SCC evaluating book rentals as an option
Staff Writer
Wouldn’t it be great if you could reduce the cost of textbooks for a quarter by almost 70 percent? Renting textbooks could be the key. While it is a common luxury that four-year universities offer to students, the idea is slowly making its way into community colleges.
Editor-in-Chief
Construction on the new Pagoda Union Building encountered a new roadblock when bids returned for the project were over $1 million higher than anticipated.
VP Beverly Brandt leaving Shoreline at end of year
Staff Writer
Changes are occurring all over Shoreline Community College’s (SCC) campus including the loss of a vital player that has helped oversee renovations within the faculty and around campus.
Meet the presidential candidates
Staff Writer
The opportunity to meet candidates for Shoreline Community College’s Executive President position is only a couple weeks away. Although priority screening closed on March 31, the position will remain open until filled.
Student Programs Director Saunders retiring
Editor-in-Chief
After 32 years of service, Scott Saunders announced that he will be leaving Shoreline Community College at the end of current contract, which ends June 30.
Rebel Alliance, Hip Hop Club, and Black Student Union bring aid relief to Hurricane Katrina victims
Staff Writer
After spending a week sleeping on a warehouse floor in sleeping bags and gutting houses, students from Shoreline Community College gathered less than a week after returning from New Orleans to “show and tell” their experiences.
Low enrollment affecting class offerings
Advertising Manager
Pickens are gettin’ slim when it comes to course offerings at SCC Each quarter the school seems to offer less and less of normal transfer courses required by four year universities in the area. Why you ask? Well it’s due to the decrease in student enrollment.
SCC Safety and Security Dep.
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Obama aides: Clinton 'on track' for secretary of state CNN has learned that President-elect Barack Obama is getting foreign policy advice from an unlikely source: Republican Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the first Bush administration. Responding to the worsening economic climate, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday in favor of a measure to extend unemployment benefits by at least seven weeks in every state. U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech Thursday at the Federalist Society dinner at a Marriott hotel in Washington. Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, Verizon Wireless said Thursday. Read full story for latest details. More than 20 years ago, I got into an argument with a college roommate over affirmative action -- one I've thought about since President-elect Barack Obama began nominating people to serve in the Cabinet and White House staff. The whole world is watching how Barack Obama picks his cabinet, but he and his wife Michelle have a much more personal choice to make at home -- and it's very political too. A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were "enemy combatants." |
