I'm just waiting for them to unironically demand POC only water fountains.

Who is thumbs downing this, must be one of those students with demands.

The singing was awful. Please do it again sometime.

Muh demands: (1) Give me all your money. (2) Do everything I want. (3) No asking questions. (4) You can't sit with me.

"Hello Evergreen students, glad you could make it... I've read your demands and the answer is: no. Goodnight!"

I am confused, why does this insane asylum continue to get public funding?

I have two demands of my own. 1. The university shall lose its accreditation. 2. University shall be permanently closed.

Stop fighting this. Give in to all their demands. Then broadcast the result, but avoid plagiarism charges from the "Lord of the Flies".

someone needs to start a go fund me for the officers to get body cams. I dont trust any of these students!

Translation: "We're about to be held accountable for our actions that violated the law. Therefore, we want to change the code that we violated to erase any consequences for our actions." This is such utter nonsense. I'm glad their enrollment is tanking and hope that it continues. An Evergreen degree has now been rendered completely worthless.

I see the makings of a Broadway "Evergreen the musical" hit. I was fascinated by the part about their caucus demands. They want to separate down racial lines then come together and list their grievances/demands. This is the way the California prison system works when there are issues between the racial gangs. I've heard in the past that our education system was like jail, but who knew it was literal.

In regards to the latinx people demanding that they receive free Spanish classes in reparation for forced assimilation... I'm just confused. To play the devils advocate, isn't the Spanish language also a form of forced assimilation in when you take the indigenous people from Central and South America? Spaniards were colonizers too (as well as rapist and pillagers) and Spanish is a European (white) language in origin. Anyway, been watching all your stuff. I'm from Olympia originally and I'm glad someone is finally exposing this bullshit.

My demands, Pop tarts must be packaged individually NOT by twos

So basically this is an attempt by those responsible to not face charges, and they are abusing their power to do so under the guise of compassion. Sickening.

*FROM A EVERGREEN STUDENT* This video was interesting. Excuse my typos. As a student here, I play the role as a customer and a guest. I disagree with the protest and I'm probably going to get backlash for it. I think it's important to realize that not EVERYONE agrees with this. Not everyone feels the need to speak up about disagreeing as well. To a lot of people, this was just a protest that happened. To some, it was no different than pro life planned parenthood protesters coming to protest on red square, it was distracting but for a lot of students it had no deeper meaning, it just happened. It was just the opinions of a minority. There are people out there like myself who couldn't care less. Why didn't I stop it? I don't feel obligated to. I'm an adult and those who participated where adults as well. I'm not obligated to babysit and I don't pay thousands a year to babysit adults. My 4 years is short lived in comparison to how long the school has been running and how long it might stand. In my opinion the only time you should directly cause conflict is if your ability to complete your degree is compromised in some way that's orchestrated by the school. This didn't happen. The protesters scream "privilege" but they fail to realize the privilege of education and being able to pay for a school. It might just be Evergreen but It's still a school. I'm sure in other countries someone would love to go to school and have that right to have some control over their future. It's sad and embarrassing to see people crying and debating about who's racist. As a person of color, I dont care about anyone's personal opinions. It has nothing to do with me. As long as the "racist" doesn't physically harm me or harass me, I have no concern. It's sad to be racist but it has nothing to do with me as an individual. Legit someone only disliking ONE portion of my identity without knowing me personally. The thing between me and the protest: the oppression I face isnt my identity. I don't feel to the need to go "I'm a gay, middle class, male blah blah.." I don't need to list stuff like that. It's a tactic the radicals at Evergreen use to shut other people up. I don't feel the need to play "who's more oppressed" I was taught to not question authority unless its life or death. I grew up respecting those above me. I think the issue is the message Evergreen sends out, the idea that students and administration are equals in terms of status and that just isn't true. As a paying student, I don't feel like I have the right to demand something from someone. Yes, I'm a paying customer but if I'm not getting my needs, I'll take my money somewhere else like most college students. Case closed. Trust in this: If there's really a issue 1. State of WA will cut funding until its resolved. 2. They'll see their numbers dropping and aid to the issue at hand. It just comes down to students not trusting the system and starting conspiracy. The school is federally funded, if it's actually breaking laws and discriminating(I'm talking actual cases of discrimination) it could get in trouble with the state because discrimination is illegal. The state isn't going to pay for a institution breaking the law. I think the false narrative here is that people assume the *ALL* the students and staff feel this way. This was a small portion. Why isn't anyone speaking up? Because the whole situation was so crazy that most people rolled their eyes and when on with life.

