The Olympian

  • Sex and Money
    Jan 27 2012 - 1:05pm

    A documentary shown in the Olympic College Humanities and Student Services Building brought a crowd of more than 75 people, filling all of the seats and leaving some attendees sitting in the isles.

    The film “Sex+Money,” a documentary about human trafficking, prostitution and pornography, was shown in the HSS Lecture Hall as part of Break Free Kitsap week, a week focused on education about human trafficking involving Kitsap County according to Break Free Kitsap’s Facebook page.

  • January's Board of Trustees meeting‏
    Jan 25 2012 - 8:52pm

    The Olympic College Board of Trustees held a meeting Tuesday to discuss student achievement and other topics from their cancelled Jan. 17 meeting.

    The meeting, originally cancelled due to snow, was held on the Bremerton campus in the Humanities and Student Services Building room 119/121 and included one action item; the receipt of a gift of $11,247.59 from the Olympic College Foundation, which was approved unanimously.

     

  • John Rodriguez top-five albums of 2011
    Jan 24 2012 - 5:12pm

     

    With the help of my trusty iPod, I set out to pick my favorite albums of 2011. The following is a countdown of my top five picks. If you don’t agree with the list – blame the iPod.

    5. Maroon 5 – Hands All Over

  • Women still searching for first league win
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:27pm

    After working out the kinks, forward Danielle Stewart said she was anxious to play again, and win a league game in basketball for the first time this season.
    The unpredictable northwest weather did not let this happen.
    The Rangers are still searching for their first win, but in their last two games showed signs of improvement.
    “I was hoping we would play and come out and win,” said Stewart. “You can’t work in the snow. We had to rely on inside things; we might be a little rusty, but now we are getting back into things.”

  • Men get first win in league play
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:26pm

    “We have been struggling with the selfish-issue all year, I just now came out and said something publicly. We have the talent to win, we are just not playing together,” said basketball head coach Barry Janusch after the Rangers’ eight-point loss to Seattle Community College Jan. 16.
    The Rangers traveled to play against the winless-in-league Skagit Valley Cardinals Jan. 14. They had also been winless in league play up to that point, so one team was going home with their first win.

  • Shasha Torgeson
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:24pm

    Student organizer Sasha Torgeson may not have a lot of free time on her hands, but that’s how she prefers it.
    Born in Alaska to Air Force parents, Torgeson moved to Bremerton at age 5 and has lived in Kitsap ever since. She graduated from Bremerton High School in 2011, and was an Olympic College Running Start student.
    Torgeson said she thinks more young people should look into the Running Start program and said she thinks a lot of people don’t know or care about it.

  • He talks with his hands on the court... and off the court, Josh Koets
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:20pm

    “It was love at first sign,” said Olympic College sophomore Josh Koets.
     But American Sign Language has become something even more for the 20-year-old from Bremerton.
    Once he finishes his associate degree this year, he said he hopes to study at either Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. or at Western Oregon University.
    “Hopefully after two years I can get my interpreting degree,” said Koets. “I want to make a career out of it hopefully.”

  • He talks with his hands on the court... and off the court, Josh Koets
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:19pm

    “He is a leader that everyone looks up to,” said Olympic College student and fellow basketball player Cartiea French-Toney of sophomore Josh Koets.
    Koets has been playing organized basketball since he was just eight years old when his mother put him in Pee Wee basketball.
    “My mom worked after school so she put me in Pee Wee to kill time after school and keep me on track,” said Koets. “Then I just fell in love with the game.”
    Koets did a good amount of moving around growing up.

  • Hawaiian ukulele player rocks B-town
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:13pm

    Although the weather was less-than-desirable, Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro played to a packed house at the Admiral Theatre Wednesday, having braved a snowstorm and one flight cancellation to be there.
    The show was Shimabukuro’s fourth in Bremerton, but his first during a winter storm.
    “When (Shimabukuro) plays in Hawaii and it snows they always cancel,” said the theater’s manager, Brian Johnson, while introducing the show.

  • Tyler Kendig’s top-five albums
    Jan 23 2012 - 4:12pm

    Now, the problem with creating any 2011 best-of list – especially about music – is that you just can’t make everyone happy. So instead, this isn’t “the” best-of list, it’s “my” best-of list.

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