bacterial food pathogen that occurs naturally in the guts of livestock without making them sick. E. coli is easily passed from farm animals to humans. The bacterium causes food poisoning, sickness, and sometimes death in people who eat tainted meat or contaminated produce or water.

Andrew Brabban and Betty Kutter, microbiologists at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, have been studying tiny E. coli predators known as bacteriophages, which attack E. coli bacteria. The Evergreen State phage biology lab was established in 1973 and together Kutter and Brabban have more than six decades of research experience on phages.

Brabban, Kutter, and colleagues have uncovered bacteriophages that attack various strains of E. coli naturally in cattle or sheep’s stomach. Recent results appeared under the title “Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 and O157:H7-infecting bacteriophages in feedlot cattle feces” in the October issue of Letters in Applied Microbiology. The research is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Phage Biotics, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

By using phage as a natural predator, it may be possible to better target and tame E. coli and increase the safety of food. Using bacteriophages provides a potentially cheap and broadly applicable way to treat cattle that offers advantages over traditional antibiotics.

Phage treatment is more specific to E. coli, which means it is less likely to encourage resistance in other harmful bacteria and less likely to kill useful bacteria. Also, much like the bacteria, the bacteriophage is easily transferred from one infected individual to another, resulting in a more robust solution to E. coli infections.

Economic impacts could also be significant. “E. coli contamination results in waste of meat, and ultimately wasted meat costs consumers,” says Brabban. “Hundreds of millions are also spent to treat E. coli infections,” he adds.

But while economics are important, healthier food is the top priority of the research. “It would be very rewarding if we could come up with an increased understanding or an application that leads to safer food down the line,” says Brabban. “We all would like food to be safer.”

“Being only a mile from Puget Sound, we take great pride in our environmental farming practice”, says Melissa Barker, Evergreen Farm Manager. “As a regional certification program, Salmon-Safe offers us independent verification that we are meeting our environmental goals and will help us communicate that to our students and the greater community”.

The Evergreen Farm was determined to be Salmon-Safe in the programs’ six main categories: protecting waterways and wetlands, preventing soil erosion, conserving water through irrigation efficiency, minimizing impacts from animals, using natural weed and pest control methods in lieu of toxic chemicals, and promoting on-farm biodiversity.

“The Evergreen Farm serves as a valuable resource for student involvement in organic agriculture and sustainable farming practices” says Larry Nussbaum of Stewardship Partners, the organization coordinating the Salmon-Safe program in Washington. “As the first college farm to be Salmon-Safe certified, Evergreen will serve as a working model to educate the public about both environmental farming practices and credible third-party eco-labeling programs.

The Salmon-Safe program was founded in Oregon in 1997 and has since been recognized as one of the most reliable eco-labels in the country, alongside other well known labels such as Certified Organic and Fair Trade. Stewardship Partners, a non-profit conservation organization, launched the program in Washington in 2004 and is working with farmers in across a variety of sectors including vineyards, orchards, dairies, and row crops. Over 150 farms in Oregon and 50 farms in Washington have been certified Salmon-Safe.

More info is also available at www.stewardshippartners.org.

Dr. Purce, who is currently completing a three-year term which began in 2006, will begin his second three-year term Jan. 1, 2009.

The Council of Presidents is the chief governing body of the NAIA, and is responsible for all fiscal matters of the organization, strategic direction, membership, and operational policies put into action by the association’s various governing councils and committees.

Dr. Purce has served as president of Evergreen since July 2000.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference is comprised of 11 institutions in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Members include Cascade College, The College of Idaho, Concordia University, Corban College, Eastern Oregon University, The Evergreen State College, Northwest University, Northwest Christian College, Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University, and Warner Pacific College.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is the governing body for athletics programs at its nearly 300 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. The long-held mission of the NAIA is to promote the education and development of well-rounded students and productive citizens through intercollegiate athletics. The association offers equitable access and opportunities for participation in its 23 national championship events held annually throughout the country.

Today, the NAIA strengthens its commitment to student-athletes and strives to enrich their college experience by supporting academic achievement and character development. NAIA Champions of Character is the association’s innovative flagship program designed to instill character values in student-athletes, coaches and youth in the communities it serves.

“Students at Evergreen want to know where their food is coming from. Campus Dining support of the organic farm is an impressive step towards increasing our local food production,” said Sharon Goodman, director of residential and dining services at The Evergreen State College. “The arugula that I helped picked one morning was on the salad bar in the dining hall by lunch time. It felt great to tell students that I had, first-hand, harvested the arugula that very day and that it was fresh, local, organic, and was grown for us to all enjoy. It made me and reminded me that Evergreen really is a special place."

The new greenhouses offer more square feet and increased projected supply for residential dining needs. Additionally, the structures have also increased the economic potential of the organic farm and ecological agriculture efforts on campus. To date, the college has already bested its goal for 2010 by purchasing more than 25%-30% percent of its food from local and organic sources. “With the new greenhouse structures, it is likely that Evergreen could reach 32%-37% percent production from local and organic sources,” said Craig Ward, food service director at The Evergreen State College.

