The ASU Hits a High Note Celebrating Lunar New Year

Attendees of the Lunar New Year karaoke celebration on Tuesday, Jan. 28 were greeted with friendly faces, light refreshments, and Chinese New Year scratch-off cards that offered students and staff good fortunes.  The Asian Student Union (ASU) held this special karaoke event in the Simpson Intercultural Center (SIC) to celebrate…

WCC student speaks during city-wide MLK event

BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. 19 – Students, staff, city employees, and community members gathered in the sunny cafeteria of Bellingham High School this past Saturday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy during a service day event. The event was coordinated by the Community Consortium for Cultural Recognition, which includes Whatcom…

Free Speech at WCC: Oppressed or Expressed?

Political activity on college campuses has been on the rise throughout many major institutions across the country, but has WCC’s campus followed those same trends?  For a variety of reasons, WCC’s inclusion and support for free speech activities, also known as “expressive activities,” seems muted, with space and guidelines for…

Student activism on US college campuses

A Brief history of the past 100 years While the height of student protest seemed to occur during the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s, very few people are aware that some of the first politically motivated expressive acts on college campuses began in the 1930s.  Prior to 1932 student expressive…