This month Olympia’s Crisis Clinic celebrated 40 years of continuous service, 24 hours a day. With humble roots at Evergreen, the Crisis Clinic started in an empty dormitory room in 1972. The Olympian has more on the event.
A pygmy three-toed sloth climbing a mangrove. Photo taken by Sam Kaviar.
A low estimate of 79 pygmy three-toed sloths (Bradypus pygmaeus) remain on Isla Escudo de Veraguas, a small island off of Panama, making them one of the rarest animals in the world.
In May of 2011, three Evergreen biology students traveled to Panama to study manatees. Their project changed course when they learned of the pygmy sloths living on Isla Escudo de Veraguas. Their survey of these critically endangered pygmy sloths and the work surrounding the project has brought light upon these little creatures along with hope, as the local community embraces a new responsibility. You can learn more in the article released by Scientific American.
Lynda Weinman ’76, cofounder and executive chair of lynda.com (Photo by Chris Orwig)
“December 5 – Award-winning online learning company lynda.com announced today a partnership with The New York Public Library (NYPL) to provide the patrons of its Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) with free access to lynda.com’s extensive library of instructional training videos. The partnership marks the online company’s first formal entry into the public library space, providing greater opportunities for the public to benefit from its leading education solutions.”
Read more on The New York Library’s webpage.
Alan Kohl ’79 and Alice Kohl ’90 are honored by The Daily World in celebration of their 50th anniversary.
Elwha Dam construction circa 1911. The use of explosives during construction dramatically altered the canyon.
NPS/OLYM Archives-HAB HAER Report
“Explore the unique history of the Elwha River and the long, remarkable journey that led to removal of its dams in the next episode of the San Juans Stewardship Network’s At the Water’s Edge Lecture series: ‘Elwha River Dam Removal & Restoration: A Photographic Journey with Eric Kessler ’84,” reports the San Juan Journal.
The presentation is Thursday, Dec. 6, 6-7 p.m., at the Grange Hall in Friday Harbor. Admission is free.
MTV blogger Eddie Wright posts:
This Sunday, December 9 at 8pm on FOX, “The Simpsons” hometown of Springfield collides with Portland in “The Day the Earth Stood Cool.” Fittingly, the episode, guest-stars “Portlandia” creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein ’98 as hip parents who move in next door to The Simpsons, causing all sorts of “we’re not cool enough” chaos for the classic TV family.
Portlandia’s hip vibe collides with ’77 grad Matt Groening’s The Simpsons in upcoming episode
Read more on the MTV blog.
Bruce Pavitt, age 30 here, takes time to reflect during a stopover in Paris on Nirvana’s 1989 European tour. Source: Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge In Europe, 1989 (book)
This week, Fast Company Magazine opened a window into the life of Bruce Pavitt ’81, in their article – Punk Rock Branding: How Bruce Pavitt Built Sub Pop In An Anti-Corporate Nirvana
Ben Haggerty ’09, A.K.A. Macklemore
Ben Haggerty ’09, better known by his stage name, Macklemore, has exploded onto the national scene of hip-hop. The Huffington Post reports from his Midwest tour: Macklmore & Ryan Lewis Tour Brings Liberal Blend Of Hip-Hop To Red States, Too
Editors note: We picked up this story when Midge Price ’84 sent us a lovely email speculating that her family was perhaps the first to have three generations of Greeners.
Three generations of Greeners in the Miller-Price family gather for a portrait–from left to right are Monty Miller ’76, Midge Price ’84, David Price ’83, and Nora Price ’16. “Luckily I have enough laundry to use as an excuse to take the bus home and eat dinner with everyone about once a week,” notes Nora, who just started her freshman year at Evergreen.
Monty Miller ’76, the matriarch of the Miller-Price family, graduated from high school in 1952. She started her college career in Germany, because her father, a military man stationed overseas, only agreed to pay her college tuition if Monty lived with him. Monty didn’t finish her degree immediately, she returned to the states, and a few years slipped by.
Student Sean Blomgren explores the question: What place should drones have in US military strategy?
Editor’s Note: Current student, Sean Blomgren, wrote this piece about the use of drones in the US military. He is a student in Steve Niva’s program, Transforming the Art of War: From Industrial to Asymmetric Warfare, and Beyond, which recently hosted a campus forum, Drone Warfare: Home and Abroad exploring this issue.
Republicans who were outraged by November’s presidential election results have some unlikely intellectual bedfellows: Pakistanis. However the anger some Pakistanis feel comes from a much different place. It comes from their first-hand experience with drones or unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). “The same person [Barack Obama] who attacked my home has gotten re-elected,” said Mohammad Rehman Khan in a Reuters article about drone victims in Pakistan.
