The Santa Monica College athletic department has been put on probation and the women's soccer head coach Aaron Benditson has been fired due to a recruiting violation he committed. Benditson was found by the Western State Conference to have broken California Community College Athletic Association Bylaw 2.3.1, which limits the area a coach can recruit from to the school's immediate...

Tucked away in a back office in the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) facility is a small food closet consisting of two bookcases filled with cans and boxes of food. The EOPS provides these boxes of food to students who are in need and enrolled in their programs. “It has been a lifesaver for many of our students,” Debra...

On Feb. 11, 2011, Rose Moreno was nearing the end of her shift when she heard the large stamping press she was operating making unusual noises. She reported the sounds to her supervisor who told her that they just finished fixing it and to get back to work. Knowing she had to meet her quota, Moreno complied. At 2:30 a.m.,...

Here at The Corsair, we’ve been hosting a series of back and forth debates on the current presidential candidates battling it out in this presidential primary season of 2016. We’ve been going through the list of the main contenders, and the time has come for the inevitable. It’s time to talk Trump. Donald J. Trump is generally hated on college...

Volleyball is a game of situation and control. The setter gives an outside hitter, or opposite, a good set which allows the kill to go to any of the opposing players. The blockers read the play of the opponent and put the wall in a spot to send the ball back from where it came. After a victory over the...

Students are feeling the loss of Dr. James “Jim” Sidney Stramel, who died the morning of March 17, 2016 after a short three week battle with aggressive leukemia. He was 56 years old. Professor Stramel was born in Kansas on April 5, 1960. He often joked to his colleagues and friends about that fact because his mother’s name was Dorothy,...

For Dr. Kathryn Jeffery, the hardest part about getting used to the Southern California is how we measure distance. “One of the other things I'm learning about is that you [Southern Californians] judge distances in terms of time, not miles,” said Jeffery about the types of adjustments she’s experiencing during her transition from Sacramento, where she had been President of...

Hectic schedules, personal issues, complex courses, demanding jobs, daily pressures, and the struggle to balance them all. After speaking with students, SMC's Director of Community Relations Aicha Conde of the Associated Students (AS) Board of Directors noticed there was a need for a place on campus where students could relax. After final approval for initial funds totaling $225 at the...

The turning of the calendar to March indicates that we have survived another year of Hollywood’s flop season. Every year of cinema inevitably gets off to a slow start as studios reserve January and February to dump off the projects they wish had never happened. You can tell 2016 was no different by watching people do backflips to pretend “Deadpool”...

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