Harlow Poffenberger | The Seattle Collegian Under the severe strain of the COVID-19 pandemic in all aspects of today’s society, wage cuts, layoffs and budget cuts in schools are inevitable. This has led to employee dissatisfaction and reduced their productivity significantly. Consequently, students’ financial aid situations are negatively impacted. There are many complaints, negative responses and concerns regarding the Financial Aid…
Harlow Poffenberger | The Seattle Collegian Election Day is only two weeks from now. Here is a quick primer on some student-specific issues and how each candidate has acted or pledges to act. Student Debt Student Loan debt in the United States is at 1.56 trillion dollars, surpassed only by mortgage debt. The average debt for the class of 2018 is…
Harlow Poffenberger | The Seattle Collegian Like the rest of us in 2020, student-parents at Seattle Central are faced with an unprecedented transition into virtual learning. However, so are their children. Due to Covid-19, student-parents now need to juggle homeschooling their children while attending school themselves, inflicting an overwhelming workload on an already taxed population. As of October 9th there are…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian On October 3rd, 2020 local artists completed a full-scale revamp of Capitol Hill’s historic “Black Lives Matter” mural, which originally came to be on June 11th, 2020. Its original conception organically arose as a community-led effort at the onset of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), where 16 artists painted their respective styles and collective…
Harlow Poffenberger Kelly June Mitchell is fascinated with decay. “I work with concepts around cycles of life and death, and growth and decay, and how that relates to personal relationships– how cycles of growth and decay can appear in our relationships and appear in homes.” If you were to walk into Mitchell’s exhibit at the summer 2019…
Alexa Villatoro | The Seattle Collegian As an active movement to defund the police continues across the nation, Seattle now faces beginning reductions to the Seattle Police Department (SPD) after protestors successfully swayed Seattle’s City Council to rebalance the police budget. But SPD doesn’t just receive its budget from the city, it also receives funds from the Seattle Police Foundation (SPF),…
Alexa Villatoro | The Seattle Collegian As Seattle Colleges continues to implement budget cut strategies which began in 2020 July, staff union members organized to stand against furloughs and lay-offs at a Counter-Convocation event on Wednesday, September 25. With over 100 attendees collectively on Zoom and in person, the event ran simultaneously with the district’s official convocation event. Organizers and speakers…
Joel Raphael | The Seattle Collegian Hello. My name is Astro, and I am both a student here at Central and the editor-in-chief of our student-run news publication, The Collegian. As I begin, I first want to acknowledge that we live on stolen land and honor my indigenous ancestors for the violence they endured. We must remember and learn from our…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian Our very own visual journalist, Jordan Somers, has made local mural artists’ labors of love his mission to document for posterity during the COVID-19 shutdown and the Black Lives Matter protests. We have previously presented some of his chronicles, and we have the pleasure of sharing more of his work with you below with more…
Alexa Villatoro | The Seattle Collegian Issued late night on June 30, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s executive order authorized all city departments to reply to “exigent life safety, public health, and property issues” in and around protestors’ CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest) zone. Protestors established the zone on June 8, following nightly demonstrations that busied the 11th and Pine intersection with…