By Sydney Peshon Staff Writer You’re a student at RCTC. You have papers to write and tests to take that impact your impending future, maybe that of which you’re unsure of. Maybe you live with your parents or have a job to sustain an apartment. Maybe you’re dealing with a rocky relationship or coping with … Read more
Lydia Hansen Managing Editor Summer is the time for students to catch up or get one step ahead on their path to graduation. To help students achieve this, RCTC’s Food Shelf provides students with financial difficulties with access to food on a regular basis. The goal of the shelf is to eliminate hunger among students … Read more
Lydia Hansen Managing Editor I believe community colleges sometimes get a bad rap and are considered inferior to regular four-year universities. Maybe it’s because they only offer a two-year degree. Or because the majority of students come with the intention of transferring somewhere else before too long. Or maybe it’s because community colleges tend to … Read more
Tiffany Hunsley is a compelling speaker. Her story of overcoming addiction and incarceration to becoming an entrepreneur should inspire anyone who hears it. Her speech at the 2017 commencement ceremony was just as captivating. Her message was relevant to everyone gathered at the Rochester Regional Sports Center, from the newly conferred graduates, students returning to … Read more
By Lydia Hansen Managing Editor RCTC encourages students who know they’ll be attending RCTC during the 2017-2018 school year to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. This will be used to determine how much financial aid students are eligible for to help cover the costs of tuition, books, transportation, and other … Read more
By Luis Enrique Cisneros Pito Art & Entertainment Editor [email protected] Former Rochester Community and Technical College student Kyong Juhn recently returned to her old stomping grounds to speak of her experiences at the Camino de Santiago. The return to RCTC was one of melancholic joy with art history instructor Catherine Egenberger giving a heartfelt introduction … Read more
One of the certainties of life is taxes. The other, of course, is death. The former to be preferable. It’s relatively less painful and can sometimes have good things come from it. Case in point, there has been this idea, supported by Gov. Mark Dayton, to use tax money for renovating Plaza and Memorial Halls. … Read more
Luke Buehler Business Manager [email protected] First: Pay cash for school. Privilege does not exist. Never has. It’s fake news. It’s just about as real and as scary as the boogeyman. Sure, some students come from nice backgrounds. I didn’t as much as some of the student folk I know. I don’t care. Now that doesn’t … Read more
One of the first people to congratulate the Echo for winning seven awards in the 2017 Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest was a former student editor. He reminisced about his time at the Echo, which included a year that the Echo placed first in general excellence. Yet, at the same time, he expressed doubts … Read more
By Angelina Labonne Editor-in-Chief [email protected] “Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place … Read more