By: Riley CottinghamStaff Writer Few colleges are built with a gateway into luscious wildlife quite like Green River. Near the college are woods full of trails, some leading straight down to the river. Students can spend hours on the trails hiking, jogging, or simply reflecting amidst tall evergreens that nearly cover the entire sky from their view. Daphyn Cammack, 36, a student of Green River College and volunteer in the natural resources department, started spending most of her time outdoors when she was only two. She typically goes on hikes at least two times a month and has explored Green…

By: Efrain PardoSports Editor Chester Simmons III is a basketball player, better known as Tre Simmons, who has been one of the greatest athletes to ever set foot on the campus of Green River College since it was founded. In a night full of excitement and after a minute of silence in honor of the former National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Kobe Bryant, Simmons became the first-ever student-athlete to have his jersey retired in Green River College’s Swamp Rafters with the presence of President Suzanne Johnson, the Director of Athletics Shannon Percell, his former coach Travis DeCuire, and many other…

By: Madi TrepusStaff Writer  Zecret Truex works with oil paints and makeup to show her skills as an artist. Truex’s first insight with art was in makeup. She has been doing makeup for over twenty years now. It was a way to express herself and she has made a small career out of it, now planning on going to cosmetology school to make a living out of it. Truex would look through magazines, trying to recreate the makeup looks and putting a lot of detail into the eye makeup. Truex’s first art class was in her second quarter at Green…

By: Jackie NguyenStaff Writer The Hydro Flask provides an affordable and efficient way to drink fluids on the go, and support environmentalism. The Hydro Flask was invented in 2009 by the company Steel Technology LLC in Bend, Oregon. Since then the water bottle has dominated the industry, using high-quality temperature-sealing technology, and also using some of its profits to support environmentalist projects. Tag lines such as “save the turtles” have given the company good press and their simple but unique logo can be seen in almost any store that carries sports or camping gear. “Our mission is to enhance and…

By: Mustafe AbdulahiStaff Writer Human beings have practiced worshiping idols for thousands of years from statues, gods, people, animals, inanimate objects and today Americans seem to worship celebrities. As a society, we all have role models. Someone to look up to and admire in a way. We do not even realize how many things in our society are built around celebrities. Even if Americans have not spent their lives following them on Instagram and reading about them online, people are still aware of the biggest names out there because they infiltrate everything. Thanks to platforms such as YouTube and Instagram,…

By: Madi TrepusStudent Writer For students who hate to wake up at the crack of dawn to get parking at the main campus, Green River offers The Park and Go as a means of transportation. The Park and Go service is a place where students can park their car at the Pacific Raceways and every 10 minutes or so a shuttle comes and picks up everyone who needs the ride to the campus. This program has opened up more parking options for Green River College students and it acts as a great way to make friends and create ease into…

By: Amy CarpenterA&E Editor Green River College’s Lisa Miller is an artist who loves to create art out of life’s everyday beauty. Miller enjoys playing with many different styles of art, having done ceramics, drawing, oil painting, photography, and watercolor through Green River’s art classes. She loves to create her art about her family and her goal is that her work will be able to lift her viewers’ spirits. “My favorite pieces and projects are the ones directly inspired by some of my favorite people, sculptures that celebrate my children and siblings, a drawing of my mom, and a watercolor…

By: Madison Farnsworth Opinion Editor Because of President Trump’s actions the threat of war is upon us, the Americans. What our leader did was immoral and illegal. The US government declared the air strike against Iran necessary in order to stop an “imminent attack” on US soil, while the Iranian government declared it to be an act of “state terrorism.” The aftermath of it all is now taking place. One of the crises that happened was a Ukrainian airplane being struck down on January 8th 2020. The Iranian government admitted that they shot the plane down three days later. Originally…

By: Valentin DreherStudent Writer In our more and more globalized world today, we should start caring about international news coverage again. Greta Thunberg has quickly become one of the world’s most famous climate change activists. When the Swedish 17-year-old first took her protests to the streets in August 2018, protesters all over the world quickly followed her example, as up to six million climate strikers participated worldwide all on the same day. However, the movement was barely covered in American media. The first time Thunberg received significant recognition by media outlets was in September 2019, over a year after her…

By: Jackie NguyenStaff Writer Green River College provides a wide variety of sports and clubs options to fit a variety of people. For some students, the outdoor 6v6 soccer league is a choice to be more involved with the student body and participate in an enjoyable activity. During the winter quarter, two student athletes, Kean Gani and Abdinafa Abukakar, play in a team at the Starfire Sports outdoor 6v6 league. Their team plays against other 6v6 soccer leagues around the area including the multiple teams Green River College has signed up.  Even though their backgrounds are very different they are…