Friendships, relationships and personal bonds with people seem like a distant reality for many students. Whether this change could be caused by college priorities, work hours, or emotional walls, not having sufficient friends or a significant other is a common problem between college students. Focusing on spiritual health, maturity, and personal growth in life allows for control of circumstances and can help attract the right type of people. In terms of forming relationships, the most successful bonds are usually formed naturally and comfortably. Taking time to know one’s innermost desires and needs can help to discern what is needed in…

December’s artist spotlight, carefully chosen by the fine arts faculty, is Madison Tovar, 20, a pottery artist. Tovar is working towards an Associates of Fine Arts. She is unsure where she’d like to go after graduation this spring. Her heart desires travel so she is thinking that she’d like to get out of the state of Washington. Tovar is from Southern California and she has no desire to return. Four years ago she moved to Auburn to be with family during the mourning of her uncle. She currently works for Amazon in processing and sorts packages in the warehouse. With…

Green River College, along with a couple of other colleges and universities both here and internationally, offer a program called a Gap Year program. The program is described by the college’s program web page, on the new site, as “The Gap Year at Green River provides an opportunity for you to study abroad in the United States during the “gap year” between secondary education and university.” In basic terms students can take a nine to ten months to take classes and figure out what they want to do. All this while getting to experience and indulge in the country that…

The Sisterhood of Green River College is sponsoring a women’s health drive called The Period Project. This donation drive aims to provide and help homeless and impoverished women with adequate feminine hygiene products. Many times, women and girls living in poverty don’t have the means or resources to obtain the products they need. Feminine hygiene products cost a lot more than some people can afford, and it leads to a devastating lack of necessities for millions of people who get periods. According to www.period-project.org, in the U.S., there are around 40 million women currently live in poverty. People who go…

Green River Student Life organized an all-day trip to Leavenworth, a themed village just over the Cascade Mountains. On Saturday, Dec. 2, students boarded a bus chartered by student life to visit Leavenworth. Leavenworth is modeled as a Bavarian village, with quaint European style buildings and tiny shops squeezed together in the village square.  Crowds bustled around the streets taking pictures of people dressed in holiday-themed clothes and shopping for exquisite handmade candles and jewelry. Students were fortunate enough to experience heavy snowfall while travelling that turned the village into a winter wonderland. The trip allowed students to wander around…

The faculty has recently voiced its need to address the strike of May 2016. Back in May, the faculty went on strike to protest President Eileen Ely, who would resign shortly after. The faculty believed that she had unfair labor practices and had no confidence in her or the Board of Trustees leadership abilities at the time, according to The Seattle Times. With the recent shifting of power of higher administration, the faculty has kept quiet. Jaeney Hoene, english faculty, stressed that the report was not to convey a sense of discontent, simply that the faculty feels it is time…

Paul Metivier is a pottery professor at the college. Metivier started his career in community college as an art major.  Metivier is currently working on his 15th year working here at Green River. Metivier focused on drawing and painting primarily and then moved through photography into what is called printmaking. Before graduating and transferring to California State University, Long Beach in Los Angeles to be a printmaking major, Metivier decided to take a pottery class. After taking the pottery class, Metivier decided to pause the transfer process to continue his pottery practice. It was quite a shift from working in…

Marie Xieng, 21, has been selected for January’s Artist Spotlight, nominated by the fine arts department for her stellar art pieces.             Born in Shanghai, China, Xieng has been attending Green River for a little over two-and-a-half years and has plans of transferring. She studied in Germany in 2014 before moving to Washington. The artist has taken almost every art class offered at the college ranging from Art 180 to Oil Painting. Currently, she’s taking drawing, Art 110. While she’s having fun with these classes, she’s also very serious about her future. She considered being an architect major in 2016,…

Green River Community College offers clubs that are able to bring different people together. Some of the different communities at Green River include people from LGBTQ, different religions, and a wide variety of cultures. Several diverse clubs exist in order to celebrate the variety of the student body; their existence benefits the social society at Green River. It’s widely known that Green River is home to an abundance of students, those who are domestic and those who come to study internationally. Coming to an unknown area and creating new experiences may be difficult for some students. However, clubs at Green…