Nhu Mai | 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…
Sepia Katsoolis | The Seattle Collegian Apparel design student Rachel Crane let me follow her in the process of constructing a bomber jacket from scratch. From moments of doubt to moments of success, her experience in the Seattle Central Apparel Design and Development program has been one that won’t leave her for the rest of her life. Crane planned to go…
Taylor McManus | The Seattle Collegian Once upon a time, in a land not too far from here called Pioneer Square, there was a set of stairs that led into underground enchantments. Only known to certain people, what these stairs led to was kept a secret from all others. This place would reveal a truth that the land would not be…
Taylor McManus | The Seattle Collegian Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange explained that she introduces herself as the president of Seattle Central Community College, she said at an open forum hosted for faculty on May 17th. While Seattle Central College officially dropped “Community” from its name in 2014 to bolster the resumes of students graduating from the institution with bachelor’s degrees, Dr. Lange…
Taylor McManus | The Seattle Collegian Who are the elites of Capitol Hill? Most people who set foot on Capitol Hill are the elites; we make the heart of this place pump life into the streets here. People move through the streets of the neighborhood as blood does through veins, supporting life with its energy. I believe that everyone here is…
Joshua Scott | The Seattle Collegian You are on the bus filled with many people, but no one is sitting next to you. All of a sudden, a girl gets onto the bus. She prefers to stand rather than to sit next to you and you suddenly begin to think skeptically: Do I look like a threat? Now on a different…
Taylor McManus | The Seattle Collegian After getting their acceptance form I-20 from the college of their choice and attaining an F-1 visa, international students have an important decision to make: where they are going to stay while abroad. Finding a good place in a completely foreign city is not easy and involves many factors. Students may want to stay with…
Taylor McManus | The Seattle Collegian According to U.S. immigration law, international students are only allowed to work on-campus for a maximum of 20 hours per week. Other than that, international students are not allowed to work off-campus without permission. However, US universities also have a special policy; if international students want to go to work, they must be legally employed…
Zahid Ali | The Seattle Collegian Without in-state tuition grants, pending asylum applicants at Seattle Central College find it difficult to get an education. These are individuals who have fled war-torn countries, leaving everything behind to start a new life. Most of them are separated from their families and have to wait for years in the U.S to get their asylum…
Joshua Scott | The Seattle Collegian It’s past midnight on a bitter November morning, and Kristina Sawyckyj is in her wheelchair, studying in one of Seattle Central College’s doorways. She’s pulling an all-nighter for her upcoming exam, using the light from the doorway and the school’s Wi-Fi to study. Sawyckyj, pronounced “suh-vit-ski,” has been living in her van for the past three-and-a-half…