Joel Raphael

For most students at Seattle Central College, this mid term election represents your first opportunity to vote.  I do not envy you the neophyte’s task of learning to navigate the American electoral system amidst the chaos that is our modern political sphere.  I wish I could tell you that it doesn’t matter how you personally…

So, a new year, a new batch of students who don’t know basic elevator etiquette.  I went over this a little in a previous op-ed, but my observations in the first few weeks of the quarter leads me to write about this topic again.  You all don’t seem to realize what the purpose of the…

I almost never carry cash. Most everywhere I want to do business, a debit card is accepted, and it keeps the lines of my pants slim to not have a giant wad of ones and a jangling pile of coins bulging out of a pocket. As has become a beginning of the quarter tradition though,…

I do a lot of walking.  After bussing downtown, I walk about a mile to school each day, but the vast majority of the walking I do is in and around campus.  My classes are often in various disparate locations, and it is not uncommon for me to have to go from the fourth floor…