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Julie Otsuka, author of “When the Emperor Was Divine” visits campusWriter discusses research for her books, and her family’s history at internment camp.
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Heroes both real and fictional: Why do we look up to them?Role models in life and art have common qualities students aspire to share.
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Meet the candidates for both president and vice president and learn where they stand.
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After weeks of campaigning for candidates Tevin Gladney, Mark Li and Evan Yu, elections were held on Tuesday April 29, Wednesday April 30 and Thurs-day May 1. Voting took place at the Lindbloom Center, Tech Center and Holman Library from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., as well as online at all times.
The new Student Body Presi-dent of GRCC will be announced on Wednesday May 7.
“It’s really up to the candidates to get themselves out there,” Te-vin Gladney said, one of GRCC’s presidential candidates. Gladney has spent his last year here at Green River and is currently part of the Community, Leadership, Education and Outreach Program (CLEO) as a special events coordi-nator, and is now hoping to make some positive changes if elected as Student Body President.
“My goal is to become ap-proachable, accepting, and ready to listen to different insights and to work with these new ideas,” Mark Li said. Li is currently working as a receptionist at the International Programs Extended Learning Office and believes that his time there will help him to carry out the duties and respon-sibilities of GRCC’s Student Body President.
“I’ve been telling people word of mouth of my campaign,” Evan Yu
said. For Yu, becoming Student Body President would mean being a persistent and empathet-ic peer, as well as a leader. He promises to work hard and be the branch between students and administration. Yu has been cam-paigning with the slogan, “A vote for me truly is a vote for you.”
The competition has been a lot less stressful for Vice-Presidential candidate, Dema Issa, interna-tional student from Palestine-Je-rusalem. As the only Vice-Presi-dential candidate, Issa will take her place as VP of GRCC for the 2014-2015 academic school year.
“I’ve been handing out fliers, water bottles and pencils, just trying to get myself out there,” Gladney said. For all candidates, getting themselves out there was just the beginning of the elections. Speeches were held on Tuesday April 22 followed by a debate on Wednesday April 23.
For all three candidates, taking on the role of becoming GRCC’s Student Body President for the 2014-2015 school year would be a dream come true. Either Gladney, Li or Yu will be announced as the new GRCC Student Body Presi-dent on Wednesday May 7 and will take the place of the current GRCC Student Body President, Jakob Öehrmer.
Student Government would like to communicate to the students that their participation in the elections was greatly appreciated.
By: Rachel Wood Staff Writer
Mark Li Tevin GladneyEvan YuDema IssaDema Issa is an International student from Palestine-Jerusalem and is currently working towards an AA in science in order to major in dentistry.
Evan Yu, 17, is a Kent parks and recreation worker, Running Start student, and has worked for the past year on writing with the GRCC student newspaper.
Mark Li, 20, is working towards being a heart surgeon. He has been at GRCC for a year and a half and works at the International Programs Extended Learning Office as a stu-dent receptionist.
Tevin is part of the Community, Leadership, Education, and Out-reach program, or (CLEO), as a special events coordinator. He grad-uated high school in 2013.
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Green River’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) club won first place in two competitions at the local ASME robotics competition.
The competition, which was held at Highline Community College on April 19, was a combi-nation of several specific compe-titions. Green River won in both the autonomous robot and rapid design categories.
Green River was only one of eight participating colleges, many of them universities, which made Green River an underdog, Jordan Fisher, ASME club president, said, because it is not known for robotics. Despite these challeng-es, the club was determined to make a good product to show that it’s about the students, not the college.
To compete in the autonomous robotics competition, each par-ticipating school had to design and create a robot that would avoid obstacles as it traveled around a track, Fisher said. The robot that traveled the most laps in a specific window of time was named the winner.
“After we pushed the button to turn on the power, we couldn’t have any interaction with it,” Fisher said about the prize-win-ning robot.
The path of creating the robot was a long one, stretching over three months from conception to completion. It took one month of
brainstorming and two months of trial and error, Fisher said.
ASME club members, as well as members of the Tech Club, were recruited to brainstorm designs for a robot that could carry out the required tasks. ASME Club Vice President Matt Todd then took these designs and put them in a computer program to combine and perfect the designs. This was when the club’s new 3-D printer came in handy.
“It’s like a really fancy hot glue gun,” Fisher said.
The 3-D printer arrived on cam-pus at the beginning of winter quarter, according to Jae Suk, ASME club’s advisor. It follows a path of points and creates plastic in a particular shape, building layer upon layer until the desired object is achieved. Each draft of the robot could be printed for only a few dollars, and then test-ed for success. If a certain design didn’t work, it could be discarded without much cost to the club.
Once the final robot was de-signed, it was a work-in-progress up until the very last minute.
“Something went wrong, the programming was ridiculous, and we finally finished it about a minute before we started the competition,” Fisher said. “It ran perfectly, but it was giving us trouble the whole way through.”
The rapid design competition required the club to program a robot on-the-spot, rather than
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bringing one. Each group was given two small robots and had an hour to program them to do a certain task, Jae Suk, ASME club’s advisor, said. When time was up, the robots were tested against the other teams’ robots and evaluated on criteria such as creativity, and how well the program was used.
“If your robot did the task more efficiently, then you won,” Fisher said.
This is Green River’s first time competing in the robotics compe-tition, but the club has participat-ed in other engineering competi-tions in the past and won awards for its other innovative designs.
“I don’t know how many prizes we won, there are so many,” Suk said.
“There’s no classes here that have robotics in it,” Fisher said. “The only thing that we have remotely close to this is program-ming, but we don’t know how to put things together. We learn to apply, and I think that’s what’s really important.”
Fisher credits the people who worked diligently after school on the robot project while balancing coursework for the club’s success. Many of these people had no prior knowledge in the area of robotics.
