It's another sardonic day in the "third world." With 200,000 lives on the line, a number sadly decreasing, it would not be inappropriate to hope for the end of the ceasefire. For one of the few times in human history, it's more humane to hope for war, not peace. War so that the war can swiftly be won by whatever side. Ceasefires are futile. A war is never over until one boxer is left standing in the ring.

Two weeks before the election for South Africa's new president, a controversial decision to drop corruption charges against the most likely candidate to win, Jacob Zuma, was made.

Edgar Mitchell walked on the moon in 1971 during the Apollo 14 mission. He is the guy who left a camera on the cratered surface that is looked to by spirited fools at the end of a long night. Also, he is an alarmingly practical lunatic.

When the Jon Mayer Quartet played on April 24, 2009 at the Edye Second Space, the audience consisted of mostly students with notebook and pens in hand, many with a bored look on their faces, forced to come to this show to write up some kind of assignment for a class that shall remain nameless for fear of embarrassment.

I support free speech just as much as any American, including the right to criticize others. However, speech does not cause physical harm to others and therefore, free speech should not be used to provide the freedom to create a loophole to cause as well as profit from the harm of others, whether it be a person or an animal.

Santa Monica College's Emeritus College Art Gallery put on the guest artist exhibition "Evelyn Meyer and the Narrative Between Patron, Mentor and Artist," to support emotional artworks of new artists.

A heart is something that beats, beats to the rhythm of your own otherwise lifeless body the proof that you are alive. But why only by a single beat or a succession of beats do we know we live? Why can't we feel the breeze and blows of the winds of the world? Because we understand and believe a heart is the only thing keeping us alive.

April means big changes for the Associated Students. Here are the other candidates running for office.

SMC's planetarium has presented the Night Sky Show for the public at 7 p.m. every Friday for several decades. In the show, Jim Mahon, who has two decades of astronomy outreach experience, holds a planetarium lecture in the night sky which is updated weekly for 50 minutes.

1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, and only 6% of rapists will ever spend a day in jail. The only way to stop the abuse from happening again is to put the abusers behind bars, but in most cases, that is easier said than done for the sheer fact that most victims simply do not come forward.

What SMC students think about "Cragslist Personals"?

An undefeated season came to a close for the Santa Monica College Women's Swim Team last weekend at the state championships in Long Beach. Of course, there was only one way that these ladies saw fit to finish their run.

Crane kicks, broken cinder blocks and seemingly gravity-defying acrobatics are just a few of the images that come to mind when one thinks of martial arts.

What is behind the food that we eat everyday? Does anybody ask about the burgers that fast food chains sell in America? Who knows the broken dreams and consequences of separation of families? Is there any data or statistics based on the moral and psychological effects of being an illegal immigrant? There are many answers, but the only ones that really know the whole truth are the immigrants that stay in the shadows.

This past weekend the Lady Corsairs played in the 109th Ojai Tournament. The annual tournament held in the quiet forest bordering town of Ojai, north of Los Angeles. It is the oldest competitive tennis tournament in the country.

One of Spain's prominent judges is trying to indict six former senior Bush administration officials for allowing torture procedures at the now defunct detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Now, the question coming out on the lips of other officials is if the six advisers should be on trial in Spain, let alone their own country.