THE RANGER OLYMPIC COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER - FEBRUARY 2021. VOLUME 7. ISSUE 003
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OLYMPIC COLLEGE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
THE RANGER
FEBRUARY 2021. VOLUME 7. ISSUE 003
The Return of the Snow
Lunar New Year 2021 Chinese New Year, the color
By Kimly Chhuon symbolizes good luck, riches, and
happiness in Chinese culture. The
most popular way to celebrate the
Lunar New year is to hand out red
envelopes filled with money. Red
envelopes are usually handed out to
the younger generation by their
parents, older relatives, grandparents,
or even friends. During the Chinese
New Year, every family will gather
together wearing red colored clothes
to enjoy a sumptuous feast and
fireworks. Have you ever heard of the
theme “Gong Xi Fa Chai”? It is the
usual way to say “Happy new year” for
the Lunar New Year.
Photo by Macau Photo Agency
Lunar New Year is also known as Chinese
New Year or Spring Festival. Each year is
assigned one of the 12 Chinese zodiac
signs and 2021 is a year of the OX. It is a
huge holiday in some other countries as
well such as Singapore, South Korea,
Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The
festival is celebrated differently
throughout the world, people normally
begin decorating their homes a week
before the holiday. Red is an essential
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color for
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funding support for programs through
resources such as the SING office,
SCHOLARHIPS! emergency support funds for students,
as well as grants for faculty and staff at
the college. This year, the Olympic
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OC Foundation
$300,000 worth of scholarships, with
Scholarships on Offer an estimated average scholarship
By Mackenzie King amount of $2,200. If you want to see if
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This coming Wednesday, on February various scholarships, please look at the
17 from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M., the OC link below.For a list of available
Foundation will be hosting a scholarships,
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free to drop in if you have any questions Olympic College is offering Opportunity
about the Foundation’s many Grants to students who meet certain
scholarships which are on offer. The criteria. If you want to check it out, go
zoom link will be at the bottom of this to: https://www.olympic.edu/paying-
article.The Olympic College college/tuition-funding-
Foundation’s scholarship applications opportunities/opportunity-grantIf you
opened on January 27th for 2021-2022, wish to attend the OC Foundation’s
offering over 200 scholarships for OC scholarship zoom session on February
students studying Business & Finance, 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 P.M., the zoom link
Education, Music, and STEM, as well as is below:
some Professional-Technical degrees. https://olympic.zoom.us/j/97181394969?
Additional scholarships are available pwd=clR1NGM0QXhBZURRdzRicVlocH
for first-generation college students, for J5Zz09
students who live in Shelton County
and Mason County, and there are other
scholarships besides. These
scholarships are just one of the ways
that the Olympic College Foundation,
which receives community donations,
helps OC students to pursue their
educational goals. The Foundation, an
501(c)(3)
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The Chronicles of the COVID allowed to take our masks off when
we were in our workout pods of five
Student Athlete people, but with the new
This recurring column will take a look requirements we had to wear our
at how student athletes’ worlds have masks during the workout. I seriously
changed and what they do to thought I was going to die. I wore a
overcome them cloth mask that as soon as it got wet
turned into a damp cloth rag that
By Sam Erickson
suffocated every desperate breath.
Chapter One: The Mask Like any high school student would
when able, I complained to my Mom.
I am telling you it’s a state of mind. Just We quickly began to research the best
last week I was prepared to write a piece mask (if any) to wear while running, as
calling for our nursing student friends to we knew that cross country is less
research and find out a way for me to about sudden sprinting and stopping,
avoid training and playing my sports in a and more of a suicidal jog into
mask. But now, a brisk Thursday eternity. I was surprised to see that not
morning, I am prepared for this only were the big sports brands like
Under Armor and Nike making “sport
afternoon’s cross country workout which
masks”, which is a thing now, but so
will feature mostly speed work, in my
was pretty much every other running
mask and I don’t mind. I am a running-
brand that I had ever tried. After just a
start student, if you didn’t know that
few minutes on Amazon, we found an
now you do, and my high school was hit
Asics running mask that is now my
hardest emotionally when the COVID-19
favorite. I have asked around the team
pandemic shut down all sports last
about how it feels to wear a mask
march. I remember my track team
while running, and I get pretty much
revolting the weeks immediately after
the same answer every time, “it’s not
school was canceled, when we still
ideal, but once you get over the
thought covid was a meme from China.
weirdness of it all then it’s not that
It was no surprise when my athletic bad”. The common theme seems to
director worked out a program with the be, as long as we get to run we’ll do it. I
weight room coach to help us get back wonder, if the rest of the country
in shape this November. Sure it only thought like the North Kitsap Cross
lasted a week before a spike in county Country team, and wore the masks
cases sent us packing, but it was a without a fuss, how many hordes of
statement: We want to play. The anti-maskers would still be rampaging
workouts resumed January 11th, but this through a random Target? I’ll say it one
time around they required something last time, it is just a state of mind.
Virtual
new. See,Inaguration:
before we were Until the next chapter,
Photo Essay by Jacquie Bird Day Sam.
Scenes from a Snow Day Photo Essay by Jacquie Day
2020’s Final Blow Comes in
the One of the Most Boring
Superbowls
By Sam Erickson
The entire 2020-21 NFL season was
constantly hanging on the edge of a
cliff, with fans expecting the whole
thing to crumple and fold inwards on
itself, until the Super Bowl finally
arrived. It felt as though we had
defeated the last spell of 2020, take
that covid, we still have our Super
Bowl! Little did we know that 2020
was brewing up a truly monotonous
and epicly lame championship. Tom
Brady won, which already is a
bummer for everyone outside Tampa,
and the football gods couldn’t even
grant us a slightly entertaining game,
the Buccaneers thoroughly owned the
chiefs 31-9. Watching the game you
just felt this feeling of ugh, with
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Patrick Mahomes desperate scramble,
the feeling only grew. Even Tom Brady
trash talking someone for no reason
wasn’t enough to draw us out of the
haze. 2020 struck it’s final blow Super
Bowl Sunday, one that not even
hilarious Will Ferrel commercials could
dampen. My younger brother
commented this the day after the
game, “They kept on saying that
Tampa does ‘simple’ plays, but we all
knew they just meant boring”, I
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Romo.
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