“You don’t have to be extremely smart to do something extremely great,” Fisher said. “You can do whatever you want. You just have to want it.”
The Information Technology department, a program offering a four year bachelor degree at Green River Community College, flourishes. Information Technolo-gy is what economists call “gener-al purpose” technology, that uses sources such as electric power, that bring enormous benefits to the economy.
“The job market has changed” said Alan Carter, an IT faculty member said. “It’s very hard to get a job in IT without a bachelor’s.”
“Really, our goal is to make sure that they go out and find good jobs,” Sheila Capps an IT bachelor manager said.
While universities’ degrees in IT tend to be more research focused, the IT program at GRCC focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer, Mathematics) degrees, bachelors of applied science, and more hands-on content.
The IT faculty members are still making an effort to provide students with higher quality of education. “We are now in the final approval stages for a bache-
lor of applied science in software development,” Carter said. The GRCC IT program is currently heading for the system admin-istration program to get the first students through spring of 2015. The program itself is expected to start Fall of 2014.
Fahad Ali, an IT student from Pakistan, acquired a degree in the UK last year. Ali looked at the Cisco Certify Networking Administrator and found he could learn specialized computer skills in networking and work experience provided by GRCC. “I am so exited about being able to work as a PC support technician,” Fahad said. “There are many community colleges that do offer a 4 year degree but they are not as high quality of emphasized work experience as GRCC’s”.
Despite this progression, unfilled jobs could be a potential concern, Carter said. There are about 3000 jobs in the IT area annually in King County but only around 400 people who qualify. “One of the big problems in the United States is we don’t pro-duce enough people with STEM degrees,” said Carter.
By: Renno JeonStaff Writer
The Green River Community College team placed third in their first participation in the Pacific Rim Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in March. This regional competition was held at Highline Community College. Teams from different two and four- year colleges in Washing-ton, Idaho and Oregon competed in real-life scenarios where they worked as a business with an IT department.
While teams from other schools prepared for the contest for at least two-and-a-half quarters, the GRCC team only had six or seven weeks together to prepare. Krish Mahadevan, the faculty advisor for the team, attributes much of their success despite this time dilemma to Alan Carter, an Information Technology faculty member at Green River.
Alan Carter is the “main con-tributor to the strength of the department,” Mahadevan said. According to Mahadevan, the reason the Green River team was able to pull everything together so quickly for the competition was the program that Carter has helped to make so strong.
Mahadevan said he had to rely on what is done at Green River in
the IT department for the compe-tition. The majority of the team’s knowledge for the competition came from the curriculum taught in the college. Green River’s pro-gram actually prepares students for jobs in the field and “teaches exactly what you need to know in real life,” Mahadevan said.
Mahadevan, team captain Duong (Ruby) Carrasco and co-captain Oliver Karr had no place for ego within the team. They all believed that one of the reasons they did well at the com-petition was that they worked together as a team and never put one team member before another.
Mahadevan said that for this competition he didn’t care so much about a trophy. This time they “...were just going in to learn and have fun,” Mahadevan said.
This “just for fun” outlook took a lot of pressure off the team members, making it easier for them to do their best and really take in the learning experience. The real-life experience of operat-ing computer systems and keep-ing out viruses helps prepare the participants for work they would do at an actual cyber security job.
Green River plans to send two teams to next year’s competition.
By: Taylor LopesStaff Writer
IT Places Third in Cyber Defense
Engineers Place First in Robotics Four-Year IT Program Forges Ahead at GRCC
GRCC’s ASME team takes first in two competitions
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First place robot built by Green River’s ASME.
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The top 15 community colleges in America are all using a similar method of enrollment and place-ment to Green River Commu-nity College. Every one of those colleges attracts a third more students than GRCC, as stated by Derek Brandes, vice president of instruction, during an Instruc-tional Council meeting.
Brandes said that the college needs to focus on retaining the remedial students who are cur-rently enrolled. There are plans for getting the remedial students enrolled in at least one college level class. This is supposed to help the students be more suc-cessful in college and continue the path to a degree.
Instructional council chair-person Hank Galmish said that diversity in the classes will help to provide a richer learning environ-ment. Galmish said that in one of his classes the amount of inter-national students outweighs the local students.
Brandes said that the high school population is flattening out. The college needs to target an older population of potential students. Around 60 percent
of adults won’t have an associ-ates degree. He said the college needs to be built around keeping students in college. There may be plans to offer weekend classes if there is a need for them. Brandes also claimed the method of placing students into their classes needs to be revised. The COM-PASS test is the current method used by GRCC but Brandes said that it would be better to use the students’ high school GPA’s to place them in classes such as Math and English. There are plans to study methods of im-proving this system.
Enrollment is also a hassle for some students. Brandes said that there was an increase in enroll-ment for the English department but when the quarter started 8 percent of students dropped out. The reason for the drop off was because those students had not paid for the class.
The division chair of human-ities, Will Scott, said also that the class replacement process is cum-bersome and problematic. There may be delays in paperwork that will prevent a student from get-ting a refund for a class they did not want to take. Scott said that the process needs to be expedited so that this doesn’t inconvenience the students.
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GRCC Expected to Add Programs
A new Distance Education mentoring program is planned to be implemented by Fall 2014 and headed by Jerry Marshall, direc-tor of e-learning. The program would allow each division to have a mentor. A $350 stipend is going to be provided for the program. Each mentor would be rotat-ed out term by term and each student will be in the program for three quarters.
The IC meeting schedule said that the aviation department is planning to offer more classes soon. Currently there is a high demand for aviation classes and some classes are completely full. There are already plans to hire new instructors and purchase new equipment.
A flight simulator is also in the process of being acquired for the course. Ron Bayer, the chair of fine arts, also raised concern. One of the courses provided can be taken for no credits, Bayer said. This is used for international stu-dents who don’t need to take the course but still need the credit for the degree.
