The Fullerton Hornets baseball team lost in an upset to the Irvine Valley Lasers 17-5 Tuesday. The loss dropped Fullerton's record to 2 and 7 as Irvine Valley won their first game of the season, their record now being 1-7-1 Hornets head coach Chad Baum attributed their loss to bad pitching and defense."We sucked and we weren't very good...the other...
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 finally came to a close Friday, nearly five months after its premiere, crowning Symone as the winner and LaLa Ri as Miss Congeniality. The finale took place at the Ace Hotel Theater in Downtown Los Angeles and was also played in front of a drive-in crowd. After last season’s Zoom finale, the live performances symbolized...
Four people, including one child, died and two others were injured during a shooting at an Orange commercial building around 5:30 p.m., Orange Police confirmed. A gunman entered the building at 202 West Lincoln Ave and opened fire on the second floor. Police responded, and when they arrived, shots were still being fired. Officers returned fire and wounded the suspect....
By Sudabeh Sarker (Sudabeh as photographer) + 2 others for Fullerton College Hornet - 4 min read
HomeShare OC: A new affordable housing solution for students
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In a meeting with its founder last Thursday, Greg Schulz of Fullerton College expressed interest in a partnership with HomeShare OC, a program designed to help curb student housing insecurity. The idea first came to founder Laura Kraft in her graduate thesis at Cal State Fullerton. The program works by allowing senior citizens to rent out their spare rooms to...
By Sudabeh Sarker (Sudabeh as photographer) + 2 others for Fullerton College Hornet - 5 min read
The hidden epidemic of housing insecurity
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The homeless students interviewed for this article must remain anonymous in order to protect their identities. She sleeps on her friend’s couch every night and keeps her belongings in her car, yet the 20-year-old unnamed Fullerton College student refused to call herself homeless.“I feel weird with those labels,” she said. “I’ve never been on a lease, but I get to...
By Sudabeh Sarker (Sudabeh as photographer) + 2 others for Fullerton College Hornet - 4 min read
How women's studies are taught at Fullerton College: Instructor Amber Rose Gonzáles on the importance of intersectionality
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"I say quite often that this path called me. I didn't really choose it as much as it chose me," said Fullerton College's Ethnic Studies Department Chair and Women’s Studies professor, Instructor Amber Rose Gonzáles. Initially, Gonzáles wanted to become an environmental lawyer but decided to change her path after transferring from Mount San Antonio College to Cal Poly Pomona,...
By Sudabeh Sarker (Sudabeh as photographer) + 2 others for Fullerton College Hornet - 4 min read
Women in theatre: Fullerton College professors share their stories
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Theatre is a female-dominated field, yet there are not as many women in positions of power; three female professors in the Fullerton College Theatre Arts Department share their experiences. All three women reported having positive experiences with the theater department. Acting, performance and musical theater professor, Candice Clasby, found out that many of the men she worked with were feminists...
Fullerton College publications, The Hornet and Inside Fullerton, took home a combined nine awards at this semester's virtual National College Media Convention Saturday. Twenty-nine schools and 295 students were in attendance at the three-day convention, where contests were interspersed between speaking events and webinars. Journalists, professors, and students gave speeches and discussed various topics related to the field. Both The...
By Sudabeh Sarker (Sudabeh as photographer) + 2 others for Fullerton College Hornet - 4 min read
The persistence of surrealism at The Muck
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The Muckenthaler Cultural Center presents “The Persistence of Memory: Salvador Dali and his Influence,” an homage to the surrealist painter featuring art inspired by the themes of his work intermixed with original Dali pieces, running from March 4 to April 8. A report done by the USB Global Art Market said that about one-third of art galleries downsized their staff...
After a year-long hiatus, Fullerton College's Quadchella returned Friday virtually with the new name Zoomchella; it was a mix of live and prerecorded performances ranging from '90s R&B covers to original poetry readings. Quadchella and Zoomchella were created as the Fullerton College version of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, an influencer-heavy yearly event featuring the biggest names in...
