El Camino College's men's basketball team is now on a five-game losing streak after a 79-70 home loss versus the Compton College Tartars on Wednesday, Feb. 21. The game opened with the Tartars winning the tipoff and two missed baskets by both teams. The Warriors' missed shot gave the Tartars the opportunity to score a three-point shot off the inbound...

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More than three years after an El Camino College student's body was found in a remote section of the Mojave Desert, the trial of two men accused of killing him has begun. Ethan Astaphan, 30, from San Gabriel and Weijia Peng, 34, from Alhambra are charged with murder in the death of 21-year-old Juan Hernandez. Hernandez worked at VIP Collective...

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An active shooter drill will take place in the El Camino College Bookstore during spring break on Friday, April 12, from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. The drill will be restricted to the area and will happen inside the retail section of the Bookstore. The perimeter of the building will be taped off and signs indicating it is a drill will...

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El Camino continued its celebration of Black History Month with a conversation about Black architects and how they shaped Southern California in the East Dining Room on Feb. 14. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Librarian Linda Cooks opened the conversation by introducing the day’s speakers: Reuben E. Jacobs, residential designer and adjunct professor for the Architecture Department, and Steven Lewis,...

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El Camino Women's Beach Volleyball suffered a 0-5 sweep on Feb. 16 against San Diego Mesa College's Olympians, extending its losing streak to three games after starting the season with four straight wins. The ECC Sand Courts saw a total of five matches played in the morning, with two matches played during the first portion and three matches played during...

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The man accused of the Dec. 24 sledgehammer attack on a woman near the El Camino College Gymnasium pleaded not guilty to the murder charges against him during his Jan. 17 arraignment. The District Attorney’s Office charged Jeffery Davis, 40, with murder under California Penal Code section 187, according to Walter Quinteros, the deputy district attorney prosecuting the case. The...

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Candles. Bouquets. Framed photos. These form two makeshift memorials for Junko Hanafusa at El Camino College, one by the place where she was attacked and the other inside the Schauerman Library. Hanafusa was recently killed in a Dec. 24 attack on campus. It was the day before Christmas, and Hanafusa was on her regular morning walk on campus, along with...

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El Camino received a $350,000 grant earlier this semester to enhance teaching capacity and train faculty to incorporate a curriculum for data science, in collaboration with the University of California Berkeley. El Camino was the only community college to be a primary recipient of the 13 grants recently awarded by the California Education Learning Lab, a government initiative that seeks...

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It's a peaceful Thursday morning on the floor above the El Camino Bookstore, with sunny skies and a clear view of the Santa Monica Mountains. All is quiet and empty–except for a faint boom of hip-hop music, the squeaks of shoes on the concrete and a dance instructor snapping his fingers as he calls out 5, 6, 7, 8. The...

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Hundreds of classes were canceled and campus was shut down just before 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7 due to an outage knocking out power in parts of El Camino College’s campus, El Camino Village and Alondra Park. The outage affected phone lines, computers, lights, automatic doors, elevators, some restroom facilities on campus and shut down traffic lights on Manhattan...

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