Having one of my friends bar me from their room was the first reality check I got as an RA. I had asked for a paper, and instead of letting me come in while they got it, one blocked the doorway so I couldn't see inside while the other found the sheet. ...
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]]>When it comes to the world of body modification, the possibilities of altering one's appearance seem endless. On the simpler side, we see people of all ages, colors and genders adorned with tattoos and piercings. Toward the more extreme end, we have pr...
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]]>Three days after the release of our last issue on Sunday, Sept. 18, Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14-year-old high school freshman in Buffalo, NY, killed himself outside his family's home. For well over a year leading up to his final day, Jamey had endured verb...
]]>We live in a time of arrant silliness, if not outright ignorance, about what higher education really is. We live in a time when the Governor of Texas has tried to fund the great public universities of his state by assessing the worth of each professor,...
]]>I woke up the other morning after a usual Saturday night at Eckerd. I took a stroll around campus and was surrounded by a graveyard of cigarette butts and beer bottles. It was a dump. The quad of c...
]]>From my previous writings, readers can easily gather that I am no fan of Governor Rick Scott. I have consistently referred to him as a career politician, a corrupt CEO, and he who shall not be named. But I never thought I would have a legitimate opport...
]]>When I set out to write this article, I expected to be writing about a campaign against vandalism that no one had ever heard of. My earliest research led me to believe that I was correct. The majority of the students who I spoke with could do little ...
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To the editor of The Current and the Faculty of Green River...
]]>It might not be as sad as the final episode of Friends - if I had a heart I most definitely wouldn't be able to, as we say in the Netherlands, keep it dry during such a tearjerker - but it is nevertheless a very odd notion that this is the last issue I...
]]>When the news first broke, everyone went wild. It didn't take more than a few minutes for a crowd to gather in front of the White House, and soon enough there were people waving flags and singing all across the country. Osama bin Laden, the villain of ...
]]>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, ...
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The economic recession has limited the government funding available for state institutions, putting colleges and universities in a tight spot financially. Even solutions like tuition hikes and budget cuts aren't enough to get universities the funding t...
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A poll held during the recent student government elections signaled the consideration of making the college's campus completely smoke-free. We support this initiative. Countless studies have shown that smoke is damaging - in fact, 'There is no saf...
]]>Hello again my friends, my lovelies, my darlings! The sun is shining, the flowers blooming, the birds are out, classes have started again and ndash; gosh jolly, gee whiz, what a time. Okay, never mind. As much as there is to actually be excited about and n...
]]>My fourth grade teacher was a futuristic thinker. She filled our brains with visions of a Jetson's family future where students were not taught by a physical person, but by a talking screen. At the time, it seemed like one of her far-fetched fictions...
]]>Community college students and ndash; and, very surprisingly, many others and ndash; often think 'I wish I had more time.' Many students today are coming back to school for the first time since high school. A lot have full- or part-time jobs, and some have f...
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