By Ishant Brar The year 2020 has been a crazy year for everyone from Covid-19 to the elections. However, this has not hindered musicians from making great music all year round and keeping 2020 a little less stressful for most of us. With that in mind, here is a list of the top 50 songs worldwide for this year according to Billboard, Spotify, and Youtube. 1. Life goes on – Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) 2. Dynamite — BTS 3. Positions — Ariana Grande 4. Holy –Justin Bieber, Chance 5. Monster — Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber 6. Laugh now cry later…

Julie Swienty, a piano teacher at Green River College, admits online teaching has been all but easy. The class begins as a lecture, and then branches out into breakout rooms where Swienty provides individual help for students. All fine arts are struggling during this time, and Gary Oliveira, head of the Fine Arts Division, recognizes this. “A major challenge has been that the Arts Division has classes that simply cannot be taught online,” said Oliveira. “Several of these classes have specialized studios and classrooms that students would need to access in order for them to run.” Classes have been forced…

Whether you thought 2020 was a good year or a lousy year, everyone can agree that it was a year to remember. A majority of college students at Green River can say their lives changed in 2020. But how would those students describe the once highly anticipated year in five words? “Confident, astoundingly-stupid, dumpster-fire, arrogant and ambitious” are the words, Noor Samra, a freshman at Green River, used when asked to describe 2020. Samra, a 16-year-old Running Start student, also said why she thought of those words. “It ruined all my plans with my friends and family, as well as…

An event usually regarded as the largest Veteran’s Day West of the Mississippi also found itself as one of the first City of Auburn events in months, setting the tone for what the community may expect to see for the foreseeable future. Rather than a main event with thousands of participants dwarfed by a throng of spectators, we saw a week of tribute, with an online presence and restrictions and accommodations in full force for a luncheon and a procession. Kristy Pachciarz, special events coordinator for Auburn, said the city accomplished all goals with this event. “We received a ‘Navy…

Green River College’s clubs have had to adapt to virtual meetings and reduced participants amidst campus closures. The clubs have greatly changed how they operate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and this has produced results some see as both beneficial and detrimental. Nan Huang, president of the environmental club, said in an e-mail that the biggest change has been that her club has held all meetings online. She also said remote learning has pushed her club to create its  own website. She said the website will be a platform where students can post their own blogs, and she believes it…

Local Washington churches are no exception to the impact COVID-19 has had on the world around us.  Many people can agree that COVID-19 has had an extensive effect on the community, but how have local churches experienced this pandemic? “[It has] given us new ways to reach out to the community,” said Dan Schuttler, a pastor at Kent Covenant Church. “Most notably… we stage a food giveaway on Wednesdays at noon that last for 90 minutes. We average over 200 cars each week. There are no prerequisites. Just show up and you get food. We are seeing a lot of…

COVID-19 has spurred a lot of change in everyone’s daily life, especially students.  Classes have transferred completely to an online version that greatly limits social interaction between students. Most will find themselves feeling extremely isolated, especially students who do not have anyone at home to interact with. Students with family or roommates are especially lucky to have those social interactions. However, there are still drawbacks to having this much day-to-day interaction with only the same people. They might start to feel crowded and isolated at the same time.  “The consequences of isolating, quarantining, and social distancing are that we are…