“Dining services needs most of its produce October through June while the typical growing season in Olympia is June through October,” said Melissa Barker, manager at The Organic Farm. “Using the greenhouses to extend the season is very important.”

“It also allows for a year-round agricultural teaching space,” added Barker. Evergreen offers instruction in organic agriculture on The Organic Farm. The Evergreen State College’s three-acre organic farm produces sustainable food for dining services, an on-campus farm stand, Community Supported Agriculture efforts, local food banks, and charities

For driving directions, please visit http://www.evergreen.edu/tour.

The memorial service will also be streamed live at www.evergreen.edu/streams.

The Board of Trustees resolution from the June 12 Emeritus Member conference ceremony captured some of Patrick’s vast contributions to the college:

Upon unanimous recommendation of the Faculty of The Evergreen State College, and

In recognition of 24 years of outstanding service to The Evergreen State College as a Member of the Faculty and Academic Vice President and Provost; of his contributions to the curriculum in the areas of Irish studies and philosophy; of his scholarly leadership; of his ability to maintain the tension between collaboration and free-flowing creativity; of his leadership in hiring a diverse faculty with substantive multicultural experience;

In appreciation of his commitment to both process and content; of his genuine concern for students; of his principles of forgiveness and community; of his deep commitment to social justice; of his thoughtful work with both colleagues and students while engaging in difficult subjects; of his brilliant lectures; and of his storytelling and poetry;

The Board of Trustees does hereby confer the title of Emeritus Member of the Faculty upon Patrick Hill, with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.

At 8:00pm, KAOS and OFS present Seattle’s PURE Cirkus at the historic Capitol Theater in a night of daring delight; from the audacious to the exquisite. 

Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for KAOS/OFS members, kids under 12 just $5.

PURE Cirkus is a performance art and event production company that spans multiple genres and themes within the live entertainment and circus field.  Their productions focus on Corporeal storytelling and Variety acts merging elements of street performance, Cirque Noir or "Dark Cirkus", live theater, circus acts, dance, burlesque, tribal art and live music, with more modern forms of performance such as grinder performance and fire manipulation.

Featuring stunning costumes, height-defying stilt walkers and aerialists, illusionists, comical clowns, jaw dropping acts of demented bravery by the geeks, freaks and acrobats, the clash of both the macabre and mystical side of the three ring circus is brought to life through the human body as PURE Cirkus.

Also performing, the Penny Dreadfuls, formerly known as Femme de Fabrique; and the music of Vince Brown and his Fish Tale Hoppin’ Barley Feetwarmers!  All freaks, geeks, and families welcome!  This fun time event is a fundraiser for the Olympia Film Society and KAOS-fm Olympia Community Radio!  It’s an all-ages show with a 21+ beer garden in the upstairs mezzanine.

About KAOS

Celebrating its 35th year on the air, KAOS 89.3 FM Olympia Community Radio is licensed to The Evergreen State College. KAOS has been the South Sound’s only full-time, full-power commercial-free public radio service since 1973, offering a wide range of local and global news, community information, and independent music. The station streams its broadcasting live on the World Wide Web, at www.kaosradio.org, and can be heard on Comcast cable in Thurston County on TCTV Public Access channel 22 as well as on Comcast Digital Cable channel 982.

Over its thirty-five year history, KAOS has become one of Thurston County’s largest volunteer-based organizations. KAOS is programmed by a staff of nearly 100 student and community volunteers. Their varied perspectives and sensibilities make KAOS a unique resource for information and entertainment often ignored by major media.

About the Olympia Film Society

The Olympia Film Society is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance film appreciation within the community by promoting alternative films and by aiding and encouraging the development of allied arts. The Society also works to foster, promote and present visual media and performing arts. OFS cultivates a diverse volunteer and membership supported organization and is the largest of its kind in the northwest. Now in its 28th year of operation, they enliven its community by presenting and fostering the development of independent film, music, and other arts in the South Puget Sound.

Who: PURE Cirkus, the Penny Dreadfuls, Vince Brown & Romanteek
What: Benefit for KAOS 89.3fm & Olympia Film Society
When: Saturday June 14, 8:30pm, doors open at 8:00pm
Where: Capitol Theater, 416 Washington St. SE, Olympia, WA 98501
Ticket Cost/Locations: $15 General Admission/$10 for KAOS or OFS members, children under 12 $5.00. Available at Phantom City Records, Capitol Theater box office and buyolympia.com
Contacts: KAOS - John Ford, 360-867-6894 / OFS - Audrey Henley, 360-754-3635, ext. 3

Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Location: The Evergreen State College campus, Lecture Hall 1
Time: 7 p.m.
Cost: free

A locally-sourced dinner dinner will be served from 5 - 7 p.m. at the Evergreen cafeteria, The Greenery, on the ground floor of the CAB.

About the Speaker:

A sought-after conference speaker, Salatin addressed a wide range of issues from "creating the farm your children will want," to "making a white collar salary from a pleasant life in the country."

Salatin's speeches are both conviction-based and humorous, akin to theatrical performances, often receiving standing ovations. He describes his occupation as "mob-stocking herbivorous solar conversion lignified carbon sequestration fertilization."

