Starting May 1st of this year, Seattle Community Colleges, including Seattle Vocational Institute, welcomed a new advising tool into their arsenal: Starfish. The software opens many new doors for student-instructor-advisor interaction, and is meant to be a strong backbone for extended student support in the community. At Seattle Central, parts…
Posts published in October 2019
Broadway Performance Hall and Erickson Theater have existed as public arts spaces on campus since the start of Seattle Colleges in 1970. The theater has been a community arts space dedicated to an inclusive variety of performances through an assortment of owners and subcontractors, including current stage manager Darrell Jamieson.…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…