The faculty is heavily involved with the coming changes to GRCC. They are preparing the college to go through some changes to provide a better learn-ing environment for the students.
Helping animals has been a passion of Green River student Hsin-Yin for as long as she can re-member. Yin founded the Animal Welfare Eco-friends (AWE) club here at GRCC just two quarters ago. This club was created to help raise awareness about strays and help various types of animals. “Our club is still pretty young,” Yin said. “Toddler young.” Yin vol-unteers at the Regional Animal Services of King County shelter with friends, and formed the club because there wasn’t one before.
AWE participates in many projects, including hosting guest speakers to talk on the ideal
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methods of keeping control on the amount of strays. AWE also sells Taco Time coupons to raise money for the shelter. This quar-ter, Yin states that their goal is to bring a flash mob and cat blanket DIY event to GRCC in hopes to raise participation, awareness and of course money.
According to Yin there are more than two pages of members, but only about five are active. Yin encourages people to join, and is open to anyone who loves animals and wants to help the ones in need.
Although this quarter has been really busy for most Green River students, small projects and gain-ing a lot of members can make a big difference and even a few days out of the month can help.
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Walk through any grocery store or super market and the price of food is overwhelmingly high.
At Albertson’s, Clementine tangerine oranges cost as much as $6.99. Sara Deluxe Bagels cost $4.39. Chicken breasts cost $6.99 each. Foster Farms chicken costs $7.49. Sliced Tillamook cheese costs $4.49. A carton of 18 eggs costs $2.89. A full gallon of milk costs $2.99.
Of course, the prices vary from store to store but these prices provide a good sample of how high prices are in general and how they may continue to become.
Food likely makes up a large percentage of many GRCC students budget. As the price of food increases, many families and individuals are having to make
sacrifices in order to make ends meet such as limiting how much they eat out, limiting the amount of snacks bought or perhaps only buying what is on sale.
Steve, a GRCC student said that he shops twice per week: Costco for his big shopping and usually Fred Meyer for variety and for the decent prices. "I have a family to feed. I have to be as cost con-scious as I can." He also added that he felt like a greater percent-age of his overall income went to food compared to a few years ago and that Albertson's will accept coupons that would normally be used at other grocery stores such as Safeway or Fred Meyer so this can help mitigate the astronomi-cally high prices.
Several factors are contributing to spikes in food prices, notably economic factors such as infla-tion. Currently though, drought is one major factor in contrib-uting to the perpetual rise in
food costs. According to paleo-climatologist Lynn Ingram from the University of California in Berkeley who spoke to National Geographic, California is current-ly experiencing its worst drought since record keeping began in the mid-19th century and this drought could last 200 years.
California is one of the larg-est agricultural regions in the world; farmers need a substantial amount of water in order to culti-vate their crops and if there isn’t enough water then that leads to reduced yields which then lead to increased prices for the consumer when the commodity is shipped to the marketplace. A large container of California Giant Berry Farm’s fresh strawberries costs $7.99 at Albertson’s which isn't surprising considering the drought. All of this is especially scary when you consider that be-tween one-third and one-half of the nation’s fruit and vegetables
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are supplied by California. Fresh fruit increased in price from February to March by 2.1 percent according to the USDA.
Professor Timothy Richards of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University as cited in USA today, has calculat-ed based on extensive research what crops are most likely to be affected by the drought and by how much they'll increase in price. His analysis predicted that avocados will increase from 17 to 35 cents and as much as $1.60 each. Grapes are likely to rise 26 to 50 cents to as much as $2.93 per pound. Broccoli may increase up to 20 to 40 cents to possibly $2.18 per pound. Lettuce is likely to rise 31 to 61 cents to as much as $2.54 per head. This may be only a glimpse of the data Richards gathered, but the point stands. The price of food will eventually double.
The drought has affected more
than just produce prices. Drought has also driven up the price of hay. USDA estimates that, as of late July, nearly 70 percent of hay-producing areas have been impacted by moderate or more intense drought. The U.S. cattle inventory in Texas has been re-duced due to drought. Beef prices which are already reaching record levels, increased by 1.9 percent in March and are up 5.3 percent this year.
It has been detrimental to world food reserves, according to the Guardian, that food consump-tion has exceeded production for the past 6 of 11 years. As bad as economic conditions worldwide are now, it’s hard to imagine how food production will be able to keep up with a perpetually increasing population. Environ-mentalists warn that the global food supply could collapse at any point which would leave millions and millions of people hungry.
Drought Causes National Rise in Food Prices
The lack of counselors has become an issue for many of the students attending GRCC. Students in need of counselor support are often unsatisfied with the periods of times they are forced to wait when schedul-ing an appointment with one of Green Rivers counselors.
Diversity Director Michael Tuncap explained that only an estimated 30 percent of students attending GRCC will graduate. He believes that the reason for this alarming amount of failing students is the result of students not being able to form a personal connection with their teachers. He believes that when students are not able to form one on one connections with their teachers, that the students will often lose interest and not feel obligated to attend classes. Tuncap continued to explain that Student counsel-ors can be helpful in filling this void. For many students, having a counselor to talk to can not only help to relieve personal stress, but can also be an important aspect that helps students feel personally attached to the school and re-establish their interest in attending classes.
“The counselors at Green River are definitely doing a good thing. But trying to schedule an appointment with them can be a
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hassle,” said local GRCC student Cameron Hiller.
With only three full time coun-selors on staff and roughly 10,000 students attending Green river, students typically are not able to get immediate counseling.
Hiller continued to explain that be believes many students at GRCC would benefit from talking to a counselor. “All over campus I see people walking around that look stressed out or irritated,” said Hiller. “I think that if they went and talked to a counselor and worked out some of their emotional problems that it would make the whole campus a more enjoyable place.” Hiller continued to explain that students might be less likely to talk to their counselors if they have to wait an extended period of time for an appointment. And that many of the students who could really benefit from counseling don’t feel that it’s “worth the wait.”
