STUDENT POWER
SBA ASKS TRUSTEES TO TRUST STUDENTS

The Washington state legislature has identified a clear and well-established benefit to including students in school governance. Senate bill 5217 encourages college boards of trustees to officially include a student in their ranks.

While students were stepping back into classrooms from summer break, Student Body Association President Kanpong Thaweesuk stepped into the SCC boardroom to propose a new, sixth, Board position. Thaweesuk asked the Board to approve this position, "which would ensure that the student voice will be heard at Trustee meetings."

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Marijuana reform hits Washington

This November, Washington voters will make a decision regarding marijuana.

If passed, Initiative 502 would make the drug legal in Washington state for those 21 and older to use, obtain, and grow. The Initiative states that The Washington State Liquor Control Board would "regulate and tax marijuana" and that its criteria would be "similar to that for controlling hard alcohol."

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SCC makes the grade

Accreditation is a process which colleges are required to undergo in order to be considered legitimate in the eyes of universities and employers. This process takes place every seven years, and 2012 is Shoreline's renewal year.

A team of commissioners from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities was on-site last week, taking meetings and surveying the SCC campus. At the end of the week, they held an exit meeting in which they expressed everything on which they wanted to commend Shoreline, and their recommendations on how Shoreline should strive to improve.

According to Commissioner Ryan L. Thomas and his colleagues, the college does an excellent job of being dedicated to students despite budget cuts, keeping the campus clean and providing a comfortable environment for students. Additionally, there are great entrepreneurial partnerships in Workforce programs, resulting in more community involvement in hiring graduates. Overall, the college is doing very well in its commitment to students and education.

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SCC community gets politcal

The first presidential debate of the 2012 Election held on domestic issues between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney was screened for SCC students in the quiet study area of the library on Wednesday, October 3.

An excited group of 60-plus students attended the event, sponsored by SCC's student government and hosted by Political Science instructor, Terry Taylor.

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Ebbtide's YouTube Picks

With widespread high-speed Internet came limitless potential for technological change and progress, but one thing that will never change is the need to take a break and procrastinate. In 2005, faster speeds also provided us with the workplace's best new

productivity-drain, Youtube. Sure, it's also a world-changing, paradigm-shifting tool that can be used to better mankind, but when a big project is looming and stresses are high, a video of a panda sneezing is only a few clicks away.

We here at the Ebbtide are not above taking a break from all our worries. Here are some of our favorite videos.

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The International advising department at SCC will have a tough pair of shoes to fill after the departure of Lisa Hirayama, an advisor for 22 years. Hirayama is leaving at the end of the quarter to start a new career at Seattle Pacific University in Queen Anne, where she will be working in International Admissions.

Hirayama attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, where she worked as Dorm Director for "Asia House," a set of dorms occupied by international students and students interested in other cultures. It is there where she met her husband, a Japanese-American, to whom she has been married 28 years and with whom she has two sons.

While at Oberlin Hirayama earned a degree in East Asian Sociology and then went on to get her Master's in counseling. Her original plan was to get a music degree, but through her many interactions with the international community that changed.

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It is almost the end of this quarter, and some students have found that the Math Learning Center (MLC) is helpful to improve their math skills with satisfying results.

When students have a question, they raise their hand and a tutor comes and helps solve the math problem rather than giving the answer to the student. Student Michele Trombley's background in the arts has left her to learn math all over again. "I could not do it without the Math Lab," says Trombley. "There is no way. (The MLC) helps you to gain confidence in your ability with math."
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Choices, Homosexuality and Asian Culture

Homosexuality is not an underground topic in America; however, in most Asian countries it is not a free topic that can just be discussed at the dinner table.

Sometimes walking on the campus and seeing two girls holding hands, one dressed like a boy and one dressed like a girl. Homosexuality-- this word would come up for most.

Out of the many Asian countries, China holds a strong impact on homosexuality. Unlike in the United States, homosexuality is not legally allowed in China.

One SCC International Student gave perspectives of homosexuality in Asia and in the US: "In China, two females hand holding is consider close friends, however, not when I telling people we are couples, it is hard to get agreement. When two males doing the same thing, is consider homosexual and people who see it will start criticizing. Lucky I am in America now." In China, homosexuality is considered against the rules of nature. The society gives pressure to the people who are homosexual and uses different cultural aspects to criticize them.

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That's what she said

...Summer blockbusters

Summer is upon us, and as TV shuts down, new movies kick off. It can be hard to decide what movies deserve your hard-earned money, so here are three highly-anticipated picks.


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Released on May 31, 2012, Shoreline's arts and literary magazine, Spindrift, continues tradition while capturing the aesthetic trends of a new generation.

This year's edition features 86 submissions, 57 of which are fine art and 29 literary. Seth Pillers, a recent SCC graduate and one of two art editors at Spindrift, informed me that this year's compilation includes work from "different artists around the community and the country, but mostly from students."

"The amount of color we used gave this year's book a different feel," says Pillers."The way the cover turned out, it tied everything together really nicely with the, sort of, analog photo theme we had."

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