No job security. Little pay. Few raises. Few, if any, benefits. No vacations. No sabbaticals. These are the conditions under which roughly 70 percent of Green River's faculty work and live: the adjuncts. And a few of them are, and ha...
]]>Full Name: Tonya McCabe Position: Faculty, Business Division Advisor, Leadership Dream Team Date of Birth: 22 of May Years at Green River: 12 Where are you from? I was born in Rhode Island...
]]>S and iacute; se puede means and lsquo;yes we can.' Aside from a famous campaign slogan, it is also the attitude of many of the 20 Latino Student Union members. In that vein, in 2010, Yadira Murillo, former Peer Navigator with the Commencement Achievement P...
]]>It was originally a desperate graduate-turned-vegetable-vendor in Tunisia protesting police brutality by setting himself on fire that sparked social unrest across, among other countries, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. But the thing that co...
]]>The first thing you notice as you walk through the door is the recording room, just big enough to fit two or three people. Scanning left there's an aged desk, lit by candles despite the sunshine creeping through the windows. The desk is littered with v...
]]>Janelle Britz, Green River student and member of Queer and ' Allies, was a first-time participant in this year's event. 'It is important for me to participate and give away my voice for one day in honor of all the LGBTQ community who didn't have a choic...
]]>Cheek cells, the fiber of his DNA, swirl around in a vial hanging around the neck of a carved African figurine. In one of three photo albums he keeps in his office, he points himself out in an Instamatic print from 1975, then to a scene of celebratio...
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Nothing will hold him back. He was constrained and grounded when he wanted to fly. He finally flew away from an abusive father when he was 15. Now, three years later, Thang and lsquo;Andy' Nguyen is the president of student government at Green River. It...
]]>Full name: Sabah Jabbouri Position: Geographic Information System (GIS) instructor. Date of birth: April 20, 1948 Year at Green River: Fifth year. Where are you from? I was born in Bartella, Ir...
]]>The most powerful earthquake in a century. A tsunami. Radiation poisoning. A death toll of over 10,000 and rising. That is the news that had been reaching the 74 Japanese students here on campus since Friday, March 11. Spring quarter the total of J...
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The Student Life office recently organized its first ever Diversity Week, a week it hoped would increase awareness among students and staff. '[We wanted] to put some topics out there that people don't talk about on a daily basis,' said Amber Miller...
]]>Full name: Joshua Kessler Position: Adjunct instructor of Japanese Date of birth: June 2, 1975 Year at Green River: This is my fourth year. Why did you become a teacher? I initially became a te...
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Position: Sociol...]]>Kent Bowl is your typical bowling alley - slightly outdated, with plenty of pull tabs and greasy food to slick your gullet. Pitchers of frothy beer are brought to thirsty bowlers as their kids spend their week's allowance on fruitless attempts to win p...
]]>'Please tell me you're joking!' he yells, slamming on the nearby desk. 'His pink complexion is like a vial of bloody milk and his fingernails are strawberries. STRAWberries - an outrage in hot coral! Each bowl hemorrhages rosy with tooth rot.' In a d...
]]>You're two weeks into the second month of the year and you find yourself lonesome. It's mid-Monday, and you've already masturbated three times. There's nothing good on TV. It is a sad situation indeed. For some reason, a priest decided to illegally p...
]]>Agreeing to get naked in front of a camera did not make me nervous in the least bit. I had seen the photographer's photos and found them tasteful and elegant. The photographer, Melissa 'Meli' Macourek, had a breathy, high-pitched voice that was so endu...
]]>Last month, Green River applied for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant of $141,000. With the grant, the college is hoping to build an online Humanities Cultural Center and offer several courses through the Natural Resources and Hum...
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