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Assignment #6 Video

December 12, 2022

Laura Campbell

The Future of WSU Everett-Introducing the Degree Partnership Program

Where did WSU Everett students go? In 2017, Washington State University opened the doors to their newest campus. The WSU Everett building cost roughly $64.6 million. It houses state-of-the-art engineering labs, modern amenities, and offers nine programs. The one things it is missing is students. COVID-19 shook the world to its core and WSU Everett’s enrollment rates declined. Countrywide, over 1.4 million students in higher education were lost since the pandemic began. So how is WSU healing now? On Nov. 28, 2022, WSU Everett Chancellor Paul Pitre and EvCC President Darrell Chain signed an agreement called the Degree Partnership Program(DPP). "The DPP will launch in Fall 2023 with the Business Administration and Hospitality Business Management programs." It will eventually extend into more programs at WSU Everett. The transfer process will be streamlined: Students at EvCC will be able to transfer their credits as they complete them and follow a more specific pathway to their four-year degree. Music: Documentary Soundscape Cinematic by Infraction https://everett.wsu.edu/ https://everett.wsu.edu/degree-partne... @wsueverett8681 @WSUPullman #wsu #wsueverett #washingtonstate Student project by Laura Campbell and Matthew Dollison for COMJOUR333

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The Fishing Shack Tour

Laura Campbell

November 15, 2022

Assignment #5 Slideshow

Here's a look around my studio apartment in Mukilteo, WA.

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Through Trials and Tribulations, Everett Antique Store Still Stands

Laura Campbell

October 30, 2022

Assignment #4 Social Media and Web Enhancements

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Meet Dr. Sergey Lapin

The Media Lab Show: Meet Dr. Sergey Lapin

Laura Campbell

October 17, 2022

Assignment #3 Audio/Radio

MUSIC INTRO

Campbell: Welcome back to the Media Lab Show, I’m your host, Laura Campbell. For today’s segment of Character Development, we meet Dr. Sergey Lapin. He’s a professor and the associate director of the newly created Data Analytics Program at WSU Everett. Here’s a little bit about his journey to becoming a professor and some projects he’s working on now. 

Lapin:  If we are talking about elementary school, I wanted to be a person who made cartoons first.

Campbell: As a young boy growing up in the Soviet Union, Lapin initially wanted to be a cartoonist, then considered being a taxi driver, then shifted gears entirely towards learning coding. 

Lapin: In that time computer science didn’t exist, at least in my county. So the closest thing to doing some kind of coding would be computation mathematics. Slowly but surely, things started evolving and I became a professor.

Campbell: In the late 90s, Lapin moved to the United States to attend University of Houston for both his Master’s and PHD. 

MUSIC FADES OUT

Lapin: I realized my English is not good, so I try to write on the whiteboard as much as I can so they will understand what I am saying.

Campbell: And that’s how you pushed yourself to practice?

Lapin: And then also, another thing is like, I will have accent. I will have always because I came here as an adult but I tried to reduce it. I tired to gain fluency and tried to gain vocabulary. So two things I did for that: I talked, talked, talked as much as possible. I got myself an American girlfriend and that helped right away. The casual kinds of conversations, you know?

Campbell: Currently, Lapin is in the beginning stages of putting together an initiative where WSU will collaborate with STEM curriculums in other countries. He is creating a partnership with universities in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. He also just recently travelled to Brazil. 

MUSIC FADES IN

Lapin: Brazil was a different story. For Brazil, I had a travel grant from the Honors College. That was an exploratory trip to prepare for faculty, that trip.

Campbell: Patrick Frielinger, a senior in WSU Everett’s software engineering program, shared his experience being a student in one of Dr. Lapins classes.

MUSIC FADES OUT

Freilinger: I took MATH 448, Numerical Analysis with Sergey which is a class all about taking math problems that would otherwise be difficult for a computer to handle and modeling them using clever methods. Sergey is without a doubt a great instructor but also a strong leader in his field. As many know, he has been working on an ongoing initiative to modernize STEM curriculum abroad, especially in Central Asia, which shows he is not only committed to making learning better for his students but also better for everyone.

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Through Trials and Tribulations, Everett Antique Store Still Stands

Laura Campbell

September 30, 2022

Assignment #2 Story and Visuals

On Hewitt Ave, between a tattoo shop and a coffee bar, there’s a storefront painted white with cherry-red detailing. A string of carnival pennants leads to a sign in bold letters: “Second Chance Antiques and Furniture.” The antique store houses leather couches, retro collectibles and hundreds of oddities with stories behind them. Recently, the store employees have been busy re-arranging and shifting displays. “We usually have three to four vendors,” said Brian McClimans, store owner. “Now we have seven.”

As other local stores have shut down, McClimans has absorbed new inventory. Second Chance is one of the only remaining antique stores in the downtown Everett area. The antique business has suffered and faced a decline in recent years, but McClimans is used to overcoming obstacles.

The first thing to overcome: his long-standing cocaine addiction. “I was an addict for 29 years,” said McClimans. In 2011, he entered a program at a Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in Seattle. “Oh, it was awesome,” he said regarding his experience. “Double bowling alley, pool table, snack bar, all kinds of stuff.” The Salvation Army closed its SoDo facilty in 2019 and sold it to developers. “I wish it was still there,” McClimans added. “The program still exists. It’s just fragmented now.”