Background:

In 1961, William and Lucille Salatin moved their young family to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, purchasing the most worn-out, eroded, abused farm in the area. Using nature as a pattern, they began the healing and innovation that now supports three generations. Today the farm represents America's premier non-industrial food production oasis.

For more information about Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms: http://www.polyfacefarms.com/default.aspx

This event is sponsored by Olympia Climate Action, Olympia Food Coop, Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute, Olympia Slow Food, and The Evergreen State College

The event is free and open to the public. Super Saturday runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 14. This year’s event will feature more than 40 new arts and crafts booths.

Super Saturday performances cover genres from African Marimba to Celtic to folk to children’s' music and classic rock, and include bands such as Mukana Marimba, Fiddlehead, Adrian Xavier, The Tanglefoot Cloggers, Samara Dancers and Legend Heart.

Sponsors for Super Saturday 2008 include The Pacific Northwest Mushroom Festival June 28th and 29th in Lacey, KFMY 97.7 FM-The Eagle, Mixx96 96.1 FM KXXO, The Olympian, Toyota of Olympia, Puget Sound Energy, Squaxin Island Tribe Tourism Department, American Family Insurance of Tumwater, and Tumwater Costco.

Getting to Super Saturday

Parking is free for the event and Intercity Transit is also running a shuttle service to the Super Saturday festival. Direct round-trip service runs every 15 minutes between 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. from the park and ride shuttle location at the Department of Licensing, 405 Black Lake Boulevard at 4th Avenue on June 14, 2008. Travel is also available every 15 minutes between 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Intercity transit Route 41, departing downtown Olympia from the Olympia Transit Center at State and Washington Street on June 14, 2008. More information on commuting options is available at www.intercitytransit.com.

Visit http://www.evergreen.edu/tour/gethere.htm for a map of the campus and directions to The Evergreen State College.

The Science Carnival is free and open to the public. The event offers hundreds of presentations from Evergreen science students with an emphasis on demonstration, hands-on participation and fun.

This year, the Chemistry Club will attempt to make a giant baking soda and vinegar volcano erupt. The Kids in Chemistry event will feature ice-cream making and many other hands-on science experiments that will engage the imagination of school children. Participants can choose from as many as a dozen presentations at any given time. Each presentation lasts 30 to 60 minutes and many popular topics will be repeated over the two days.

Anyone with an interest in the physical world will enjoy the Science Carnival, the largest of its kind in Washington State. The popular event is great for middle and high school students, including home school students. Demonstrations will cover chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy, marine science, optics, health science, food science, computer science, and much more. In the spirit of interdisciplinary education -- a hallmark of the Evergreen learning experience, the event will include more than a dozen science-related art demonstrations in a wide range of media.

Preview the carnival online at http://academic.evergreen.edu/events/sciencecarnival/index.html

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Science at Evergreen is taught by nationally and internationally recognized faculty - not graduate students - in small classes with hands-on opportunities for undergraduate research and access to sophisticated scientific equipment, including a scanning electron microscope and ultra-high-end analytical instruments.

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action

Friday, May 23rd at 8pm
College Recreation Center

DOORS OPEN AT 7:15PM

Tickets

Students w/ID, Staff and Faculty $5.00 advance - $10.00 at door at the Evergreen Bookstore Only

General Admission $15.00 advance - $20.00 at door available at:

www.ticketswest.com

Rainy Day Records
301 5th Avenue SE
Olympia 360.357.4755

Ted Brown Music Company
6228 Tacoma Mall Blvd.
Tacoma 800.562.8938

Wall of Sound
315 E Pine Street
Seattle 206.441.9880

For more information, contact S & A Productions: 360.867.6220

2008 Graduation Ceremony

Friday, June 13, 2008

1:00 pm on Red Square—Rain or Shine

No tickets required for the ceremony

A sociologist, historian and professor who taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont, James Loewen co-authored, Mississippi: Conflict and Change, which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction, but was not approved for use in the Mississippi school system because it was considered too controversial and placed too much focus on racial issues. This led to the lawsuit, Loewen v. Turnipseed, which was considered by the American Library Association to be a historic First Amendment Case, and one of the foundations of our “right to read freely.”

Loewen’s book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, is based on his two-year study at the Smithsonian Institution of twelve American history textbooks. The book focuses on alleged errors or deliberate omissions in history textbooks but also on the lack of controversy that he claims would make learning history exciting. The book sold 800,000 copies and continues to inspire teachers to encourage students to challenge – rather than memorize – their textbooks.

For more information, please visit:  
http://www.evergreen.edu/graduation/

While the new electric vehicle is not necessarily sporty, sexy, or speedy, it is efficient and the right vehicle for Evergreen. The ZX40ST, the first street-legal electric vehicle to arrive on campus, is produced by Miles Electric Vehicles (http://www.milesev.com). The model ZX40ST work truck comes in white and carries up to 1,100 pounds with a top speed of around 35 miles an hour.

Mark Kormondy, grounds and motor pool manager at Evergreen sees the truck as “a very convenient way to get into all locations on campus,” as well as important means to produce fuel savings and not produce additional greenhouse gas emissions.

