This April could mark Santa Monica College’s first Consent Week. Or month, rather. In light of the establishment of task forces to combat sexual assault in the White House and the University of California system, student organizations on campuses like UCLA, Arizona State University, and UC Berkeley have organized Consent Weeks to raise awareness about the issue among students. Here...

Earlier this week a videotape surfaced online showing three LAPD police officers shooting a homeless man on downtown LA’s skidrow; adding fuel to the already raging firestorm that has come in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting and Eric Garner choking death among other publicized instances of officer involved deaths. In the roughly six months since the Brown shooting...

And the same way every morning it began. The day’s designated leader, sometimes the teacher, sometimes a classmate, but often times myself, would raise first. They’d say “Put your right hand over your heart.” And so I did, and they too. And at our age nobody ever stopped to asked why. Despite our narrow, eight year old vocabularies, which were...

The infamous internet meme now known as "The Dress" is a portent of our social disorder and apocalyptic rush towards dystopia. If that sounds heavy handed, consider how the over-exposed photo of a black and blue dress (and yes, it is black and blue), caused internet traffic and even social debates unheard of with more serious, urgent issues. Even our...

It was time for a documentary about campus sexual assault. Imagine you’re accepted to your first choice school, with no worries in that moment, just feelings of excitement and anticipation. You’re not aware of the big scary world out there, at least not until you have to face it. The place you might now call home could become your worst...

In the wake of "Black Lives Matter" protests, a group of young black people stood before an audience to tell their stories of their experiences with the police. Reliving past trauma and hurt, they told their stories that they thought they buried in the past. Donning "Bulletproof: #BlackLivesMatter" t-shirts, the group performed their monologues, some sounding like horror stories."Power: From...

To be able to park your vehicle on Santa Monica College, you must each semester pay $85 for a Santa Monica College parking permit, which don't even guarantee you a spot. It doesn't matter how long you've been waiting or how stressed you are, whoever finds an available spot first, gets it. According to some SMC students finding a spot...

As Santa Monica College begins a new year, it also brings with it a new change at the Library. Where SMC students find themselves working in front of 221 new screens as they input their usernames and passwords. Up until last semester, the computers in place were 2003 models, very old and malfunctioning. In comparison with the new Dell computers,...

With the western winds behind them, the Santa Monica Corsairs sailed by the Antelope Valley College in both womens' tennis singles and doubles yesterday afternoon, defeating the Marauders 9-0. The winds coming off the Pacific Ocean appeared to have an effect on the balls at the end of the singles matches. "It was drifting," freshman Shawntel Patterson of the Corairs...

Santa Monica Corsairs men's head volleyball coach John Mayer is the picture of a calm Friday night as the scene inside of Corsair Pavilion around him is not. The blue and white are behind two sets to one heading into the fourth set against their burgeoning rival the El Camino Real Warriors. In the huddle, Mayer speaks to his players,...