Some of you may have read how SDS at Evergreen may have been planning to disrupt graduation tomorrow. Looks like that won't be the case. A faculty member involved in the mediation between the admins and SDS just released a brief on the conclusion of the sit-in and agreement between both SDS and the admins.

It is reproduced below:

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Today the Evergreen Police Services Community Review Board, which is made up of students, staff, and faculty at Evergreen released its report on the incident on Feb 14.

It is attached in PDF format on this thread.

Basically, these were the major findings of the Board:

• that the Evergreen police followed protocol, but the officer should have attempted to leave sooner and park her vehicle so it could have a quicker exit route, and
  
• the initial arrest was justified and was not based on racial profiling, given the evidence and witness statements the officer gathered at the scene, and that the officer went beyond what was necessary to attempt to gather more statements, even when the crowd was growing more hostile
  
• their should not have been only one officer on campus, and back-up should have been called sooner
  
• that event staff were not trained and/or did not follow protocol, an
  
• their was little to no communication prior to the event, between the police on campus and the event staff/student activities people responsible for planning the event
  
  

It should be noted that this report is only for the campus police, and the scope can not include Olympia police actions.

Greetings Friends! The new 'Nightline' transit schedule is now available. The Nightline starts this Friday!

Go to www.evergreen.edu/commute and click on 'Late-Night Transit Schedule.'

A city film capturing a day in Olympia, Washington. Created by students in Mediaworks at The Evergreen State College.

Drew Hendricks will host a "talk about Detention and Removal Operations, a division of ICE. It is entitled "The Order of Terror.""

According to Drew, it "will cover the overview of how this (order of terror) fits into the broader "war on Terra" and how that war (against us, our liberties, and the Constitution) is, in fact, terrorism."

It's in the SEM II A1107 building at Evergreen, 6PM Wednesday March 5th.

The talk may include a discussion of the Department of Homeland Security project Endgame, a detention and removal contingency.

On Tuesday, Feb. 19, The Evergreen State College held a Community Forum regarding the incidents that occurred during the Dead Prez concert of Feb. 14. KAOS will broadcast that forum in its entirety on Thursday, Feb. 21 beginning at 8pm. Please tune in for this special broadcast.

KAOS 89.3 FM, you can also listen through their web site