I demand that all these students who are acting like little spoiled brats and tyrants get expelled immediately!

We want This paid position to be created. We want that paid panel be created. We want extensive modifications to this building. We want that building to be built. We want to double admin staff. We want 1 professor for every 10 students. We want no police & no rules. We want a safe environment. And finally, we want a 75% reduction in tuition. Sincerely Evergreen student body. lol You are right, they didn't really think things through. To be serious for a moment, I do like the idea of intensive classes where you really get to know the other students & professors. My grad school was set up like that & once you know & trust everyone it does create a unique & effective learning environment. Problem is, I think this entire Social Justice, Identity Politics thing has introduced a toxic element into an otherwise good concept.

So much of identity politics seems to be more a demand for resources than a demand for rights.

I'm always amused by "Latinx." If they need a gender neutral version of the word, they could just say "Latin." I guess that would be denying the Spanish origin of the term by removing the suffix. But the suffix is there to specify gender. Gendered nouns are part of the language, which they want to remove.

A question! How long do these kids plan on going to College? It only took me 4 years and I am working in the field I studied. I had so much homework and had to work at the same time while raising 2 babies. When I went to college , I went because I needed to learn about my chosen field from someone who had "been there done that" experience. It never crossed my mind that I would make or be permitted to make demands! I respected my Professors and was so grateful I was able to go to College. I paid my way through college for years after I graduated. I personally lived through segregation of schools and neighborhoods as a child and it was real! I went to school when kids were bused out of their home school and into schools where we became friends. As a kid, I looked at it as an opportunity to have more friends. At my 20 year High school reunion (many of us stay in touch throughout the years') all got together again and enjoyed each other's company! No one was counting how many Black people, Hispanic people, or Caucasian people were there! It was just old friends getting together. I can't believe what the College experience has turned into. I wish these kids could have gone to college when I did, but they would have had to live through the real struggles and from my point of view I don't think they would have made it! We worked hard, very hard and didn't have time for all of this crap!

_"Campus police will have more Social Justice-based training"_ *cringe*

Why do the majority of these "activist" always demand people just give them money? I think when it boils down to it most these people just end up wanting money in the end

i really hope they have strong demands when they are behind bars

Oh I forgot, must have really high quality drugs to facilitate more demands.

Give me a broom & dustpan and In two or three months, I will have Evergreen functioning as a University.

The students *DO* understand how money works, in a political environment. The more extravagant demands were not serious, their purpose was to make the lesser demands seem "reasonable", so that administrators could seem "strict", by rejecting the most extravagant demands, and still give in to the demands the students really wanted. The leaders of the movement bring home concrete concessions, and are seen to win, and the administrators are seen to hold some sort of line on the demands. These are political entrepreneurs, who make their career by stirring people up, bringing concessions, and gaining contributions, positions, etc in exchange. Parasitic professional activists stirring up disturbances out of nothing seem to be a natural hazard of prosperous democracies at peace.

the biggest threat to Naima Lowe is her appetite

Ben's singing brought a tear to my eye

Wow!! I am so glad you cut this short. LOL Thanks for my badge of demands for listening to the whole thing. I enjoy your commentary on the Evergreen happenings. Thank you for continuing these posts.

If I ran evergreen, I would expel everyone that made "demands". But I have balls, and George does not.

Thank you, Mr. Boyce. Your analysis is always brilliant, respectful, and enlightening.

At 11:00, college professor Naima Lowe (sp?) claims that "every 28 minutes" a black person is killed by police (or people pretending/aspiring to be police) in the US. If this were true, it would mean every day 51.4 black people in the US are killed by cops! Which would mean every year 18,771 black people are killed by cops in the USA. Obviously, Lowe's claim is a grotesque exaggeration! In fact, 310 blacks in the US were killed by police in 2016. That's not one every 28 minutes, it's one every 1.17 days, or every 28 hours. mappingpoliceviolence.org Of course, the numbers are still way too high. Young black males in particular are still being disproportionally killed by police relative to the proportion they make up of the whole population. But is this because the police are racist? Or because young blacks males are disproportionately involved in gang violence & criminality? The Washington Post is creating a database of police killings, but it's still in early stages & so is a little hard to access. The upshot of Lowe's statement is that a person who doesn't know the difference between "every 28 hours" and "every 28 minutes" should be teaching at any level.

Thank you for compiling these! :D

So alternative policing means students with baseball bats. I would go with the police.

