L’editor: Welcome back to the W double C

Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in betwixt, welcome or welcome back to Whatcom Community College. Transitioning back into school is always hard, even if you like it. Your first class is way too early, why did you think you could handle an 8 a.m.? It’s not even noon but before you…

L’editor: It feels like we only go backwards

By Apple Parry When President Donald Trump ran for office, his campaign slogan and anxiety-inducing hats read, “Make America Great Again.” Allow me to translate what it actually says: “I want all my straight white male privilege back.” On May 8, under the Trump administration, Alabama’s female mayor passed a…

Travel – My experiences as a foreigner in Japan

By Madison Roper “Baka gaijin!” is something my brother, Kyle, and I have been saying to each other at least once a week since coming to Japan at the beginning of April. In Japanese, ‘baka’ means idiot and ‘gaijin’ means foreigner or someone who’s non-Japanese. Kyle and I are Japanese…

Opinion: 30 years after Tiananmen, Hong Kong freedom at stake

By Eva Mo What is home for you? A place that makes you feel comfortable, a place that holds everything you love, or a place that helps you grow? As an international student who has studied at Whatcom for two and a half years, I hadn’t gone back to my…

L’editor: Lessons learned in the lagoon

By Apple Parry I wish I could tell you this story is being overdramatized, or that some of it was made up, but, this actually happened to me. It’s been pretty hard to talk about, but I’m finally ready to share it. On March 9, 2019, my friend Maggie and…

Review: Bundy continues to manipulate in new film

By Madison Roper If you are unfamiliar with Ted Bundy, he was one of the most notorious serial killers in America. He was convicted of killing at least 30 women in multiple states in the 1970s. This past January was the 30-year anniversary of Bundy’s execution for the murders. The…

L’editor: a look behind the front page

By Apple Parry For every issue the Horizon prints, it is my responsibility to write a Letter from the Editor. A L’editor, we call it. I can write about almost whatever I want to. However, it’s currently 6:42 pm on production day, and what you see above is all I’ve…

Travel: Japan’s temples have much to teach

By Madison Roper “You’ve been blessed by God for seeing that,” said Megumi Yoshihisa, after witnessing a monk bang a drum at a temple. Megumi and her husband Yasushi are part of my family, and a huge reason I was able to see so much of Japan. Out of everything…

L’editor: Financial insecurity

By Apple Parry Growing up chronically poor and having money insecurity…man, let me tell you how much of a soul-crushing combo that is. Money insecurity does not always call for someone to be “poor” to have it. In fact any one can have money insecurity, including children. Money insecurity is…

US government in time-out until Trump says so

  By Apple Parry This story initially ran in Issue 6, published January 22, 2019. Today marks the 32nd day of the longest government shutdown yet, and there is no end in sight. Federal employees will not be paid until after appropriation bills, which allow government spending, are passed into…