Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby | The Seattle Collegian Many students have noticed, and voiced concerns, about the elevator improvement projects in the Broadway Edison Building. Several elevators in the building have needed upgrades for a while, with elevators near the south plaza and north Broadway entrances frequently being out of order. However, those elevators are also crucial for students with mobility issues. According…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian My coming out story was painful in more ways than one. Mom saw me with my first queer haircut; I was proud of it. Buzzed on the side and overflowing on top. She hit me in the chest and stomach saying I’ll never be a man, then held my hair down, cutting it to be…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian I’m sitting at my dining room table watching the snow falling outside my window. It’s been a week now of increasingly deep drifts, of snow packing down into sheets of ice in the streets only to disappear beneath the latest batch of fluffy, frozen water. Every roof has a thick blanket of perfectly white snow….
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby and Tess Velo | The Seattle Collegian The following is a live-stream text reaction to the State of the Union address given by President Trump earlier this week. Two people from the paper sat down at their computers in separate parts of the city, decided to imbibe in some spirits and rip on the President as a way of dealing with their…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian Record-breaking snowfall prompts road closures, is expected to continue into the week. This February has already been Seattle’s snowiest since 1949, and meteorologists say it’s just getting started. The most recent storm, which hit Friday night and continued into Saturday morning, blanketed the city with an astounding 7.9 inches of snow. Combined with Sunday,…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian If you’ve ever read the syllabus for any of your classes all the way through, you’ve probably noticed that somewhere in there is a class grade to GPA conversion; typically a chart, sometimes an equation. What you may not have noticed is that not all conversions are the same, professor to professor. When I realized…
Eugenia Montsaroff | The Seattle Collegian 2.5 STARS OUT OF 5 (Want to know what our star ratings mean? Check out our review formatting here) As the final installment of the Unbreakable trilogy, M. Night Shyamalan’s new film Glass gives an okay ending. As a stand-alone film, though, it’s pretty rough. Since the premiere of the film Unbreakable in 2000, it has garnered…
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby | The Seattle Collegian Our world is becoming increasingly accessible, both for those with disabilities and the able-bodied individuals who benefit from the accommodation needs set out by the Americans with Disabilities Act. We’ve come a long way since ramps and elevators. Ever since the late 1970s, when the Disability Rights Movement truly began gaining momentum, people with disabilities…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian On December 22nd of 2018, the Federal Government of the United States of America shut down. Depending on how your life and finances are organized you may not have felt the effects – directly. But if you are a federal worker or the family member of one, receive SNAP food benefits, are a federal inmate…
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby | The Seattle Collegian The recent cold weather has claimed the life of a University of Washington student today. According to a statement released by Major Steve Rittereiser of the UW Campus Police, this morning at 10:31 am, both UW Police and Seattle Fire responded to a woman down on a sidewalk east of Drumheller Fountain. The 19-year-old sophomore was…