One month ago, a complete stranger called me a faggot. Even in 2015, in Santa Monica, on the Santa Monica College main campus. This still happens. I was doing an assignment for my photography class where our instructor challenged the students to take photos of groups of strangers without looking through the viewfinder. I photographed several people with no issue,...

This is our last issue for the spring semester and it is my last issue as Editor-in-Chief of The Corsair. We end the semester once more reflecting on the tragic events of June 7, 2013 when a violent mind decided to attack our campus and take three lives, including those of Margarita Gomez, SMC groundskeeper Carlos Navarro Franco and his...

For individuals pursuing a career in business, professionalism is essentially important. However, many college students may find it difficult to afford a suit after paying for their tuition, textbooks, and other daily needs. Eight years ago the Santa Monica College Business Administration started the Career Closet. A program that provides suits to SMC Business students in need for any business...

Studying in a different country can be difficult. Except that you have to adapt to a new culture and speak a foreign language, you experience a lot of new things. From clubs and grades to the size of our library, SMC international students compare SMC to the schools in their home countries. Name: Jae Soon ParkMajor: Political ScienceHome Country: South...

Before the digital age, advertisements were spread purely by verbal communication. The sources of internet and social media that we have now were simply ideas. And though we may think these advances have helped us progress intellectually, it's possible that we are being blinded more than ever. Contrary to the argument that literacy promotes an individual’s intellect, if gone wrong,...

I'm sitting down in the midst of a coffee shop reading a newspaper and suddenly I overhear two young teens discuss what they're ordering and why. Justifying your order is norm. One decides to sans the shots of syrup in their frappuccinos and leave the whipped cream aside claiming that an Instagram page has a secret Starbucks menu she learned...

President Harry S. Truman once said "The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know." There are individuals who live by this coda and apply it to nearly everything. One such individual is a local Santa Monica resident whom I will only call by his first name: Dave. Dave sees a world just underneath the...

He is a student at Santa Monica College, but his nationality has been quite literally torn in half. An anonymous student sat down with a Corsair contributor to discuss being from Crimea, the former Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia through a popular vote last year. The annexation was the result of a 2014 revolt in Ukraine which overthrew a Moscow-aligned...

If Santa Monica College’s facilities have substandard air conditioning, should we install better systems or just tear down the buildings? This is the decision that was proposed last month by a DPAC Facilities Planning subcommittee. The contracting group had a lengthy discussion over whether or not to install temporary air conditioning in the Liberal Arts and Letters & Science facilities,...

Ah, The Santa Monica College Cafeteria. A place where over 500 students are able to sit, eat, and study -- and sleep, if they haven't yet found out about the lovely couch chairs in the library. For over 40 years, this cafeteria has served its students with diligence and faithfulness, and hosted many events such as blood drives, as meetings,...