Heather Barry ’04 (MPA) Honored as Community Leader

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Heather Barry ’04 (MPA) honored in Colorado. She is fourth from the left., (Photo: David Zalubowski, Special to The Denver Post)

Heather Barry ’04 (MPA) was honored as an outstanding community leader by the Colorado Black Women for Political Action. Here is an excerpt from the original article published in the Denver Post on October 17, 2013:

HEATHER BARRY, director of business affairs and external relations for Denver International Airport. The daughter-in-law of former Denver Bronco Odell Barry also serves as a commissioner with the Colorado Department of Transportation and held mayoral appointments in the administrations of Michael Hancock, Guillermo “Bill” Vidal and John Hickenlooper. A native of Washington state, Barry has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in public administration/public policy from The Evergreen State College. Before moving to Denver and marrying attorney Damon Barry, she was employed by King County Metro Transit in Seattle, providing strategic planning on policy issues and implementing transit-oriented development in conjunction with local businesses, communities and regional transportation providers.

Congratulations to this outstanding Greener!

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    Dedication of the Costantino Recreation Center

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    CRCHonoring former Vice President of Student Affairs Art Costantino for his years of service, Evergreen will dedicate the Recreation Center (CRC) as the Costantino Recreation Center. The ceremony falls on Return to Evergreen Saturday – October 19 –  between the two Annual Alumni Basketball Games. The women’s game leads off at 1:30 pm to approximately 3:30 pm. The men start immediately after the dedication and should wrap up around 5:30 pm in time to catch the live music and Greener Beer Garden that cap off the day. All activities in the CRC on October 19 are free and open to the public.

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    Evergreen’s climbing wall.

    Art was an avid supporter of the Recreation and Athletics Program at Evergreen. Under his leadership, intercollegiate basketball came to Evergreen, opening up a new college pathway for student athletes seeking a strong liberal arts education.

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    The swimming pool is a central part of Evergreen’s fitness and wellness program.

    The CRC is home to an astounding array of activities from ballet to martial arts. Academic programs are frequent users of the several dance studios. There are racquetball / handball  courts, a wide array of cardiovascular fitness machines and a large, well- equipped weight room.

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      Student Watch: Troy Mead ’15 Chemist-Cartoonist

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      Living the Liberal Arts: Troy Mead ’15, CPJ Comics Editor, Scientist, Performance Artist, Future Zookeeper or Biologist, or ….

      Troy Mead is an alumnus of the first graduating class of the Health and Science High School, a magnet school in Beaverton, Oregon. Where does he think he’s headed? Somewhere in art or science; Troy doesn’t seem concerned, nor should he be. With his talents, interests, early accomplishments and energy, Troy is likely to achieve whatever his Evergreen Mind aspires to.

      realcatTroy was comics editor for the Cooper Point Journal (CPJ) last year. Among his many published works is a riff on “Schrodinger’s Cat,” a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics that states a physical system such as an electron – or a cat – exists partly in all its particular theoretically possible states simultaneously until it is observed, at which time it exists only in the state corresponding to the exact instant of observation. Don’t see the humor? Look what Troy does with the concept.

      Troy says he’s always drawn comics,
      just as he has always been devoted to academic disciplines surrounding zoology, biological research or conservation work, the fields to which he aspires. His first published comic Troy describes as “horrible but incredibly clever.” – irreverently playing with William Blake’s “The Lamb.” The biggest challenge for Troy is creating humor that appeals to the non-scientific mind. Finding himself creatively frustrated at 3 am, unable to come up with joke ideas that are not abstrusely science based, Troy says he either processes his creativity through a computer word generator or bounces ideas around with a “web buddy.”  Other sources of inspiration? At the moment, the cartoonist Randall Monroe, author of “XKCD” is his muse.

      We’ll keep in touch with Troy and share more creations from his Evergreen mind.

       

       

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        Evergreen’s 2013-14 Artist Lecture Series Kicks off

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        David Brody’s “Road Paint Room #1”

        The Art Lecture Series takes place in Lecture Hall 1 at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, on 4-5 Wednesdays per quarter, from 11:30-1:00 pm. Free to the public, Evergreen’s visual arts programs offer an opportunity to hear local, national and international interdisciplinary artists, writers and art workers speak about their work. For more information, contact Faculty Member Shaw Osha.

        Kicking off this term’s Artist Lecture Series is David Brody who speaks  Wednesday, October 9.

        David Brody was born in New York City,  did undergraduate work at Columbia University and Bennington College, and received an MFA in painting from Yale University (1983). In addition to solo exhibitions at Gallery NAGA in Boston, Esther Claypool Gallery in Seattle, Gescheidle in Chicago, and Galeria Gilde in Portugal his work has been featured in over seventy group shows including ones at the Chicago Center for the Print; the Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle; The Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Florida, Tallahassee; and at The Painting Center, Alternative Museum, and Bridgewater Gallery in New York City. His work has also been shown at the Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporàneo (ARCO Art Fair) in Madrid, the RipArte Art Fair in Rome, the Trevi Flash Art Museum, in Trevi, Italy, the FAC Art Fair in Lisbon and at Art Chicago in the US. He is represented in Seattle by Prographica,  Fine Works on Paper. Continue reading →

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          Agriculture’s Youth Movement Standing Strong on The Soul Brothers Farm

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          Current Evergreen students Alex Mutter-Rottmayer and Ross Finn (left and right, respectively) and Austin Carrier ’12 (center)  on their Olympia farm. Photo by Tony Overman, Tacoma News Tribune Staff Photographer.

          Meet the face of farming today. No, not Archer Daniels Midland. The other face: sustainable, local, organic and young.

