By: Margo Mead Editor-in-Chief Green River College has created a new partnership with the King County Library System (KCLS) allowing each Green River student to have an online KCLS library card.
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By: Kaelyn Walls Staff Writer While the term “global warming” is familiar to the vast majority of Americans today, ocean acidification is a lesser-known, but equally important, environmental blight.
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By: Raelyn Clark Staff Writer Green River College offers a wide variety of programs, the most popular being Running Start.
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By Jayden Valencia Staff Writer In this day and age, social media is an excellent tool to have to keep in touch with friends and to stay up to date with individual interests.
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By: Rachel Knittle Staff Writer Students should consider investing in Blue Blocker glasses in order to better their eyesight and protect from long-term damage.
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By: Mario Pimentel Staff Writer Students can feel safe at Green River thanks to all the work Campus Safety does.
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Upcoming Fall Sports by Kealoha Rose Iosefo Upcoming Fall SportsFall quarter sports are starting up after summer quarter. The men’s sports will be basketball, golf, and cross country. Women’s sports will consist of basketball, golf, cross country, and soccer. The basketball team had their highest scoring win at 98 points to 92 points against Wenatchee Valley at Port Angeles. Last year, the Golf team was placed at 4th for the NWAC Preview on Oct. 22 to Oct. 23. Cross Country’s team runner, Matthew Nechiporuk, ran the 8k at 18 minutes and 14 seconds, making it the fastest time of the season. Shannon Percell, the…
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The Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) Track and Field Championship Meet between top colleges in Washington and Oregon took place on May 21st and 22nd at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. Overall, eight athletes represented the Green River Track and Field team at the championship meet. Those athletes were, Michaela Evelyn-Wahl, who took sixth in the Women’s 400-Meter dash and seventh in the Women’s 400-Meter Hurdles. Frances Nguyen took eighth in the Women’s 400-Meter dash. Alicia Medley took fourth in the Women’s Discus throw and eleventh in the Women’s Shot Put. Matthew Neoporchuk placed eleventh in the Men’s 800-Meter Run and eighth in the Men’s 3000-Meter…
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Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat has developed technology designed to clean up plastic from the ocean. Improperly disposed of plastic will often end up in the world’s oceans. The dumping of plastic has formed accumulation zones of waste products, the largest being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). It is located roughly halfway between California and Hawaii and covers an estimated area of 1.6 million kilometers, according to The Ocean Cleanup, Slat’s organization. To put that in perspective, that is twice the size of the state of Texas. Plastics enter the ocean in many ways. Whether that be through littering, dumping,…
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Maria Arciniega 5/31/18 With Racial discrimination at an all-time high, Green River students question whether or not they are safe from racism on campus. In the current political climate, we have seen a rise in blatant racism towards people of color. Racism is something that has existed for a while but the level it has gotten to in recent years is startling. On a global perspective, we have seen it in Charlottesville with the Charlottesville riots, we have seen it in New York where a man berated employees and customers for speaking in Spanish and threatening to call Ice.…