A special International Women's Day Event will take place at SMC on Thursday, March 5, from 11:15 to 12:30pm in HSS 206. All are welcome to attend.

It was another heartbreaking week in women's tennis. The Lady Corsairs played at home twice against cross-county rivals Glendale Community College and Ventura College. Both teams brought their A-game to town, and it resulted in two hard-hitting losses for Santa Monica College.

A fierce struggle for points developed when Santa Monica College aquatics hosted Los Angeles Pierce College this past Friday afternoon. It was the first meeting between the two schools, and it marked the season debut of the Corsair diving team. An uncontested showing in the diving event gave the Lady Corsairs a sizeable lead early in the meet.

Imagine trying to bail out a sinking boat, one thimbleful of water at a time. That's exactly what trying to cut the deficit without raising taxes would accomplish- in other words, nothing. Republican and Libertarian thinkers are up in arms about President Barack Obama's plan to halve the federal deficit by raising wage and capital gains taxes.

The former Broadway hit "Rent" made a stop at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood on Friday, Feb. 27 to play to a packed house waiting to be wooed by the seductive singing of its all-star cast. The show was one of the most highly anticipated as Adam Pascal returned to reprise his role as Roger Davis, a singer/songwriter living among the artists in their Lower East Village, low rent lofts.

It was twilight as the old man walked the dampened streets of Cincinnati. Most shops were closed at that time, but the old man knew his favorite bakery would still be open. It was only a few blocks from where he was, it was the shop with the small flight of stairs out front.

Ever go to a sporting event late, only to have to weave through rows of people, disturbing families and deranged fans alike to get to your seats? It's a lot like that at Santa Monica College, except instead of deranged fans, we have crickets, tumbleweeds, and the occasional snack wrapper block you from your viewing pleasure.

It was around 8:30 when these guys finally arrived, my photographer, his cousin, and I had been waiting around the front of The Yard for quite some time, and given the venue we weren't sure if we were covering a DJ set or an elderly couple's dinner. Under any normal circumstances we probably would have been mad at that point, except they came offering shots of Grey Goose and suddenly any inkling of animosity quickly dissipated.

It's clear to see that this semester SMC is swarming with more students than ever before. "We are currently at around 33,000 overall students. That represents over 2,000 more students than we had last spring," Jeff Shimizu, vice president of academic affairs, said.

As I sit here today, the ones that I see. A mess of smiles and you without. We sit there in tranquility, not a single word spoken and I begin to think... They sit there, peaceful. Foreheads bulging with knowledge. Some walk, graceful. An almost airy presence of beauty abroad.

She wrote to the wind, the truce that may guide her. She laughed at anecdotes made to delude her. In the quintessence of humanity, nay...further ongoing, being; she finds: we found...the reality, in being only an entangled web of our debased fears, mixed with enough comfort to offer us a fixed security.

I'm a pretty simple guy, I'll wear the same pair of jeans for as long as I can, I like to have a drink before bed, and I loved having a Carl's Jr. at my school. But what I would love even more is to know who it was that first walked into the cafeteria here at Santa Monica College and thought: "Well I can eat at the café that seems really proud that its food is 'organic to go.

+ 3/5: Global Connections Lecture Series: Nutrition for the World - Art Complex Room 214 - 11:15 am + 3/5: The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra - The Broad Stage, Santa Monica Blvd. at 11th St. - 7 pm + 3/5: International Women's Day Teach-in - SMC Main Camp

Blinks was a character lost to screenplay, walking down the boulevard with a penguin pimp's gait, his tempo suspending Sandman to wait. His chap-stick-slicked lips opened to let his tongue flick on a cherry candy stick while the cancer j-twig snoozed tucked behind his ear prick.

If one were to say that in the United States citizens have the freedom of speech, they would be completely wrong. A more correct statement would be that speech is more free in the United States than in many other countries. Freedom of speech has never truly existed, and with current media trends has shown no promise that it will ever exist.

If you've ever used the Internet, you've used Google. The current construct of the Internet makes Google point zero, where you can navigate to whatever piece of information, social network or what-have-you that you desire. Of course, with the simplicity of Google came Google Images, an image search engine that uses the Web as its resource point.

in the dark alley we stood. the lighter turning on my cigarette was the only glow we saw. i shouted drunk off whiskey i shouted my souls worried thoughts. afraid of losing a love, or an illusion of love was torturing my heart. i tried to flirt with the idea that i was only being silly.

We've all asked those questions while waiting in line at the bookstore, the cafeteria and the parking lot. What are all these people doing here and where did they come from? It's amazing to think of the amount of cultures that we have the privilege to be exposed to every day at Santa Monica College.

Franco stared at the jar of pickles on the shelf. Or maybe it stared at him. Or maybe they were both staring at each other. Perhaps there was a connection going on, one that no one besides Franco and the jar could understand. Music played in the background, softening the sounds of the market and all of its shoppers.