Get to know the Candidates running for Santa Monica College’s Associated Students

Breakdown of Candidates running for Associated Students

The Corsair is holding a Candidate Forum for the Santa Monica College’s (SMC) student government, Associated Students (A.S.), elections this Sunday, March 27, at 5 p.m.

The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards aired on Sunday, March 14, with performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, and Lil Baby. Many of the industry's top players met in Los Angeles to take home awards for their work.

A timeline of coronavirus updates in Los Angeles.

The UK variant of COVID-19, B.1.1.7, is known to be 50% more transmittable. According to the CDC's website, "Multiple lines of evidence indicate that B.1.1.7 is more efficiently transmitted than are other SARS-CoV-2 variants. The modeled trajectory of this variant in the U.S. exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.”

Texas is currently suffering from one of its worst climate crises in state history. While The Lone Star State is no stranger to blackouts due to weather emergencies like tornados and hurricanes, Winter Storm Uri was a uniquely dangerous incident. Millions of Texans went without power and were freezing in their homes without safe drinking water.

Santa Monica College has announced that classes for the Summer 2021 semester will be remote only.

On Jan. 11, The University of California announced plans to resume in-person classes this fall at all 10 campuses.

With the constantly evolving COVID-19 related regulations, small businesses have been hit monumentally hard, unable to operate as usual. Many Los Angeles fitness centers, including indoor cycling studios, have been effectively shut down for over eight months.

265 days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as the first pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. 265 days ago, many of us had to look up the difference between “epidemic” and “pandemic.”

Freeform’s “31 Nights of Halloween” is a month-long event on the network’s channel, showcasing Halloween-themed movies during the entire month of October. This year the channel also hosted their first-ever drive-through event, “Halloween Road,” in Pasadena, which ran from Oct. 2-5.

During an ongoing quarantine caused by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of roughly 190,000 Americans, and a record-breaking heatwave, people flocked to Santa Monica State Beach to celebrate Labor Day over the weekend.

A sea of umbrellas spanned across the beach. California’s COVID-19 positive case rates, hospitalizations, and deaths have been slowly declining, but local officials worried that gatherings over Labor Day weekend may cause a spike in cases, threatening the progress made.