But if student are willing to be patient when setting up an ap-pointment with their counselors, Tuncap explained a new method of counseling that GRCC is look-ing to incorporate. Counselors are looking to try a form of counsel-ing in which instead of students talking to their counselors in the small, cramped cubicles, students would be able to talk to their counselors while walking around GRCC. He believes that this could possibly relieve tension for many.
Lack of Counselors Affects Students
The Paper Tree bookstore has recently experienced students stealing textbooks.
There are sixteen security cam-eras that cover the store. Orig-inally there were nine cameras that could cover the majority of the store. Seven more were added for a more intense coverage of the aisles. However, there are still some spots of the store that are not covered by camera.
Gary Jones is the store’s manager. He watches over all of the cameras. The cameras are running constantly and can be played back for hours. There are also other employees that help students find the textbooks. These employees double as secu-rity guards.
Any employee that thinks they see someone attempting to steal from the store cannot pursue them until that person leaves the store.
“If someone wants to steal, they’re going to get you,” Jones said. According to him even after all of the security measures that are put in place to prevent theft, it is impossible to catch every item stolen.
Even though some textbooks are stolen from the bookstore, there are measures taken so that the store does not lose more
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Paper Tree Experiences Losses due to Thieves
money. When reselling books, students must have the receipt from when they bought the book.
The bookstore has experienced many instances of theft through-out the years. There was even an instructor from Shoreline Com-munity College that would go to other college bookstores and steal the books.
The bookstores communicate with each other to catch thieves that are hitting multiple book-stores. They caught the instruc-tor after he had stolen from the Paper Tree.
According to Jones, there were instances when students would try to return multiple copies of
the same book at the same time. This type of behavior set off alarms for the managers of the Paper Tree bookstore.
Despite this, the bookstore is not worried about the amount of theft that it is currently experi-encing. Jones used “shrinkage” to explain when the amount of books sold does not match the amount of profit gained. Accord-ing to him it is very rare for the bookstore to experience more that 1 percent shrinkage.
In an effort to reduce crime, the Paper Tree has racks available to store backpacks. Use of the racks is required, as bookbags are not allowed in the store.
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Green River Community Col-lege was host to award winning author Julie Otsuka on April 22. Dean of Campus Life Dani Chang said Otsuka came to GRCC as part of the One Book program co-ordinated by the library. Otsuka came to talk about her first book "When the Emperor was Divine."
The night started with the music of the ‘40s, bringing the audience of the panel back to the time of her books. Otsuka's books are all set in the ‘40s and deal primarily with the struggles of Japanese Americans. Hira Shin, artist and speaker series coordi-nator, helped organize the event with the library.
Jody Segal, a librarian at GRCC said that the One Book pro-gram is supposed to bring the community together. The books chosen by the program have been integrated into multiple classes and over 1,000 copies have been distributed to the students for free. Each book is supposed to engage the students with expe-riences or parts of history they knew nothing about.
Otsuka began the panel talking about her mom. Her mother is 83 and in the early stages of dementia. Despite slowly losing her memories she will end every phone conversation with, "Well Julie, the FBI will check on you soon." The reason for this strange sign off is because her family was investigated by the FBI.
In April 1942 Otsuka’s family was sent to a concentration camp in Berkeley, Utah. This was the inspiration for her first book
about a small Japanese family be-ing sent to a concentration camp during World War II.
Otsuka started her career as a painter but failed at that and soon switched to writing. She didn't know what to write about until, "images of the war entered her psyche." No one ever talked about it in her family and her mother only called it "camp" whenever it was brought up.
Otsuka said that for the Japa-nese people, the experience was one of shame and fear. Many just wanted to forget it ever hap-pened. Others tried becoming more American and suppressing their Japanese heritage.
While writing her book, Otsuka found a box of letters in her mother’s house from the camp. She read them and learned a lot about what life was like, though there were a lot of gaps and many letters were censored by the gov-ernment. The only thing Otsuka's mother would say about the camp was, "Camp was an adventure."
The first seed of the story came from an image in her mind of a Japanese woman reading the evacuation orders posted on a telephone pole. Anyone with even 1/16 Japanese blood needed to report to the camps.
Otsuka said that early on during the writing process she was worried if she could do the story justice. She started writing the story to better understand her mother who was a huge influence on her creative process.
Otsuka started to research the camps and soon came upon some of the few photos from the time. A photo by Dorothea Lange showed her family leaving for the
camp. Her mother was 10 at the time the photo was taken.
Otsuka said she struggled for a long time writing the scenes inside the camp. Every day she went to a coffee shop to write a few pages of her book. One day she said that she kept seeing her brother Dave everywhere she went one day as she wrote. That became inspiration for a character in her book that kept seeing his father in the crowds of Japanese men in the camps.
Otsuka visited the camp her family was sent to. It was called Topaz and very little remained of it when she visited. The only things left were fences and foun-dation of the barracks. Otsuka said she visited the barrack where her mother was held: Block 28, barrack 82, apartment 4.
The camp is currently getting a museum to commemorate the history of what happened there during World War II. There was a memorial marker on the site but it was being replaced because the locals enjoyed using it for target practice. Otsuka said that they shouldn't have replaced the marker because it was a part of the camp’s history and the new marker has a "lower profile."
The ending of the book became a controversial topic for her fans. It was an angry condemnation of the events that happened. A New York Times reviewer gave Otsu-ka's book a glowing review, except for the ending which the reviewer said she hated. Otsuka said she tried writing a different ending at the behest of her editor, but she stuck by her original ending and she hasn't regretted it.