After his nine month stay, McClimans boarded a bus and briefly lived in a camper trailer in a friend’s backyard. In 2012, he qualified for veteran’s financial support from Snohomish County and moved into a clean and sober house. “For an extra fifty bucks, I rented a garage,” said McClimans. He was given permission to organize and sell the items that were left behind in the garage. With his garage sale, used his $600 profit to start buying storage units. Only 11 months after leaving rehabilitation, McClimans opened Second Chance.

McClimans has found a variety of rare items since he began working in the antique business. His most noteworthy was a rock band tour brochure signed by Jim Morrison, front-vocalist for The Doors. “Morrison usually didn’t sign anything because he was an alcoholic and mean to the fans. I sold (the brochure) in one day for $5,000 to a guy in Boston. He said it was a deal.”

But selling antiques is not always about finding treasures. There’s still the logistics of keeping a business afloat and making sure the lights stay on. McClimans cites the Rucker Renewal Project, road reconstruction along Rucker Ave, as a rough patch for Second Chance. “It was devastating,” he said. “It blocked off four blocks of Rucker and took way longer than it was supposed to.” The store stayed open but access to the storefront was restricted so customers struggled to find the entrance. In March 2020, the construction ended, and Second Chance thrived again. Ten days later the COVID-19 pandemic closures began. “We were so excited and then they made us close…we had no choice.” McClimans saved up $10,000 as his “safety net” and he used all of it to keep the store running.  “Because of my lifestyle, because I was an addict, I hadn’t saved that kind of money before. It was more of a big thing to me than most people because I had conquered something in my life and that savings was wiped in a year.” McClimans states that unemployment “saved his world.” After everything he has battled through to support himself and his business, the rewarding part to him is that he is still clean. “I have 11 and a half years clean and sober. Most of my gratitude and everything is towards God and the Salvation Army.”

Second Chance Antiques and Furniture

1307 Hewitt Avenue

Everett, WA 98201

USA

SECOND CHANCE ANTIQUES & FURNITURE - Antique Store in Everett (business.site)

The exterior of Second Chance Antiques and Furniture on Hewitt Ave.

Brian McClimans multi-tasks at his desk as he researches new items and greets customers at the front door.

Customers browse through Second Chance's selection of antiques.

McClimans set up a display to be Rainier theme in honor of the local Seattle beer.

A black bear rug sprawls out and covers one of the store walls.

"That's a helmet used during a festival where they kill a boar and then men fight each other," said McClimans.

A framed article about Elvis Presley's death.

Second Chance contains a menagerie of antiques and odd items.

A mask with a tag that reads "Don Post Original Head W/ Spike, $125."

A retro sign waiting to be hung.

McClimans’ current favorite item in the store is a coppery-orange 1966 Schwinn fastback bicycle.

An AC/DC band poster hangs on one of the back walls of the store.

The exterior of Second Chance Antiques and Furniture.

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The Man in the Glass Box: WSU Everett Student is Finding His Way to Success

Laura Campbell

September 16, 2022

Assignment #1 Curiosity

Matthew Dollison was stumped. He stared at the equations on the board and looked around at the other students in his math class.  Dollison had hoped to pursue engineering but very quickly was realizing this was not the path for him. He turned to the people at his table and told them, “I’m just going to the bathroom real quick.” He slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked out of Everett Community College, fully intending not to return at all.

Dollison had initially graduated from EvCC’s Advanced Manufacturing and Education Center (AMTEC) and landed a job in precision machinery. His father had worked for McDonnell Douglas, an aerospace manufacturing corporation, so it seemed only natural that Dollison work in the trades as well. In 2019, the company Dollison worked for went bankrupt. “They had all of us gather in the parking lot and then they laid us off all at the same time,” he said.

Dollison had a new opportunity to rewrite himself. Though he could have looked for another precision machinery job, he switched gears and returned to school. “Engineering wasn’t clicking with me, but then when I left that class there was a student that stopped me in the parking lot and asked if he could interview me. “

Colin Burns, a student staff writer for The Clipper, may have caught Dollison at the perfect time. Burns was writing a piece called “Loneliness on Campus” about the feeling of isolation during the pandemic. “I asked him what exactly The Clipper was and he told me it was the student newspaper, which piqued my interest. It reinvigorated that feeling again,” said Dollison.

“Even though the money was great, and I was utilizing skills I learned in high school and trade school, I never felt fulfilled,” said Dollison. The journalism program at EvCC provided Dollison a new way to express himself. He ended up joining The Clipper in 2020and wrote about topics he was truly interested in, “mainly mental health and student life on campus (and) what it was like to be a student during the pandemic.” Dollison graduated in the spring of 2021 and transferred to Washington State University Everett in the fall of that same year.

 “I always believed my communication skills and creativity should be utilized, but I just didn’t know how. At the time I was already making music and beats so I decided I might venture into a field that allowed me to grow those passions.”

Dollison makes and sells his own music and beats using BeatStars, a music streaming platform where he can license and sell beats. “I’ve sold albums,” said Dollison, “they sell for anywhere between 300 and 600 bucks. When I make beats and do graphic design on my own, I have my own grand scheme of things...to be very versatile in my own creations.”

On top of producing beats, Dollison is a full-time student at WSU Everett in the Integrated Strategic Communications program, a student-worker, a graphic design intern, and a package handler for FedEx. Brandon Buckingham, Program Coordinator at WSU Everett and Dollison’s manager, states that, “Matt is an incredibly driven and creative individual. When we hired him (in 2021) he was working two jobs and yet he gives it his all.” Dollison is an office assistant for Buckingham. “He’s approachable which is very important because of where he sits…up on the second floor behind glass.” Buckingham also adds, “I’m absolutely excited to see where he goes in life.”