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FEB 12, 2021
FEATURES
CAMPUS CHANGES
RESTRICTIONS MAKE CAMPUS LESS WELCOMING
we were supposed to be a through those doors. community for everybody.” “Normally we’d “It was a ghost town have 100 students a day,“ [last quarter],” Erik Nelson Cain said. “Now it is 50 said. “There are a lot more students max. We are still people, with health attestavery steady, and have few MARISA WEST tion, and masks.” times where there is nobody Having the campus here, but on average there I COMMUNICATOR partially shut down is would say about 30 people affecting some students’ [now].” COVID-19 has affect- education, and the way they Due to the COVID-19 ed so many lives. However, expected college to be. restrictions the school is that isn’t the only thing that “You can’t go into the under, clubs are attended changed. Life expectations Library and study,” said over zoom, the theater is have changed as well. Nelson. “The cafeteria is closed, and even class sizes Spokane Fall Commu- closed. If you want to come have shrunk. nity College campus used [to campus] to study you “We are open,” Cain to be filled with students have to find a little cubby said. “ We have 14 computmoving about. Groups of in a hallway. I go to the ers available, scanners, and students moving from class science building and find a two special needs stations to class, as well as events corner.” available. We even moved and clubs. The Student Personal relationships computers in front of the Union building was a place were formed because of windows, which have bePHOTO | CORBIN WILLMORTH to gather yourself and study, the activities that everyone come popular to watch the Renovations take place in the S.U. Building. grab something to eat, pur- was a part of. The Spokane squirrels in the trees as you Construction material lies all around the area. chase apparel and accessoFalls campus was filled do your work.” ries. Representatives from with activities throughout While some students four year colleges would the week. From the food take advantage of the open visit and provide informabank to theater productions library many others stay tion for transfer degrees. to movie nights, there was disconnected. Students that Many students returning always something going on would have normally joined NEW RENOVATIONS FOR STUDENT this year have seen a difthat included and invited clubs or activities don’t ference in the way campus everyone together. now, from fear of spreadACTIVITIES HUB CAUSES CLOSURE feels compared to last year. Even when there ing the virus. Zooms are Amber Weatherbee, a rewasn’t an event, the liattended but many feel it’s SHYLA JENSEN The SUB, found on the turning student agrees. brary was always a place disconnected. map as building seventeen, “We had many differto go and feel part of the Campus has shut COMMUNICATOR is just east of the Student ent clubs that people [used campus. Greg Cain, the down in person activities, Athletic Center. to be] into,” Weatherbee supervisor in the library but students agree that this The Student Union The SUB has been under said. “I wish I had gotten computer lab, has seen 7 changes the way campus building is a central point renovation officially since into all of that too. I felt like years worth of students go feels at its core. for students at SFCC. last August, but due to the “The hub of SFCC’s stu- COVID-19 pandemic it dent activities is the Student has taken longer than what Union Building centrally was originally planned to located on the SFCC camexecute the remodel. Many pus,” according to SFCC’s students and staff have been website. wondering what changes The Student Union are being made. Building, or SUB, offers a “The project brought number of different faciliin natural light from the ties, such as a lounge area, café by adding glass doors the Falls Café featuring a between the lobby and the dining area with TVs, a rec- café dining area,” Heather reation center, conference Mckenzie, Director of Sturooms that are available dent Funded Programs said. to rent by the community, “They added new lighting, our college store and the paint, furniture, carpet and student services area. fireplace. Oh, and a new The student services area ceiling. The building has is where you can find realso had the fire suppresception, admissions office, sion system updated as student records, multiculwell.” tural student services, the The student leadership career center, job referral, team was heavily involved the cashier’s office, finanin the design of the remodPHOTO | MARISA WEST cial aid, the Veteran Affairs el, making furniture deciLife on campus has changed drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic. The office and the Associate sions as well as the technollibrary is one example, leaving students with no access to books or services. Dean of student transitions. ogy needed.
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