SCC PIANIST PURSUES HIS PASSION
The path to success comes with many small victories.
This has proved true for SCC pianist Yuly Kopkin, whose musical journey has been significantly different than...
SCC STUDENT FINDS THAT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Summer is coming and there will be an abundance of new bands to go see, including SCC student Em Heffernan's project Nessy.
Em Heffernan singing in...
POSITION CHANGE HELPS PLAYER TAKE CENTER STAGE
Zane Zurbrugg has all of the tools that make baseball scouts salivate. He’s tall, with a quick, compact swing, a powerful arm and record-breaking speed.
Three...
SCC ALUMNUS RETURNS THE GIFT OF WRITING
Michael Overa never wanted to teach. He grew up in a middle-class Seattle family with both parents working full time. This allowed him plenty of time to enjoy...
ASPIRING SCREENWRITER GETS IN TUNE WITH HIS PAST
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “Crossing Borders?” That was what SCC’s recent short story contest asked the campus to write about,...
I failed Professor Patti Jones’ Introduction to Mass Media in my first quarter at SCC. I failed miserably, and Jones saw it coming from a mile away.
My first official journalism teacher knew I was taking...
TALES FROM THE TRAILS
When SCC Hiking Club President Angela Li went hiking alone in Issaquah’s Tiger Mountains, she didn’t expect to run into a family of bears.
Li had been walking along the...
SCC VOLLEYBALL STAR LOOMS LARGE
The Phins go through their postgame handshake line after notching a key upset win over #8 Bellevue. Nearly every player starts screaming.
Seemingly oblivious to...
FROM VIETNAM TO WASHINGTON. NEXT STOP, SPACE.
Harry Phan wants to build a spaceship for interstellar colonization.
He says he’s not at the construction phase yet, but he’s making progress, taking...
BRAVE GIRL IN THE MIDST OF CIVIL WAR
As a Muslim girl, Yara Buker has only worn a hijab once in her life: when she was under threat of being killed.
Buker grew up in Benghazi, Libya, for 19 years,...
MUSIC TEACHER'S UNEXPECTED JOURNEYS
Creating sounds used by stars like Tina Turner, Dire Straits, Rick Astley and Michael Jackson was not a course Dave Bristow had set out for when he was young.
Now...
SCC'S MIMI HARVEY
If you saw Professor Mimi Harvey as a child in the prairies of Nebraska, rounding up the neighborhood kids and pretending to teach, you might have expected her to become the teacher...