Evergreen will introduce four more electric vehicles by the end of June says Paul Smith, director of facilities services. The additional electric cars will be financed in part with a grant from the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency (ORCAA).

Executive Director of ORCAA Richard Stedman says that his organization’s intent is to “prime the pump to get some of these technologies out to institutions that can use them... rather than gas-powered or diesel-powered trucks and service vehicles.”

The college is considering more electric vehicles, capable of handling various loads and carrying more people to replace some of its gasoline vehicles, says Smith. “We’re evaluating the options now and we are hoping to add as many as five more electric vehicles within the next biennium,” he adds. Smith says he sees the cars as part of a larger effort to “further our goal of achieving carbon neutrality.

With these larger goals in mind, operators of the unobtrusive white work truck are downshifting the carbon economy and turning heads. “The car gets a lot of attention around here,” says Kormondy “even if it is almost totally silent.”

Synergy: The Seventh Annual Sustainable Living Conference is being held at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The dates for the 2008 conference are Monday, May 19th through Friday, May 23rd. This conference has grown to be a powerful platform to engage and address the intertwining themes of Ecology, Design, Culture, Health, and Social Change.

Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of student organizers. The title of the event reflects our belief that the solutions to the world’s problems can only be solved though collaboration, where the whole becomes more then the sum of it’s parts.

This year’s conference will include presentations by notable leaders in their respected fields.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim of New York based non-profit Terreform, will be presenting a keynote lecture on the future of ecological urban design at 6PM on Thursday May 22nd in Lecture Hall 1. Dr. Joachim, a MIT Media Lab graduate, is best known as being the creator of the Fab Tree Hab. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car with the MIT Smart Cities Group.

Paul Stamets will be giving a talk entitled, “how mushrooms can save the world” at 5pm on Wednesday May 21st. In business since 1980, Paul Stamets has run Olympia based Fungi Perfecti, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people.

Also presenting will be Executive Director of Puget Sound Partnership, David Dicks, and Executive Director of Olympia Waste ReSources, Dan Daniels, in addition to many other speakers and workshops over the 5 day event. Other topics to be covered during the conference include permaculture, the global food crisis and green building.

Each day will feature live music on Red Square in the center of campus, broadcast live from 12-1pm on KAOS 89.3 as part of the first annual Red Square Concert Series. The music events are presented by The Evergreen Musicians Club.

Synergy is a free event and open to the public, all are encouraged to attend. Parking is $2.00 per day. Synergy is funded by the Evergreen State College Services and Activities Fee Allocation Board.

More detailed information, speaker bios and event times and locations at http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

Keith Kessler has been appointed to a term effective March 7, 2008, ending September 30, 2013. Kessler is a personal injury attorney with Strimatter Kessler Whelan Withey Coluccio. He served as president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association in 1990 and was the chair of the Washington Trial Attorneys Political Forum from 1993 to 1995. He is a member of several other professional organizations including, the Washington State Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and served and has served on the executive committee of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Washington Chapter since 1995. In addition, he has received numerous awards including, Outstanding Plaintiff Trial Lawyer, Washington Defense Trial Lawyers in 2002, and Trial Lawyer of the Year, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association in 1994.

Kristin Hayden has been appointed to a term effective March 31, 2008, ending September 30, 2009. Hayden is the founder and director of OneWorld Now!, an award winning and nationally recognized global leadership program for high school freshman and juniors. She works with the World Affairs Council of Young Professionals and served on the steering committee for the Washington Coalition for International Education.

The board is the governing body for The Evergreen State College.

(Olympia, Wash.) Civil rights leader and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. James M. Lawson will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 5 at Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 201 8th Ave SE in Olympia.  Rev. Lawson will talk about building a community that both values activism – to promote better quality of life and greater equity among citizens – and ensures civility and respect for the rights of all.  The event is free and open to the public.  It is sponsored by the City of Olympia, The Evergreen State College, The Hispanic Women’s Network, Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace, participating members of Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, The Port of Olympia, Unity in the Community, and Veterans for Peace.  For directions to the temple, visit http://www.bethhatfiloh.org/directions.html

Lawson is a leading figure in the civil rights movement. On the eve of his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Lawson "the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world."

Lawson, along with King, helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960. While a Vanderbilt Divinity School student in the early 1960s, he utilized nonviolent protests, in the tradition of Gandhi, in an effort to stop downtown Nashville segregation at lunch counters. As a result of his activities, Lawson was expelled from Vanderbilt. Thirty-six years after his expulsion, Vanderbilt honored Lawson with a Distinguished Alumnus Award for his actions.

In 1961, Lawson coordinated the Freedom Ride, and was the advance staff person for the Birmingham campaign in 1963. He coordinated the Meredith march in Mississippi in 1966, and participated in the 1961-67 Chicago march efforts. Lawson served as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for 14 years, and was chair of the strategy committee for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, which drew national attention. King was assassinated while supporting that effort.

