Features - The Current - Green River Community College

Letter from the Editor: “Free time”

I, like many other students at Centenary, have an issue with finding "free time." By "free time," I don't mean enough time to eat or enough time to sleep--those are definitely issues of their own. I want to focus instead on time that isn't allotted toward our ability to function or supporting any commitments that we have to other people, organizations, school, or work: time that, ultimately, allows us to do whatever we feel like doing with it (however silly that thing may be). Full story

Running Start Students May Start Paying Partial Tuition

For many years Running Start students were able to earn high school and college credits simultaneously, and all they had to pay for was textbooks. This changed last year when the legislature started requiring Running Start students to pay fees. Then, on May 4 of this year, the Senate passed a bill allowing higher education institutions to charge all Running Start students a maximum of 10 percent of the resident tuition, which comes down to $8. Full story

A College Degree - Still the Best Investment

A recent study by The Current found that 43 percent of students at Green River Community College (GRCC) expect to be $40,000 or more in debt by the time they earn their degree. As a result, especially considering the tuition increases that are coming, the actual value of a college education has come under increased scrutiny from students and economists. Full story

A Father, a Student, a Rapper, a DJ

He has big dreams, and is willing to go a long way to achieve them. Fred Diezil, a first-quarter student at Green River, eventually wants to end up there with what he calls "the greats," and for his music to last forever. "I know it's a long shot, but I want to be up there with The Beatles or a Nirvana, or even a White or Rob Zombie," he says. Full story

A Broken Life, Fixed With a Little Murder

There I was, flat on my back in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center with a 35-pound weight screwed to my skull keeping the pressure off of my two shattered vertebrae and severed spinal cord. Now what? "Have you ever heard of Murderball?" The sweet-voiced, redheaded nurse asked me through a slight grin. Full story

Campus

They Call It ‘Part-Time Apartheid’

Achieving Success Without Sacrifice

The story of an alumnus who went from Green River to Oxford and Juilliard and starred in a BBC show.

Helping Latinos Into College, One at a Time

News

Tensions Flare up Between Faculty, New Administration

College to Put Parking Spots up for Rent, Considering Introducing Weekend Classes

Engineering Students Ride Paper Bikes to Victory

OpEd

A Culture of Conspiracy

Sacrificing Our Future

A Smoke-Free Campus

A&E

Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me

‘The Most Spectacular Show on Earth’

The Notes & The Brain

Sports

A Team on Track, in More Than One Way

Game, Set, Match

On to the Big Leagues

Blogs

Duschel Home Run Wins Game for Gator Softball‏

Athletic Director Bob Kickner

Where is Ophiuchus?

Walter Lowe

Conventions and decorations

The Student Life Office

Take a Tour of the New Building, Salish Hall

Worth the Wait; Maya Angelou

Worth the Wait

"Good things come to those who wait." It's as common a phrase as "when pigs fly." Yet, some disregard its meaning and importance altogether - with the exception of the congregation that settled into the gym at Green River on March 10.

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