When silenced voices speak out as one, their message becomes all the more powerful, and that was proven during the DACA Rally: Coming out of the Shadows event held on Sept. 26 at the Cal State University-San Bernardino campus. A crowd of students, professors,...
Today, Adrian got up at 4:30 a.m. to go to work all day and get paid based on his early decision of not attending to college and obtain a minimum wage. Often he regrets this decision. He’s 22 now and thinks, “If I would have gone to college I would have been out...
There is a classic saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Many of the most compelling stories in the media and elsewhere are told not just through paragraphs of text, but through the combined imagery of words and photos or videos. Looking at photos and...
Austin Jia. 2340 out of 2400 on the SAT, a 4.42 GPA, 11 AP classes, captain of the tennis team, part of the New Jersey state orchestra, the debate team and an advocate for an Asian-American student group. When he was rejected from the schools he applied to, Jia could...
The beginning of the school year is generally mellow; unfortunately, it’s crunch time for college applicants. Transfer applicants, especially, have to once again dive into the dreaded application process. However, this time around comes with previous experience, so...
In an effort to better reinforce the concept of pre-registering to vote, the secretary of state has launched an online Back-to-School Pre-Registration Toolkit, in accordance with National Voter Registration Month. “Along with backpacks, new clothes, and school...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BbzZz5jhI Every summer, the City of South Gate projects five family movies, one for each week, in the Golf Course. This year, the event started on Aug. 4 and went on every Friday until Sept. 1. The movies were either a live-action...
One year ago, I left my beloved habitat of palm trees and In N Out Burger to venture to Denham Springs, La. to repair flood-damaged homes with All Hands Volunteers, a volunteer-powered disaster relief organization. The flood was swiftly labeled as the second major...
In cities, towns and remote camping grounds across the nation, they gathered. Cars filed into place in the grassy parking lot while the sky was still navy blue and the stars shone in their full brilliance in whites and slight reds. Headlights made rounds in the...
In 2003, in a Washington Post article, columnist Robert Novak revealed the classified CIA agent identity of Valerie Plame. In addition to essentially ending Plame’s career in the government, the leak soon created a national uproar and a major security problem. It was...
