Elegância: Beauty in comedy, sorrow in beauty, and sorrow in comedy
One of my favorite characters in film is Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, which he portrayed in dozens of silent films. Chaplin was one of the greatest slapstick artists of all …
Articles by Brook Stallings
State budget cuts decided
According to the Seattle Times, higher education funding took a big hit last weekend in the final hours of Washington State’s legislative session. Colleges got operating budget cuts of six …
Worker Retraining Program: Get your tuition paid, start a new career
The demise of Worker Retraining has been greatly exaggerated. While the program has indeed run out of funds, as reported in the April 5 Seattle Times, the new fiscal year begins July 1. …
Elegância: Many men have an uncomfortable relationship with beauty
I had a difficult time writing this. I wanted to give equal time to male attitudes about beauty in this series of columns, and frankly, I was embarrassed to talk …
Financial Aid
By Jamie Johnson: The money in your wallet keeps disappearing. The price of gas is higher, the cost of living has gone up, and soon breathing will be a dollar …
Art, or artlessness? Beauty considered as a craft
This week, I’d like to write about beautiful women. Well, not just that. I also have serious questions I want to ask. How do we try to control how others see us? Is the image we project really so important? Is a portrait art, or a reflection of the subject’s soul? …
Daffodils, Spring, and beauty in the ordinary
This will be a little different, so please, bear with me. Elegância is the name of my new column, in which I hope to call attention to routine beauty and …
Songs in the smoking hut
Elvis sat on the recycling bin at the smoking hut at the back of the C building. He wasn’t smoking. He was playing a 12-string guitar. He stopped for a …
Panel talks on health care crisis in America
By Brook Stallings. Students and faculty gathered in room C120 last Wednesday for the winter 2009 Coffee, Tea, and Politics discussion, entitled “Health Crisis in America: Politics, Economics, and the …
ASG to match 50 percent club funds for charity event
By Brook Stallings.At last Tuesday’s Associated Student Government (ASG) board meeting, the ASG voted unanimously to give the Business Leadership Club (BLC) $1,962 for the “2K Walk and Roll for …
Activist speaks for Black History Month
By Brook Stallings.Why is Black History Month important? Boots Riley, hip-hop artist and political activist, gave 140 BCC community members his answer at his speech on Wednesday at N201. “History …
Inventor honors Darwin
By Brook Stallings. In a speech that spanned 10 billion years and disciplines as diverse as agriculture and computer science, Dr. Leroy Hood explained Darwin’s theory of natural selection and …
ASG funds Black History Month dance
By Brook Stallings. Black Student Union President Robin Bailey wants to know if you know who invented the traffic light. If you don’t, you will soon have the opportunity to …
UW: Don’t let BCC become Bellevue College
By Brook Stallings. During a senate hearing last Friday, the University of Washington (UW) officially opposed the bill that would let BCC become a four-year college. The bill would grant …
New four-year degrees added to bill
By Brook Stallings. BCC has begun the process of developing three new degrees in progressive fields: Green business practice, Dissymmetry, (a new technology in nuclear imaging), and a four-year radiologist …
Don’t fear what you do not understand
By Brook Stallings. Does anyone know why it is so difficult to talk about mental illness? Even while I was trying to write the first paragraph I had to work …
Bad economy gets students fired-up
By Brook Stallings. The Associated Student Government (ASG) hosted two “Budget Cut Student Forums” this week to explain how Washington State’s projected $7 billion deficit will likely affect BCC students. …
ASG challenges Leg. leadership
By Brook Stalling. At Tuesday’s ASG Board of Directors meeting, ASG President Amanda Alva and other board members challenged ASG Director of Legislative Affairs Vanessa Pantley at length regarding her …
Halls filled to see Obama inauguration
By Brook Stalling. On Tuesday, Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office of the President of the United States, becoming the nation’s 44th president. Over 400 BCC community members …