More detailed information, speaker bios and event times and locations can be found at

http://www.evergreen.edu/synergy

Synergy: The 7th Annual Sustainable Living Conference is being held at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. The dates for the 2008 conference are Monday, May 19th through Friday, May 23rd. This conference has grown to be a powerful platform to engage and address the intertwining themes of Ecology, Design, Culture, Health, and Social Change.

Synergy is organized by a non-profit coalition of student organizers. The title of the event reflects our belief that the solutions to the world’s problems can only be solved though collaboration, where the whole becomes more then the sum of it’s parts. This year’s conference will include presentations by notable leaders in their respected fields.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim of New York based non-profit Terreform, will be presenting a keynote lecture on the future of ecological urban design at 6PM on Thursday May 22nd in Lecture Hall 1. Dr. Joachim, a MIT Media Lab graduate, is best known as being the creator of the Fab Tree Hab. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car with the MIT Smart Cities Group.

Porn Week started yesterday, with Robert Jensen, who spoke on the relationship of our societal concept of masculinity through analysis of mainstream pornography. But there are still events going on this week!

Wednesday, 21st Xandra Ibarra - Speaking on the under-representation of current sex workers on the debate over pornography. Critiques both those who defend, and those who oppose pornography. 3:00~4:00 @ Sem II B1105

Thursday, 22nd Films - two films screening (w/FREE popcorn!): Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography (only 35 minutes, and very good! and pretty graphic, but sexy) Made in Secret: Stories of the East Van Porn Collective (check this out-it's about an "Underground DIY Anarcho-Feminist Porn Collective") 1.5hrs 8:00~10:00 pm @ SemII E1105

Friday, 23rd Babeland presents: Women's Sexual Pleasure Workshop - Includes a plethora of information on how to please yourself, or your lady friend. Anywhere from pleasure-based anatomy to the G-spot, female ejaculation, cunnilingus, strap-ons, and sex toys. Open to ALL for an all-around happier and sexier world! 4:00~6:00 @ SemII A2109

SDS is extending open invitations to a party today in Art Costantino’s office. Plans are in store for a series of live concerts on the roof of the SEM I building today.

The sit-in surrounding the office of Art Costantino, Vice President for Student Affairs at the Evergreen State College (TESC) goes into its second day. There are approximately 20 to 30 students and community supporters at any given time occupying the top floor and roof of the SEM I building on the Olympia campus, with an alternating cast of approximately 50 to 60 people taking shifts, and additional people outside providing support. The sit-in, which was organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), is an attempt by the group and its supporters to draw attention to the diminishing rights of students at TESC and to regain SDS’ status as a student organization. The students occupying the hallway surrounding Costantino’s office have refused to move until SDS is immediately reinstated as a student group. Costantino has been unable to access his office since the beginning of the sit-in.