          Austin Carrier ’12 studied architecture at Evergreen. His partners, Evergreen students Ross Finn and Alex Mutter-Rottmayer are studying evolutionary biology and chemistry, respectively. Together, they are The Soul Brothers and they run a farm.

          Carrier handles land management and buildings. Finn’s biology & behavior education gives him dominion over the animals. Mutter-Rottmayer puts his chemistry studies to work detecting and solving soil problems. Natives of Tennessee, none of the Soul Brothers have farming experience. They have built the farm with the help of happy accidents, serendipity, and You Tube (short course on how to butcher animals).  Read the full article in the Tacoma News Tribune.

           

          Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy

           

          Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/09/18/2791005/the-accidental-agrarians.html#storylink=cpy

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            Morgan Chambers ’08, Olympia’s Newest Entrepreneur

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            Morgan Chambers' new thrift shop in downtown Olympia

            Morgan Chambers’ new thrift shop in downtown Olympia

            Let’s see, where to go for first-generation transformers? Ebay? Seattle? San Francisco?  How about downtown Olympia?  Morgan Chambers ’08 and his partner Nick Poulakidas have opened a new thrift shop, Capitol Eclectic Merchants, that is sure to attract lots of Evergreen students and anyone with a sense of whimsy and adventure. Hot tip: Issues of Mad Magazine are only $2.00 and, in the “priceless” category,” a Star Wars Monopoly game with pewter game pieces.  Read the full story in The Olympian.

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              A Poetic Look at the Online Catalogue

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              Andrew Reece, Evergreen Faculty Member, Author of The Online Catalogue

              Editor’s Note: This poem was read by faculty member and academic dean Andrew Reece at the 2013 President’s Brunch, one of the events kicking off the academic year. It is composed from questions lifted directly from program descriptions. Hope it brings back happy memories.


               

               

               

               

               

              2013-14 Undergraduate Index A-Z at Evergreen, or: The Online Catalogue, by Andrew Reece, Member of the Faculty

              Yes or no?
              Is a good life one full of pleasure and devoid of suffering?
              A moral life? A long and healthy life?
              Is there such a thing as a Caribbean culture,
              or are identities complex amalgams
              that defy easy categorizations
              such as Caribbean,
              Dominican American,
              creole Martinican,
              Afro-Cuban,
              East-Indian Trinidadian?
              Would you like
              to really understand
              “buzz terms”
              the media uses
              such as sustainability,
              green materials,
              climate change,
              the water crisis,
              the energy debate,
              genetic engineering,
              DNA fingerprinting and cloning?
              Must quotidian always be associated with humdrum?
              China: A Success Story?

              What?
              What kind of knowledge do we encounter
              in fiction and poetry? What
              are the psychological mechanisms involved
              in the larger action of the human imagination,
              urging us to explore new avenues, to see
              what others have not seen, to create what
              no one has yet created? What do you know
              when you know a language?
              Sustainability – what does it mean?
              What can the study of play teach us
              about the nature of power? What
              are the limitations on the use of culture
              when one has limited political
              and economic self-determination?
              Who’s Got What? What’s
              been handed to you, and
              what will you hand on?

              Where?
              Where did that Walmart come from?

              How?
              How does a group of indigenous people
              from different countries create an activity
              to reclaim ancient knowledge? How does imagination
              respond to the emotional self, the physiology
              of the body, and the psychology of the mind? How
              does one’s understanding
              of the physical environment shape
              ways of writing and understanding the world?
              How can we develop and nurture
              the “civic intelligence” that will help ensure our actions
              produce the best outcomes? How
              can music and dance be used to transform lives?

              Why?
              Why do humans keep pets and
              at the same time raise animals for food?
              Why is it that humans can handle ambiguity,
              but computers have such a difficult time?

               

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                Faculty Member Receives Journal of Public Affairs Education Best Article Award

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                Member of the Faculty Cheryl Simrell King

                Abstract:
                This autobiographical essay addresses the question: How do the needs of students of working-class origins differ from those of their counterparts from more privileged backgrounds? As one of the invisible differences in the United States, class pervades everything we do, and we are mostly unaware of it. Readers are encouraged to examine their own presumptions about social class, including their suppositions about access to resources and how these can differ based on one’s family of origin. In addition to suggestions on how to address social class in the classroom, readers are encouraged to raise their own consciousness about class in order to reach out to students from working-class backgrounds.

                The Situation
                In preparing to write this essay, I sat with a student of working-class origins with whom I have a mentoring relationship and asked, “What do you want people to know about interacting with working-class students in our field?” Her answer came without hesitation: “presumptions of access.” She said folks who are not of working-class backgrounds presume everyone has access to whatever they need. Middle- and upper-class people do not think about these access presumptions, so deeply engrained are they in the consciousness of all Americans, even the working class. These access issues are like what Peggy McIntosh (1988) described regarding race in her work about White privilege. McIntosh said White folks, because of the privilege our culture affords us, carry an “invisible knapsack,” full of things always at the ready to smooth our path. We do not see, nor are we aware of, our knapsacks. Non-Whites do not have these invisible knapsacks, and they know it.  Read the full article.

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                  Meet Puppetmaster Madison J. Cripps ’04

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                  Madison J. Cripps ’04, Master Puppeteer

                  Madison J. Cripps ’04 sent us an email recently, an RSVP responding to a “Return to Evergreen” invitation. Sadly, Madison can’t make it to campus this October 19 but he enclosed an intriguing photo (seen here at left). A web search turned up a video. Take a look: here be all manner of wondrous oddities.

                  Madison is on his way to the  Puppet Slam in Portland, Oregon in November. If you’re planning to go, give Madison a big “hello” from Evergreen.

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