This Wednesday is the 12th anniversary of an attack that scarred the American homeland, and from which the consequences still reverberate today. Some students and professors can pinpoint exactly where they were, and recollect with fervor the fateful day in fall, while others may be too young to even remember the chaos and commotion that accompanied the al-Qaida attack. It’s...

The phrases flashed across my computer screen. "You showed us an 18-year-old could play with the best." "You showed us how to hit game-winner after game-winner." And on and on. I had to pause the video several times to refrain from regurgitating my lunch. Never mind that the above statements are false. That didn't stop Nike from including them, as...

Richard Jimenez has gone from a high school dropout to a undergraduate student at a top university in just a few years.“I never got to attend high school because my father pulled me out of school," said Jimenez. "I grew up, you know, working construction and hard manual labor." A notice about a $30,000 scholarship sponsored by Chui L. Tsang,...

It is Tuesday afternoon and as I am walking down Pico Boulevard toward 14th Street, I feel the heat of the sun and the nasty smell of rush hour traffic. Tired of campus cafeteria food and hungry for something new, I have heard there is a woman that makes pupusas, a traditional El Salvadorian dish. A pupusa is a kind...

With numerous classes, work commitments, and extracurricular activities, compounded by the notorious Los Angeles traffic, some college students find it hard to fit a meal — notably breakfast or lunch — into their busy schedules. “I leave my house extra early and all I eat is a yogurt, and then I have a chewy bar after one of my classes,”...

Just as the Zephyr Team made headlines in Santa Monica decades ago, a new skateboarding sensation is taking over the seaside town. In a city with such a rich history of skateboarding, it seems only natural that it would produce Lizzie Armanto, currently one of the top female skateboarders in the world. A former Santa Monica College student, Armanto made...

Like a hungry beast, the wave rises in a storm of liquid and foam, ready to devour the figure riding a glistening surfboard through its predatory curl. This and other impressive images were projected for viewers attending the screening of Jamie Budge's documentary "The Living Curl," which is about southern California surfers in the 1960s, presented by ZJ Boarding House...

The Santa Monica College men's soccer team opened preseason with a big 3-0 win on the road against the College of the Desert Roadrunners last Tuesday. Patrick Acosta, SMC's goalie, had major praise for teammate Oskar Martinsson, a new forward on the team from Sweden, who scored two goals. "Great player; he's very tall," said Acosta. "He moves and he...

When it happens once, it's embarrassing, but you can walk it off and laugh about it later. When it happens again, you better start taking things a little more seriously. Such was the case for one of the newest members of the Los Angeles Lakers, Nick Young, as he found himself on the wrong end of a poster dunk not...

Smoke-free environments are becoming more common around town, which is one of the reasons why electronic cigarettes have become popular since the rules on the e-cigarettes' restrictive areas have not been established. Does this mean students are allowed to use them on campus or in the cafeteria? According to Sgt. Raymond L. Bottenfield of the Santa Monica College Police Department,...