Arts & Features

Unemployment is now at 9.2 percent statewide. A job search can take a lot of time and effort when the job market is this competitive. Many students do not know …

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. …

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 …

Who watches the Watchmen? Students at Bellevue College do. English classes that are teaching “Watchmen” like literature are giving serious graphic novels a long-due comeback. Just like eating Cookie Crisp …

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 …

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? …

Dear Tyra Banks, You, ma’am, are ridiculous. I used to like you. Heck, I will go as far to say I respected you. But my feeling all changed once you started opening that pretty little mouth of yours. …

Amidst a Western war in the Arabic world that has propagated both prejudice and acceptance between the two cultures, little is still understood in the United States of the mysterious …

Meet Laurel Cooper. She’s a second-year Bellevue College student getting ready to graduate. You might recognize her from seeing her bright orange hair around campus. …

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 …

Do you know what a keffiyeh is? You probably wouldn’t at first, but you could probably spot one if you were reminded of a few of the keffiyeh’s misleading western …

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 …

Come next quarter, there will be a new addition to the Social Sciences department that’s already got everybody talking. The class is called “History of Pornography” and it has sparked …

It’s a cold, wet March morning, but Magnus ver Magnusson is sweating as he removes the last debris from around the artifact and lifts it carefully from the surrounding earth. … …

By Lance Braud. “Everything’s connected, man,” is a statement hippies and physicists can both agree on. Physicists, however, try to figure out how it’s all connected. We’ve come a long …

By James Storbeck. Are you bored with your life? Feel like you may need a change of scenery? How about an entire change of culture? Well, BCC can help. Through …

By Brittany Butterfield. Every 56 days or so, the Puget Sound Blood Center (PSBC) bus comes to BCC’s campus for students to donate. The van will be parked outside the …

By Ashton Cermak. With the current state of our economy, and the cost of higher education, many students have turned to the option of financial aid. BCC offers several types …

By Lance Braud. Suppose you’ve just finished typing your English paper in the N building’s computer lab. Unfortunately it’s due promptly at the start of class or you get no …

By Katie Drahos.There is a new club on campus that is smashing its way to becoming one of the more popular clubs at BCC. What club is this, you ask? …