Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian Last week, the federal government had announced new restrictions that directed international students on F-1/M-1 student visas to leave the country had they been registered for a fully online course load this fall. The July 6 directive also prohibited issuing visas to students enrolled in programs or schools that were fully online during the fall,…
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby | The Seattle Collegian Though Seattle Colleges has experienced financial challenges in the past, including Central’s consecutive years of monetary cuts, COVID-19 has created unprecedented budgetary issues. In order to face what may be devastating results district-wide, Seattle Colleges Chancellor Shouan Pan organized the Strategic Budget Reduction and Future Planning Taskforce, to guide decisions on district-wide financial strategy. In…
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…
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Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian On Friday June 12 the Capitol Hill Trader Joe’s #130 on Madison St. closed its doors early. That afternoon, a sign posted on the store’s front door stated that the store was closed “indefinitely”. According to an anonymous group of the store’s employees, this was a direct result of the employees’ request to take time…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian Amid active civil unrest in Capitol Hill, Seattle Central has been a witness to routine rallies at the 11th and Pine intersection near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Located within a multicultural urban environment, Central has organized efforts to support students and faculty, alongside the Seattle community who are at the frontlines of fighting…
Nate Gowdy On Sunday, June 7th, Seattle Gay News publisher and editor-in-chief George Bakan was found dead at his work desk. He was 78 years old. George was a much-beloved trailblazer, activist and leader in the LGBTQ+ community, spearheading many of the LGBTQ+ social movements we take for granted today. George was active in the HIV and…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian On June 5th an anonymous call appeared on various media sites calling for the creation of vigils across the country memorializing the “dozen more lives (that) have been taken by state and vigilante violence in the struggle for Black freedom.” The next day on June 6th, a similar post specific to the Seattle area was…
Jade L Seattle Central College students and faculty showed up in a sign of support for the protesters and anyone in need at the South Plaza at Broadway and Pine. Starting Sunday, June 7, 2020 to Monday, June 15, volunteers will be handing out basic first aid, snacks, water, menstrual products, masks and anything else they can…
VDU Blog It seems that things are not getting any easier in the year 2020. Earlier this week, #Ebola was the number one trending topic on Twitter in the United States. On June 1, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusthe, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), tweeted, “A new #Ebola outbreak detected in western #DRC, near Mbandaka, Équateur…