When the book was released
Otsuka said that many white peo-ple had no idea about the camps. Otsuka said that when her moth-er finally returned home in 1945 her friends and neighbors didn't even acknowledge that she left. That got her thinking about how these tragic events could have happened in the first place. The simple answer is that it happened to someone else.
Otsuka has another book called “The Buddha in the Attic.” It's about "picture brides" which were women who came to America to marry a man. The book acts as a prequel to "When the Emperor was Divine." Her books have informed thousands of people about the events during the ‘40s that happened to the Japanese people.
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By: Laura GrayA&E Editor“The Quiet Ones” was a
different take on the usual found-footage possession film. They start it off with the possi-bility that Jane, played by Olivia Cooke, is just crazy and has the ability to do stuff with her mind as part of the untapped potential in all of our minds.
Jared Harris’s character Pro-fessor Joseph Coupland believes that if he can find and isolate the source of this power then he can cure mental illness for everyone. In true horror film fashion, they are all wrong about her being crazy and she is in fact possessed by a demon related to a cult.
It was mostly a small ensemble cast of five people. The actors all were able to portray their char-acters to be believable. Cooke especially did an excellent job as the disturbed Jane Harper. She even has a look that is reminis-cent of Christina Ricci in “The
Adams Family,” which added to the creepy role she played.
Director John Pogue did not go for all the obvious jump scares that were available to him in the film. This kept the tension up, for the audience could not always guess when something would happen. Sometimes it would be expected and other times it would be out of the blue and really get the audience.
While the tension was good, much of the plot was ripped from other horror films. If you like to watch lots of horror films, you will spot these. One sup-posed scare was obviously taken straight from the film “A Haunt-ing in Connecticut.” This kept the story from being as creative as it could have been.
The writing was decent. They kept the language to fit with the time period, which is always nice to have in a period piece. There was a cheesy line where they plugged in the title purely to try
and condone calling the movie “The Quiet Ones.”
The film was shot in a mix of found footage and normal. The parts that were supposed to be the found footage was edited to be a square and have the occasional static like it was really a recording from an old 1970s
camera. There were a couple of times though when it was obvi-ously supposed to be from the camera but the editors forgot to change the size of the frame.
The few times that CGI was used it looked like it was from at least 10 years ago and did not be-long in a film made in 2014. The
obviously poor CGI took away from the scares it was supposed to help create.
“The Quiet Ones” is decent for watching late-night, half-asleep; for those times you want a cheap scare without much thought but without as much gore as a typical slasher film.
“Odd Thomas,” by Dean Koontz, is the first of a four book series. The main character, Odd, is a fry cook in the town of Pico Mundo, but he has a secret.
Odd has been blessed, or cursed, with the ability to see the souls of those who have died and not moved on, as well as shadow-like creatures known as the Bodachs.
In this first book, Odd is the only one who knows what dan-ger is headed for Pico Mundo. The only one, aside from you, his reader. You will have an in depth look at his struggles, humor, and intense adventure.
Odd Thomas is the perfect book for any mood or mindset.
“Capote” is a biographical drama starring Philip Seymore Hoffman, alongside Cather-ine Keener and Clifton Collins Jr. Based on the true story of Truman Capote and his most famous book, “In Cold Blood,” the film follows Truman as he writes the book over the span of a few years.
In the movie itself, Hoffman’s acting is stellar, and though I’m no critic nor actor, the quality of his performance was superb. Hoffman completely immerses himself in the role, fantastical-ly, even though the movie is a slower one. If you’re in the right mood, the ending will leave you wonderfully conflicted.
“Star Wars: The Old Republic” is an MMORPG for PC set in the Star Wars universe, 3000 years before the events of the films.
The story is an epic science fiction adventure, with a colorful cast of characters who engage with the player. When you create a character, you choose whether to follow the path of darkness or light. Gameplay involves quests and multiplayer missions, with a combat system and skill trees similar to “World of Warcraft.”
Like other games it can suck up a lot of time, but if you play casually it is a fun way to explore the extended Star Wars universe, now that another movie trilogy is in the works.
In the past week I have been listening to Odesza religiously, their stacking of instruments allows listeners to become lost in the many parts that make up the whole.
Odesza is a Seattle band and part of the emerging genre called Chillwave where artists use electronic instruments and other tools to create original music.
Summer’s Gone has a simplis-tic and minimal sound allowing the listener to pick apart each sample that is being played in the moment; creating an almost three dimensional sound unique from most other music. Their music has seamless transitions into each segment and song.
“Dark Angel” was a fantastic show that unfortunately only aired for two seasons on Fox ending in cliffhanger when canceled in 2002. The show was created by James Cameron and starred Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly.
It takes place in the not so distant future of 2019 in Seat-tle. In this future there was an electromagnetic pulse that shut down all electronics in Amer-ica creating a somewhat bleak future. The main character, Max, (Jessica Alba) is actually a genet-ically altered super-human who is hiding from the company that created her, while searching for her “siblings.”
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Swim suit season is around the corner and whether you want to hit that goal weight, tone up or simply stay active, hiking is a great way to meet your health goals.
There are many trails here in Washington State. Some of them may even be in your backyard, just a step away.
There are trails all over Mt. Rainier and Mt. Si, for those who don’t mind taking the drive, as well as trails throughout our local parks.
Let’s not forget those GRCC trails for those who would rather stay a little closer to home.
It is important to note that na-tional parks, such as Mt. Rainier, do require a Discover Pass in order to enter the park.
Discover passes are $30 for one year or $10 for one day. The
discover pass hangs on your rear view mirror or can be placed on your dash.
The fine for entering a park and not displaying your discover pass is $99.
For information on the Discover Pass and for a list of which parks it must be used at visit www.discoverpass.wa.gov.
Anita Behrabuam, a PE teacher at GRCC, doesn’t mind driving in order to hike a specific trail. “Mt. Rainier is such a gem and it’s in our own backyard,” Behrabuam said.
