As of 10 p.m. Tuesday night, general election votes gave way to what looks to be a red America, with the majority of votes for members of the House, Senate and state Governors being cast in for Republican candidates for the first time in eight years. At this time, for the Santa Monica Elections, it looks like the majority is...

Tucked away behind the college's Art Building, in what looks like a highly renovated garage, come the somewhat alarming sounds of shattering glass, hammering on pipes, and flaming wind tunnels. On any given weekday afternoon, a team of people, reminiscent of the coal burners pictured in the belly of the Titanic, fearlessly place rods of steel inside of a 2,000...

On Saturday, November 11, 1933, the field lights turned on and illuminated the Santa Monica Junior College Corsairs as they came home for the first time. Spirits ran high as both the underdog Corsairs and the mighty Ventura College Pirates took the turf at Santa Monica High School. The stout defense of the blue and white, similar to the current...

Generations following America's turbulent 1960's have since longed to feel the passion and anarchy of the events that painted one of the nation's most transformative period. Now, a key thinker of the age, an activist of the New Left political movement, Tom Hayden is allowing the public to read his first hand accounts of some of the 60's most memorable...

The times we live in feel like an unstable globe with various prairie fires without direction. The conflicts of today are mired in either fundamentalist fever dreams (the theocratic violence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria) or post-modern, directionless protest (Occupy Wall Street). Five decades ago, it was a different world. In the 1960s the number of young people outnumbered...

A constant paranoia and fear grips the hearts of the American people. Since the World Trade Center attacks of 2001, the United States has dehumanized people of Middle Eastern ethnicity. There have been several bogeymen figures in this war on terror. The hit list has included the names of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama Bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein. But recently...

The recently resigned Director of Student Advocacy, Diana Gutierrez, addressed the Associated Students meeting about a small protest she held on campus last Wednesday which challenged the relationship of A. S. student leaders and the Associate Dean of Student Life, Sonali Bridges. Last Wednesday, Gutierrez and a UCLA student, Areli Rios, appeared outside of the library and in the quad...

With just two games left to play in the Santa Monica College 2014 football schedule, the Corsairs are finally starting to consistently play like the conference champions the fans of the blue and white have come to know and love over the past three seasons. Although SMC trounced LA Southwest College Saturday 56-27, the true test lies in their final...

The Santa Monica College Corsair men’s soccer team settled for a 4-4 tie Tuesday afternoon after the Glendale College Vaqueros snatched away a victory from the Corsair's clutches at the last minute, eliminating them from conference title contention. With less than 14 minutes to go in the match, Glendale forward Maxwell Trautmann found himself with just the goalie to beat,...

Premiering this weekend, following last year’s Academy Award-winning Disney animation movie musical “Frozen” comes “Big Hero 6,” another one of Disney’s attempts to make a successful, 3D animation movie without the Pixar masters. After their success with last year’s snow-capped musical about two sisters battling to simultaneously kill and save each other, Disney’s going to try to merchandize their way...