After the long hours of studying and classes, many students can lose sight of what they are striving for. Students from the Composite Fabrication class got the chance to see what skills they are learning when one of the students, John Misumi, brought in a prototype of a car built from composites. “I brought the car here to show the...

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Students attend college for different reasons, but a common one would be for a chance at a better life. “I wanted to get a better future and potentially earn more money," Jose Trejo, mathematics major, said. Education is a bridge to a better life and has been seen as a crucial part of the American dream.“Education makes you better,” psychology...

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Of the many sights seen in Falcon stadium, superheroes and wizards are not normally among them. Cerritos College clubs arrived at Falcon Stadium to show off the Comic-Con themed floats that they built for homecoming on Saturday. The designs ranged from Power Rangers to Tomb Raider. Phi Theta Kappa was one of the clubs which participated in the event and...

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Michelle Mancilla was speechless when the ASCC announced that she was voted the 2013 Cerritos College homecoming queen last Saturday at the Cerritos College homecoming football game versus Ventura College. “Now that I’m homecoming queen, I know that I have a responsibility to show up at every event that I’m supposed to go to,” Mancilla said, “and I’m going to...

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For students like business administration major Jaime Salgado, the bi-annual job fair gave students a chance to search for jobs at Cerritos College. The fair was held by the Job Placement Center in front of the library on campus last Wednesday. Salgado said, "I'm trying to find a job that kind of lies with my career choice of accounting. I've...

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Cerritos College is a Hispanic prominent school, but that doesn’t mean that its ethnic makeup should be the sole focus or theme of the college; focusing on Cerritos College's Hispanic-majority student body would set the precedent that some students are more important than others, which is not right. In a Board of Trustees meeting where an issue regarding law firms...

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The ongoing campaign to make fast-food healthy continues with ‘satisfries’ by Burger King and is simply not enough to combat the continuing problems of obesity and unhealthy fast-food. As obesity has become a growing concern for people in the United States, the need to nitpick and point the finger at others has been a common occurrence. The food served at...

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Trying to get out of community college is frustrating, especially when attempting to secure the last few necessary classes. But now, some community colleges are getting the green light to increase tuition for classes that are in high demand, and this is very good news. The argument about how college students barely have money to go out or pay for...

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The American dream for the student isn’t looking so good. Some students have a hard time with life after getting a college degree. According to The Atlantic.com, 53.6 percent of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 were jobless or underemployed in 2012. It is a disappointment knowing that one has worked so hard to get a degree that after...

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The Friday, Oct. 25 men’s soccer game goes to show how the hunger for goal scoring until the final whistle can rescue you from defeat. The Cerritos College men’s soccer team ended afternoon’s game against Los Angeles Harbor College in a 1-1 draw. Cerritos College's goal was put away by sophomore attacking midfielder Thiago Lusardi. A hard pass was tossed...

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