Give or take a few days from graduation and school is still just as stressful now as it was three years ago for Cambria Rodriguez. Just asking her if she is stressed will probably prompt her to say a resounding “Hell, yeah.”But the history major is managing to transfer out of Cerritos College and graduate despite the juggling game she...

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Preparing for playoffs is a battle in its own right, according to Dan Clauss. The Director of Athletics has been busy getting preparations together for playoffs, with the looming situation of a lack of budget hanging over the athletic department’s head making things even busier. It’s a last-minute affair when it comes to setting up playoff games and getting the...

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An event where running speed and distance is tested to test the runner mentally. There are seven running events in track and field: 100m dash, 200m dash, 400m dash, 800m dash, 1500m dash, 5000m dash, 10000m dash. An event that involves running and jumping is hurdles in track and field. The event is where the runner runs a certain distance...

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Amanda Loya will be the lone woman swimmer representing Cerritos College this weekend at the CCCAA State Championships. The South Coast Conference Championships had the women’s swim team place in fourth for all three days. The end result ended up having Loya qualify for state championships from Thursday to Saturday. Her performance had her break Cerritos College’s record for breaststroke,...

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A weekend of broken records and a conference championship will be expanded on this Saturday for the Southern California Prelims. The women’s track and field team captured its third-straight conference championship, finishing in first place. The men’s track and field team had two records broken as it finished in second place at the South Coast Conference Championships last Saturday. For...

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The battle was best left for the stage in the Commercial Music Program’s Battle of the Bands last Wednesday. The concert had student-led bands perform in a venue in front of the Music Department for competitive purposes. A total of three bands performed, in which a selected winner would get three songs officially recorded, a music video filmed by the...

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If you could have less school, why would you say no? At least that’s the mindset taken if you’re a scumbag college student like myself. The thought of shortening the school semester to 16 weeks is enticing. Given differing circumstances, you’re either balancing school with work, school with parenting or anything else. It’s usually one big juggling game when it...

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Voting turnouts were higher, but more can be done to increase the numbers, according to ASCC students. The ASCC elections for president, vice-president and student trustee yielded more student involvement when it came to voting polls in comparison to last year. No exact numbers are available, according to Gilbert Contreras, dean of Student Services, but a slight increase from last...

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ELAC and Cerritos College are going to be very familiar with one another once the week concludes. A string of three games against ELAC for the baseball team will have it fighting to win at least two of the next three games in the regular-season series if the team wants any hope in ranking first place. The schedule consists of...

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Pressure. A great amount of it looms with South Coast Conference Championships coming up for both the women's diving and swimming teams. Amanda Rabb, for instance, has a lot of that pressure building up as she is preparing for both championship weekends. It's up to her to see if she gives in to the stress. She said, "Sometimes you do,...

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