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Final letter from the editor, ’13-’14

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Published in the June ’14 Circuit.

by Casey Jaywork | Editor in Chief

The end is nigh.

Not for the world – that’ll take at least a few more decades of pollution, war, and capital. But for this year’s Circuit and the staff that brought it to you, time has run out. This is our last issue for the 2013-’14 school year.

Did we accomplish anything? With $50k of students’ money, did we leave the school better than we found it?

Yes. We’ve brought serious journalism back to Seattle Central, transforming the student magazine from a hobby into an advocate – from a student-funded brochure for the college into a bona fide news source. We’ve created a space for critical discussion of social issues, including wealth, governance, race, and gender. We’ve defined student press as a tool for student democracy, demanding that college administrators be held accountable to students for their actions and that students make themselves worthy of such accountability. We’ve challenged the top-down, budget oriented, corporate model of education which is gradually turning our school into a for-profit institution. Above all, we’ve refused to treat our readers as customers: you are citizens, and you should damn well act like it. Continue reading “Final letter from the editor, ’13-’14”

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Letter from the editor, May ’14

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In a recent interview with the Central Circuit, Seattle Central President Paul Killpatrick said that higher education should be (among other things) “very democratic” and stressed the need for leaders to live up to their own standards of conduct.

This is a commendable sentiment which, as editor in chief of your student magazine, I repeat: higher education should be democratic—i.e. governed by students and staff—and leaders should be held to the same standards as anyone else.

Unfortunately, we live in a society with other priorities. Continue reading “Letter from the editor, May ’14”

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Letter from the editor, November ’13

Caitlin Sussman

by Casey Jaywork | Editor in Chief

The Central Circuit exists to empower students and the SCCC community as democratic citizens, by providing relevant news and creating a forum for campus expression and discussion. In other words, we are biased: we exist for the people of Seattle Central.

This bias toward promoting the welfare and and agency of Seattle Centrists influences our reporting, in the same way that The Economist and The Wall Street Journal are influenced by existing through and for business professionals. We are not objective because objectivity is not a real thing: the very concept of what counts as “newsworthy” is evaluative. We are, however, honest, in the sense that we are storytellers who are constrained by the facts. Our criterion for what to include in our publication is, “Does it empower students and others as self-determining citizens?” Our criterion for what to exclude is, “Is it inaccurate? Did it not actually happen?” To read our news articles with hyperlinks to our sources, check out our website at CentralCircuit.com. Continue reading “Letter from the editor, November ’13”