Benjamin Garcia

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Worked on 385 assignments, created 116, named on 130 bylines for Talon Marks.

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Board of trustees discusses reprimand v. censure.

Among administrative items and presentations, the Cerritos College Board of Trustees gave attention to an item and resolution, which ended in the reproach of a trustee member. The consideration of approval of board resolution 16-0817A which was accepting the report and recommendations of an AD Hoc Committee regarding the complaints of Trustees Bob Arthur and John Paul Drayer. It resulted...

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Women of Juarez: Behind the Play and Auditions

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The Studio Theater auditions were held for Women of Juarez directed by adjunct Theater professor Minerva Garcia. On Wednesday Aug. 17 auditions were held with callbacks in the same room on the following day. The play is written by Rubén Amavizca-Murúa and is being dedicated to the community of hispanic students on campus and the young women and their families...

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Major Choice? Choosing a Major workshop helps students decide

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Computer science major Nathan Delorenzo lingered after the Choosing A Major Workshop on Thursday, Aug. 11 and said, "There are a lot more opportunities than I anticipated, I was surprised by how much you could do with any major."Like Delorenzo other students attended the Choosing A Major Workshop, where Career Counselor Clara Ross-Jones spoke to students about how interests can...

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Bridge program kicks off fall semester

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"I had to drop my daughter off. My daughter was deciding between here and Long Beach City College. Both my husband and I went here. It is closer to home and the bus system is easier, so we chose Cerritos College," said Charlene Holman, a parent of a new Bridge student while standing in the back of the student center...

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Supporting Trump is toxic

The few eloquent Trump supporters cannot defend their fuhrer from assertions of being obviously fascist. In 2015 Trump expressed his plans for ethnic cleansing. Cruz dropped the race, Kasich soon afterwards. Trump will be a presidential nominee by default. Amidst the white supremacist proponents of Donald John Trump and the uninformed social media movement "Bernie or Bust," the more racist...

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Local block head attracts a crowd

On Friday, April 29th at 8 PM, in the Burnight Studio Theatre ASCC and the Department of Theatre and Film put on a production of "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," directed by Jerry Prell. Luckily the show opened on a nearly full house which seemed to lessen the still lingering pall of the infamous dead Zombie Prom auditions. Jerry...

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Zodiac Killer is Ted Cruz

While there is a scientific explanation for why the barely Hispanic presidential candidate has such an unsettling air about him, there is also some other information that U. S. voters should take into account. After a series of allegations suggesting that presidential candidate Ted Cruz is the abominable Zodiac Killer, disturbances on several social media platforms on the subject, and...

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Outdoor studying is not the scholar way

Natural selection is coming after the ones who study outside. First and foremost these people are putting themselves at risk of contracting malaria, west nile virus, chikungunya, and encephalitis/encephalomyelitis. Does the reader know what encephalitis does? It inflames the brain, how can one study when one's brain is swelling? As industry continues to take over south LA and the gateway...

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Nude post empowering, yet questionable

What would the American public do without the stellar social commentary of the informed Zayn Malik? One's guess might be that it would carry on and achieve relentless progress in the realm of the feminist movement. The normal folk on social media must protect the concept of the nude selfies as an outlet for expression of sexuality for any purpose....

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Student senate discusses campus safety.

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Some of the issues talked about at ASCC Senate on Mar. 2 were student safety on campus, the overriding of a veto, and the soft launch of Falcon Kids. The senators discussed the two fatalities in a forty-eight hour period across the street from the Cerritos College campus Senator Joseph Fierro is working with the commissioner of Student Services in...

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