Attendees passed through metal detectors for Evergreen State College's commencement on Friday, which was held at a baseball. ", The meeting ended with the Gumbo Potluck Demand. Bret Weinstein has got to go!". 80 Evergreen protesters sanctioned for breaking student-conduct code Now he was being accused of racism. Weinstein and Heying filed a lawsuit against the college and received a 500-thousand-dollar settlement in September. The Evergreen State College (photo courtesy of Evergreen State) Gift The Evergreen State College, where angry protests over race have drawn national attention, reopened Monday. Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green When I voiced concern over the effect they were gonna have on the college there was a tremendous backlash that accused me of opposing the proposals because I opposed equity itself. But as Evergreen students have complained online, too many of their loosely supervised classmates simply coast along majoring in drugs and tattoos. Racial tensions bubble over to protests at Evergreen State College resulting in protests that lead to questions on. Dozens of Weinstein's fellow faculty members at Evergreen have already signed an open letter asking the college to pursue a "disciplinary investigation against Bret Weinstein" simply for publicizing his predicament: "Wein-stein has endangered faculty, staff, and students, making them targets of white supremacist backlash by promulgating misinformation in public emails, on national television, in news outlets, and on social media. The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. She says a 40-person planning committee, which included white members, made the change to the Day of Absence event as a show of solidarity with students who were feeling increasingly unwelcome at the school. That email was circulated widely and fueled attacks that led to the charge that he was a racist. Bret Weinstein and his wife, Heather. Campus Argument Goes Viral As Evergreen State Is Caught In - YouTube All three are no longer in the positions they filled during the spring and two are no longer employed by the college. I was really surprised at how angry some of the white students were at the black students that were protesting, she said. And so the result of that was to really get their attention without the administration being able to get out of it. Seabert Olsen has shown a consistent often violent flaw in judgment when it pertains to the needs and safety of Black students, other students of color, Trans students, students with disabilities, students who have experienced sexual assault. Counter-protesters clash with pro-Trump group Patriot Prayer at