Letter to the Editor
April 28, 2005
The safety of international students Re “Tuition Increase Bring Students To the Board of Trustees,” April 6: I am really disappointed in what Randal Lawson, executive vice president of SMC, said about international student, Chung Ho Lee’s death. I have studied at SMC as international... Read more »
Men walk in her shoes
Gathering Marbet
April 27, 2005
At the Sherman Oaks Galleria, things were getting positively rowdy, as men lined up to don women’s heels; some low and casual in a sandals style, and some as spiked and as high as they come, and marched down Ventura Boulevard united in a common cause. They march along with women and children wearing... Read more »
Softball team gets rocked in Doubleheader
Morgan Genser
April 27, 2005
Every spring a select group of women grab their gloves and bats and head for the field either for a game or a practice. These are the women who make up the women’s softball team of Santa Monica College Corsairs. This past week SMC’s softball season for the women came to a close. Last Thursday... Read more »
Track and Field headed to SoCal Preliminaries
Jose Herrera
April 27, 2005
With modest winds and temperature in the sixties Santa Monica College men’s and women’s track and field traveled north for the Western State Conference Finals in Bakersfield. Coming into the competition strong and healthy, SMC looked to advance to Saturday’s Southern California Preliminaries,... Read more »
Low Voter Turnout
Morgan Genser
April 27, 2005
Recently held elections for new Associated Students directors to serve on next year’s board had a low voter turnout. Of the 27,000 plus students that make up the student body only 700 went to cast a vote. This low number represents only one percent of the student population. The A.S. election... Read more »
SMC participates in AIDS walk 2005
Nattashia Arango
April 27, 2005
In a community effort, sponsors, workers and students joined to support victims suffering with AIDS at the ninth annual AIDS Walk for Minority Women and Children held at California State University, Dominguez Hills on Saturday, April 23. The event raised awareness of the prevalent HIV/AIDS disease in... Read more »
Poet Speaks for Peace
Naïma El Mardi
April 27, 2005
On Tuesday, April 19, Santa Monica College hosted the brilliant Palestinian-American poet and political activist Suheir Hammad for a vibrant evening of language and liberation. What might be stronger than a voice that reaches out to souls, a voice that reaches for consciousness with passion, a passion... Read more »
SMC Becomes Smoke Free
April 27, 2005
The week before our spring break and as you may have read in last week’s Corsair, the Associated Students of Santa Monica College elected a new board and in doing that they also asked the students to vote on making SMC a smoke-free campus or to create special places on campus for smokers. The... Read more »
Review of The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Aaron Howell
April 27, 2005
Imagine a crowd of 115,000 people circling through brilliant white tents amidst the University of California Los Angeles’ classical architecture-like a fairy tale out of some forgotten time. Aptly named, the 10th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books took place on Saturday and Sunday, drawing... Read more »
NASA’S “Rendezvous’ More Glitch than Glitz (PRO)
Ram, Jason
April 27, 2005
Two weeks ago, NASA conducted a test in automated spacecraft docking technology with the launch of the Demonstration of Automatic Rendezvous Technology rocket over the Pacific Ocean. Although the experiment ended in failure with a flaw in the craft’s fuel tank, this minor misfortune from NASA should... Read more »
