Santa Monica College students were given the opportunity to test and improve their knowledge in German culture on Tuesday, when the German Club at SMC celebrated Maifest, an event meant commemorate the arrival of Summer. Students who stopped by the event were welcomed with pizza and were allowed to take part in certain contests where they competed for prizes such...

My name is Henry Franklin Crumblish and I am a minority. You may not know it from my name alone, but in addition to being 50 percent Irish I am also 50 percent Black. The word minority should be anything but commonplace in our society. In our hyper-sensitive age where a tweet can get you fired, it puzzles me as...

We all have that one person who follows us around campus, a nagging ex, or even that guy who always stops you on the quad when you're late to class. Technology has now advanced to where you can avoid these awkward people and situations with your smartphone. The Cloak app — incognito mode in real life, is an app created...

Everyone is cheering and clapping as a surfer girl, dressed in pink, catches a wave and rides it out back with the biggest smile on her face. She high-fives all the members of the pink team as they gather around her wheelchair to take a group photo. On Saturday morning, staff members of the organization "Life Rolls On" gathered along...

Students from Santa Monica College's Communications Studies 16 class held a clothes drive on Tuesday to raise money for free HIV/AIDS testing. Their professor, Carlos Flores, who teaches the class on the Fundamentals of Small Group Discussion, supervised the event. The purpose of the assignment was for students to come together and pick a cause they wanted to work with....

On Monday night amidst the quiet of Lincoln Blvd, a bluesy roar enveloped The TRiP bar, courtesy of Albino Rino, a hard-hitting band composed of Santa Monica College film students who met on set and decided they could make music together. The group features Jihan Casquejo on guitar, David Fields on drums, and Robert Paradov on bass. Together they produced...

Los Angeles International Airport had some unexpected company on Saturday as protestors, paparazzi, and even reality TV mogul Kim Kardashian made an appearance. In an effort to stamp out the vestiges of alleged airborne animal cruelty, members of Santa Monica College's resident animals rights activists joined forces with national animal rights organizations to protest the transportation of monkeys to testing...

The competition at the California Community College State Track and Field Finals last Saturday was more fierce than expected. Four events produced the fastest times in the nation this year. Santa Monica College's Toya Johnson was up against the best of the best in the 400-meters. He managed to place fifth, with his personal record of 47.84 seconds. The winner,...

Through the billowing wall of smoke rising from the city’s fiery annihilation emerges the hero and destructor of four major commercial cities. With a snout that looks close to a smashed up accident on the 405 and a piercing scream akin to the "Jurassic Park" T-rex, Godzilla has come trudging back into the cinema limelight. The remake of the science-fiction...

On Monday night at the University of Southern California's Eileen Norris Cinema Theater, the student filmmakers of the 310 Green course presented their current work. In total, 18 short films written, directed, shot, and edited by the students themselves were shown to the audience. The films covered a wide range of genres. Dramas, comedies, horror, and even a western were...