Counting the days to commencement; more than 1300 to walk
Gov. Christine Gregoire to deliver Evergreen's commencement address

OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire will deliver the keynote address at The Evergreen State College's 35th commencement ceremony Friday, June 16 at the college's Red Square. The ceremony begins at 1 p.m.

More than 1300 students will receive their diplomas as an audience expected to number more than 5000 looks on.

The Olympia Social Forum organized by students in the academic program ‘Global Citizenship’ at The Evergreen State College plan to help foster discussions about the future of the South Sound region and its relation to the broader United States and world.

The forum is Saturday, May 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at The Olympia Center, 222 N. Columbia St. It is free and open to the public.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The academic program ‘Reconstructing New Orleans’ at The Evergreen State College will host an all-day symposium focused on challenges facing New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in light of one of the most severe natural disasters in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina.

The symposium is from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, May 26 at the college’s Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. It is free and open to the public.

The Evergreen State College’s Writer's Guild is hosting the first-ever Spring Writes Writer's Conference Saturday, May 6th from 9 a.m. to 6:30PM in the Cedar Room at the college’s Longhouse Center. Tickets go on sale April 24th at the Evergreen Bookstore. Five dollars for students and $7 for community members. There is limited seating at the conference.

All members of the community are invited to come together tomorrow (Thursday) at noon for a campus commemoration and time for reflection about this week's tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The event will take place at the 9/11 Memorial Bench outside the first floor of the CAB Building. The program will include a musical performance, remarks from a representative from the Geoduck Student Union, a time for community reflection and a moment of silence in honor of the victims, their families and the Virginia Tech community.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Renowned zoologists Delia and Mark Owens will deliver a lecture entitled “High Stakes Conservation: Saving Elephants by Giving Alternative Jobs to Poachers” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2 at The Evergreen State College’s Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Jennifer Harbury, an acclaimed human rights lawyer, activist and author will make a free public presentation at The Evergreen State College on May 10, 2006. Ms Harbury’s most recent book is Truth, Torture and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture (Beacon Press, 2005).

Harbury's talk is May 10th from 1:00-3:00pm in Lecture Hall 1 at Evergreen. The subject the talk is “Torture and U.S. Foreign Policy: What Can We Do?” A question and answer session will follow her presentation.

The major spring exhibition at Evergreen Galleries, Paul Sparks: Friends, Cronies, and Colleagues, honors Paul Sparks, an innovative artist and teacher who recently retired after 32 years of teaching at The Evergreen State College. The opening reception is Friday, April 28 from 6 to 9 p.m, and the exhibition runs through May 18 at Gallery 4, on the fourth floor of the Evans Library Building.

Lifton headlines the 20th anniversary Willi Unsoeld Seminar

OLYMPIA, Wash. — For the fourth year running, the Princeton Review has named The Evergreen State College one of the nation's "best value" four-year colleges. The New York-based education services company features Evergreen in the 2007 edition of its book, America's Best Value Colleges (Random House/Princeton Review, $18.95.)