College Students Getting Riled Up Over Budget Cuts

The Evergreen Committee for Full Funding at Evergreen State College is off to a good start with their blog, and Tacoma Community College has Stop the Cuts. I wish them both well this coming legislative session, and I love the image of those most effected by the cuts (the students) making their voice heard.

The way things are going every CC, College, and University in the state should be mobilizing RIGHT NOW to get a defense going. Talk to your friends and neighbors, set up email chains for your local legislator, and think about how to present your best story in a positive way that shows the value of your school.

And if you're a teacher who has the ability to join the WEA Political Action Committee, do it.

It's Ragnarok, folks. If you're not worried, you're not paying attention.

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I’d Love to Attend Their Caucus Meetings

Negotiators for United Faculty of Evergreen also are gearing up for the first round of contract talks at The Evergreen State College in Olympia.
--WE Magazine, June 2007

Top contract demands from the United Faculty Union:

*No classes on April 20th
*Tenure decisions to be based on hacky-sack skills.
*Goeducks to be re-christened Gooeyducks, because that's how everyone spells it, dammit!
*Family of Dan Evans no longer has to admit his association to college.
*Sandals and ponchos to be considered proper attire.
*With regards to what the horticulture department is growing in the campus greenhouse, the administration agrees to mind their own business.
*School to separate from city of Olympia, become Free and Sovereign Nation of Evergreen State.
*Sleater-Kinney named professors emeritus in music department.
*School leader no longer to be called president; will instead be known as The Dude.

Evergreen: The Berkley of the Northwest.

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