For many Seattle Central students, mental health is an overlooked priority to success. Students are not taught coping skills prior to college, how to navigate the healthcare system for services, or to ask for help. Burnout is on the rise with millenials, and steadily been climbing for Gen-xers. The issue…
Posts published in January 2020
Students and faculty with classes in the Broadway Performance Hall were surprised to learn on the first day of Winter Quarter that the only elevator in that building was shut down for maintenance. Disability Services were made aware the same day, and so far a solution for accommodating students and…
As of January 1, 2020, it’s illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase e-cigarettes, vapes, and tobacco products in the state of Washington. Engrossed House Bill 1074, sometimes known as “Tobacco [and Vapor] 21” or “Washington 21,” passed the House in February of 2019 with 66 votes…
Starting on January 28, 2020, dozens of nurses, environmental service workers and other hospital staff represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW have been picketing outside Swedish Hospital’s First Hill location, joined by members of other unions such as the Transit Riders Union. They will picket for three days, ending Thursday, January…
While every student eventually reaches a point where their workload intensifies, STEM and engineering students, in particular, experience this to an extreme degree. Not only is the workload to blame, but there is also a perceived commensurately greater inability to cope, as well as an inability to find help. So,…
It was January 23rd as the clock turned 11:46 A.M. that a young woman darted around Seattle Central Library’s Room A, meticulously arranging the lecturn area. Kimberly Malone, the COSI (Conversations on Social Issues) coordinator, had prepared everything just so, 14 minutes ahead of schedule for the Peace and Labor…
Cold air pierced my skin everyday in Ms. Smith’s sophomore AP World History class. This problem stemmed from her idea to dilute the stuffy, sweaty smell that a room full of teenagers creates, by opening the window. This, unfortunately for the both of us, did not work out so well,…
To celebrate the start of the 2020 Winter quarter, the One World restaurant is open from January 21st to 31st with their Pacific Northwest menu. One World is located in Seattle Central College’s Broadway-Edison building, at BE2120. Along with Square One Bistro, its a restaurant run by the college’s culinary…
Windfall for the school! We’re rich! Well, not quite-but the Seattle Colleges recently received an unprecedented 1.4 Million dollars for student scholarships in this last week. $889,000 of that huge number came from a land sale to King County. Under the Open Spaces Plan the 35 acres will be maintained…
In the early evening of Wednesday the 22nd, a shooting happened at the corner of 3rd and Pine in downtown Seattle. This wasn’t a mass shooting. This was three people shooting at each other, poorly. And many other people being hit. A “mass shooting” is when someone enters a crowded…
