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With respect and deep appreciation, a retrospective of artist Gail Tremblay is taking place in the Welcome Cultural Arts Center Longhouse on The Evergreen State College campus on Saturday, July 29. She was an artist, writer, teacher and poet. Tremblay’s decades of contributions to the world and specifically with Evergreen are being formally honored. The public is invited to attend.

Darla Baranko has served Dickinson’s senior community for more than 27 years. On Friday, Evergreen said goodbye to Baranko as she retires from her role as director.

Former Evergreen editor Cheryl Aarnio may describe herself as odd — but she is grounded by her desire to achieve great things, whether that’s in her schoolwork or as an editor. Aarnio is graduating this semester with degrees in journalism and media production and French for the professions. When she was in high school, Aarnio...

This is surely not the graduation any of us pictured. When I was a young girl, I imagined a grown-up version of myself walking carefully to the graduate stage to receive my diploma. My parents would be watching from the crowd, my mom wiping away tears with her calloused hands from years of work in the fields. For the first time in my life I would hear my father say “Estoy orgulloso de ti,” — the four words every child of immigrants yearns for. An assurance that all the sacrifices our parents made in coming to this country and all the beratement they fight through every single day was no...

This time one year ago, I was readying myself for the end of one of the strangest semesters of college I experienced. As editor-in-chief at the time, many of my decisions came from consulting with past Evergreeners — people who really understood my position, who had faced the long nights and constant university-wide criticism. The pandemic had no living consultants for me to go to — the last time the Evergreen newsroom was upended by a viral outbreak was in the early 20th century, so that was pretty much out of the picture. Like many of us, I had a lot of time to just sit and think. My me...