By: Max Singer Community College offers several physical education courses that differ from typical P.E. classes, including tai chi, hiking and yoga. These courses provide students the opportunity to learn about interesting forms of physical activity that they are less likely to have encountered before. Tai chi is a…
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Introducing Whatcom women’s new soccer coach
By: Kelly Rockey College women’s soccer team will have a new leader on the sidelines for the 2014 season. Mary Schroeder, 34, will be replacing former head coach Claire Morgan for the Orcas after Morgan recently accepted an assistant coaching position at Western Washington University. “What excites me most…
A crowning achievment
By Jake Knight After competing in the Miss Whatcom County Pageant for three years, Western Washington University student Lizzi Jackson, 22, was finally crowned Miss Whatcom County 2014. The pageant was held Sat. March 9 in Whatcom Community College’s Syre Student Center auditorium. Jackson beat six other contestants for the…
What rhymes with kumquat?
By Jake Knight Whatcom Community College’s library is inviting current and former students and faculty to write and submit poems for the Eighth Annual Kumquat Poetry Challenge. All poems are welcome, but there is a catch: every poem must contain the 10 words selected by the library staff each year….
Local organization aids homeless youth
By Zach Barlow “If you only have two options, either live here and watch my mom get beat and my father get drunk, or live outside, which one do you think you would choose,” asked Hannah Fisk, 28, regarding the hard decisions many homeless youths must face in Whatcom County….
Whatcom recognized for community college excellence
By Caleb Remington Whatcom Community College is currently in the running to receive the nationally-esteemed Aspen Prize in 2015. The Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit organization located in Washington D.C., awards the Aspen Prize every two years to a community or technical college that shows exceptional rates of student success….
Putting a face to the place
By Jake Knight The Student Ambassadors are a group of students who “are the face of Whatcom Community College,” said Matthew Santos, Whatcom’s new Student Life coordinator and adviser to the ambassadors. Student Ambassadors offer campus tours to prospective students, lead W.A.V.E. orientations for new students, represent the college at…
Whatcom’s Sociology Department gains new full-time instuctor
By Anne Elliott Anita Harker-Armstrong, 34, did not always know what she wanted to study when she got to college, but once she decided that sociology was her interest, there was no stopping her. As of fall quarter, Harker-Armstrong became Whatcom’s only full-time sociology instructor. She said she was excited…
Whatcom Voices: Which modern object would you take back in time 1,000 years to convince people that you are a powerful wizard and why?
Whatcom Voices Which modern object would you take back in time 1,000 years to convince people that you are a powerful wizard and why? “Probably as cell phone, it has enough technology to essentially bewilder them.” “A chart of lunar eclipses, because a…
Whatcom Voices: What would you do if you were younger
What would you do if you were younger?