Last year I offered my utterly biased and credential-free picks for Halloween movies. This year, after socially distancing gave me even more time to invest in my favorite forms of media, I wanted to offer…
Posts published in October 2020
As Seattle Central students adapt to remote learning, the food pantry offered through Student Services continues to serve students. However, for those living outside of the city, access to both the college campus and its…
Under the severe strain of the COVID-19 pandemic in all aspects of today’s society, wage cuts, layoffs and budget cuts in schools are inevitable. This has led to employee dissatisfaction and reduced their productivity significantly.…
Election Day is only two weeks from now. Here is a quick primer on some student-specific issues and how each candidate has acted or pledges to act. Student Debt Student Loan debt in the United…
The extensive pandemic has caused stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and loneliness for so many of us. Although we can keep ourselves busy by working from home or doing new hobbies, no one can deny that staying…
Like the rest of us in 2020, student-parents at Seattle Central are faced with an unprecedented transition into virtual learning. However, so are their children. Due to Covid-19, student-parents now need to juggle homeschooling their…
In partnership with Washington State Women’s Commission and KD Hall Foundation, Seattle Central College hosted a Zoom webinar on Wed, Oct. 13 called Girls on the Rise: Black Women in the Suffrage Movement to “reflect…
On October 3rd, 2020 local artists completed a full-scale revamp of Capitol Hill’s historic “Black Lives Matter” mural, which originally came to be on June 11th, 2020. Its original conception organically arose as a community-led…
Kelly June Mitchell is fascinated with decay. “I work with concepts around cycles of life and death, and growth and decay, and how that relates to personal relationships– how cycles of growth and decay can…
On Wednesday, October 7th, the Student Organization Resource Council (SORC) hosted a virtual meet & greet event for clubs at Seattle Central College via Zoom. The virtual affair was designed in a manner to encourage…