I can still remember the warning my mother, in her thick Irish brogue, constantly repeated in my tin ear as a young boy: “You get nothing for nothing in this world.” It was her way of expressing the simple idea that we pay for everything we get, and if we don’t pay, someone else does. Now President Barack Obama has...

The close of the men's 2014-2015 basketball season ended with three sophomores on the 1st Team All-WSC, a conference record of 8-4 and a five game winning streak. The Raiders improved their record from a 6-6 conference record and an overall record of 10-14 in the 2013-2014 season to an overall record advanced to 18-11, which attests to the Raiders’...

Vance Manakas is wrapping the foot of an injured athlete while two more students are awaiting their treatment. Another student is waiting on a stretcher for her leg to be massaged and one more student is just walking in the door. This is a typical Thursday afternoon for Manakas, athletic trainer at Moorpark College and the VCCCD Classified Employee of...

Stars and students alike are buzzing about the Academy Awards, which took place on Sunday, Feb. 23. The speeches, guest appearances, musical numbers, and those who brought home a coveted Oscar statue are some of the most talked about themes of the show. “I think the show was more serious this year,” said Sydney Campbell, a 20-year-old dance major. “There...

Vaping has increasingly become a new trend for many smokers nationwide who use it to get their nicotine fix without inhaling the cancerous toxins found within cigarettes. Although vaping appears to be safer, how does it affect the heath of second-hand vapers? Vaping refers to the heating of a nicotine-based liquid via a battery source within the device, which creates...

The University of La Verne is offering courses on Moorpark College campus and is having an information session on March 3 from 6 to 7 p.m. in Fountain Hall. These courses can help students obtain a bachelor of arts or bachelor of sciences degree in Child Development, Organizational Management, and Educational Studies, formally known as Liberal Studies. "These programs are...

By now nearly everyone knows about James Franco's and Seth Rogen's movie "The Interview" and all the controversy it has stirred all over the world. In the last month, the film has gone from screened in select theaters, to available online for a fee, and to available on Netflix to stream. Essentially going from an obstacle to view the film,...

I walked into the Health Office on time for my 3:20 p.m. appointment, but I hadn’t filled out the forms, so the nurse had to wait 15 minutes while I completed them. I wanted to have my blood tested to see if I had received the measles vaccination. With the epidemic going around and the scare that happened on campus...

Moorpark College has been listed in the top 50 community colleges in the United States and is fifth out of the six Californian colleges mention by TheBestSchools.org (TBS). TBS is an independent organization that functions mainly as an evaluator and aggregator of online information of a wide variety of aspects of higher education, said James A. Barham, a general editor...

Dr. Luis P. Sanchez started his first day on campus as the new president of Moorpark College on Monday. Sanchez said for the first 90 days he wants to make it his priority to go around campus to get to know the school, its faculty and its students. The biggest difference between Allan Hancock College, where he was the vice...