Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian A week ago, I received a message from a friend, asking me, “Is it great to study in America?” Since the definition of “great” varies from person to person, there cannot be one answer to that question. Instead I made a list of things I wish I had known before coming here from the perspective…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian Written jointly by Riley Mai and Trang Nguyen, with additional reporting by Joshua Scott. For the past two years, Seattle Central College has been in the process of implementing a mobile app for the school in partnership with OOHLALA Mobile, a Quebec based mobile software company. Despite being available on both the App Store and…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian Yesterday Unity Fair, the largest annual event hosted by Student Leadership, filled the South Plaza of the BE Building with students and the public of Capitol Hill. Unity Fair achieved its goal bringing the college’s diverse clubs and organizations together. A stage with a DJ, mics, keyboards and a drum kit were set up in the…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian From April 21st to August 5th, the Seattle Art Museum will be running an exhibition of Jono Vaughan’s multidisciplinary work Project 42. Vaughan seeks to depict the impact of violence on transgender people and at the same time, memorialize their lives and provoke discussion as well as attention. Based on the concept of rebirth through…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian The Associated Student Council has extended their application deadline for the 2018 – 2019 academic year allowing potential applicants two more weeks to turn materials in. Last year, there were twelve candidates for the six ASC positions. In an attempt to draw more applicants links to online applications as well as general descriptions of open…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian As the Seattle Colleges move towards working as a unified district a College Integration Program has been proposed to merge the student governments in the three colleges. This process will involve modifying the constitutions and by-laws of the student governments so that each Associate Student Council (ASC) will function in the same way. Although each…
Trang Nguyen | The Seattle Collegian Seattle Central College students will have the chance to petition for an extra day off school, a time when they may need it the most. The Associated Student Council (ASC) discussed lobbying for a Dead day in their last two meetings. If a Dead Day is approved at Seattle Central, teachers will have a ‘no…