Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian If you are fortunate to have spare time as the world ends nowadays, boredom is quite possibly your greatest enemy. There is nothing to do and it’s horrible and everything sucks. However, if you are anything like me and take solace in random bits of obscure information and fun facts, then look no further. I…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian In-between bouts of homework overload, Netflix binges and late night isolation freak outs the editorial board here at the Collegian has managed to actually keep reading books. The kind you take off a shelf, move to a pile next to your bed and then eventually pick through a few pages at a time-but books nonetheless….
Washington State Dept. of Agriculture Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a new and semi-ridiculous topic. Have…
Zuheera Ali | The Seattle Collegian The sweeps keep coming On May 4th the City of Seattle Navigation Team swept another encampment in the Ballard neighborhood. The city does not like to call these forced removals sweeps, and does not like to say that the people in the area that was not-swept were displaced. The amount of people that were not-displaced…
Jordan Somers | The Seattle Collegian As we approach the midway point of Spring quarter, Seattle Central College continues to shift its communication methods and standards in an attempt to bridge the gap of uncertainty among its student body. The stay-at-home order remains in full effect (now through at least May 31st at the time of this writing), and the school…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian As Washington sees the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders extend towards the end of May while other states rush to re-open the economy, schools are faced with distance learning for potential quarters to come. Seattle Central faces uncertainty as accommodations to technology and expected budget cuts during quarantine become increasingly anticipated. As the global pandemic pressures the…
PBS As the fourth week of spring quarter begins for SCC students, accessing tutoring and library resources will become increasingly important for student success. Keeping up with the behind-the-scenes work being done to keep resources available is a cross-department effort that continues to adjust and evolve as both students and faculty learn to learn remotely. Here…
Astro Pittman | The Seattle Collegian In December of 2019, a Twitter user in Seattle posted an image of a homeless person sleeping on the cold ground near a bench. The bench in question, meanwhile, was occupied by a bronze sculpture called Homeless Jesus; a bronze depiction of a sleeper huddled under a blanket on a 7-foot-long bench, and only recognizable…
Lena Mercer | The Seattle Collegian The economic crisis slowly blanketing the country isn’t being felt uniformly. The people who were poor or struggling before, are now poorer and the struggle has taken on new dimensions. Those with work from home access or paid furloughs from their jobs have mainly been burdened with inconvenience, not hardship. Nowhere is this more clear…
Tiffany Tablang Some severe Star stuff is happening this month, my dear asteroids! Saturn is retrograde in Aquarius beginning the 10th, Venus is retrograde in Gemini beginning the 13th, Jupiter goes retrograde in Capricorn beginning the 14th, Mercury enters Gemini on the 11th, Mars enters Pisces on the 13th, the Sun enters Gemini on the 20th (before…