An increasing amount of citizens have been clamoring for gay rights since the passage of Proposition 8 in 2008. Lately, it looks like their wish will finally come true. On Monday, less than a dozen anti-gay protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church were met with profound contempt by hundreds of students and their supporters at Santa Monica High School. The...

Catch, Santa Monica Hotel Casa del Mar’s seafood restaurant, organized and hosted a live viewing party of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night where cocktails, food from the new lobby lounge menu and complimentary popcorn were served at all tables. The guests were invited to test their Oscar knowledge in a ballot competition where whoever had the most correct...

Community colleges are sometimes considered "fall back" schools that are meant for unmotivated students who were not admitted to a university. However, my experience at Santa Monica College has shown me that many students attend the college because of financial reasons, rather than not being accepted to a four-year institute. Seeing the high tuition fees, expenses and loans on the...

It was just two weeks ago when David Nwaba led the Santa Monica College men's basketball team to a nail-biting victory against Citrus College. This time, the Citrus College Owls had the last hoot. Down five to start the second half in Thursday's game, the Owls turned that deficit into a two-point lead, using back-to-back threes in the first two-and-a-half...

California State University and California Community College chancellors headed a conference call that outlined the new associate degree for transfer program, which aims to reduce unit overlap, among other issues. Senate Bill 1440, the legislation responsible for the associate degree for transfer program, is a "historic reform and improvement in the way students transfer between California Community Colleges and California...

Members of the Associated Students held a town-hall-style meeting from 11:15 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. on the Santa Monica College quad. The goal was to close the gap between the students and their government, according to Yacob Zuriaw, AS director of student advocacy, who headed the meeting. "Here's the place where you can be heard," Zuriaw said during the meeting....

The second week of the spring semester was packed full of punches, hit-and-runs, and theft opportunities. Last Tuesday at around 2 p.m. a dispute among two individuals occurred in parking structure three, resulting in battery charges. A male and female were approached by a man who exchanged words, as well as a few pushes and shoves, with the man. According...

When a new semester starts at Santa Monica College, the daunting sight of students waiting in line to purchase textbooks and school materials at the bookstore is familiar. Students who work toward good grades know that textbooks are a necessity, but that has not made students like Mel Rudkiewicz any happier about spending $400 each semester on textbooks. Many students...

It all started in 1972, when the man with the hat and mustache, Larry Jones, took a part-time job at Santa Monica College, teaching in the photo program he had graduated from nine years earlier. At the end of this semester, his run of 41 years as an SMC photography professor will come to an end. "Of course he will...

Members of the Santa Monica and surrounding communities assembled in front of Santa Monica High School Monday morning in opposition to protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church, known for their anti-gay sentiments. People in opposition of WBC created a “positive wall of humanity,” according to Ruhi Bhalla, co-president of Samohi’s Gender and Sexuality Alliance, that stretched half a block...