This fall, hundreds of Moorpark College students will apply to transfer to a four-year university, according to the Career Transfer Center. For those students, it’s important to know that transfer season lasts throughout the year. Counselors and admissions officers advise students to start preparing now for a 2017 transfer. “Getting everything ready should start well before the application is due,”...

The most important thing to understand about Iran today is that it is populated by regular people trying to live happy lives, saod University of California, Santa Barbara History professor Nancy Gallagher, who recently travelled to Iran. “Iran is a complicated, historic, interesting, cultural, beautiful place,” said Gallagher. “It’s taken very bad press over the years… that’s not the reality....

At a makeshift glassblowing workshop in a backyard in Northridge, glassblowing instructor Brendan Heilke lights the flame on a table-mounted torch. A kiln sits on the table beside him glowing red, warmed up and ready for work. Rows and rows of glass tubes of all shapes and sizes are lined up in two racks. Several students gather around while Heilke...

Over spring break seven Moorpark students, along with two part-time faculty members, will be accompanying Professor Farisa Morales to the Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The Keck Observatory sits 13,600 feet above sea level and is home to the two largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on earth, according to keckobservatory.org. “The students will have...

Even though the democratic primary race between Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton has been very close, it’s easy for people not to realize it. That’s due to the very undemocratic superdelegate system. This system creates an imbalanced scale, where one candidate can get more votes than they earn in the primary election. While most regular delegates are obliged to vote...

This semester students can once again be assessed for learning disabilities on campus after a four-year suspension of the program. A service to assess students for learning disabilities had been suspended for years. During that time students who believed they had a learning disability had to be assessed by off-campus providers, said Melanie Masters, learning disability specialist at the Accessibility...

The college could be hosting its own study abroad program as early as the summer of 2017, said Moorpark College President Luis Sanchez. Santa Barbara City College and Glendale Community College are two of the California Community Colleges that offer study abroad programs. However, there has been a desire to offer one here and Sanchez has put together an informal...

The deadline is approaching to submit applications for internships for the spring semester. Internships can provide an invaluable opportunity for students to decide if their chosen career path is right for them, according to Bridget Fornaro, 20-year-old journalism major, who completed an internship at Atlantic Records over the fall. "It can show you if you want to go in that...