RENT but don’t buy
Andy Riesmeyer, News Editor
May 31, 2012
Santa Monica College’s spring musical RENT premiered to a sold out crowd at last Thursday’s preview. Through the performance the audience was treated to coming-of-age songs and carefully choreographed dances from the award winning musical about the trials and tribulations of the bohemian lifestyle... Read more »
STEM Scholars Program launching for science majors
Chavi Gourarie
May 31, 2012
In November, Santa Monica College and UCLA received a $5.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant is intended to promote the study of Science, Technology, Math and Engineering, collectively known as the STEM fields, among underrepresented minority students. According... Read more »
Students search for unity at student union
Nathan Gawronsky, Andy Riesmeyer, & Henry Crumblish, Editor-in-Chief, News Editor, Staff Writer
May 30, 2012
Questionable representation, reverse racism, and heckling distract from meeting agenda. The Student Unity Project and Student Organizing Committee, two campus groups largely responsible for the April protests that postponed Santa Monica College’s Contract Ed program, continue to meet in attempt to... Read more »
Young Republicans: The baby elephant in the room
Justin Hinton, Staff Writer
May 30, 2012
Santa Monica College is a diverse community with a broad range of political philosophies to match. However, if one combines California’s “blue”-state leanings with colleges’ and universities’ tendency to slant to the left, then it should be no surprise to know that while Democrats’ and liberals’... Read more »
End-of-semester film festival at SMC
Nadine Weiland
May 30, 2012
Hollywood has been the center of cinema for decades. People from all over the globe come to Los Angeles to pursue careers in the film industry, and Santa Monica College students are no exception. The SMC Student Filmmakers Association, formerly known as the Cinema Club, has existed for several decades,... Read more »
False Alarm: Police respond to prop gun
Andy Riesmeyer, News Editor
May 30, 2012
About 12 police officers from the Santa Monica Police Department and Santa Monica College Police Department detained an SMC student after responding to reports of a gunman only to release him after they learned the gun was fake. The student was cooperative with the officers; he was detained and searched.... Read more »
Santa Monica celebrates and remembers its heroes
Jeff Cote
May 30, 2012
Residents of Santa Monica gathered in Woodlawn Cemetery for the 74th time on Memorial Day, to remember and salute the soldiers who lost their lives protecting our freedom. Families and visitors gathered in the heart of the cemetery, where a dais was erected. The Santa Monica Police Department stood... Read more »
Unity for a common cause
Sam Ribakoff, Letter to Editor
May 30, 2012
The plans for the implementation of Contract Ed were in place long before the protests and pepper-spraying of April 3, but the violence of that night’s events awoke the consciousness of a lot of SMC students to the debate surrounding the form of the future of public higher education in California. Which... Read more »
Minority births now outpace white births
Peter S. Cheng
May 30, 2012
In 2011, the census recorded more minority infants born than white infants for the first time in U.S. history, and everyone is speculating on what this means for our nation. Will the traditional racial roles be reversed? When white Americans become a minority, will they lose their iron grip on wealth... Read more »
Are men better at math?
Chavi Gourarie
May 30, 2012
Inside the Santa Monica College Letters and Science building, you will find a fairly typical classroom scene, with students in rows of desks, a teacher standing toward the front, and a blackboard covered in diagrams. Greek letters and foreign symbols are interspersed throughout, but to the students in... Read more »
