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.”…
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Seattle Central College students and faculty showed up in a sign of support for the protesters and anyone in need at the South Plaza at Broadway and Pine. Starting Sunday, June 7, 2020 to Monday, June 15, volunteers will be handing out basic first aid, snacks, water, menstrual products, masks…
The CDC now recommends using a face covering whenever available while out and about, particularly while in proximity of other people. This is due to the droplets that COVID-19 can be spread through, coming from the nose and mouth, being blocked by the mask. A common misconception is that the…
Carl Waluconis, who taught English and Coordinated Studies in the division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Seattle Central College until 2017, passed away on Thursday, April 9, 2020. The family planned to have the memorial when it was safe to do so publicly. Fellow faculty members, however, are…
Welcome Week is the first week of each quarter at Seattle Central set aside to bring every student, new and old, back into the school workflow. New students may find aides donning appropriately labeled sweatshirts in the hallways assisting them through the layout of the school. They also often find…
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve seen some of the best and worst of humanity. People coming together to deliver groceries for free and offer each other supplies and kind words, neighbors shouting from balconies to stay strong and breaking out into spontaneous song and bingo games. There…
From the eerily smooth traffic to the glares one gets from a cough or sneeze instead of a “bless you,” it’s becoming clearer just how heavily the COVID-19 outbreak looms over the city of Seattle. As of this writing, Governor Jay Inslee is calling for a ban on events of…
Seattle Central offers a wide variety of classes. The difficulty is finding the right one for you, your budget, your schedule and your sanity. Worse yet, one might and often does find themselves stuck in a boring, but requirement-filling class that goes for three hours – through lunch time, with…
The first death in the United States from the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 occured on February 29, 2020, at EvergreenHealth hospital in Kirkland, the Eastside suburb of Seattle. The victim was a Washington state man in his 50s who purportedly suffered from underlying health conditions. Since then, The New…
“Lord, may your loving power take away all these autoimmune diseases this young lady has.” That’s what an alleged preacher spoke when I was accosted by his prayer in the dank prison of the Capitol Hill Light Rail station. What was I going to do, run? This man didn’t even…