She then went on to talk about the other hikes she enjoys, such as Owyhigh Lakes, Naches Peak Loop, Dewey Lakes and Van Trump Park.
She described all of these hikes as scenic with beautiful wildflow-ers, wildlife and some of them even include waterfalls.
“For me personally, I’m moti-vated to get out and about in the
world just to see what’s there.” Valen Hill, a GRCC student, said. “In this day and age, the world is already explored and it’s easy to look up what’s out there. But for me, that’s not enough. I love seeing it firsthand.”
Hill likes to stay close to home but he finds ways to challenge himself, “Si was four miles long but was more of a three hour hike/jog for me as I raced up it against some friends of mine” Hill explained, describing his latest venture.
There are trails of varying intensities in the area for the new, or the more experienced, hiker. These trails can be found at http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/map where you’ll find directions, trail descriptions and informa-tion on the length and elevation of the specific trail.
With the weather heating up, you’ll be able to enjoy your own backyard soon enough.
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Easy Ways to Lose Winter Weight
If you want to lose weight before summer comes, here are some tips to help guide you in your venture, according to Anita Behrbaum and Barb Hansen, GRCC Physical Education in-structors.
Behrbaum believes that track-ing what you eat and seeing how many calories you’re eating is the best route to losing weight.
Once you have figured out your daily calorie consumption, subtract three to five hundred calories from your diet.
Behrbaum also noted that eating a variety of foods that are nutrient dense, instead of eating
and speeds up your metabolism. “More activity burns more calo-ries.” Behrbaum said
Cardio tends to be a little better than weight training for losing weight, according to Hansen. If you want to be the most effective in losing weight you should com-bine cardio, weight training and eating healthy.
Hansen also suggested that instead of working on losing pounds, work on lowering you body fat percentage because weight training will develop more muscle and you will gain weight with the addition of your added muscle.
Just have realistic goals,and start small. As you grow and get stronger, the bigger goals will come into play.
a brownie eat an apple or a half of a peanut butter and jelly sand-wich on whole grain bread.
Hansen stated that we should, as the day goes by, eat smaller meals. It is also very important to keep hydrated. This will help your body flush things out much faster.
Cardiovascular exercises are good for losing weight. “More movement, less intake,” Hansen said. Cardiovascular exercise improves your health by getting your heart rate up into the zone where your body burns fat.
Aerobic activity is considered cardio because it uses fat for energy. Weight training is also a good way to lose fat because it increases your lean muscle mass, which burns more calories
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Ingredients:24 Oreos8 oz semi sweet chocolate8 oz Cream Cheese1 Tbs Butter
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Step One:Make sure to wash your hands
first.Take 24 Oreos and, by hand,
mix in cream cheese. Texture will by sticky, and hard to mix.
Be sure cream cheese does not clump, and Oreos are evenly mixed through the entire mix-ture.
Step two:Separate mixture into approx-
imately 24 balls. They should be about 1 inch in size.
Take a cookie sheet, and cover it with foil to keep the chocolate from sticking and burning.
Place balls on tin foiled cookie sheet and place in freezer for thirty minutes.
Step three: For this step you will be using a
double boiler.Fill the bottom sauce pan a
third of the way full with water. Fill above sauce pan or oven safe
bowl with chocolate and butter. Stir mixture consistently to keep
from burning, and until com-pletely melted.
Step Four:Take your cooled tray out of the
freezer and quickly dunk them in the chocolate mix until they are completely covered.
Place them back on tray, and do the same to the others.
Once finished with all 24 balls, place back in freezer.
Do this quickly to keep balls from falling apart.
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The Black Diamond Bakery and Restaurant is not only a perfect venue for a sunlit breakfast, but also represents a part of Pacific north-west history.
The restaurant and bakery is part of a small complex that also has an ice cream shop, espresso bar, and gift shop. There is also a lobby with complimentary board games.
The bakery was founded in 1902, and since then the bakery gained popularity due to its “Old Brick Oven” and carefully guarded recipes. The quality of its beloved hearth-baked, old-fashion breads has been bringing in their customers for over 100 years.
The famous signature bread from the bakery is the Crystal Mountain Loaf, which attracts customers from many generations due to it’s cot-ton-like consistency.
When I asked bakery worker Jadon Cluett of his favorite baked good he immediately pointed to the Russian tea cakes. “I eat a couple every day,
The restaurant serves a variety of traditional breakfast options from chicken fried steak and eggs bene-dict to French toast and pancakes. Many of the items on the menu, including the lunch options, are around 11 dollars.
To replace your eggs with low cho-lesterol eggs is 1 dollar, split orders cost an additional two dollars, and to go orders are an additional 75 cents.
Despite the higher price range, the quality and time taken into your ex-perience at the restaurant is worth it. Before your meal, a complimentary mini blueberry muffin and half a canned peach is served.
Large windows create a bright set-ting that shows a gorgeous view of a northwest garden.
The Black Diamond Bakery and Restaurant also appreciates its his-tory as seen in the many old photos and the occasional antique that is seen in the complex.
It is the perfect place for a peaceful breakfast getaway with its history and delicious food. Breakfast is served from 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM with lunch all day and dinner from 4:30-9:00 PM.
so good.” he admitted.My personal suggestion is the
Twist which is a large, twisted doughnut that is also glazed. The bakery carries an assortment of doughnuts, cakes, candies, and pies at affordable prices.
In addition to the Twist, I ordered the Sausage and Cheese Scramble consisting of fresh country sausage, onions, mush-rooms, Swiss & cheese, mixed with potatoes. It was well worth the $10.69.
The scramble was both light and filling, adding potatoes to make the dish not only bigger but also fluffier.
When I asked our waitress, Heather, of her favorite breakfast item she said, “I love getting the Coal Miner Breakfast, and a cin-namon bun from the bakery”.
