The Southern Los Angeles Goodwill Workforce Program has selected, culinary arts student, Stephanie Ruiz for its Graduate of the Year Award. Goodwill takes eighty percent of retail sales to fund training for its workforce programs. This program is used to help place individuals into jobs that help in becoming more self-sufficient. Goodwill has partnered with the Cerritos College Culinary Arts...

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Art history professor Lisa Boutin-Vitela invited students and staff to sit in on her lecture about women in history,more specifically on women in renaissance art, on Thursday, March 24. She began the lecture by speaking about the different stereotypes in the professional world. First, she googled images of doctors, which resulted in a page full of white male physicians. The...

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Professor Michelle Fagundes, who teaches English and Women & Gender Studies, hosted a movie screening of North Country on Wednesday, March 23. The movie was about single mother, Josey Aimes, played by Charlize Theron, who became apart of an elite group of the first women miners in Minnesota. After a stream of constant sexual harassment from the male miners, she...

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Between the administration, staff and students there’s a common understanding that they are to be safe on campus. While there are no guarantees, in life, the administration and campus should take every precaution to ensure the safety of Cerritos College. There is an alert system in place that is transmitted via email and text message to notify administration, staff and...

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The Cerritos Falcons men’s track and field athletes marked their return to the track at the Mt. San Antonio College season opener on Friday, Feb. 5 The Falcons soared in field events earning top marks in throwing and jumping. For the throwers, freshman Aladdin Abuhadba earned first place in hammer throw with a recorded distance of 37.55 meters. His teammates,...

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Destiny Mack-Talalemotu begins the 2016 women’s track and field season on a high note breaking the Cerritos College record for hammer throw with a measure of 53.35 meters which earned her first place [in the event]. Arianna Lugo, was the previous [record] holder with a recorded distance of 50.54 which was set in 2009. In a previous interview Talalemotu said,...

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The Cerritos College men’s baseball team got off to a slow start in Tuesday's, Feb. 2, 3-1 loss against the Glendale Vaqueros. Starting pitcher Jacob Carter, led the Falcons through the first three innings with the score being tied at zero. The Falcons, also known as the 'Birds,' were able to get runners on base early in the game but...

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Pop singer and "The Voice" contestant, Audrey Karrasch returned to Los Angeles to perform at Dirty Laundry last Thursday. Fresh off the release of her new EP, "Forever Audrey", moving forward in her career seems to be the main focus. From humble beginnings in Reno, Nevada with a big family, singing was something she knew would be a part of...

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Cerritos men and women’s track and field readies itself for their season opener at Mt. San Antonio College. The race is set to be at Mt. San Antonio College starting at 11 a.m Coming off a third place finishing the Southern California Championships and placing seventh at CCCAA Championships; this first race is to get the teams comfortable and to...

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In the bottom of the sixth inning, with a three run lead slip away. Sophomore Jenny Collazo, stepped up with bases loaded and on the first pitch she swung and watched as the ball dropped outside of the fence for a game-winning grand slam. "Coming up to bat I knew I had a job to get done and my team...

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