For the past 50 years, The Current has been serving Green River College as a trusted news provider. The academic year 2016-17 brings a hope for stability after many key changes took place in the college administration. Along the same lines, The Current also foresees a big transition in its functioning this year. This time of the year is always tough as we bid farewell to our old staff and welcome the fresh faces. The Current has always had a vibrant atmosphere and this year we hope to continue the tradition. A noticeable change in our staff is the increasing…
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The GRC Foundation hosted a reception to honor its scholarship winners for academic year 2016-17. On September 29, scholarship recipients gathered in the River Room of Student Union building. It was a casual open-house style event with refreshments available for all attendees. Along with the students, the College and Foundation staff and the selection committee were present at the event. The scholarship was divided into several categories: General, need based, program based, single parent, veterans, and merit based. The awards ranged from $300 to $3,000 per student, with the total budget of $527,000. This amount was divided between 248 recipients. Among…
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The Fine Arts Faculty has elected Ao Hu, a 20 year old photography major, as the Artist Spotlight for the month of October. Ao Hu was raised in China and moved to Washington in the fall of 2013 to attend Green River College. He lives on campus in the Campus Corner Apartments and is hoping to transfer to another university to continue his education at schools like the School of Visual Arts in New York, or the California College of The Arts. Aside from photography he spends his free time playing computer games or studying. Hu has been interested in photography for about a year…
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The ASGRC is being led by a new president, Patricia Argie, 17, who is an international student. She has been on the public relations committee and judicial board for a month. She is partnered with Harjot Singh, 17, who is the vice president. He is a domestic student and was on the finance committee last year. They want to make Green River College a place where people communicate more. Argie said such a lack of communication was reflected in the Q5 movement last year. Having more communication among faculty, administration, and students would have made the problem a lot smaller, she said.…
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Put on your scariest costume and join us for the biggest, best Halloween Party yet! There will be a caricature artist, a numerologist, a magician, and a costume contest! Event Information:Date: 10/28/2016 (Friday)Time: 8:00 PM – 12AMPrice: $5 GRC Student / $10 Non-GRC Student OR At doorLocation: Green River College Mel Lindbloom Student Union (SU) Sign-up online or at Information Desk (Student Union, 1st floor)**Online signups end at noon on 10/28.** Questions? Email-Annabelle : Lzha@greenriver.edu See you there!
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The PC Repair shop on the Green River Campus offers a quick and easy-to-use resource when it comes to computer issues. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to bring in their laptop or computer if they are ever experience any kind of problems. The shop is guaranteed to be open on Mondays and Wednesdays between noon and 2:00 PM, but a technitian can usually be found in the shop most days of the week. The shop is student-run and primarily deals with common computer problems such as virus removal and hardware replacement. Malware and cracked screens are the typical…
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Green River College (GRC), along with the help of the ASGRC and the Veterans Club, recently opened its time capsule in celebration of 50 years. The free event took place on Thursday, May 26 right outside the Mel Lindbloom Student Union. The even also featured the raising of the original Green River flagpole. “The event went very well,” Ridwan Ibrahim, the ASGRC president, said in an email. “A lot of people participated and came.” Ridwan was also the one that took charge of the project, Lavina Tang, the ASGRC vice-president, said in an email. The idea for a time capsule,…
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The Office of Diversity of Equity and Inclusion (ODEI) has open positions available for students for fall quarter. There are three parts of ODEI students can be a part of when applying for a position. The first position available is as an Office Assistant, where the employees main job is to help other students with questions they might have and provide support. They also plan and attend diversity-related programs and services. As an Office Assistant, employees are required to work up to 19 hours per week and attend a bi-weekly Office Assistant meeting. There is also training provided to employees on…
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Espial is a literary arts journal. Art is taken from the students of Green River to be put into a journal that shows off that year’s art as a sort of time capsule. The class itself is only available once a year during spring quarter and is run and led by students, with Trysteen Tran and Sarah Dillon Gilmartin working as co-instructors. The class itself has “So many life skills students can distill from the class” as Tran explains. She goes on to talk about how students learn how to work together, they learn about marketing and curating, and they…
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As the new Editor-in-Chief I feel like it’s important to address some of the changes that will be coming in the near future and what they mean for The Current. The biggest change that’s coming is an online focus. One of the visions I have for The Current is an enhanced online experience. The Current has been the voice of Green River College for the past 50 years and for it to continue to be, we need to move into the digital age. The first step to this was to recreate our website from the ground up. Our web editor,…