You are viewing the archive of our old site. Click here to return to the new site. <![CDATA[The Current - Campus Life RSS]]> /se/the-current-campus-life-rss-1.302406 en-us Wed, 19 Oct 2011 60 <![CDATA[They Call It ‘Part-Time Apartheid’]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/they-call-it-part-time-apartheid-1.2356698 Lacey Steward

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...

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Tue, 7 Jun 2011 1.2356698 Campus Lacey Steward Campus
<![CDATA[Teacher Spotlight: Tonya McCabe, Business Education]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/teacher-spotlight-tonya-mccabe-business-education-1.2230512

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...

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Wed, 18 May 2011 1.2230512 Campus 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...]]> Campus
<![CDATA[Helping Latinos Into College, One at a Time]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/helping-latinos-into-college-one-at-a-time-1.2229067 Jean-Pierre Garcia
By: Jean-Pierre Garcia

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...

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Tue, 17 May 2011 1.2229067 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Through His Own Organization, a Student Tries to Help Create a Country]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/through-his-own-organization-a-student-tries-to-help-create-a-country-1.2229009 Jean-Pierre Garcia

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...

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Tue, 17 May 2011 1.2229009 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Achieving Success Without Sacrifice]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/achieving-success-without-sacrifice-1.2228970 Asha Johnson
The story of an alumnus who went from Green River to Oxford and Juilliard and starred in a BBC show.

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...

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Tue, 17 May 2011 1.2228970 Campus Asha Johnson Campus
<![CDATA[Day of Silence]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/day-of-silence-1.2214223 Jenna Lee Shrewsburry

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...

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 1.2214223 Campus Jenna Lee Shrewsburry Campus
<![CDATA[The World as His Classroom, the Classroom as His World]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/the-world-as-his-classroom-the-classroom-as-his-world-1.2214219 Jean-Pierre Garcia

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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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 1.2214219 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Teacher Spotlight: John Matthies, French]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/teacher-spotlight-john-matthies-french-1.2214023

Full name: John Matthies Position: Adjunct faculty (yet deserving of a full-time position), French instructor.
Date of birth: Je ne c...

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Full name: John Matthies Position: Adjunct faculty (yet deserving of a full-time position), French instructor.
Date of birth: Je ne c...]]> Campus <![CDATA[Finding Freedom in Flying]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/finding-freedom-in-flying-1.2181575 Sequoia Sledge and Jean-Pierre Garcia

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...

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Mon, 18 Apr 2011 1.2181575 Campus Sequoia Sledge and Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Teacher Spotlight: Sabah Jabbouri, GIS]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/teacher-spotlight-sabah-jabbouri-gis-1.2181560

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...

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Mon, 18 Apr 2011 1.2181560 Campus 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...]]> Campus
<![CDATA[Disaster hits home]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/disaster-hits-home-1.2105481 Jean-Pierre Garcia

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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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 1.2105481 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Crossing his fingers has finally paid off]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/crossing-his-fingers-has-finally-paid-off-1.2105477 Jean-Pierre Garcia

It took Bryce Hughes more than three years to have his first academic paper published.
'Please, please, please make it,' Hughes, Commencement Achievement Program (CAP) coordinator, remembers thinking, with fingers crossed...

]]> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 1.2105477 Campus It took Bryce Hughes more than three years to have his first academic paper published.
'Please, please, please make it,' Hughes, Commencement Achievement Program (CAP) coordinator, remembers thinking, with fingers crossed...]]> Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus <![CDATA[HIV, racism and wheelchair basketball - Diversity Week]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/hiv-racism-and-wheelchair-basketball-diversity-week-1.2105430 Jean-Pierre Garcia

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...

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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 1.2105430 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia Campus
<![CDATA[Teacher Spotlight: Joshua Kessler, Japanese]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/teacher-spotlight-joshua-kessler-japanese-1.2105415

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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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 1.2105415 Campus 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...]]> Campus
<![CDATA[Teacher Spotlight: Julie Aldcroft]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/teacher-spotlight-julie-aldcroft-1.2041594
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<![CDATA[Knocking them down Green River style]]>
http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/knocking-them-down-green-river-style-1.2019477
 Gentry Seipert 



By: Gentry Seipert

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...

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Sat, 26 Feb 2011 1.2019477 Campus Gentry Seipert Campus
<![CDATA[Run and hide, there's a new Frankenstein monster in town]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/run-and-hide-there-s-a-new-frankenstein-monster-in-town-1.2019476 Gentry Seipert

'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...

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Sat, 26 Feb 2011 1.2019476 Campus Gentry Seipert Campus
<![CDATA[Craigslist & Star Trek for this love wreck]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/craigslist-star-trek-for-this-love-wreck-1.1979103 Alexander Bevier
By: Alexander Bevier

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...

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 1.1979103 Campus Alexander Bevier Campus
<![CDATA[Empowerment through nudity]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/empowerment-through-nudity-1.1979101 Lacey Steward
By: Lacey Steward

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...

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011 1.1979101 Campus Lacey Steward Campus
<![CDATA[College applies for grant to create a Humanities Center]]> http://www.thecurrentonline.net/campus/college-applies-for-grant-to-create-a-humanities-center-1.1976864 Jean-Pierre Garcia and Gentry Seipert
By: Jean-Pierre Garcia & Gentry Seipert

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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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 1.1976864 Campus Jean-Pierre Garcia and Gentry Seipert Campus