A group of around 40-50 protesters gathered outside of the Los Angeles City Hall midday on Friday, March 18, rallying against the City Council's decision to confiscate tiny houses built by Elvis Summers, the founder of the tiny houses and a dedicated non-profit activist, from city streets. Summers has been building and donating the mini-homes on wheels to the homeless...

The world of old Hollywood has become an endless source of fascination for modern storytelling. From recent best picture winner “The Artist,” to 2015’s “Trumbo,” artists have found themselves looking back to the beginning of America’s most profitable art form. The trend makes complete sense. The birth of Hollywood was a glamorous and absurd time, filled with incompetence. Santa Monica...

SMC was recently approached with the opportunity to host an album preview for rising Harlem rapper A$AP Ferg’s new release “Always Strive and Prosper,” which would include an appearance from the rapper. It was to be held in a room at the Cayton Center on the afternoon of Monday, March 22. The proposed event would have involved between 50 and...

Sports – Athletic Dept. Put on Probation, Coaching Position Graveyard Grows The SMC Athletic Department was put on probation and Women’s Soccer Coach Aaron Benditson has been fired over a recruiting violation. The Western State Conference ruled that Benditson broke the California Community College Athletic Association bylaw 2.3.1, which limits the locations that coaches can recruit from. SMC’s Women’s soccer...

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – Benito Mussolini (tweeted by Donald Trump at 3:31 a.m. on Feb. 28) When I turn on CNN now, I prepare myself to cringe. Since the summer of 2016, the media has been addicted to one word that permeates every program and fuels every...

The Santa Monica College athletic department has been put on probation and the women's soccer head coach Aaron Benditson has been fired due to a recruiting violation he committed. Benditson was found by the Western State Conference to have broken California Community College Athletic Association Bylaw 2.3.1, which limits the area a coach can recruit from to the school's immediate...

Tucked away in a back office in the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) facility is a small food closet consisting of two bookcases filled with cans and boxes of food. The EOPS provides these boxes of food to students who are in need and enrolled in their programs. “It has been a lifesaver for many of our students,” Debra...

On Feb. 11, 2011, Rose Moreno was nearing the end of her shift when she heard the large stamping press she was operating making unusual noises. She reported the sounds to her supervisor who told her that they just finished fixing it and to get back to work. Knowing she had to meet her quota, Moreno complied. At 2:30 a.m.,...

Here at The Corsair, we’ve been hosting a series of back and forth debates on the current presidential candidates battling it out in this presidential primary season of 2016. We’ve been going through the list of the main contenders, and the time has come for the inevitable. It’s time to talk Trump. Donald J. Trump is generally hated on college...

Volleyball is a game of situation and control. The setter gives an outside hitter, or opposite, a good set which allows the kill to go to any of the opposing players. The blockers read the play of the opponent and put the wall in a spot to send the ball back from where it came. After a victory over the...