Admittedly, our first attempt at a desert island playlist made it seem like we’d prefer to be marooned with a bunch of white men and Kimya Dawson, which I don’t think is the case. Not even for Kimya. Here’s our second mixtape. – LM Jimmy Cliff – “Sitting in Limbo” …
The Seattle Collegian
As higher education was immediately shut down in early spring amidst severe Covid-19 concerns, student support services such as the Disability Support Services at Seattle Central were confronted with nearly instantaneous transformation of accommodations for online classes. While the DSS office notes that the college is still working closely to…
As people around the world are self-distancing at home and practicing good social distancing behavior in public, the city of Seattle is making permanent the temporary closure of some of its streets to allow residents to use them for outdoor exercise opportunities while maintaining their distance. Continuing on after Gov.…
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a…
On May 15th, American filmmaker Lynn Shelton passed away at 54 due to a previously undiagnosed blood disorder. Shelton’s partner, Marc Maron, said that she collapsed on Friday after several days of ill health and clarified that it had not been COVID-19. Shelton was born in Ohio and grew up…
If you are fortunate to have spare time as the world ends nowadays, boredom is quite possibly your greatest enemy. There is nothing to do and it’s horrible and everything sucks. However, if you are anything like me and take solace in random bits of obscure information and fun facts,…
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a…
In-between bouts of homework overload, Netflix binges and late night isolation freak outs the editorial board here at the Collegian has managed to actually keep reading books. The kind you take off a shelf, move to a pile next to your bed and then eventually pick through a few pages…
Across Washington State, public academia mobilizes strategies for uncertain COVID-19 fall status. As the Washington State economy reopens through the summer, many speculate a second wave of the COVID-19 crisis will overwhelm the U.S. this coming fall. As regulations ease, academic institutions have become wary of the social urge to…
On May 14th, a Q/A session on COVID-19 hosted by MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science, and Achievement) was held via Zoom. It featured Professor M. Elizabeth ‘Betz’ Halloran, the Director of the Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases (CIDID), based at Fred Hutch and the founder and Director of…