According to Santa Monica College Police Sergeant Jere Romano, a man is in custody in the Santa Monica City Jail for assaulting an SMC police officer after attempting to flee from custody. The suspect, identified by Romano as 22-year-old Rogelio Cabrera, is being held in custody for "battery on a peace officer, resisting arrest and an outstanding arrest warrant originated...

A four-year Bachelor of Arts pilot program in interaction design might be coming to Santa Monica College. Back in September, Governor Brown signed a bill allowing for a program that would test out Bachelor’s degree programs at state community colleges, and SMC could be one of the schools selected to participate. According to student trustee Daniel Kolko in an Associated...

Situation 1: You were just lab partners. It meant nothing. Now they want to go out on a date and take things further. They just won't get a clue and won't stop texting you. Situation 2: You fail your history exam and you need extra credit. Instead of giving you an assignment to earn extra points, your teacher hits on...

Holding the stick above his head, whirling it slowly, then progressively faster, all the while the fire at both ends of the stick raged and whipped with the night's wind, the fire dancer approached the edge of the crowd surrounding him, manipulating the stick around his arms and body ever so calmly. A woman shouted from the nearest part of...

In San Miguel, a quite fishing village in Baja California, Mexico, a little boy patiently waits for something to grab on to his bait. It's well known that patience is the key in fishing but hours goes by and nothing happens. The little boy refuses to give up. A group of fishermen arrives back to the village. One of them...

November is in full swing and you may have noticed a few people on campus looking just a bit different. More mustaches, more beards, and all around just more hair. Associated Students outreach director Robert Espinoza is cultivating a beard along with the instructional support director Jeffrey Lewis Jr., as well as campus club Generation of the Future’s president Trae...

Watching the short statured student choreographer Glenn Rodriguez leap in the air with tightly held poise, it would be hard to believe that he started his journey to soloing at the Synapse show at the Broad Stage as a Biomedical Engineering major at Santa Monica College. He dropped the major two years ago, despite the opposition of his parents, to...

Tanna Frederick has spent years making her name as a local actress in the Santa Monica community, headlining several notable productions at venues like the Santa Monica Playhouse and the Edgemar Center For The Arts. A native of Iowa, Frederick majored in Theater and Political Science at the University of Iowa before moving out to Los Angeles to start auditioning...

In compliance with legal requirements to participate in President Obama’s new sexual harassment policy for colleges, Santa Monica College President Chui L. Tsang created a task force to evaluate how SMC currently handles cases of sexual harassment. According to Tsang, the task force will create a system to help victims of harassment and keep the school legally compliant with new...

In this week's issue our news section reports on the establishment of a presidential task force Santa Monica College to evaluate how the campus handles sexual harassment issues. This is a move mandated from Obama to address issues that is sadly very common, not only on campuses, but even in workplaces. I have more than one friend who has experienced...