In the wake of "Black Lives Matter" protests, a group of young black people stood before an audience to tell their stories of their experiences with the police. Reliving past trauma and hurt, they told their stories that they thought they buried in the past. Donning "Bulletproof: #BlackLivesMatter" t-shirts, the group performed their monologues, some sounding like horror stories."Power: From...

To be able to park your vehicle on Santa Monica College, you must each semester pay $85 for a Santa Monica College parking permit, which don't even guarantee you a spot. It doesn't matter how long you've been waiting or how stressed you are, whoever finds an available spot first, gets it. According to some SMC students finding a spot...

As Santa Monica College begins a new year, it also brings with it a new change at the Library. Where SMC students find themselves working in front of 221 new screens as they input their usernames and passwords. Up until last semester, the computers in place were 2003 models, very old and malfunctioning. In comparison with the new Dell computers,...

With the western winds behind them, the Santa Monica Corsairs sailed by the Antelope Valley College in both womens' tennis singles and doubles yesterday afternoon, defeating the Marauders 9-0. The winds coming off the Pacific Ocean appeared to have an effect on the balls at the end of the singles matches. "It was drifting," freshman Shawntel Patterson of the Corairs...

Santa Monica Corsairs men's head volleyball coach John Mayer is the picture of a calm Friday night as the scene inside of Corsair Pavilion around him is not. The blue and white are behind two sets to one heading into the fourth set against their burgeoning rival the El Camino Real Warriors. In the huddle, Mayer speaks to his players,...

On Saturday the Los Angeles Sheriff's department engaged in an hours-long stand off with a suspect who barricaded himself in a home on Lincoln and Ocean Park. According to neighbors, officers and a Sheriff's Department helicopter began surrounding the home, which sits across the street from an Albertsons supermarket, at approximately 11:57 A. M. Matt Turner and Jeremy Levine live...

Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over. The pinnacle of awards season for films and filmmakers has arrived. This Sunday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 87th Academy Awards ceremony (now officially known as The Oscars) will honor the best films of 2014, and with it evidently comes a new batch of winners whose works in the...

The Santa Monica College men's volleyball team, according to head coach John Mayer, has a mantra, "treat every game like it's a championship game."Friday evening's match against the El Camino Real Warriors may have been the best example of the Corsair men living up to its mantra, coming from behind to beat the previously undefeated Warriors 3-2. The fourth meeting...

As the last second ticked off the clock inside Cypress College's gymnasium on Friday, so to did the final second of the Santa Monica College women's basketball season as the No. 9 Corsairs fell to the No. 8 Chargers 103-75 in the first round of the California Community College Athletic Association Southern California Playoff Tournament. The Cypress Chargers started knocking...

The name “March in March” brings to mind groups of people marching together in solidarity for a cause, maybe even evoking the image of the protesters walking over the bridge in Selma to have their voices heard. Santa Monica College Associated Students Director of Outreach Yana Demeshko, who is also vice-president of Region VII of the Student Senate for California...