With lofty goals of making a movie and having a successful Hollywood career, Santa Monica College professor Lynn Dickinson wrote a screenplay with ambitions of one day seeing it on the big screen. Jeff Gordon (President of Writers Boot camp) told her, "The fastest way to get a movie made in this town is to write the book." But with...

The Santa Monica College Corsairs men’s volleyball set their season into cruise control as they defeated Los Angeles Trade - Technical College Beavers 3-0, Friday night. SMC sent out a different line up, according to Coach Mayer, with many reserve players getting more time on the court. “I think it’s challenging when you haven't played all year and you have...

Every semester the Santa Monica College campus fills up with hundreds of students crowding around various club booths lining the quad. On the day of Club Row, various clubs hand out flyers and educate students on their purposes and goals, and it’s usually a very large affair. This Tuesday, however, the event was shrunk down in order to give many...

On March 12, Jay Famiglietti, the senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, and a professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine, wrote a piece that was published in the LA Times to inform people that California’s water reservoirs have a supply of approximately one year left. However due to public concern, the article had been revised...

The chant resounded through the room like a cry to remember. "Ayotzinapa vive! La lucha sigue!" (Ayotzinapa lives! The struggle continues!). The chant announced that survivors of the September massacre of 43 students in Ayotzinapa, Mexico had arrived at the Sequoia Hall of the Cal State Northridge campus. Gabriel Gutierrez, a CSUN professor of Chicano Studies, hoped the event would...

As the lights ascend upon the Main Stage, one can't help but be awestruck by the dazzling costumes adorning the actors. The fragmented lights scattered across the stage immediately create the sense of brokenness among the characters as they present their dark story."Elephant's Graveyard" is a play that explores humanity's malicious nature. The story recounts a terrible real-life event in...

I had a friend who adopted two dogs from a pet shelter but could not tend to them properly as he was too busy with school work. Because they were neglected, they became aggressive. He then started calling them "bad boys," kicking, and beating them. Finally, he sent them back to the pet shelter. He was just one of many...

Last Tuesday, incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a fourth term after a turbulent re-election campaign. Netanyahu’s triumph was met with mixed reactions from various students at SMC, both Jewish and of general Middle Eastern descent. SMC student Rachel Friedman was “over-the-moon thrilled” with Netanyahu’s victory. She described Netanyahu as “the Winston Churchill of our time,” and emphasized that...

And deeper into the trench they went. The Santa Monica College Corsairs’ softball team lost both ends of a doubleheader against the Antelope Valley College Marauders on Tuesday. The Corsairs were trying to find a way to register a “W” in the win column after dropping 11 straight games and haven’t won a game since February 16 when they defeated...

In January 2011, Santa Monica College student Ahmed Sayed found himself a witness to history. His hometown, the ancient city of Cairo, had erupted in mass protests against the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. The historic upheaval now known as the Arab Spring had arrived in Egypt. Sayed, open with a sharp intellect, is an Engineering major who has resided in...