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September 18, 2024

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No Shoes, No Shirt, Free Service

Planning on whooping it up this coming New Year’s Eve? Not to worry, King County Metro’s got you covered. If you’re out late and Uber and Lyft surge rates are way too high, or your phone died hours ago, Metro is here for you this year. Stranded with no cash? Lost your wallet and your

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Speed Dating – For a Cause

If you’ve never heard of or experienced speed dating, it is an activity done at a bar, coffee shop or community center with lots of people that want to date or meet new friends. Some haven’t had any luck meeting people conventionally due to work or school schedules, moving to a new area, hatred of

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Does Gender Matter?

Have you ever heard someone say “I am a man so I don’t have to do that”? The idea of having different gender roles allows us to have different social expectations when it comes to gender. This has confused me ever since I was a child. I have wondered where these ideas come from every

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The Tribulations of a Trans Activist

  Seattle-based transgender activist Danni Askini has been rendered stateless since June 29th of this year, after being denied renewal of her U.S. passport by the State Department. Danni has been an outspoken and highly visible transgender rights activist for many years. Until just a few days ago, Danni was the Executive Director of the

Inside Apparel Design: Making a Bomber Jacket

Apparel design student Rachel Crane let me follow her in the process of constructing a bomber jacket from scratch.  From moments of doubt to moments of success, her experience in the Seattle Central Apparel Design and Development program has been one that won’t leave her for the rest of her life. Crane planned to go

Walk with SCC in the Seattle Pride Parade

Happy Pride Month! Have you ever wanted to walk in the Pride Parade? Whether you already have or want to, come join the Seattle Colleges faculty, staff, students, family, and friends. Show your pride as LGBTQIA+ student of one of the Seattle Colleges. Allies are also especially welcome to walk with us. Meeting time is

A Book Every Seattleite Should Read to Launch Friday

A soldier and a poet walk into a bookstore… Authors Chris Robinson and Gavin Kovite will read from their provocatively satirical and uncomfortably accurate novel, Deliver Us, at Elliot Bay Book Company this Friday. The controversial new social novel explores near-future Detroit – a decaying shell of a once-buzzing city revived by the presence of

Behind the Curtain

“People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can’t talk about that. I’m looking to stay alive.” – Calvin Klein   In 1998, at the tender and awkward age of 18, I was approached by a young woman who represented a modeling agency. She said I had the “it factor”

Award Winners

Seattle Central Student Leaders Recognized

Seattle Central College (SCC) students Emilio Chavez, Jie Shan, and Omar Osman received awards for their exceptional leadership at The Board of Trustees meeting on April 12, 2018. The members of the Board of Trustees and Dr. Sheila Lang, SCC’s president, thanked the students for their commitment and the services they provided to the campus

MaryAnn Barker at the walk out.

Students Walk Out for Florida Shooting Victims

Seattle Central College students and faculty walked out of classes Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM to observe a 17-minute vigil for the 17 students slain in the Parkland, Florida shooting on February 14th. MaryAnn Barker and Omar Osman, from the Associated Student Council, read one victim’s name at the top of each minute of the

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