Zuheera Ali | The Seattle Collegian Welcome to a new weekly Friday addition to the Collegian repertoire. Our Week in Review will give you snapshot looks at some of the biggest, and maybe the most underrated stories of the week. International news, national headlines and local tidbits boiled down by our own Managing Editor, Lena Mercer, will be found here every…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian On October 17th, Seattle Arts and Lectures hosted Richard Kenney in the Broadway Performance Hall. Kenney is a notable poet and University of Washington Professor of English. For the SAL event, he read from his recently published fifth book of poetry Terminator. This is Kenney’s first book in over a decade. His previous works reaped…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian This past week on Thursday, October 18, a discussion -part of the Conversations on Social Issues (COSI) series- was held in room A of the Seattle Central Library. This talk focused on the stories of immigrants and refugees coming to The United States and their experiences with the feelings, challenges, and changes that come with…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian In the early morning hours of October 10th, an estimated $51,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from a local handmade jewelry shop at their Capitol Hill location in a heist. The shop known as “Fresh Tangerine” has two locations; one in Capitol Hill, in the OddFellows building to the left of Molly Moon’s Ice Cream,…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian Thursday morning’s earthquake drill, managed by the Seattle Central College Campus and Security Office, was part of a nation-wide effort to better prepare people for earthquake emergencies. In the main cafeteria space of the Broadway Edison building, a 10:17 a.m. verbal alert sounded over the public announcement system. It was unintelligible over the rushing hiss…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian For a certain generation, mainly those born between 1980 and 2000, The Dark Crystal, directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz and released in 1982, was a big deal. The last surviving Gelfling in all of Thra, having been raised by the noble Mystics, must set out on a perilous journey to save his world….
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian I was raised by film nerds. High school English teaching, music playing, hippie film nerds. So when, at the age of eight, I thought I was being rebellious by saying I wanted to watch horror movies, my mother devised an age-appropriate viewing schedule. I was shown King Kong, silent films, avant garde creepiness, and eventually…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian College life can be overwhelmingly stressful at times, which makes career choices and looking for the best-fit place to pursue your bachelor’s degree a lot to process; especially when you are taking other college-level classes and feel suffocated. Seattle Central will be hosting two events this Fall Quarter both dedicated to helping students get a…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian On My Head. In My Heart, is the current installation of the M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery located in 2BE2116, just across from the Atrium Cafeteria in the main Broadway Edison building. The opening reception took place on the evening of September 26, with the installation slated to be open from September 24 to October…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian While there’s a demand for housing in Seattle, there are few resources for rent subsidy within student groups, and rent is quickly rising. As one of the fastest growing cities in America, Seattle has undergone a drastic increase in the price of rent as more and more people are living in the Emerald City. Capitol…