08/31/2024
2020-21 Seattle Colleges Foundation Annual Scholarship Program Deadline Extended to Monday, April 20 The scholarship deadline will be extended to Monday, April 20, 11:59 p.m. This gives students who may be adjusting to the online class structure some extra time to complete their scholarship application. This will not impact the review process nor…
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…
Our very own visual journalist, Jordan Somers, has made local mural artists’ labors of love his mission to document for posterity during the COVID-19 shutdown and the Black Lives Matter protests. We have previously presented some of his chronicles, and we have the pleasure of sharing more of his work…
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…
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…
This month has stirred up some very mixed emotions within me, and I have found myself spending an inordinate amount of time trying to sift through and make sense of them. I am a Queer Person of Color who is also an essential worker, so I have been feeling some…
The words “tear gas” have been thrown around innumerable times since the beginning of the popular uprising in response to the police killing of George Floyd. It has become one of the most prevalent and controversial police tactics for dispersing crowds of protestors. What tear gas is is not entirely…
Starting at 1 pm, on June 14, 2020, Black, Indigenous, and Asian Pacific Islander drummers, singers and dancers came together at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (sometimes called CHAZ or CHOP, Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) for Culture Day, a cultural festival “to ground the space in tradition, culture and community.”…
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…