She later mentioned that the cinnamon buns were a popular and recommended pastry from the bakery.
With tax, all the omelets are roughly 11 dollars and each comes with hash browns and toasted bakery bread.
The Historical Black Diamond Bakery
“Going back to my country...Hong Kong, hanging out with my friends”
-Deb Tong
“The beach, definitely more sunny days like this, passing classes, you know.”
-Thurston Muskelly
“I like running around naked when it’s nice outside”
-Charles Oxborrow
“Vacation, going out of the country, to Russia, my grand-parents live there.”
-Dina Bizyuk
“I’m actually mostly looking forward to hanging out with my friends. I made new friends here, and just probably chilling. Maybe going on a camping trip with the automotive class.”
-DeAnna Da Costa
“Basically just enjoying the sun, and working on my car since I’m in automotive. Get-ting ready for next quarter and hanging out with friends.”
-Dylon Myre
“I’m excited about going to Montana with my cousin. We’re driving by ourselves there. Vacations.”
-Jared Dorn
“There are so many things, I love the summer culture... Ev-erybody seems to be more open and having fun... the relaxation and stuff. I really am one of those people who really likes nature. I love the scents and the colors and the flowers.”
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What are you looking forward to about the summer?
It is the easiest, most affordable way to make it through the mon-ey-less days of college life. Top Ra-men is priced at an average of $0.15 per package, and takes roughly five minutes to cook.
The nutrition content, however, is questionable. In one package of chicken flavored ramen, there are 1,820 milligrams of sodium.
A healthy human, according to healthyeating.com, is meant to con-sume no more than 2300 milligrams of sodium in an entire day. One
package of Ramen nearly fulfills our entire daily allotment of salt.
If you do not eat many salty foods, and you have Ramen for a single meal, this may not seem daunting to you. The rest of the ingredients in Ramen are less than tangible.
If you look at the nutrition facts on the back of a package of Ramen, you will see the Sodium, Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat levels are the only significant things you see. The percentages for each of these are very low, and everything appears to be normal.
The next step, however, is to
read through the ingredients. As you read further into the list,
you’ll begin to be unable to pro-nounce their names.
PreventDisease.com has an article dedicated to making the public aware to what these complex words actually do.
“Ramen noodles contain Tertia-ry-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ)... It is one of those chemicals that is neither digestible or beneficial in any way for your body.”
It may be affordable now, but the medical problems it will cause in your future will cost you more than you could imagine.
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The Green River Community College Board of Trustees has proposed adding a governance policy dealing with civility on campus. It would require people to be decent to one another, but is supposedly not intended to restrict the expression of ideas in the learning environment.
An open forum was held on April 24 in the Lindbloom Student Center to discuss the proposed civility code. Students and faculty were invited to the stage to state their position on the issue.
Green River English instruc-tor Hank Galmish opened the remarks by warning of a “chilling effect in the classroom,” that the civility policy may cause.
“To pretend that we improve things by not allowing people to speak their minds leads to an environment of intolerance,” Galmish said. This could result in a greater reluctance to participate in discussion, which is already a
problem. Classroom discussions, a big draw of community college, could be endangered.
The proposal defines civility as “politeness” and states that it also involves being “sensitive to the impact that our communications, practices and behaviors have on others,” according to the policy draft distributed at the meeting.
Several members of the faculty and student body asked the same question: Who decides what is civil?
Some were very outspoken in defense of their civil liberties.
“Civility cannot be dictated, it is earned,” Allison Jansen, a political science instructor, said.
“I was subject to, my people were subject to a civility mission,” English instructor Vik Bahl said, referring to the people of India. He said the colonial Europeans used “civility” as a means of controlling groups they labeled as “uncivilized” or “uncivil peoples.” They used civility codes “as a
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weapon to dis-empower tradi-tional cultures.” The danger of a civility policy taken to extremes is disturbing to say the least.
Although the goals it strives for are good in theory, it would also be hard to put rules into action. The question remains, who would enforce these rules, and what would the consequences be for breaking them? This policy should not be implemented in its current state and should be sent back to the drawing board.
The language of the proposed policy is ambiguous. Due to the lack of specificity it is easy to manipulate for students, faculty or administrators’ advantage. It is also redundant considering the similarities with other policies.
Bahl also pointed out that the people who spoke up at the meet-ing were all students or tenured faculty, and that the absence of adjunct and tenure-track faculty could mean they are too intimi-dated to speak out. Is this a sign
that the policy is already restrict-ing free speech? If certain groups already feel intimidated, it could indicate that we’re already feeling the effect of even the suggestion of the civility policy.
Green River already has rules on student conduct, which are also being changed (though with less transparency) as was reported in the previous issue of The Current. This makes the whole civility clause seem redundant; everyone knows what they can and cannot do in class according to these existing rules.
With the student code of conduct in place, why do we need a larger overlapping set of rules that are mostly the same? Faculty and students, like Carly Horn, are already concerned that it could needlessly restrict their freedom of expression.
“Do not take my rights and control away,” Horn said. “Please do not take away my intellectual freedom.”
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By: Elena PraggastisStaff Writer
Heroes in Life and Art Inspire Us
The last three movies I saw in theaters were “Noah,” with Russell Crowe, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.” In each of these features, the major theme is adventure, with a one or more hero characters. Recent big ticket stories in the world of media as well as literature all have a major emphasis on the hero figure. Russell Crowe was the hero in the biblical story of Noah’s Ark, Captain America is a superhero for the modern world in “Captain America,” and Bilbo Baggins is an unlikely hero in “The Hobbit.” This trend indi-cates that modern society has a distinct need and yearning for heroics, heroes, and success.
So what is a hero? I started
answering this question by inter-viewing peers here at Green River. Some said a hero is someone to look up to, while others answered that a hero is a savior of sorts.
