BC student Whitney King wins technology award
At the end of the 2015 spring quarter, Whitney King, a Data Analytics major, won the Terry O’Banion Student Technology Champion award. Issued by the League of Innovation in the …
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League of Legends world championships
On Oct. 31, the KOO Tigers and SK Telecom T1 clashed in a battle of the titans in the season five League of Legends World Championship to see who would …
25th anniversary of ADA
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Carlson Theater held a celebration for the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Passed in 1990 by the U.S. Congress, …
Mindfulness group for students to relieve stress
For stressed out students at Bellevue College, there is now a place to go. Meeting on Mondays from 12:10 to 12:40 p.m. in room B230A is a mindfulness group designed …
Plans for BC’s future
With college campuses across the northwest implementing different campus designs in order to sustain and promote student diversity, Bellevue College is considering projects to help include students from different communities …
Meeting the BSU leadership
The African Student Association, and the Black Student Union put on a meet and greet event on Sep. 29 to welcome students and educate them on what the two student …
The superbowl of online gaming
Coming up on Oct. 1, the first round of the fifth annual League of Legends World Championship tournament airs live from Le Dock Pullman in Paris, France. Five years in …
Alien attacks in “Pixels”
On July 24, the movie “Pixels” was released into theaters. The premise behind the movie starts in 1982, when NASA launched a space shuttle in hopes of contacting extraterrestrial life …
ITS redesigns to promote efficiency
Recently, the Information Technology Services organization at Bellevue College has put together some changes that are designed to “empower our division to work together more efficiently and have a better …
Top athletes rake in more money than they’re really worth
In the United States, three major sports make up a year-round schedule. The Major League Baseball season begins in early April and lasts through October. The National Football League runs …
New executive director
On July 9, 2015, the Bellevue College Foundation named Rebecca Chawgo as its new executive director. Before the promotion, Chawgo had served as the BC Foundation’s director of development since …
LMC honors Black Lives Matter movement
Over the month of July, the Bellevue College Library and Media Center is showing a “Black Lives Matter” PowerPoint presentation in the lobby. The purpose of this is to honor …
Changes to financial aid
Since July 2015, the Financial Aid department at Bellevue College made changes to the Financial Aid Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy, or SAP. The SAP is essentially a list of requirements …
Allegations against Bill Cosby may be skewed
Bill Cosby was a household name during the 1980s when “The Cosby Show” first took off and he is receiving national recognition once again, but for a different reason entirely. …
Reducing tuition and raising employee wage
Bellevue College was recently successful in getting an operating budget and a grant approved. The budget will bring a tuition reduction to BC students by fall quarter 2015, and the …
Margin of Excellence awards
The Bellevue College Foundation started an award system in 1984 to honor employees who “embody excellence and selflessness in helping their students and colleagues achieve success,” according to an article …
Cruz wins player of the month
In the month of April, the Seattle Mariners scored 10 wins in their first 25 games. During those wins, and even some losses, one player in particular stood out among …
Muslim communities challenge racism
On Saturday, May 23, Zahra Abidi, program director for the Zainab organization in Lynwood, along with the United Muslims of Washington and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, put together an …
Future plans for King County Metro
On Tuesday May 19, 2015, King County Metro representatives met on a panel to discuss short, medium and long-term plans to make the Metro Transit bus system more accessible for …
BC DECA returns victorious
On Friday, April 18, students from Bellevue College’s DECA chapter competed at a national collegiate-level DECA competition in Orlando, Florida. Twenty students represented Bellevue College and many of them were …