The day started fast on Thursday morning, inside the spacious walls of room 172 in The Letters and Sciences Building, for the "Cool Careers Speakers Forum," which was hosted by Journalism Professor Saul Rubin and moderated by Career Services Department representative Cristina Garcia. Students were seated, papers were passed out, introductions were made, and the proceedings began. The panelists included,...

A group of students—a dozen or so sat around in a loose circle on the lawn under the bell tower. None of which were pulling out the grass from underneath them like a child might, a common habit under similar circumstances. “Would I treat my boyfriend or girlfriend how I'm treating nature? We want to have that question in mind,”...

Tim McGrath was the first SMC presidential candidate to convey to an audience reasons why he should take over the role as Superintendent/President at noon on Thursday at the Main Stage. While the only college vice president of the group, McGrath brought the same amount of experience, if not more, to the table as the other candidates. He describes himself...

At 10:30 a.m. yesterday, seven activists participating in the Million Student March, a nationally organized protest for free college, gathered on the thoroughfare of the Main Campus quad. They came wearing shirts advocating for a $15 an hour minimum wage, carrying signs demanding debt relief for college students and attempted to drum up interest with chants like, “Public space for...

The United States is without a doubt one of the greatest nations in the world, but one of the worst when it comes to gun violence. As an international student in the U. S., growing up in a European country, I could never in a million years imagine having a fear of witnessing a gunman whilst present at school, the...