I hate even writing this since he is a turd, but:

"hey guys what happened to Goldy again?"

Yeah, these words -- "their thornier writers are edged out, their sharper critical edges are sanded down" -- made me think of Goldy as well.

"less hard news and more culture and opinion" is exactly what Slog has become since the line-out merger (or was it Goldy leaving?) Log in the eye, and all that.

I wrote for the paper in 2006 and broke the SAM story. I cannot find the article that was published, but please see my draft below. Keep in mind I was a freshman at the time and the writing is not my best. The college totally shut down the paper. Jeb was the best teacher I've ever had, and we were just doing too good of a job at the paper….

“New Mathematics and Sciences Building faces funding gap

Seattle Centrals new Mathematics, Science, and Technology Building faces a deficient of $1,850,000 needed to purchase classroom equipment for the new building.
The Seattle Central Foundation is in charge of raising the needed funds.
Out of the estimated 2 million dollars needed to stock the new building, only $150,000 has been raised to date.
The 2 million dollars that are needed will go to pay for state of the art equipment for the mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and geology labs and classrooms
That new equipment includes UV spectrophotometers, two dimensional electrophoresis systems, stereoscopes, and other state of the art equipment.
The state of Washington will match the first $250,000 rose giving a guarantee of $500,000. That is only 25 percent of what is estimated to be needed.
.The majority of the funds being raised will come primarily through private contributions. The fund raising process involves giving potential donors a packet with detailed information about the new building labs and classrooms. The packet includes an itemizes list of equipment and materials that is needed for each lab.
In an effort to motivate potential donors the foundation is pushing the bigger picture of the decline in America’s global conpetiveness among the technology and science fields. The foundation believes it can show local business that when they contribute to the Math and Science building, they are investing in potential future employees that will be well trained.
The foundations board president Greg Draper says he believes that if Americans came to the realization like they did in the 1960’s, with the race to the moon, that we are falling technological behind the rest of the world, they would be driven to give more and take a greater interest in the math and sciences.
Draper says “If Americans wake up and become focused we can create an outcome like we did in the 60’s.”
Seattle Central Foundation President Donald Summers said he is “very optimistic” about reaching the 2 million dollar goal by the start of the Fall 06 quarter.
Since taking the job not long ago Summers has brought a different approach to the fund raising methods of the Foundation. Summers’ says a “direct solicitation” approach will yield the greatest contributions.
This direct solicitation method involves limiting or eliminating fund raising events. These events have large amounts of operating cost or overhead. By directly soliciting money from donors instead of gathering them at an event, more of the total money given will go to the project and not to the fund raising events. Summers estimates that with event fund raising for every dollar spent $1.50 is earned compared with direct solicitation, which yields closer to a $10 to $1 ratio.
Classes are slated to start in September, which leaves 7 months to raise the remaining $1,850,000 dollars.
The administration could not be reach at the time of this article for comment concerning any plans that would go in place if the funds are not raised by the move in September.”

Coughgoldycough.

Clearly the Iron Fist of Student Leadership is crushing student voices, since Casey's story is hosted on the replacement paper's site.

Are you seriously telling me that it's too much of a burden for student journalists, writing for a student newspaper, to take ten credits a quarter? Their journalism class and one other standard credit hour class? That's weird.

When I went to college I took a full 15 credit course-load, worked 20-25 hours a week at my other job, and published an independent student newspaper that received no funding from the college, so as well as writing, editing, and layout we had to sell ads to fund publication. I'm having a hard time with the plight of getting paid a stipend, getting college credit, being funded, and in return having to take two classes a quarter, write some profiles, and cover student events if they send you a press release within a certain time frame.

If you want total journalistic freedom you have to go DIY, and diversify funding sources. Then you just have to argue with your fellow editors about whether you should publish some racist trifle in the name of Free Speech, and the administration or advertisers be damned.

According to the Circuit’s first editor in chief, Cassandra Piester, the magazine was envisioned as less hard news and more culture and opinion.

That doesn't sound great. Less hard news and more culture and opinion doesn't always turn out to be the best formula.

It is a nice Math building, mind you.

Maybe newspapers should not squeeze out critical voices when they refuse to tow the party line as handed down by the editors and advertisers.

Just maybe.

The fact of the matter is the the current school paper prints whatever they feel like. This story is so old. I was there at SCCC when the collegian wrote that brutally racist article. Common sense would tell you when you work for a public institution on capital hill and you publish bigoted bullshit people are going to come at you and harbor negative feelings. The old paper shut down itself.

wait, how can you claim SCCC has no student journalism, but then praise the student journalism piece that was just published?

can i have some of those drugs your on