Lawson, a retired Los Angeles Methodist pastor, has remained outspoken and active in fighting for peace and against racism throughout his career. Rev. Lawson is a lifelong advocate for positive social change through nonviolent means and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. In Los Angeles, he hosted a weekly call-in show, "Lawson Live," where he discussed social and human rights issues affecting minority communities. He spoke out against racism, and he challenged the Cold War and U.S. military involvement in Angola, Cuba, and Central America. Even after his retirement, Lawson protested with the Janitors for Justice in Los Angeles, and with gay and lesbian Methodists in Cleveland. 

(Olympia, Wash.) The Evergreen State College welcomes Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of today’s premiere leaders in science, astronomy, and education to Olympia for a presentation and question and answer session on April 29, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at Evergreen’s College Recreation Center (CRC). Renowned astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and host of PBS’s Nova ScienceNow, Dr. Tyson is a leading voice in astronomy who has appeared alongside Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The presentation is being offered in cooperation with KCTS9 Television and the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

Tickets for the April 29 presentation are on sale now. The public can purchase tickets by phone at (360) 867-6833, online at www.buyolympia.com/events, or in person at The Evergreen State College book store, Rainy Day Records in Olympia, or the Communications Building Box Office at The Evergreen State College. The latter is open from noon to 3 p.m. on weekdays. Advance tickets are $20 for reserved section seating (not available at the door), $10 for adult general admission ($13 at the door) and $5 for student general admission ($8 at the door). Student prices apply to youth under age 16 or anyone with valid student ID (e.g. high school or college students). KCTS9 members receive a discount when they purchase online at www.buyolympia.com/events.

Tickets are being sold on a first come, first serve, space-available basis. Neil deGrasse Tyson enthusiasts are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance and arrive early on April 29. The box office will open at 5:30 p.m. Event parking after 5:00 p.m. is free for this event and on this night only. Group discounts for groups of 20 or more are available by calling Pat Barte at (360) 867-6128.

Noted among TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Tyson is described as “The Carl Sagan of the 21st century—as long as you envision a Sagan who’s muscular, African American, and as cool as his predecessor was geeky.” In the same article, Tyson is referred to as “the great explainer of all things cosmic.”

Dr. Tyson’s latest book Death by Black Hole covers topics from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry’s less than perfect efforts to get its night skies right. Renowned for his ability to blend scientific knowledge, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while sharing his infectious excitement for our universe.

Dr. Tyson will speak on a wide range of topics familiar to audiences and readers, including the wonders of astronomy, science and math literacy, the connections between science and the humanities, civil discourse in regard to science, and other topics in science and society.

The Unsoeld Seminar Series brings distinguished visitors to The Evergreen State College campus who reflect the values and philosophy of Willi Unsoeld, a founding faculty member, philosopher, theologian and mountaineer. Unsoeld was well known for his first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest with Tom Hornbein, in which they made the first successful traverse of any Himalayan peak. For this feat, President John F. Kennedy presented them with the Hubbard Medal, The National Geographic Society's highest honor. The annual Unsoeld Seminar is endowed as a "living memorial" in honor of Willi Unsoeld who lost his life in an avalanche on Mt. Rainier in 1979. For more on Neil deGrasse Tyson visit: http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/ The Evergreen State College campus is located at 2700 Evergreen Parkway N.W. in Olympia, Washington. For a campus map, visit: http://www.evergreen.edu/tour

Dining service provider ARAMARK is helping The Evergreen State College in its efforts to provide local, nutritious, and organic foods to students.

From Purple Marconi Peppers to Patty-Pan Flying Saucer Squash, purchasing levels for inimitable and tasty, local and organic foods are growing with help from a $16,000 donation from the company. According to Sharon Goodman, director of residential and dining services at Evergreen, the college has already bested its goal for 2010 by purchasing more than 42 percent of its food from local and organic sources. 

With completion of the new greenhouse structures and first planting in early February, it is likely that Evergreen could reach 47 percent production from local and organic sources, says Food Service Director, Craig Ward. 

Bringing the new green house structures online will also increase the economic potential of the organic farm and ecological agriculture efforts on campus. “Basically, we are helping to develop another revenue stream for the farm,” says Ward. “The additional purchases we foresee in February should build income as well as assist in Evergreen’s educational effort,” he adds.

Previous greenhouse structures were damaged by storms in December 2006. ARAMARK’s contribution along with funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will mean replacement and expansion of greenhouse structures, meaning more square feet and increased projected supply for residential dining needs.

By reducing transportation emissions, sourcing food locally also will likely contribute to The Evergreen State College’s goal of reducing its carbon footprint and reaching climate neutrality by 2020.

Dining services needs most of its produce October through June while the typical growing season here is June through October, says Melissa Barker, organic farm manager:  “Using the greenhouses to extend the season is very important.”

“It also allows for a year-round agricultural teaching space,” adds Barker.  Evergreen offers instruction in organic agriculture on the organic farm.  The Evergreen State College’s three-acre organic farm produces sustainable food for dining services, an on campus farm stand, Community Supported Agriculture efforts, local food banks and charities.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kenji Yoshino is the author of the award-winning book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Human Rights, a groundbreaking critique of current civil rights law and a vision for a new direction.  A specialist in constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and law and literature, he has published work in The Advocate, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post, as well as in a wide variety of academic journals.  He is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and former deputy dean at Yale Law School.

