The seasons have changed again we are now in spring once more. If it is indeed a season of change (and the ghastly image of mushy couples around campus), then it is fitting that we feature in this article a story out of the Arab Spring, the great upheaval in the Middle East that shook the world in 2011. SMC...

The times we live in are determined more than ever by appearances. In a world dominated more by the power of moving images and photographs, where the power of the image has completely overtaken the power of the word, appearances matter. In this week's issue Ronja Jansz brings us the story of Maritza Andrade, an SMC student whose very appearance...

Orchestrating Homecoming Week is no easy feat for an Associated Students director, which is why the board took notice when an energetic commissioner stepped up to take the lead amid a director’s absence last year. AS presidential candidate Joel Goldszer began participating in AS as commissioner for then Director of Student Outreach Robert Espinoza, eventually becoming the board’s ideal replacement...

After six and a half years in the United States Air Force, traveling the world in service including distant locales such as Okinawa, Qatar, and Afghanistan, veteran Jesse Randel decided to become a student vet and enrolled at SMC. Here he found the Veterans Resource Center undersized and under-resourced for the over 600 vets on campus. After encouraging from some...

Last week Trae Smith was unable to make the initial candidate meeting to officially run for AS president. Instead he was at Washington D. C., speaking at the liberal pro-Israel J Street National Conference about his vision for his club Generation of the Future. Yet for those who know him, it was obvious Smith carried in him a desire to...

There comes a time in journalism in which you end up ruffling feathers over accurate reporting of the truth. For me the time came when I began to receive backlash over an article entitled, “Black Lives Matter Takes Stage in Santa Monica.”The article covers a grassroots #BlackLivesMatter group that performed a theater arts piece to bring attention to the continued...

Police brutality has surfaced and resurfaced itself as a major social issue of our time. It is a problem that despite all previous protests and social change movements, keeps rearing its ugly head every few years. Ryan Coogler's film "Fruitvale Station" came out in 2013, just a year before a chain of police brutality cases around the country that have...

The Santa Monica College Corsairs men’s volleyball team is just three weeks away from playoffs, with a chance to win the California Community College Athletics Association Championship. Though SMC begins to transition into playoff mode, they still have three remaining games in the regular season, two being away. With a win on Wednesday vs Long Beach City College, the Corsairs...

Like a ferocious guerrilla army, a pack of unchained dogs overrun Budapest in Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "White God." The movie, one of the year's best foreign films, opens at The Nuart in Santa Monica this Friday. A wild parable that feels like "Watership Down" meets Franz Kafka, the film is a dark and moving tale seen completely through the...

As the palm-sized neon yellow softball connected with the bat of another Citrus College player, the ball zipped down the third base line, drilled Santa Monica College Corsair's third baseman Gabriela Robles on her left foot, and soared up in the air which gave shortstop, Chae Persinger, an opportunity to gather underneath the ball to make the catch. Even a...