Dotted along the coast of Venice Beach with a backdrop of grey skies, early morning beachgoers for miles carried buckets and scanned the sands. Instead of filling their buckets with typical beach treasures such as shells, stones, or the occasional starfish, these shore hunters were filling them with cigarette filters, straws, and plastic bottle caps.

A personal view of new beginnings in education

Stepping off of the Expo Line to arrive at Santa Monica College's new Center for Media and Design, can be very unfamiliar and confusing for students this semester. It is highly likely that students unfamiliar to the area might confuse Bergamot Station with their new campus. Since the new campus is very close to the station, it is easy to confuse Southern California’s largest single collection of art galleries for yet another satellite campus.

As the SMC Textbook Buyback Confuses Students, Many Seek Alternatives.

"It makes it a lot less a highway and more a parking lot," Gigi Grase said.

Efforts towards providing equal pay between genders were set back on August 28, 2017, when the Trump administration halted an Obama-era rule requiring businesses to report their employees' wages by gender, race, and ethnicity. The administration argued that the data collection requirement would be both "enormously burdensome" to companies and ineffective in addressing the gender wage gap.

Every Sunday night a dedicated group of vegan activists gather outside a gaudily painted factory depicting fat, happy pigs rolling around in meadows while clown-like farmers wearing overalls trip over wheelbarrows and tractors trying to catch these naughty animals. Above these painted walls, ominous smoke billows from chimneys and a thick, feral smell lingers.

The Santa Monica Corsairs drop two in a row after a 41-6 thrashing against the Mt. San Antonio Mounties.

Pennywise terrifies a whole new generation of audiences.

Demonstrators take to the streets of LA to #DefendDACA.

SMPD responds to anonymous bomb threat calls, causing for an evacuation at the Santa Monica Pier

The Corsairs unable to build momentum in a loss to Palomar College 45-14 in home opener.

Upset, angry, worried, but hopeful. SMC students discuss what DACA means to them.