For more information call 360.867.6100 or www.evergreen.edu or www.kenjiyoshino.com

Cal Anderson was appointed to the Washington state House of Representatives in 1987, where he was elected to three full terms after completing his original appointment.  In 1994, Seattle's 43rd district elected him to the state senate where he served until his death in 1995.  Washington state's first openly gay legislator, Cal Anderson called himself "a Democrat who happens to be gay."

The Cal Anderson Memorial Lecture Series is a forum to capture the spirit of reasoned discussion of public policies and ideas that marked Cal Anderson's career.  Anderson labored for campaign finance and regulatory reform, motor-voter registration, veterans' issues, environmental protection and open access to government.  He introduced many bills related to AIDS programs and led the on-going battle for equal civil rights protection for gay and lesbian citizens.

The college convened a campus forum on February 19 to discuss the incident, answer questions and begin the process of addressing related issues.  Approximately 300 students, faculty and staff attended. 

“The range of emotions I have gone through from just being flat sad, to disappointed to angry, to violated, have just swung back and forth in me,” Purce explained, “because I think about when you students first came to this campus, the promises we made to you and to your parents about what this place was and what we strive for it to be, and to have that kind of event occur in our house caused me great pause…While we may never know everything about this event, one thing I know and we all have to know is that what happened is not acceptable by any standard.”

President Purce announced a moratorium on student-sponsored concerts and other events that involve substantial safety and security considerations until processes are improved.

“We aren’t having any more concerts until we can get our house in order,” Purce said. “We have to ensure that we have the appropriate kinds of security and safety on campus and a revisiting of our policies as they relate to all aspects of approval of concerts, so that we can be assured that our house is safe.”

The college will convene a committee of students, faculty and staff to review policies and procedures for planning and implementing campus events. Recommendations will be forwarded to the Vice President for Student Affairs.

As the group is being formulated and convened, Phyllis Lane, Dean of Student and Academic Support Services, in consultation with Art Costantino, Vice President for Student Affairs, will determine which events will be allowed in the short-term. While all events will be evaluated for security needs, college-sponsored lectures and art exhibits, for example, will continue as planned.

Purce also repeated his intention that the college will pay for the damage to the Thurston County Sheriff’s vehicle destroyed in the incident.

At the forum, Evergreen Police Services officer April Meyers, who responded to reports of a fight at the concert and made an initial arrest, explained the timeline of events from her perspective. Others shared differing views of how the incident unfolded and expressed a broad range of concerns related to relationships with campus police, respect for diversity on campus and other issues of campus climate.

The college will also refer this specific incident to its Police Services Community Review Board – a body of students, faculty and staff charged with reviewing law enforcement issues and concerns on campus – to assess the actions of Evergreen Police Services related to the incident.

According to Costantino, Evergreen is planning a follow-up campus forum at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 27 in Lecture Hall 1 to continue discussion and begin the work to develop longer term strategies related to both to this incident and other issues of shared concern that affect safety and quality of life on campus.

If you have information that would help in our investigation, please contact Police Services at 360-867-6832. 

Our campus community is shocked and concerned by the violence that occurred following the Dead Prez concert at The Evergreen State College on Thursday, February 14. A large crowd had a confrontation with police after the arrest of a concert attendee who was suspected of assault. Two police cars were damaged, one severely. Some individuals, both in the crowd and among police, suffered minor injuries. The event was over by the early morning hours on Friday. Only a small proportion of students was involved in or directly affected by the incident.

We have launched a police investigation to determine the facts and hold responsible parties accountable.

This incident is not representative of the philosophy or character of The Evergreen State College. It not only runs counter to our values of respect and civility, it casts a shadow on the outstanding academic work of our students and faculty. Evergreen has earned a national reputation for academic excellence, innovative interdisciplinary education and alumni success in graduate school and careers. This event distracts from those successes.

Evergreen Police Services is leading an investigation of the incident with support from the Thurston County Sheriff’s Department. We will also be addressing the incident in a campus forum on February 19.

If you have information that would help in our investigation, please contact Police Services at 360-867-6832. 

(Olympia, Wash.)  The State of Washington Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB) voted unanimously on January 16 to reapprove the Master in Teaching Program (MIT) and the Professional Certificate Program at The Evergreen State College in Olympia.  Both programs were reapproved for five years based on demonstrated and even “exemplary” compliance with state standards.  The Board also approved Evergreen’s request to offer the new, separate, more rigorous Middle Level Math and Middle Level Science endorsements which lead to being highly qualified to teach these subjects in grades four through nine.

Evergreen’s MIT program is the first teacher preparation program in the state to receive approval to offer these newly adopted endorsements.

The PESB conducted an in-depth on-site evaluation and gave the Evergreen MIT program “exemplary” marks in more than half a dozen key areas including overall program design, quality and effectiveness of its Professional Education Advisory Board, field experience and clinical practices, collaboration with P-12 schools, experience working with diverse faculty, and recruitment, admission and retention, including outreach to and inclusion of students of color.

In its accreditation report, the PESB noted praise for Evergreen’s MIT program and students from local school districts.

