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By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
Student suppport program to continue despite low enrollment, budget cuts affecting El Camino
Meta-majors program, a program that helps students earn credits toward their degrees, will continue even though there is low student enrollment and budget issues at El Camino College. Some adjustments have to be made to the program, including in-person counseling, in response to low enrollment.“I am having to reduce some money in counseling because with the lower student enrollment, there...
By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
Mt. SAC, Cerritos and Long Beach track and field teams sweep the competition in South Coast Conference Championships
In an all-day track and field preliminaries, Mount SAC, Cerritos and Long Beach teams dominated the day at the South Coast Conference Prelims on April 23 at El Camino College. Different colleges participated in the competition including Long Beach City College, East Los Angeles College, Pasadena City College, and Cerritos College. Twenty-one events were held simultaneously including running, throwing, and...
By Joseph Ramirez + 4 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
Column: Sometimes we come back to El Camino College
The first time I was a student at El Camino College straight from high school, I never knew I would be coming back years later and starting all over again in life. I attended El Camino from 2010 to 2014 studying film. I transferred to California State University of Long Beach in 2014. I was so enthusiastic about the movie-making...
By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
3, 2, 1, blast off: Space science day takes off at El Camino College, honors astronaut's legacy
Extracting DNA from strawberries, building a lightsaber, making slime and battling robots were some of several STEM activities led by El Camino College students on Saturday, March 16 during the 36th Annual Onizuka Space Science Day. The event honors Ellison Onizuka, one of the seven astronauts who were killed on Jan. 28, 1986 in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. It...
By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 4 min read
Santa Barbara Men’s Volleyball takes over after El Camino wins first period, giving the Warriors back-to-back losses
The Santa Barbara City College Men's Volleyball team defeated El Camino College at the ECC Gym Complex on Friday, March 8, in a 3-1 win, making it the Warriors' second loss of the week. The El Camino College Warriors started neck-and-neck against the Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros in the first period, with the Vaqueros scoring the first point of...
By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 4 min read
El Camino joins ‘International Women’s Day Walk’
Several women and some men, most of them wearing purple, gathered near the ECC Soccer Field on Thursday, March 7 at 10 a.m. before beginning their walk to celebrate Women's History Month. The group included a few of the El Camino staff such as Bryan Kawakami and Evelyn Gabriel, who both work in the Payroll Unit. “I feel like women...
By Joseph Ramirez + 4 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
Bots and Beats: DJ plays science fiction music as students showcase robotic creations
“I can’t hear you, I said, are you all ready to start!,” a DJ yelled as theme songs from the Star Wars franchise blared from the speakers. Rod Davis was the DJ for the El Camino College Robotics Exhibition event and gave energetic and humorous commentary throughout. In addition to music from Star Wars, Davis played the theme song from...
By Joseph Ramirez + 3 others for ECC Union - 4 min read
El Camino celebrates the start of December with Holiday Choral Extravaganza
Halfway through the show, as intermission ended and the lights came back on, members of the El Camino College Chorale, who unbeknown to the surprised audience had assembled on the second floor of the Marsee Auditorium, began singing. The Holiday Choral Extravaganza concert, a two-hour-long celebration of Christmas music hosted in the Marsee Auditorium Dec. 1, was full of surprises....
By Joseph Ramirez + 5 others for ECC Union - 3 min read
El Camino reacts to closure of fire-damaged local freeway, set to reopen ahead of schedule
After a portion of the 10 Freeway that goes through South Los Angeles was shut down on Saturday, Nov. 11. Due to fire damage, city officials have announced the freeway will reopen faster than anticipated and be fully operational by Monday, Nov. 20. The fire began in a pallet yard underneath the freeway. Investigators said the cause of the fire...
By Joseph Ramirez + 4 others for ECC Union - 4 min read
El Camino mens soccer team shuts out Bakersfield Renegades in first round of state playoffs
The El Camino College men’s soccer team's first game within the California Community College Athletics Association Southern California Regionals ended with a commanding 6-0 shutout win against Bakersfield College at the El Camino College Soccer Field on Saturday, Nov. 18. The game started tense with the two teams playing aggressively for the first 20 minutes of the first half; with...