While the polls began closing on November 5th, many of Washington’s voters drove home with what may have been an ephemeral smile. Tim Eyman, a prolific individual in Washington politics, was up to bat yet again, after two decades of many unsuccessful attempts to shut the tax collector’s handbag. This…
The Seattle Collegian
Last week on November 21, Dr. Gad Levy, a senior research scientist with Northwest Research Associates came by Seattle Central College as part of the ongoing Conversations on Social Issues (COSI) that have been taking place in Room A of the library every Thursday. The reason for his visit was…
Seattle Central College students who normally enjoy pastries, coffee, or espresso from the Buzz cafe received an unwelcome surprise on the morning of Monday, November 25 when they entered the Broadway Edison building to find the cafe mysteriously closed. “I love lattes,” said student, Takayoshi Tanaka, “but when I haven’t…
Seattle Central College will be holding a competition to name a school mascot early next year, which will be used in advertising materials for the college. The winning entry will be awarded $1000 and automatically become the intellectual property of Seattle Central College, and the school’s marketing department will make…
The November air was crisp and sharp, qualities which emboldened the contrast to the welcome inside. Unassuming doors opened to the broad expanse of the BE1110 event hall. At five minutes until 6 P.M., people were lining the walls of the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, hastily setting up elaborate…
You can’t get there from here… Do you all remember a time before the internet? Where you had to actually look at maps, write things down, and even interact with strangers after leaving the house?…me neither. But I do remember when there was much less internet, and “friendster” was the…
For the better part of the last year, Seattle Central College has been planning to create a key-card entry system effective enough to implement on the entire school, save the entry of Broadway Edison and the Buzz Cafe. As complicated as any all-school system may be, the key card system…
In Washington state, homelessness has become an epidemic. For homeless college students, having to navigate educational institutions brings additional intersecting challenges. According to a 2018 report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, “Of 43,000 students surveyed at dozens of two and four-year colleges and universities in…
On Thursday of last week, a press release was sent out by the Seattle Central College President’s office condemning an instance of racist graffiti on campus. The graffiti was reportedly found in a women’s lavatory in the Fine Arts building, and was found by a student. The vandalism was a…