“We did not anticipate such an enthusiastic response to bringing TEDx to our campus. We did have a marketing scheme in place, but the tickets sold out before we could fully implement advertising,” said Director of Bands and Orchestra David Betancourt in regard to Cerritos College selling all 100 seats. The TEDx Talk that will be taking place on March...

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I see Cerritos College students weighed down with stress and minor trauma, walking around with their knuckles dragging on the floor and circles around their eyes. This makes me worry that too many of us are carrying around issues that will end up being bad for our mental states. Rather than burying your feelings deep down and forming a tumor,...

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“She was always perky and smiling,” alumnus Paul Tully started when talking about his friendship with Fine Arts Communications Division Performing Arts Promotion Specialist, Renee Bloch at a candle light vigil organized by Lab Tech I in the Fine Arts/Communications Division, Alicia Edquist. She will be remembered by Tully most for her love of the students and the theatre department,...

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There has been a lot of talk on campus of such things as mental health, suicide awareness and self-esteem. There are quite a large number of nerds on campus still mourning the death of our self-described (but self-diagnosed) bipolar sister Carrie Fisher. Many more members of the Cerritos College community are mourning the suicide of Fine Arts Communications Division Performing...

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The highly acclaimed and widely appreciated halal chain, Halal Guys has recently opened at the Cerritos Promenade to crowds of "foodies," which the city has in no small supply. The new location is nestled in between Jamba Juice and El Roccoto, and in a close proximity to the Cerritos Mall, which makes it's placement, in one word, ideal, but the...

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"Creating a culture of respect" was the title and theme of a presentation and workshop given on Friday, Feb. 3 by public attorney Pilar Morin. The presentation, and varied discussions that followed, explored and dissected issues facing Cerritos College, such as micro-aggressions of the basis of immutable characteristics of a person, inclusion, hostile work environments and the value, advantages and...

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Single and non-single people alike and becoming mentally ill with the prospect of having to suffer another Valentine's Day. We have barely shaken off the capitalism-ridden Christmas spirit when we are met with another damned commercial holiday. Besides that, we have all have been through hell with a date that just didn't go the way we had hoped and hindsight...

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"I mentioned this to the artists; growing up, my dad pulled things from the recycling center and let me tear them apart in similar ways as I did here." freelance art documentarian Ian Byers-Gamber said about "Break Room," one of the many installations at the Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) Bazaar. Among other art collectives such as Biomythography and DH...

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"It's not all about the hierarchy that you have to break into. Think about how you can define your identity and how you want to be present in the public, there are ways you can do it without having to wait 30 years to be noticed by the power system." That was the message of the FAR Bazaar panel discussion,...

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Gene Stone, best-selling author of The Bush Survival Bible, The 12-Step Bush Recovery Program and Duck!, has done it again with The Trump Survival Guide. He as written an informed yet commonplace manifesto for the moderate democrat. In short, this is the practical, pragmatic book that will define the resistance of Donald "Tiny Hands" Trump and his basket of deplorables...

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