On Friday, Jesse Randel won the presidential seat of the Associated Students by the razor-sharp margin of 10 votes. It was a memorable victory that came just as Randel was leaving Los Angeles to spend spring break back home in Georgia. On Monday night Randel found himself delayed at an Atlanta airport on his way back to California but still...

The Associated Students election season of 2015 has seen Santa Monica College’s lowest voter turnout since 2008. A total of 1,394 students voted in the final tally for the 2015 AS elections. The figures showed a clear decline when compared to the number from 2007, the first time the AS used electronic voting which brought in 2,395 voters. This year...

The Santa Monica College women's tennis team is only days away from competing for the state title. Entering conference playoffs at the number three seed, behind Glendale and Santa Barbra respectively, Santa Monica, who was ranked 6-5 overall and 6-4 in the Western State Conference, found no difficulty in pirating the gold. On April 10, just after receiving the Western...

The new A. S president has been selected, and so ends the annual two-week period in which SMC students actually care about their student government. It is difficult to garner a student's full attention to the A. S. when they have no motive to give it. This, however, does not mean the A. S board is to blame. These are...

I am writing this from the comfortable land of the friend zone. Some readers may scoff and curl their lip with bitter scorn, but if we approach the term from a purely linguistic angle, it can be a blessing. Essentially the term "Friend Zone," in its cruel pop culture identity, means you've been deemed inadequate by a friend for dating,...

A 2014 comprehensive survey released by UCLA found a declination in socializing among today’s college students with social media replacing face-to-face interaction. With more and more educated people joining the labor force, as it demands, and more college freshman entering, as the survey reports, with aspirations of advanced degrees, socializing, it appears, has taken a backseat in the college experience....

SMC film student Kelly Thompson is preparing to tell a story about the way consumer society distorts our sense of physical beauty. Thompson is the latest auteur to be given the chance to shoot a short film as part of SMC's Film 33 production course. Her script entitled "The Shape Shifter" was selected by the program's head, professor Salvador Carrasco,...

Never before has such a grungy Koreatown alley looked so beautiful. Thanks to the efforts of passionate and dedicated local artists, Koreatown and Greater Los Angeles are looking better than ever with their creative and thought-provoking murals. This past Sunday, local street artists gathered in an alley behind Gabba Arts Gallery in Koreatown to create murals in celebration of Earth...

Monday morning during activity hour, many students leaving the Science and Art buildings found an unusual sight as they exited classes. Tables topped with vegetables lined the exterior pathway of the Organic Learning Garden as part of the first day of the Center for Environmental and Urban Studies (CEUS) and Associated Students' Earth Week at Santa Monica College. Microbiology student...

You may have seen them here on campus with copies of the Bhagavad Gita looking for monetary donations. You may have seen them on Fridays at the Third Street Promenade dancing and singing. “Hare Hare Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Rama Rama Rame Hare,” the group chants. The Promenade attracts characters of many kinds, musicians,...