The Underwater City: Trauma Expressed via art
Much like many famous painters who’ve expressed their heartache on canvas, poetry too can often be a method used to convey pain and trauma; Processing it through the mind and then out to the...
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Black History Month Essay Contest: First Place Winner Keri Grigas
Keri is a first-year student studying Networking & Systems Administration: Cyber Security. She is originally from South Florida and plays flute, piano, and oboe. Below is an excerpt from her essay and what she...
Black History Month Essay Contest: Second Place Winner Krystal Overvig
Krystal intends to pursue a double major in English and Education. She wrote this essay as a requirement for her African American Literature course and was relieved when she put down the pain she...
Black History Month Essay Contest: Fourth Place Winner Dahlia Seiter
Coping strategies, while always developed and enacted for a good or protective reason, often have their downsides. These strategies, especially in a person who is depressed or suicidal, are not always sustainable or healthy...
Black History Month Essay Contest: Third Place Winner Angie Geno
Angie is a proud Woman of Color and strongly connects with her Japanese heritage. She says that she initially wrote and submitted the essay because “I wanted to challenge myself to learn more about...
Restaurant Review: Ba’s Vietnamese Comfort Food
Nestled into the heart of downtown Albany, Ba’s Vietnamese Comfort Food extends a light and bright invitation. Its outdoor seating — candy-apple red chairs and wooden tables — is interspersed with planters of bamboo,...
Spreading Awareness: EDI Hosts Zoom Informational for Support Animal Knowledge
The Institutional Equity, Diversity & Inclusion held an informational Zoom event on Jan. 26 to spread awareness and knowledge about support animals. As described, there are three main types of support animals. The first...
Instilling Balance: An interview with Jason Dorsette, the new Executive Director of the EDI.
Jason Dorsette has officially been on campus working as the Executive Director of the Institution for Equity, Diversity. Raised in North Carolina, Dorsette comes from a close-knit community of civil rights activists who he...
The Commuter: Oct. 28, 2020
In this edition see this fall season through LBCC’s photojournalism students eyes, read how LBCC’s baseball team adjusts to COVID-19 on the field, and learn how to participate in a halloween costume contest (among...
COVID-19 Forces School to Keep Most of Campus Closed
As summer comes to an end, the Linn-Benton Community College campus is still closed and will continue to be so, as they will continue doing mostly online learning. The usually bustling community college is...