“District administrators and school administrators lauded (Evergreen) MIT candidates’ abilities to work with all students due to their coursework and field experiences,” the report noted.  “In general, public school personnel find the extensive field experience exceptional. One principal commented that the two student teaching experiences that MIT candidates receive is ‘paramount.’ When asked if she hires MIT students, she stated, ‘I hire ‘em like hotcakes!’

According to program director Sherry Walton, Evergreen’s MIT graduates have an exceptional record of success in teaching.  “Three of our students were honored as Outstanding (New or Young) Art Educator of the Year in 2006 and 2007, another was recognized as Outstanding Environmental Educator of the Year in 2003-04 and many more have been recognized for excellence in teaching and education.”

“Our MIT program is not only producing exceptionally qualified teachers, we’re also helping to fill specific needs in this state in high demand areas including math, science and English as a Second Language,” noted Walton.

Walton explained that the Evergreen MIT is a two-year, full-time program that leads to a master's degree and Residency Certification.  She said it is aimed at people who have a bachelor’s degree and want to become teachers.

“In the program, faculty and students work together to develop the knowledge and skills to effectively support the development of the diverse learners who attend our public schools.  We also have a unique emphasis on social justice and collaborative teaching and learning.  Our distinctive interdisciplinary approach produces teachers that are well grounded in educational theory and practice, including an understanding of a broad range of student learning styles and teaching approaches.”

For more information about the MIT program at The Evergreen State College, visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

The Evergreen State College Offers Open House for Aspiring Teachers

(Tacoma, Wash.)  Evergreen’s Master in Teaching (MIT) program is holding an open house for prospective students at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 11.  The event will be held at Evergreen’s Tacoma Campus at 1210 6th Avenue.

Teachers from the Tacoma/Lakewood area who graduated from Evergreen’s teacher preparation program will be at the open house to share their experiences and answer questions. Staff members will also provide information about curriculum, application requirements and financial aid.

For more information about the open house, contact Maggie Foran at 360-867-6559, email foranm@evergreen.edu, or visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

(Tacoma, Wash.)  Evergreen’s Master in Teaching (MIT) program is holding an open house for prospective students at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 11.  The event will be held at Evergreen’s Tacoma Campus at 1210 6th Avenue.

Teachers from the Tacoma/Lakewood area who graduated from Evergreen’s teacher preparation program will be at the open house to share their experiences and answer questions. Staff members will also provide information about curriculum, application requirements and financial aid.

For more information about the open house, contact Maggie Foran at 360-867-6559, email foranm@evergreen.edu, or visit www.evergreen.edu/mit.

You can also call the main campus switchboard at anytime, 360-867-6000 and press 1 to hear the operating status of the Olympia campus.

Stations in Aberdeen - 1320 AM, Centralia - 1170 AM, Shelton - 1030 AM, as well as KIRO 710 AM and KOMO 1000 AM are notified.

Evergreen's Tacoma campus follows the Tacoma School District decision.

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All films are free, open to the public and will be shown at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. For screen times, guest speakers and location visit www.evergreen.edu/sesame.

For more information call (360) 867-6724 or email SESAME.

"We've designed a flexible and affordable program to help teachers improve their skills, advance in their careers and take on new leadership roles in the education community," said program director Magda Costantino, Ph.D.

Costantino said the approximate tuition cost for the 40-46 credit, seven quarter program is under $10,000 for Washington residents. "That makes it an excellent value for working teachers," Costantino noted.

Costantino said that in addition to a core curriculum, teachers will also deepen their knowledge in mathematics or ESL education in preparation for state endorsement testing.

"The Master in Education at Evergreen will provide excellent professional development opportunities for teachers in the South Sound region," says Randy Spaulding, Higher Education Coordinating Board director of academic affairs. "Evergreen's proposal was very timely in that it responds to several strategies included in Gov. Chris Gregoire's Washington Learns report, such as the need to build expertise in math and science teaching; improve learning opportunities for English language learners; and encourage diversity and cultural understanding."

"The program builds on the strength of the current Master in Teaching program and Evergreen's teacher professional development activities, and will allow teachers to improve their teaching practice and add additional endorsements in either math or ESL – both of which are in high demand right now," adds Spaulding.

The program will begin with a full-time summer session in July and August and continue with part-time evening and weekend classes through the school year.

Evergreen is offering a series of free information sessions on the new M.Ed. program in February:

• Feb. 6, 3-5 p.m., The Evergreen State College, Seminar II Bldg., Room E 3123
• Feb. 13, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Rochester High School Library, 19800 Carper Rd., Rochester
• Feb. 20, 3-5 p.m., Shelton School District Office Conference Room, 700 S. First St., Shelton
• Feb. 27, 3-5 p.m., Olympia Timberland Regional Library, 313 8th Ave. SE

For more information, visit www.evergreen.edu/med, or call 360-867-6639.

