Alexandra Scoville

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a.scoville- health and safety conference.

With having no extra speakers present, Project HOPE Program Assistant Danylle Williams-Manser was left to just herself and only six attendees during a Health and Safety Conference on Saturday. "We [Project HOPE members] were hoping to have more attendees, but I am glad that those who attended felt that they received a lot of valuable information." The conference was designed...

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BSU

Raneisha DuBose, the secretary of the Black Student Union, continuously works to create and maintain a club for students at Cerritos College that are looking for "A place to fit in and have fun." The Black Student Union is a club with a purpose, working to create a fun environment for everyone to enjoy. According to DuBose, the BSU, “Strives...

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DArreola-BSU Celebration-News

The Black Student Union held a celebration in honor of Black History Month Friday Feb. 22, 2013 in the Student Center. The club organized awards that were distributed to those who helped out the club. It also held a 80s themed fashion show and a talent show that featured models from the club and volunteers. The event was hosted by...

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New Catholic Club on campus

"I feel this new club will add to the diversity of the existing clubs on campus," said Program Facilitator Trudy Dellimagine. The Catholic Newman Club is a new club at Cerritos College, and according to president Jose Espinoza, there aren't really many religious based clubs on campus and he hopes to help his club stand out. "(We) want to give...

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AA-T and AS-T transfer story

California Community Colleges and California State Universities are working together in order to create state-wide implementation of AA-T and AS-T Transfer Degrees in community colleges. AA-T degrees are Associate in Arts for Transfer Degrees and AS-T are Associate in Science for Transfer Degrees. There are currently 112 community colleges in California that are working to make these degrees available to...

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Real meaning of search engines

Society views search engines like Google and Bing as tools to help it learn, laugh or plan a vacation. But it seems like recently search engines are more interested in indexing our lives. We as a society are supposed to be learning from the search engines, not the other way around. It is scary to think that some search engines...

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Blood drive

Volunteer and Cerritos College student James Trazo sat outside of the American Red Cross Bloodmobile on Thursday, Feb. 14, greeting and checking-in students, who were making the preparations to save lives. The American Red Cross has a history of visiting Cerritos College during Valentine’s Day week and was present in Falcon Square from Feb. 11 to 14, collecting nearly 350...

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There should be more consistency with schedules

Scheduling at school should be more consistent when planned around holidays. Fifteen-week classes that began on Feb. 8 were soon followed by a holiday on Feb. 15, leaving the next class session to be taught Feb. 22, two weeks after the first class. With homework assigned on the first day it's hard to even remember with a two-week break from...

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'Identity Thief' Movie Review

"Identity Thief" starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, felt as if it dragged on forever. The laughs were few and far between. It is easy to guess the plot of the movie based on the title, and that's one of the things about this movie that made it not so enjoyable. You knew going into the movie theater that this...

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speech

Vice President of the Speech and Debate Club, Analicia Avila, has made it into the quarterfinals in the junior parliamentary debate of the Sunset at the Beach Tournament and plans to go further with her club in other competitions this semester. The Sunset at the Beach Tournament held at Point Loma Nazarene University was one of three competitions the speech...