Prior to November 7, Thousand Oaks held the reputation of being a safe and quiet community in the state of California. On November 7 at approximately 11:20 p.m., a gunman began firing at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, according to the Los Angeles...
A week after a school safety concern arose regarding a possible school shooter threat in Ventura County, the Ventura Police Department (VPD) Chief of Police Ken Corney attended the school board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 29. He addressed a byproduct of the inherently...
The most important rule of camp: use your words. Dear Jake,* I am writing this even though you might never read this. Not just because you are four years old and can’t read, but because there is minuscule but very real chance that you’ll never get to. I...
Recent tension has sparked in the Black Lives Satter movement. The recent shooting and killing was Stephon Clark, an African American male who was shot 20 times by two Sacramento police officers. Police responded to a call that a someone was breaking car windows in...
On the issue of school shootings, as a student, I have felt that Congress has failed us ever since Sandy Hook. After every mass shooting since then, I have found myself only more disappointed at Congress’ inability to act. But in order for Congress or anybody for that...
Emma González, 18, sat crouched in the small space between one row of chairs and the next in her school’s auditorium. A fire alarm had just went off and González was standing outside with a few friends when she saw band kids running back into their building. Soon...
In the school shooting in Florida that took place Wednesday, February 14, we lost 17 innocent lives to the pull of a trigger. Seventeen innocent lives of which 14 were young kids. Kids who had their lives planned. Kids who had yet to see the world but now they no...
Racial discrimination is a major factor in our lives. As an allusion to the 1600s, African-Americans have always held a target on their shoulders, beginning first with slavery, and now misjudgment due to the color of their skin. Why is it that humans can’t treat...
My house is a block from the UCLA campus in Westwood, California. This normally idyllic community was riveted this morning at 9:55am when shots were fired in Boelter Hall, the Engineering Building. Two males were shot dead. As a high school junior in Los Angeles, I...
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