Twenty minutes before the lecture on superheroes was due to start the room was already packed with eager students, with only a couple of seats left. "When I saw this on the schedule, I knew I couldn't miss this," said Kylie McCue,19, child development major. The lecture was held by four superhero-fanatic professors who all showed up decked out in...

Are we buying more than what we actually need is one of the many questions Communication Studies instructor Jill McCall addressed in a lecture titled "Competitive Consumption."The lecture went over the reasons why we spend an average of 3.5 percent of our income per year to pursue the habits of a competitive consumer, who buys things they don't need with...

Students filled the classroom to capacity at one of the many lectures at Moorpark College's annual Multicultural Day. Then, when professor Ishita Edwards challenged the class to come up with an opinion on globalization, the responses varied.“It’s a challenging question,” said Perla Hernandez, 19, biology major. “It can be both a good and bad thing. It allows us to have...

One of the demonstrations that students could head over to at Multicultural Day was martial arts put on by faculty members Leeann Mulville and Chad Basile. Mulville and Basile both showed students how to fend off an attacker without having to seriously hurt someone and how to ultimately get out of a fight. Mulville wanted students to use their balance...

Dr. Laura Forsyth presented a seminar during the festivities of today's Multicultural Day on campus aimed at helping students understand not only how to be happy, but to identify and combat the underlying causes of unhappiness. Lasting just over an hour, the charismatic and energetic Dr. Forsyth asked an overloaded classroom full of students and Multicultural Day attendees how they...

Spring is in the air and what a beautiful season it is! However, seasons pertaining to weather wasn't what we were talking about during last week's poll asking: "What is your favorite season?" Out of 30 total votes, music festival season took first place with 11 votes or 37 percent. Music festivals are events that take place over multiple days...

The artists in the brightly-lit makeup room transformed ordinary students, parents and even kids into terrifying or hilarious clowns, for an exhibit during Multicultural Day. Earlier today, PAC 134 was transformed into an impromptu clown-makeup station by Theatre Arts professor Haleh Risdana and her students of THA M28, Production Makeup to express counterculture. "I think what appeals for clown culture...

There are many stories about people being saved by doctors, paramedics and even fellow citizens, but for one photographer, it was dance that saved her life. Stephanie Rodriguez, 20-year-old photography major, will tell her story through photographs, video and dance at the "INK-Opening Reception" for her photo series at Moorpark College's Pink Flamingo Art Gallery on April 21 at 5...

In a welcome recovery after stumbling in the first two games starting the second leg of Western State Conference competition, Moorpark College powered past local rivals Pierce College, 5-2, in the hot afternoon sun at Raiders Stadium, Tuesday, April 5. With the game tied 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Dalton Duarte’s three-run homer to left center drove...

Filled to the ceiling with shelves of cameras and photo equipment, Karin Johansson’s office, nestled in the heart of Moorpark College’s Photography Lab, boasts vibrant green walls and endearing posters of otters, making it difficult for passerby’s to ignore. And very rarely does this office go ignored. As the Instructional Lab Tech of the photography department, a slow day at...