If there's a familiar sight for all SMC students, it's construction sites -- the main campus is littered with them. But students commuting to school along Pico Blvd. may have noticed an interesting construction site off-campus. 2121 Cloverfield Blvd., on the Northeast corner of Pico and Cloverfield, is undergoing a massive overhaul, with a demolition and renovation project currently turning...

By Ashleen Knutsen, September Bottoms and Bailey PeraitaThere’s a familiar sight every time you walk past the math complex. Students of all sizes, ages, and backgrounds clutch their returned tests in hand and discuss their grades with confusion and disappointment. These students are so focused on looking at their papers that they can’t avert their eyes. One student with a...

In December of 2015, our beloved Editor-in-Chief Nik Lucaj approached me as I tried to run away from the monstrosity that is the Letters and Sciences building. His pace was quicker than mine — damn me for not being 6'4" and with a grumpy attitude. Thirty seconds after the initial chase, he offered me the Managing Editor position for the...

Doing new things is scary and, until just recently, I was firmly in the camp that it is overrated. I already know what I like, what’s the point of doing other stuff that I’ll probably hate? This is especially complicated for me, because I don’t like doing most things. I love drinking beer, watching basketball, playing video games, my girlfriend,...

Hello beautiful readers of The Corsair, I hope this letter finds you well, as I am decidedly unwell. I am writing to you on the day of publication for our final issue of Spring semester, but not the Spring semester you're probably thinking of. As I write this, it is not June 1, 2016, but June 1, 2017. I am...

Cotton Ships is a band made up of five members, but if you ever spend any time with them, it feels like a lot more. The band consists of four SMC students: lead singer and band founder Kenny Chesler, bass player Michael Cagliata, guitar player and occasional saxophonist Evan Ho, and vocalist Kaiya Crawford. The drummer is Elliot Lowell, who...

When you live on a four-year university campus, interactions are guaranteed and almost forced. You dine in halls packed like sardines and sleep in shoebox-esque rooms with two or three other sweaty kids. Solitude is near-impossible to find and socialization is unavoidable. At a community college, community is a choice. We have the freedom to opt out of any, if...

The easiest thing I could say that I’ve learned about being the News Editor this last semester is simply this: news is hard. No matter where you go, stories are literally all around you, constantly demanding your attention and trying to become the center of your limited time. You have to be alert to all possibilities and try your best...

I wonder how many students at SMC remember George Carlin. He was a legendary comedian who died almost eight years ago, so a recent high school grad attending SMC for the first time this academic year would have been in elementary school then. It’s unlikely that anyone of that age knows who Carlin was at all, let alone the content...

With owered eyes covered in eyeliner sharp enough to kill, Luna is hard at work. She's stationed at her sewing machine, stitching patches onto a leather jacket with her rescue dog, Izzy, watching from her lap. She's wearing large platform shoes, a devilish lace-up top and a microscopic pleated skirt. Luna has just come home from a day at her...