Three cheers for Evergreen for taking the protest demands seriously and saying “Yeah, ok, that sounds fine.” So everybody went home.
Here I am assuming that all the colleges played the delay-and-forget game.
Cheers for evergreen.
What’s wrong with crunchy granola?
I’m just glad some one did the right thing. Because it’s the right thing.
Most that negotiate will just play the long game and expect the urgency to go away. I’m not sure that it will- but history says it should.
Other commenters are correct that Evergreen is quite a “hippy” and “alternative” college, but I believe the core reason this happened is Rachel Corrie.
Evergreen school administrators may have been more amenable to students’ demands because of Rachel Corrie, who was a 23-year-old Evergreen student when she was crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer while she and others sought to protect a Palestinian home from being demolished in the Gaza border town of Rafah
TESC has always been a pretty radical place, but you’re not wrong that there’s a bit of a legacy with Palestine there. (Source: am alumnus.)
Though the college more recently had a problem on campus with protesting that involved a professor being effectively chased off campus and the administration managing to both use the police and not use the police wrong.
They previously handled radical protests pretty well, but had lost their step after some key administrators retired. Seems they’ve found their way again.
Great read. Really did a great job explaining the whole current situation and history of college protests.