Dane Cruz, a 19 year old first year SMC student, is running for A. S. Secretary as part of the Fresh Start slate. According to Cruz, his position tutoring for the Black Collegians and Adelante program gave him access to enough people where coming up with 50 signatures was never a problem. He is currently running unopposed. In an email...

18-year-old Daira Bustos is a communication studies major and Stanford hopeful that wakes up 2 1/2 hours before class to walk 20 minutes to the bus stop, where she proceeds to take a series of four buses to arrive at SMC. She’s taking 20 units, on the debate team, the current treasurer, ICC delegate of the Bernie Club, and has...

Meet Steve Maldonado — a business and communications major, current Vice President of the Associated Students (AS) Board of Directors, and most importantly, one of the three candidates for president in the 2016 AS Election. Maldonado was initially slated as an independent candidate, but that changed this past Monday when he officially announced the creation of the last slate for...

As the current vice president, former treasurer and ICC representative of Black Collegians Club (BCC), Terrance Ware Jr., 19, has a bit of a track record of being a leader. “I’ve been a captain for every [sports] team that I’ve ever played for,” Ware said. “I like leadership. I like to be in a position where I can make sure...

Laura Zwicker, 31, is running for AS Student Trustee this election. This would be her first time in an elected AS position. However, she’s no stranger to leadership. She is the current president of the Astronomy club and former president of both the Natural History Club and Chemistry Club. “My involvement in student leadership has been kind of a progression...

Alfredo Gama is a 19-year-old Mexican native aiming to be a Political Economics major with hopes of working in public service, who came to the U. S. at the age of 7 as an undocumented immigrant. He's the founder and president of the SMC Students for Bernie Club, he's on the board of the Homeboys and Homegirls Club, and he's...

After the three heads of the Inter-Club Council (ICC) were forced to resign during the Winter semester due to not meeting unit requirements, a large hole was left not only on the AS Board of Directors, but the ICC itself. The three vacant positions were filled by a vote of the ICC at their March 10 meeting, installing Kate Liang...

I don’t follow @RealDonaldTrump on Twitter because he is an awful, xenophobic racist and I feel no need to add to the seven million followers he already has. I also read pretty much every single thing Trump ever tweets because no one in history has ever written better tweets, and no one in the future ever will. Trump has absolutely...

The Corsair presents the first-person Santa Monica College Salon haircut experience. Throughout the semester, students will undoubtedly need a trim. What most students do not realize is that Santa Monica College has it very own salon. You don't have to travel far and wide to reach this student-filled cosmetology clinic and they won't charge you a month's rent to get...

Santa Monica College has more than 3,000 international students and is recognized as one of the best community colleges in California. But what is it like for these international students to be far from home? What are the pros and cons of living in Los Angeles? What is new and different compared to their home country?It is not easy to...