Deciding who benefits from 911 emergency service, WOW

Evergreen State College has been so much fun this year .. thanks for the videos!

This seems to be a thing. All these groups make demands of the universities. Until recently the only time I'd heard the phrase, "list of demands" were in conjunction with a hostage situation of some sort.

Its time to privatize this institution . A state institution run in this way is not going to stand .

This is Benjamin’s best intro by far. I find myself rewinding it over and over and smiling it’s so awesome!

Excellent It amazes me to how delusional the students are with these demands, I laughed at where they want to be paid. As to the tale of the tapes being stolen and edited to make the students look bad is to release the unedited tapes made by the students to show the world how peaceful and calm this protest was... but I believe they can not release that which does not exist.

I'm finding out that my capacity to be flabbergasted by the cult-like behavior of students and faculty at Evergreen is, apparently, unlimited.

Love the intro! You're doing the cosmos creators work with this channel; keep it up ^_^

Benjamin, great video and I applaud your vision that these college adults will actually try and learn something outside of their echo chamber. I hope, for the sake of this country, they do.

Thank you for this....this is a place I will never recommend any student to go to this poor quality school....stop ALL taxpayer funding....fire the boss as he has lost control...They are a big bunch of idiots....

Very good video mate.

No offense to Mr. Boyce and the thousands of very smart people who have gone to Evergreen, but these demands exemplify perfectly why a college shouldn't have a 98%+ acceptance rate.

I don't see even a handful of these demands being met simply because they were written by people with absolutely no sense of reality. But I also have demands, albeit only two: 1) Since the lands that Evergreen University are on were stolen from native Americans, the university and all aforementioned lands are to be returned to the native American community immediately without cost. 2) All non-native Americans are to leave the grounds forthwith.

In a sad way, this is funny. I bet some of the faculty did not see that the teachings they filled the students' heads with would actually come back to kick the faculty and the college in their own heads.

Ohhhh, this is gonna be a fun hour. Time to go make some popcorn.

As much as I really don't want the demands to be catered to; I really want to see the outcome if they all happen. You can tell your kid to not put his hand on a hot stove. But he may not understand what you mean until he gets burnt

side note, RA contracts specifically enumerating "other duties" is kinda known to be a union tactic (I'm pro-labor union, generally) to disrupt by means of the fact that an infinite variation of events and experiences could arise, and RAs want to be able to demand, on the fly, at will, that "that's not my job and I refuse to help". One can imagine the disruption and lack of accountability that this will generate. In factory work, the complaint is it amounted to dozens or hundreds of people waiting around for an electrician to appear from break or other important work to plug in a machine power plug to a wall outlet or flip on a switch.

BRAVO! Encore!

This debacle just gets better and better!!!! It's like a situation comedy show!!!!!!

So I'm thinking that all the jobs that the demands are requiring, is basically designed to hiring the graduating class of students.

I don’t think shutting down the college would be the best thing to do. As a business owner I believe the smartest thing that Evergreen College could do in order to regain any notion of being a legitimate college and also for the benefit of the majority of students attending now and students that have attended in the past would be to cut this out like the cancer that it is. If it really is just a few hundred students and a couple of employees [professors, staff] they should get rid of them all. Expel the students and fire the employees. If they want what is best for this college, make it clear that this type of behavior will not be tolerated.

Intro was pure gold!

Anyone wanting a job with the Evergreen Campus Police is ipso facto not fit for duty due to severe lack of judgment.

I agree with you , great video.

why are you the only one making videos about evergreen now. i thought this story was going to explode with a grand finale but it just sort of stopped being outrageous.

Close this place...close it do not allow any student to attend class.

And the freak show continues.

Love the way they 'demand' that someone not only gets suspended but have their pay stopped as well. The way that they treated the kitchen workers shows their idiocy up for what it is- spoilt entitled children who have never been told NO.

Hi Benjamin, I'm afraid that they didn't consider that there was going to be a $2.1M shortfall in the budget and they the college has had to lay off employees as a result. It sounds like most of these people have no concept of money. Perhaps these are the screeching of people raised in charitable housing and are fed from food stamps. One develops a certain mentality when the relationship between work and one's standard of living are out of sync. When one becomes accustomed to not paying fair market value, the concept of money/work becomes skewed. Are these "'demanding" students on full scholarship so they are further distanced from how things work. Just the musings of a lady who takes care of dogs for a living. Thanks again for your content. I feel smarter after listening to you.

