Heading into it's “out of state” games, the Cerritos College women soccer team has a winning record of 2-0-2. This may not be their most dominating start to a season, with two of the four games played ending in ties, but the women of the Cerritos College soccer team are uphold their national title. Friday, Sept. 11, the Falcons did...

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Trustee member Zurich Lewis proposed that the Board of Trustees start every meeting with an invocation, during the Wednesday, Sept. 2 board meeting. An invocation, is a call for wisdom or call to authority, in this case it would not be religious. "We [would be] supporting the college by blessing this meeting, on a legal basis," he said. Lewis mentioned...

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Senate elections took place last Wednesday, Sept. 9 and Thursday, Sept. 10, attracting more voters than previous years, according to an election committee member. Despite the larger voting turnout, there were still many students unaware of the elections. Jocelyn Torralba, communications major, said, "I did not know that there was voting at all."She also said that it's great to have...

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Where has the time gone? We’re in the year 2015 people! The 21st century. Now, there may not be hover boards, spacecraft-like cars or holographic phones like Back to the Future: Part 2 had promised us, but we do have the brilliant words of our founding fathers. The founders of this country and writers of the Constitution have given each...

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Confusion among board of trustee members erupted over the discussion of a Hall of Fame room being built in one of the new buildings that will come sometime in the next five years. The confusion stemmed from the board members being unaware of the space. Trustee John Paul Drayer said, “We weren’t included in the process by the previous president....

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Sexual consent and domestic abuse were among the topics discussed at the Affirmative Consent workshop hosted by Dr. Hilary Mannella on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Cerritos College Police Chief Tom Gallivan said, "We would like the students to know that as students they have resources available and we are here to help." Students should be aware that if they are afraid...

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Vice President of Business Services David El Fattal hosted a budget forum to break it down for staff and administration. The budget forum was for the adopted budget and took place on Thursday, Sept. 3. at the Teleconference Center. One point of interest was the expiration of two bonds in 2016, which were worth $1.5 million. "The reason I said...

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TAG is a program that guarantees transfer from Cerritos College to participating universities. On Friday, Sept. 4, Counselor/Co-Director of the Transfer Center Brittany Lundeen, hosted the TAG workshop. Students inquiring admission requirements for their university of choice attended the workshop in Multi Purpose building room 205. Health Care Management major Porshae Thomas, attended the previous workshop in August and attended...

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The possibility of having invocation at the start of every Board of Trustees' meeting was the main talking point during the meeting that took place Wednesday, Sept. 2. Board president, Carmen Avalos, was absent from the meeting due to illness according to board vice president, Dr. Shin Liu, who was in charge of running the meeting. The meeting that kicked-off...

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The men’s soccer team played against Rio Hondo College was a bit of a Cinderella story ending in a 4-2 loss. The underdogs came out on top to grab the win. Unfortunately, the underdogs were not the Falcons. Cerritos College was off to an excellent start to the game. Team captain, Christian Carrillo, set the tone for the first half...

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