As the ball rolled away from the LA Valley College Monarch first baseman and headed towards the LA Valley dugout, Santa Monica College Corsairs' freshman pitcher Adriana Hernandez rounded third base and took off towards home to end her team's string of losses. The Corsairs ended their 16 game losing streak against the Monarchs on a walk off error 11-10...

On February 24, 2015 Carissa Drucker, a citizen of Santa Monica since 1986, spoke at a City Hall public hearing to protest the proposed 9 percent water rate increase. She owns multiple investment properties as rentals and one as her private home. She protested to the six council members with a valiant voice, “We are not reimbursed for our water...

After Santa Monica College Corsair freshman middle blocker Daniel Vaziri served an ace, he stared back at the crowd, his eyes piercing through those looking at him. He taunted the crowd, mimicking the rowdiness they had shown that night. As he erred his next serve, the crowd returned fire. The referees stopped the game and Daniel was sat down for...

Associated Students election season is on at Santa Monica College as the 2015 AS presidential candidates and their slates gathered at the quad on Tuesday to discuss everything from distance between students and their government as well as the mainstay issues of parking and the price of textbooks. With less than a week to prepare for the debate and less...

As the campus election season kicks off today with the candidates for seats in the Associated Students participating in a public debate, there is a shadow being cast over the proceedings after Monday's AS meeting in the Cayton center. It was a surreal moment as the board of directors apparently engaged in an intense face off with AS adviser Sonali...

The seasons have changed again we are now in spring once more. If it is indeed a season of change (and the ghastly image of mushy couples around campus), then it is fitting that we feature in this article a story out of the Arab Spring, the great upheaval in the Middle East that shook the world in 2011. SMC...

The times we live in are determined more than ever by appearances. In a world dominated more by the power of moving images and photographs, where the power of the image has completely overtaken the power of the word, appearances matter. In this week's issue Ronja Jansz brings us the story of Maritza Andrade, an SMC student whose very appearance...

Orchestrating Homecoming Week is no easy feat for an Associated Students director, which is why the board took notice when an energetic commissioner stepped up to take the lead amid a director’s absence last year. AS presidential candidate Joel Goldszer began participating in AS as commissioner for then Director of Student Outreach Robert Espinoza, eventually becoming the board’s ideal replacement...

After six and a half years in the United States Air Force, traveling the world in service including distant locales such as Okinawa, Qatar, and Afghanistan, veteran Jesse Randel decided to become a student vet and enrolled at SMC. Here he found the Veterans Resource Center undersized and under-resourced for the over 600 vets on campus. After encouraging from some...

Last week Trae Smith was unable to make the initial candidate meeting to officially run for AS president. Instead he was at Washington D. C., speaking at the liberal pro-Israel J Street National Conference about his vision for his club Generation of the Future. Yet for those who know him, it was obvious Smith carried in him a desire to...