A memorial for Morgan Livingston

The memorial bench near Gray Wolf Hall.

You walk out from Gray Wolf towards Parks after a busy day. On your left before the University Center office you see a bench with a pot of flowers next to it. It is black and brown in color, with a carving of flowers on the side. There is a plate saying “In Loving Memory of Morgan Livingston.”

Morgan Livingston was a professor for Human Services Professionals and community services at Western Washington University and Human Services 101 at Everett Community College.

A memorial bench for Livingston was installed April 9.

Jennifer Rhodes, director of Student Activities, and her friend Babette Babich coordinated the gathering of funds not long after Livingston passed away.

“The two of us coordinated the actual gathering of the fund. We were the places where they dropped the money off to and there was a group of alumni and current students that were the one that selected the bench and actually did the ordering,” said Rhodes.

By mid-February, around $700 was gathered from approximately 40 people. A group of alumni and current students selected and ordered the bench online.

“We decided to do a bench because Morgan was just a type of person that would do something that is relaxing. She would like to do something that allows people to have a conversation. So, we decided on a bench to honor her and to honor her long-standing effect that she hand on the lives of so many of us here in the campus,” added Rhodes. “We also picked something that was unique in design because she was a very unique person.”

The bench is made of recycled material and is supposed to last for quite a long time.

“Morgan was a very environmentally conscious person. That was the other reason we chose the bench that would be environmentally conscious, just like her,” explained Rhodes.

For Rhodes, the whole action to honor and respect Livingston had a sentimental reason.

“She was my professor, my father’s professor and my husband’s professor. The three of us are graduates of the program,” said Rhodes. “She was a very special person.”

Story and photo by Johan Chandra

Mysterious shape appears outside Whitehorse Hall

Photo by Ian Buck

A group of engineering students on campus have been working on this as part of their electrathon race car project.
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A day in the life of EvCC's library

National Library Week is being celebrated by hundreds of libraries throughout the country by taking part in Library Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Your Library.

This program originated in New Jersey and in 2010 at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, the ALA Advocacy Coordinating Group along with the Chapter Relations Committee and Chief Officers of State Library Agency decided to make it a national event.

Right now 38 of the 50 United States take part in this event and last year in Washington State alone there were over 200 libraries that participated with just under 150,000 patrons visiting these locations during the weeklong event.

Each library chooses one day during the National Library Week to participate.  Throughout this one-day they keep track of how many people visit their location.  This is then broken down into how many children, adults and students participating in various events and services offered one that day.  They also tally total circulation for the day (how many books, etc, are checked out and returned).

If you went down to the library in Parks on Wednesday, April 11 you may have noticed the table in front of the circulation desk with red balloons and survey sheets to fill out.  There was also a drawing that you could enter to win bookstore gift cards.

This is EvCC’s first year participating in the event and they are hoping to make next year’s Snapshot day more eventful, according to Mary Ann Lee who works the Reference Desk in the library.

The numbers should be tallied up later this week and there will be an update on these statistics as soon as that information is fully gathered and evaluated.

Story by Merritt Wgeishofski

Google introduces Project Glass

Google's official site for Project Glass.

 It's apparent that we live in the era of technology.

While we're still a little ways off from living like the Jetsons, we're still looking through the lens of the future...

Literally.

Google introduced "Project Glass" via a blog post and a short video on Wednesday.

What is Project Glass?

Imagine the love child of a smart phone and some glasses: this is Project Glass. Though the project has been in the works for a few years, Google decided to reach out to the public through Google + to see what thoughts and concerns there were.

In the video released by Google, a man finds subway schedule information, arranges a meeting with a friend and video chats - all with the help of the glasses.

When would these be available? There's no set release date, but there's speculation that they wouldn't be made available for another year.

People are constantly tuned in, wehther it's by phone, computer or another device. Can you imagine being tuned in to the web by way of glasses?

The idea raises obvious concerns: how would this contribute to distracted driving accidents? How would this affect one's eye health? Don't we have enough people walking into things already?

In the school setting, instructors have enough trouble keeping students off of their current devices in the classroom. Can you imagine regulating someone's eyewear?

