The bustle of the SMC Main Campus library is a familiar one. The sound of zippers closing and opening backpacks every few seconds. A student takes out an intellectual sandwich — two textbooks with a MacBook stuffed between them. Another student notices the time on his dimly lit computer screen and throws everything into his backpack, zips it abruptly and...

Dressed in a scarf patterned with stars, pants covered with planets and hair adorned with pencils and plastic stars, guest lecturer and astronomical historian Shelley Bonus took over the John Drescher Planetarium on Friday night. To a crowd of nearly 30 attendees, she spoke about what we know about our solar system’s largest and possibly oldest planet Jupiter and its...

People attend SMC with the intention of leaving SMC. Most come to transfer, and many others try to get in and out with an Associate's in order to get into the job market as quickly as possible. This temporary nature doesn't necessarily foster a sense of community or school pride — a common trait of community colleges. Hosted by the...

In a sea of disagreement and contradicting points of view, one topic that has loudly come to the surface is that of gender equality. In what should be changed in the Declaration of Independence: All men and women are created equal. The most obvious advancement in the equality of genders is the very existence of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,...

At only 17 years old, Alejandro Diaz de la Torre decided to move from his home in Madrid, Spain, to the U. S. As the son of a diplomat, he has lived in many different countries in his life, but decided that Los Angeles is where he would be pursuing his education. After spending one year at Kaplan, an English...

spilled from the sidewalk into downtown Los Angeles, where glassy-eyed street nomads wandered the city blocks. Jagged pieces of glass, paper bags and other discarded debris littered the alleyways and roads that wound their way through Third and Seventh, and Alameda and Main. This is Skid Row— famous for violence, drugs, homelessness and rampant, uncontrolled chaos. The dark section of...

IN BRIEF Tragedy at SkeptiCamp When Guest Speaker Suffers Heart Attack During the SkeptiCamp conference held in HS 165 on Saturday, May 7, Gregory Bart Jr. from the Center for Inquiry, and part of the greater Los Angeles community of skeptics, collapsed after giving a presentation questioning the results of the OJ Simpson Trial. Emergency medical aid was immediately provided...

As the SMC Opera Club set up a piano, two microphones, and a few speakers, preparing to perform at Club Row, a man stepped up to his turntables about 100 feet away. He welcomed everybody to the event, and began to play dance remixes of Top 40 pop songs — loudly, to compete with the already high level of crowd...

Before spring break on April 10, The Corsair's Ashleen Knutsen reported on the protest by the SMC classified staff workers over wage increase negotiations taking place between the Classified staff and the Board of Trustees. A month later, they were back at it again. A group of classified staff members once again gathered, signs in hand, at the parking lot...

Ornamental Bike Brought down, possibly vandalized One of the two decorative metal bikes normally screwed onto the concrete blocks in the Pearl Street smoking section was discovered by members of the Corsair Editorial Staff in the early morning hours on Wednesday, May 4. The bike was found resting near its original position, but out of its moorings and on the...