Darick Post said a hero is some-one, “who inspires me...saves or helps people.” Brandon Holt went as far as saying, “Hot girls,” were his heroes.
Needless to say, I encountered some outliers while trying to find an exact definition of a hero. If there are so many different ideas and opinions about what a hero really is, how can girls run around saying, “He’s my hero!” and how can teachers require students to write about hero caricatures in graded essays?
The word “hero” is subjective, within reason. Depending on the circumstances of moment, a hero will be any number of things, within the parameters that it must be “good” and anti-evil. All
the big names in the world of he-roes from Marvel, DC, the Bible and more are people who combat evil and are inherently good.
But it’s more than just good versus evil, because heroes also possess great complexity and depth. Their depth of character gives us way of understanding what people need to feel saved, helped, inspired; what human be-ings need in order to feel like they have a hero.
To better comprehend these things, I decided to find out who people consider to be their heroes. Zack Forbes told me that he wasn’t sure if he had a hero. And if he didn’t, then his only hero would be himself. He then went on to say if he had to pick somebody it would be his mother.
“From the time I was born she’s always been there for me. She’s a strong person I can rely on at any time,” he said. For Zack, a hero is
not something that he needs all the time, although he does recog-nize heroic figures in his life. This means that for him, and I’m sure for many others, the elements hu-mans need to feel saved, helped, and inspired all rest inside an in-ternal heroic package which each and every person has. I always say that it’s important to be your own person, look up to yourself, rely on your own strengths, and carve your own paths. Captain America will always be my hero, but the definition of the word is sub-jective, meaning whomever you chose can be your hero. It doesn’t have to be yourself, but think of your hero as what you strive to become- who or what strikes you as an achievement- and become that hero. The qualities a person needs to feel saved, helped, or in-spired will fall into place as long as the right hero is chosen, and the right battles are fought.
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Workout Tips for that Summer look1. Tone up on the Treadmill While using the treadmill you can save time by holding two dumbells in each hand and do a one minute set of the following exer-cises each. Shoulder presses, curls, tricep extensions, side laterals, and front laterals while you walk can save you time at the gym while also giving you a great upper body workout.
5. Chart your Progress You can keep yourself motivated by marking your results and keeping a log. Jot down things like flexibility, attitude, cardio, and muscle conditioning. When you start to see improvements it will strive you to stay in shape.
3. Break out the Shovel Doing manual labor is an underrated way to get into great shape. Shoveling things such as snow can actually burn up to 400 calo-ries an hour. Just remember to bend at the knees and not the back.
2. Give Yourself a Break You need to give your body the proper time to recover and build muscles back up. Follow the 80/20 plan. Which is 80 per cent of the year you will exercise well and eat correctly, and the other 20 percent of the time you will slip due to work deadlines and holidays, this plan will better serve you to stay motivated for life.
4. Maximize Your Crunches Don’t relax your abs as you lower down onto your back after do-ing a crunch. You only get half the benefit, for the firmest abs possible you need to keep your abs tight even on the way down.
6. Make over your Running Routine Skip the slow, long distance runs for marathon runners, and complete several 10-60 seconds sprints while doing your runs. Sprinting builds more muscle than distance running does. Slowing down just long enough to catch your breath in between them.
8. Limit your workouts to 30-40 minutes. Some people want to put in massive hours at the gym, but the truth is after 30-40 minutes the benefit isn’t as great. To go that long you have to lower the intensity of the workout, it’s better to workout at a higher intensity for a shorter amount of time.
The Green River Gators started off their fast pitch games against Pierce College on April 25 relatively well. Both scores were tied after one inning of play for both games.
However, things fall apart quickly during the first game when we were not able to score until the 5th inning. The only scores for the Gators in the first game were by #12, Shelby Myton, and #1, Rachel Barcena, who both scored from a double by #11, Aris Califano.
Califano said she had a pretty normal hitting game against the Raiders. In the first game she got on base all 4 times she batted, 3 out of these 4 times getting doubles. Califano was the lead off batter for Green River in both games as well as starting both ballgames for the Gators off with a double. These plays were able to get the bench motivated and ready to come out and hit the ball.
Pierce kept GRCC to 2 runs in the 6th and 7th innings, all the while racking up points for themselves. The Gators could never quite rally and ended up losing the first game 10-2.
In the second game, Califano scored first for GRCC in the 1st inning, and was then followed a few hits later by Barcena and #10, Ashley Starke.
The Gators went toe-to-toe with Pierce until the 5th inning, when the Raiders scored twice and ended up leading by 3.
Green River had a chance to come back in the bottom of the 5th inning, scoring once, but leaving two runners on base.
“The Gators are struggling with leaving people on bases," head coach Al Sim-mons said. Simmons said Green River is a young team who's just trying to get things going. They ended up losing some mo-mentum and having a few errors in these games Simmons said.
Fans and spectators seem to agree with Simmons, blaming Green River's loss-es on the team losing momentum and leaving runners on base. Green River also struggled with "keeping their hopes up" said Kyle Mitchel, a spectator at the April 25 games.
Although the Gators were able to keep their chanting going and tried to stay positive throughout both games, they allowed Pierce the most runs in the 6th inning. This shows how GRCC struggles to keep their momentum when they fall behind late in a game. In the 6th inning of the second game alone Pierce scored 6 times. The Gators ended the game with a final score of 13-5.
It is important to note that along with them being a young team, the Green River Gators are also a sick team. There have been a few injuries and even more illnesses over the last couple of weeks. Coughing could be heard from the dug-out throughout both the games. Coach Simmons said that everyone needs to get healthy before everything can really come together for the Gators.
7. Slow Lifting It is best to contract your muscles slowly in both directions when doing a lift rather then just on the release. If you move slowly in both directions you are maximizing the effectiveness of the lift. Lift and lower to a five second count in both directions.
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