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This week in history: dead puppies, evil commies and the Spring Break scene
Teresa Peters
Copy Editor
While it would be hard to top the goings-on of the loose and liberal '70s, there are a few tidbits to note from the last few decades.
1973
- The Ebbtide went all out in its first edition of Spring Quarter. The front page featured an outcry for the spaying and neutering of pets.
To create empathy, the story was accompanied by two photos: one, a precious, yet unwanted pup, waiting in its cage; the other, same pup, minutes later, topping a trash can full of other euthanized critters.
- For more excitement, a debate erupted between opinion editor Don Bockelman and fellow SCC students and staff, who were apparently unimpressed with the journalist's liberal usage of everyone's favorite four-letter curse word in the previous issue.
- Better yet, as advertisement for the Shoreline Bookstore featured several available titles, including "Kerouac: A Biography," "The Teachings of Don Juan" and "The Connoisseur's Handbook of Marijuana."
- Despite the abundance of controversy, some noteworthy campus news did avoid the editor's round file. The Student Legislature voted to turn its offices and the student lounge into a daycare center, and the Board of Trustees voted to preserve the riparian area at the southeast corner of campus.
1983
- Students and faculty were among the 300 members of the two-year-college community who rallied in Olympia for Community College Day. A 10,000-signature petition was presented at the capitol, reaffirming community colleges' roles in supporting economic growth in this state.
"It was an opportunity for us to say to the state legislature, 'We appreciate what you've done for us so far,'" said SBA Vice President Bill Hunter.
- Staff writer Omid Mantashi questioned President Reagan's accuracy in reporting of defense spending, saying the administration's claim that Russia had outspent the United States by $420 billion in that was an out-and-out lie.
Mantashi asserted that while the administration used this figure to redirect potential education and social-service dollars to its war machine, citizens allowed it because, in his words, "if we don't catch up with those 'Godless Communists' they will destroy us."
- The following subjects were "proposed" to add a little creativity to SCC's already varied list of workshops:
Business and Career Opportunities - "Money Can Make You Rich,"
Personal Enrichment - "Guilt Without Sex," "Overcoming Peace of Mind"
Arts and Crafts - "Needlecraft for Junkies," "How to Bonsai Your Pet"
1993
The Ebbtide was a short issue the week before the Spring Break, but the staff was kind enough to compile a list of hometown hot spots for spring breakers. Of course, Seattle was in the throes of the Grunge scene then, so let's see how well the staff's top 10 withstood the test of time:
- Weathered Wall (1921 5th Ave.) - Crumbled by the mid-'90s and in 1999 was replaced by the I-Spy (defunct since this January).
- The Vogue (2018 First Ave.) - Still going strong, still open-minded as ever.
- The Off Ramp (109 Eastlake Ave. E.) - Exited much like the Weathered Wall, making way for Graceland in 1999.
- Re-Bar (1114 Howell) - Still good.
- Colourbox (113 First) - Ditto.
- OK Hotel (212 Alaskan Way S.) - Wasn't OK after 2001's 8.6 earthquake. Closed.
- Frontier Room (2203 First Ave.) - Still here, despite closing briefly in July 2001. But the new, improved hipster bar is nothing like its Grunge-dive predecessor.
- Belltown Billiards (90 Blanchard St.) - It's been 10 years and it is, after all, in Belltown. Anyone want to guess whether it has the same ambience as it did in 1993?
- The Name of the Game (175th and 15th Northeast) - The Ebbtide described it as a "hole in the wall" pool hall then, and either it has remained as such or the hole ate it.
- RKCNDY (1812 Yale Ave.) - Bit the dust, literally. It was demolished in 1999.
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