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Student Success Day at PVCC Arif Michael Vega, Staff Writer Sept. 29, 2015 The student success office kicked off their Student Success Day on Sept. 23. The event included twelve seminars, one game show and an hour of activities, including…
Originally published in “The Forum,” The school paper at PVCC. Arif Michael Vega, Staff Writer Sept. 22, 2015 It is a weekend of contrast. Of art and arcane mathematics; here, there; north and south; birth and death; even—was this intentional?—Male…
Note: This article was written before I took any journalism classes. Dec. 22, 2011 54 Occupy Seattle participants stepped off of a bus and onto Olympia soil Monday morning. I was not one of them. I had arrived the night…
Note: This article was written before I had studied journalism. Nov.22, 2011 Ah, since I last wrote what all has been going on? Parents for Occupy Seattle has established a learning tent, donations of toys and volunteer staffing are in…
Note: This article was written before I took any journalism classes Oct. 22, 2011 Mister Tim Leu, I understand you are looking for a few paragraphs from an attendee at the Occupy Seattle camp in Westlake. I hope the following…
A tree falls in the forest; no one hears. With a mighty snap, a boom and magnificent cascade of whooshing water she begins her journey to the sea. No one heard, perhaps, but they did make it into a movie.…
The heat rose in the frothing pitcher, and the palms of Davin’s hand started to burn. The words barely came through the scream of the steam wand on his espresso machine. The woman who had ordered the latte was concerned…
Once there was a sailor. Though he was born to an influential family he had never lived with a great amount of power or fortune. He was intelligent and had an education that surpassed most of his peers but his…
Dear Arif: Nineteen years have passed since that fated day. The day of reckoning, when that small town finally caught up to you. They really did tell you to go away, didnt they? The teachers, the police, then even the…