Members of the Santa Monica College community and beyond gathered yesterday in the campus Pavilion to partake in a beautiful memorial service honoring the late Corsairs football coach, Robert Taylor.

Police clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy turned violent.

If you're the type of person who prefers their urinals flush-free, their paper less virginal, and their light fixtures solar-powered, then you're in for an early holiday treat.  

Ghouls and ghosts wandered up and down Club Row Thursday October, 29 while the DJ played music loudly in the background as booths of Santa Monica College's club enthusiastically hollered for students attention in the direction of their booths.

Every little bit helps, especially when it comes to assistance with paying for college necessities, such as books. Paying for books is a challenge for many students, especially with the recently increased tuition.

Harvard grad. Ellen Gordon Reeves flies across the country to inform job seekers on how to improve interview skills.

Bardwell told a local paper that he was concerned for the children born of a mixed race relationship, and that he doesn't believe interracial marriages last.

Congratulations: you are broke, exhausted and doing poorly in school. You realize that it will take you much longer than expected to transfer out of community college.  And you also realize that you are not alone.

No students attended last Wednesday's final Master Plan 2009 meeting, but about a dozen people from neighborhoods around SMC (many residents of Pearl Street) showed up with plenty to say.

Last Friday night at the Drescher Planetarium here at Santa Monica College, a show was presented by Jim Mahon, a former rocket engineer, entitled "NASA's Human Spaceflight future."

Out at sea, a small yellow buoy bobs in the water as waves continually push it up and down. It looks like any other buoy; however the technology inside of it is unique. As it floats, it is capturing the unrelenting power of the ocean, transforming it into usable energy, and sending it back to shore where it can be used as electricity.

Chase Guy Reynolds, the man recently cleared of the sexual assault of a SMC student on Apr. 4, remained in jail for six months, despite the release of forensic evidence indicating his innocence less than two months into his incarceration.

In the quad Noah Cruz may appear as a normal student, but he is far from ordinary, displaying Santa Monica College's well-known diverse student population. Cruz, a 23-year-old kinesiology student, has served two tours of duty in Iraq (stationed in the city of Fallujah) since September 2007, each of which was seven months long.

The clouds parted, the sun shined, and admirers of Latino culture gathered on Santa Monica College's fountain quad to celebrate not the end of rain, but Latino Heritage Month last Thursday afternoon. SMC's very own Latino Student Union, together with Associated Students, coordinated the event to celebrate Hispanic diversity.

According to Will Allen, our nation's produce is fifty percent less nutritional than it was in the 1950s. The combined effect of delayed transportation and over-processed soil of farmed vegetables has resulted in what Allen describes as "a situation where again we have the most unhealthy country that we've ever had." 

Chase Guy Reynolds, the man accused of the sexual assault of a Santa Monica College student in April of this year, had the charges against him formally dismissed on Monday at LAX Court, after spending nearly six months in jail. 

SMC students are once more suffering from application stress, as the traumatic high school days of investigating colleges are being relived. Those interested in transferring out of Santa Monica College next year attended the annual college fair held yesterday.While students were trying to find shelter from the rain, over 2,000 students were networking with representatives of their selective schools while confined to the tight perimeters of the cafeteria and Cayton Center.