Holding the stick above his head, whirling it slowly, then progressively faster, all the while the fire at both ends of the stick raged and whipped with the night's wind, the fire dancer approached the edge of the crowd surrounding him, manipulating the stick around his arms and body ever so calmly. A woman shouted from the nearest part of...

In San Miguel, a quite fishing village in Baja California, Mexico, a little boy patiently waits for something to grab on to his bait. It's well known that patience is the key in fishing but hours goes by and nothing happens. The little boy refuses to give up. A group of fishermen arrives back to the village. One of them...

November is in full swing and you may have noticed a few people on campus looking just a bit different. More mustaches, more beards, and all around just more hair. Associated Students outreach director Robert Espinoza is cultivating a beard along with the instructional support director Jeffrey Lewis Jr., as well as campus club Generation of the Future’s president Trae...

Watching the short statured student choreographer Glenn Rodriguez leap in the air with tightly held poise, it would be hard to believe that he started his journey to soloing at the Synapse show at the Broad Stage as a Biomedical Engineering major at Santa Monica College. He dropped the major two years ago, despite the opposition of his parents, to...

Tanna Frederick has spent years making her name as a local actress in the Santa Monica community, headlining several notable productions at venues like the Santa Monica Playhouse and the Edgemar Center For The Arts. A native of Iowa, Frederick majored in Theater and Political Science at the University of Iowa before moving out to Los Angeles to start auditioning...

In compliance with legal requirements to participate in President Obama’s new sexual harassment policy for colleges, Santa Monica College President Chui L. Tsang created a task force to evaluate how SMC currently handles cases of sexual harassment. According to Tsang, the task force will create a system to help victims of harassment and keep the school legally compliant with new...

In this week's issue our news section reports on the establishment of a presidential task force Santa Monica College to evaluate how the campus handles sexual harassment issues. This is a move mandated from Obama to address issues that is sadly very common, not only on campuses, but even in workplaces. I have more than one friend who has experienced...

Dressed in comfortable clothes, Santa Monica College student Francisco Muñoz sits at a stone table outside SMC's Liberal Arts building enjoying his bowl of cereal. The sky is nothing special that day but every so often he takes the view in with a quick glance as he scoops spoonfuls of milk and cheerios. No one would ever suspect that this...

Last Saturday, Santa Monica College’s Student Nursing Association invited students and alternative health advocates to experience “a holistic approach to health.” For attendees, this meant allowing oneself to bathe in the sounds of gongs and Tibetan singing bowls, letting essential oils awaken the senses, or receiving a healing touch from a reiki practitioner while performing a gentler form of yoga....

Hackathons are long, rigorous events that test the limits of computer programmers' minds. These events call for creativity, passion and of course, knowledge of coding languages like Ruby and Java. Filled with tech and engineering sponsors, prizes, workshops and lectures, these are the places to be in the world of computer science. Hack CC, the very first hackathon for community...