The defining point of adulthood, legally and in spirit, is reaching the age of 18. It’s an exciting age that many look forward to as people can engage in ‘adult’ activities and buy previously off-limits products. The big 1-8 grants you the right to buy a lottery ticket, exercise your right to vote, go to a strip club and buy...

Last Thursday’s Democratic debate was the kind of strong, aggressive discussion that was lacking early in the Democratic primaries. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton clearly drew the lines that separate them politically and ideologically. It was real politics on display. But the issue that resounded the strongest was the topic of Israel-Palestine. In what could possibly go down as a...

Deep Cuts to Student Worker Programs on their way? At the end of the Monday Associated Students (AS) board meeting, Interim Associate Dean of Student Life Dr. Nancy Grass announced that the budget for SMC's student worker program had potentially been cut in half for the upcoming year. Speaking to the Corsair after the meeting, Grass confirmed the budget cuts,...

Black lives matter. However, that, as an isolated statement, hasn't proven to be very effective in getting Americans on board with addressing problems that black people face in regards to violence against black people and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. In fact, it doesn’t even seem effective within the black community. A Rasmussen Report revealed that only 31...

Last week a defective part on the washer in my unit broke, flooding my bathroom, the downstairs neighbor's unit and her garage. The good folks at Samsung were kind enough to fix the manufacturer's defect, as well as cut a check for all damages that resulted from said flood. Pretty much everyone can agree that this was the right thing...

Under a ceiling filled with gold stars, disco balls, colorful metallic spirals, streams of paper cutouts and Christmas lights, a group of overheated millennials enjoyed the magically validating experience of watching, or rather participating in, a performance by up and coming west coast band Walter Etc. As the band shifts from its former identity Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra...

Dane Cruz, a 19 year old first year SMC student, is running for A. S. Secretary as part of the Fresh Start slate. According to Cruz, his position tutoring for the Black Collegians and Adelante program gave him access to enough people where coming up with 50 signatures was never a problem. He is currently running unopposed. In an email...

18-year-old Daira Bustos is a communication studies major and Stanford hopeful that wakes up 2 1/2 hours before class to walk 20 minutes to the bus stop, where she proceeds to take a series of four buses to arrive at SMC. She’s taking 20 units, on the debate team, the current treasurer, ICC delegate of the Bernie Club, and has...

I don’t follow @RealDonaldTrump on Twitter because he is an awful, xenophobic racist and I feel no need to add to the seven million followers he already has. I also read pretty much every single thing Trump ever tweets because no one in history has ever written better tweets, and no one in the future ever will. Trump has absolutely...

The critic Walter Benjamin once wrote, “There are perhaps paths that lead us again and again to people who have one and the same function for us.” He included among these functions the roles of pupil and master. For myself, Santa Monica College philosophy professor James Stramel, who passed away from leukemia on Thursday morning, achieved a kind of dual...