Around 27:00 Good point One wonders how, when and with whom such students might have learned this behavior and way of thinking...

holy shit this intro

As an Asian, my demand is to end affirmative action a.k.a everyone uses the same SAT standard for college. Want to see these jokers say yes to that.

Oh gawd... I listened to the whole thing and I feel sick now.

"This student who shall not be named (pink hair)" Am I the only one who guessed the character immediately?

They would be arrested and jailed in the real world.

" Educated to think they are educated" lol, i love that

Interesting how these "students" simply force their way in to taking control of school operations. "To hell with authority and order. Just bust in a president's office and tell him you're in charge and calling the shots now." It's one thing to have some demands, but they downright try to control every detail of operations right down to what brand of coffee staff are allowed to drink...

You are very economical with the truth.

we need a episode on what of the demands did they get

"Come with me to the promise land" lol I'm dead

I remember the last video touting the freedoms of the radical educational model and I see these demands as merely the logical extension of that. I suppose no one has explained to the students the difference between the freedom to change oneself and the freedom to change others. Sort of like how the teachers rationalize not teaching, as a freedom for themselves, rather then as a breach of the contract of being paid to provide an education. Once you accept the premise that freedom means no resistance to change, then these demands follow logically. I see them putting what they have learned, to use.

im 71 videos in (all of the series thats about 24videos and now I'm working through #exposeevergreen playlist) good shit man. You've got my sub cheers and appreciate the work. I almost ended up attending evergreen starting in 2015 so this has been especially fascinating to me PS I'm from Portland Oregon.

That song!! Freaking classic mate

That introduction..."All animals are equal but some are more equal than others." (one of Snowball's Commandments, Animal Farm).

6:00 Pepper spray. Copious volumes of pepper spray.

OK... Just the fact that you sang in the entro deseves a thumbs up.. there done.

Thank you for sharing. It's clear that the students have been so misguided by the very people who are supposed to be mentors and role models. At this age they are regurgitating what they've been taught.

Ha! The sounds and hats are hilarious to me..

I'm enjoying this education through entertainment thing going on.

This school will be shuttered soon. RIP Evergreen.

I suspect Andrea Seabert-Olsen made the mistake of making the black kids angry. She got off with a warning, but watch Colin Flaherty's channel to find out what happens to repeat offenders.

Wow, this takes me back way back... It was the best Documentary (Feature) EVER! Watching her brave the wilderness. Unflinchingly facing savages, relentlessly driven by her thirst for knowledge and discovery. Brave Smart and Beautiful! I was endlessly fascinated with Ms Jane Goodall and her students. Sadly am not that impressed with your Flick, Mr Boyce. Lady Goodall is a much foxier scholar than you can ever hope to be ( I believe you would agree ) and more to the point, her students showed way more promise ( and etiquette ) than your -chim- students. VIVA LOS RAD! RAFFT O MUERTE!

Crikey! Can you do _The Lass That Loved a Sailor_ (HMS Pinafore) tunes, too?

Its a slippery slope, but a national blacklist for activist teachers is starting to look possible. Any university receiving federal funds should be made to adhere to standards that would eliminate this type of activity. Demagogues do not belong in education.

How about a compromise. You get none of your demands, but they don't push for maximum sentencing for all the crimes you've committed. Maybe just expulsion and a recommendation in your files that no other college accepts you.

These students are going to make the college close down and I don't know if that would be a terrible thing. I would just feel bad for the students who are not crazy as shit.GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!

WTF???? When I went to college....I went to classes, did my homework, took my tests and received my degree without ever feeling the need to make any "demands". How are these college students able to devote all of this time to this ridiculousness????? And, they do not work there, why should they be paid for doing "no labor"???

Just about made that low A - didn't think it would happen.

I demand you give me an hour of my life back. Just kidding. Thank you for your hard work.

And what were they going to do if their demands were not meet?

Having just watched Bret Weinstein's interview with Matt Christiansen in which Mr. Weinstein says he believes the university will now ultimately fail, I think the students should be given every single thing on all these lists. Let them utterly bankrupt the school in the name of perfect utopia to serve as an excellent exemplar for why such pursuits have never, never, never, never worked...and never will.

Thought your song was Les Miserables worthy, and pretty funny

that song was gold, well the lyrics were at least.

Has ANY of these students/hooligans been arrested or disciplined yet?

There was a KZfaq video of Evergreen students trying to read their protest statements. The funny part was that they couldn't read. (I estimate a 4th grade reading level) Please someone find a web archive of this!!!!

I like the singing and the lyrics