For more information, go to the official link: http://g.co/projectglass

Story by Olivia Houseman

Male EvCC student arrested after sneaking into women's locker room

A male student from EvCC was caught entering a female restroom by a staff member Thursday, March 15, in the afternoon.

The staff member was suspicious when she saw a man wearing a wig entering into the bathroom. She followed him in the bathroom to find two women were in the restroom.

Once inside the restroom she asked the two women to leave while she detained him until police arrived.

According to the police report “The suspect was arrested. He was as wearing a wig, a bra and when he was searched the discovery of women’s underwear were in his pocket.”

The suspect allegedly told investigators he showered in the women’s locker room, according to Everett police Lt. Robert Goetz.

According to the police report, the detective said the suspect admitted to another voyeurism case at the same location.

The suspect has not been charge but has been arrested for viewing with intent of arousing or sexual gratification of the two females without their knowledge or consent in a woman’s bathroom.

In the Herald article “Bra-wearing man found in women's locker room” John Olson, vice president of College Advancement and executive director of the EvCC Foundation said "In general, student conduct violations can meet with a range of disciplinary actions from a warning to dismissal.”

 

Story by Winonna Saari

End of the world?

Less than two months ago people celebrated the turn of the New Year. The calendars are marked boldly with the numbers 2012. Superstitions, surrounding the Mayan calendar, suggest that December 21-23 is the world’s expiration date.

The “end of the world” isn’t a new concept. It’s been tossed around and has stricken fear in millions of believers throughout history.

For instance, in 1524 astrologers in London predicted that a great flood would come. An elevated safe haven was built at Priory Church of Bartholomew the Great, and 20,000 people fled there for safety. Ironically, 1524 was later described as an “unusually dry year.”

This is among hundreds of failed predictions, including the recent rapture in which Harold Camping predicted that the end would fall on May 21, 2011. It was based on several reasons, including biblical and numerology evidence. 

People raised over three million dollars to spread the word; some quit their jobs and left their families to embrace humanity’s final days.

True or not, many of us seem to be fascinated with apocalyptic images, captivated by ideas of collapsing ecosystems, polar shifts, biological catastrophes and the swarm of some awesome, unavoidable force.

Movies like “2012” and books like Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization’s End  by Lawrence Joseph feed into the hype.

Will 2012 become another failed prediction? 

Story by Claudia Furmanczyk

Seattle Central is Occupied

Protesters start to put up tents around 7:40 at Seattle Central on October 29.

The Seattle Occupation packed up its tents and moved to the Seattle Central Community College campus on Capitol Hill on Oct. 29.  The protesters plan on staying at SCCC at night and continuing the protest at Westlake Park during the day.

The move was voted in at the General Assembly at Westlake on Monday, Oct. 24. 

Komo 4's Tricia Manning-Smith on the scene.

On Wednesday, Oct. 26 the Seattle Central Administration released an open letter stating the occupiers were not welcome on campus.  Then, on Friday, Oct. 28, SCCC President Paul Kilpatrick released a memo describing the occupation as “lawful freedom of speech activities.”

The change came after Kilpatrick met with campus legal advisors and members of Occupy Seattle, who stated they would clean up after and police themselves.

View of the Occupy camp's first night at Seattle Central on October 29.

The protesters also offered assurances they would not interfere with the SCCC mission statement “to promote educational excellence in a multicultural urban environment, and provide opportunities for academic achievement, workplace preparation, and service to the community.” 

The situation early on Saturday, Oct. 29 was a joyful one; many of the occupiers showed up in costume for a Halloween celebration, including a particularly memorable Bert and Ernie chanting “Occupy Sesame Street!”

Guest speakers spoke in the plaza, including a man dressed up in The Joker makeup with dollar bills around his neck, representing corporate greed and telling the crowd how much he disliked their actions.   The speech was greeted with boos and laughter.  In the background the promised honey buckets arrived, as the food and medical tent handed out donated pizza and vegan food.

Around 7 p.m. tents started to go up, and as the evening progressed people began playing music and dancing.  Many protesters seemed to be happier to have a base camp to sleep at which wouldn’t involve a constant battle with the police, as had been happening at Westlake.

Photos and story by Ian Buck.