The Series will continue on Tuesdays through February with presentations by artists Blake Haygood, Claude Zervas, Adriene Cruz and Melissa Shiff as follows:

February 5, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1- Blake Haygood   is an artist, curator and co-director of Platform Gallery and has lived in Seattle since 1992. His current paintings and prints involve machinery parts of undeterminable scale floating in space without a horizon and in constant states of decomposition and regeneration. http://www.blakehaygood.com/

February 12, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Claude Zervas' artwork uses technology and a variety of media to explore representation of landscape, social ecology, and memory. He creates 2D, 3D, and time-based work using video or custom computer programs.  http://claudezervas.com/

February 19, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Adriene Cruz moved to Portland from Harlem in 1983, where her artwork turned increasingly toward creating brilliantly colored and adorned quilts. She pieces together richly patterned materials in rhythmic arrangements that are stately as well as exuberant, structured as well as improvisational, deeply moving on a spiritual level as well as simply enjoyable for their sheer beauty. http://www.adrienecruz.com/

February 26, 3:45 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 - Melissa Shiff is a video, performance, and installation artist who specializes in utilizing Jewish myths, symbols and rituals in the service of social justice and activism as well as engaging with issues of cultural memory. http://melissashiff.com/index.html

Evergreen Gallery - Artist Lecture Series
www.evergreen.edu/gallery

Chris Jordan Photographic Arts
www.chrisjordan.com/ 

With funding and assistance from partners including the The Evergreen State College, Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, The Wild Fish Conservancy People For Puget Sound, the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Restore America’s Estuaries program, an undersized culvert at the mouth of campus’s Snyder Creek will be removed and replaced by a 14-foot wide box culvert. The cost of the culvert project totals $214,000, and is covered by contributions from The Evergreen State College, the Salmon Recovery Funding Board, and the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program.

The new culvert will restore passage for fish species such as coho salmon, chum salmon, and cutthroat. These fish will once again gain access to almost one mile of spawning and rearing habitat. The process will also restore the natural processes of sediment, wood, and water transport.

Bulkheads, barrier culverts, and other shoreline obstructions represent threats to salmon habitat throughout the Puget Sound, and this project represents a potential model for actions around the Sound to restore fish access to critical breeding and rearing habitat. Restoring these habitats also has wider ecosystem benefits beyond the benefits for salmonids because it restores the ecological processes that shape diverse habitat structures. The shoreline of the College is one of the largest remaining stretches of undeveloped shoreline in south Puget Sound and thus restoration adjacent to that shoreline provides an opportunity for significant impact.

Snyder Creek flows into Snyder Cove at the northern end of The Evergreen State College Campus. Work will take place in Snyder Cove during Spring and Summer 2008. Pending the results of the feasibility study work on bulkhead removal should begin in Summer 2009.

Dan Grosboll, an Evergreen State College alumnus and now South Puget Sound Habitat Restoration Coordinator for People For Puget Sound, says, “We see this as a great opportunity for the Sound, and a good example of a public-private partnership that can bring benefits for the school as well as the environment. This is a great educational opportunity as well because students are welcome to get involved in the restoration and monitoring and we will be working with faculty members on various aspects of the project,” says Grosboll.

The total funding for the bulkhead removal feasibility study part of the project is about $60,000 with funding from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restore America’s Estuaries program, Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program, and People For Puget Sound.

The Evergreen State College, Olympia campus will be hosting a series of daytime workshops on January 30, 2008, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Evergreen State College is a proud participant in Focus the Nation, a nationwide campaign to bring communities together through the help of colleges and universities in order to find solutions to global warming issues.

For more information on daytime events on area campuses and evening events at the Washington Center, visit http://focusthenation.evergreen.edu.

(Olympia, Wash.)    The Evergreen Fund for Innovation supports pioneering efforts by members of the Evergreen community for projects that will shape the college’s future.   The award was established in 1996 in an effort to keep Evergreen on the leading edge of higher education.   Two winning teams were announced the 2007-2008 academic year.  

The team of Sally J. Cloninger, Evergreen faculty; Peter Randlette, Evergeen adjunct faculty; Randy Stilson, Evergreen adjunct faculty; and Jules Unsel, interdisciplinary media faculty librarian were awarded the Evergreen Fund for Innovation award for their project to establish The Evergreen Visual History Archive.    With this project, team members will work to preserve the visual and aural media record of Evergreen’s academic mission and accomplishments since the college’s inception.

The team of Robert Cole, Evergreen faculty; Dylan Fischer, Evergreen faculty; and Alexandra Kazakova, Evergreen student were awarded the Fund for Innovation Award for their proposal Carbon Fluxes in Our Forest and Carbon Offsets as a Piece of Evergreen’s Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2020.  The research team will work to examine and address the efficacy of purchasing carbon offsets and will also address the carbon uptake and carbon-offset potential associated with the management of the un-built Evergreen State College forest reserves.   

Successful proposals focus on innovative ideas that may be sustained after the award and represent the best that Evergreen has to offer in interdisciplinary and cross-divisional collaboration.   Awards for 2007-2008 also addressed the challenges and opportunities posed by The Evergreen State College Strategic Plan Update available at http://www.evergreen.edu/president/docs/strategicplanup07.pdf

The Evergreen State College is a nationally recognized public liberal arts college known for its distinctive interdisciplinary curriculum, high level of student/faculty engagement and emphasis on putting learning into action.