Lack of crime reporting blurs transparent environment
September 20, 2018
The quest for an improved sense of transparency at Contra Costa College has engulfed every corner of administrative activity on campus and no area is more important than those who are able to reveal the details of any crimes that are committed here. With students settling into the new semester, there...
Musical appreciation grows through tragedy
By Xavier Johnson, Web Editor
September 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Over the past two years there have been a significant number of musicians who have died, young and old alike. The deaths have ranged from people in their 20s, like Mac Miller and Avicii, to old legends like Chris Cornell and Aretha Franklin. Each death reverberated throughout the world and their fans...
Under new management
September 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Since fall of 2013 when ground was initially broken on the Campus Center Project, the outward appearance of Contra Costa College has been in constant flux. In recent years, students withstood the dust and debris, lack of parking and general upheaval of any sense of continuity that was gained throughout...
Battle to quit social media induces anxiety
By Cindy Pantoja, Staff Writer
September 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Few weeks ago, I found myself updating my Facebook status in the middle of an anxiety attack. Somehow, in the midst of deep breathing and heart palpitations, I fought the need to inform my followers what I was going through. The episode of emotional turmoil was interrupted by the 15 othe...
Biracial baby making hinders white agenda
By Robert Clinton, Opinion Editor
May 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It wasn’t long ago that many people believed there was a shelf life to racism. There used to be a shared societal concept that explained racism as a generational hold-over which implored us all to believe that when the last of the baby-boomers step into the great beyond, America will finally become the...
Illusion of Freedom: Corporate policies incentivise evil
By Ryan Geller, News Editor
May 16, 2018
America got it wrong about property from the very beginning. The founders of this nation saw other humans as property. The government of this nation has enshrined genocidal maniacs on its money to remind us all that property is legitimized from behind the barrel of a gun. The completely wrong-head...
Prescribed drugs easily obtained, generate abuse
By Jessica Suico, Assistant news editor
May 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
In America, the scourge of over-prescribing drugs with minimal supervision is ruining families. The problems don’t only stem from abuse. Doctors are as much to blame for the destruction of unsuspecting families in far-flung corners of the U.S. as any inner-city drug dealer ever was. I have been a...
Perfect body image is an illusion
By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor
May 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
With summer just around the corner the pressure is on to achieve our “summer body” or our “bikini body.” Little do we know that there is no such thing. Take the body you have now, put a bikini or swimsuit on it and there you have your summer body. Over the years I have talked with and posted about sel...
Hollywood lacks gay superhero
By Michael Santone, Associate Editor
May 16, 2018
Filed under Opinion
There’s something about the banality of superhero movies that I’ve never liked. Kitsch alter egos embedded within the typical action-packed scenarios have, for decades, created a genre that’s fueled America’s obsession with the hero and villain story arc. But after watching Marvel’s “Aveng...
Administrative ambiguity inhibits student experience
May 15, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Since the beginning of the fall 2017 semester, students have been overwhelmed by concerns surrounding a lack of administrative transparency and with summer fast approaching, it seems many of those concerns continue to thrive. At CCC, ambiguity masquerades as transparency and methodically infects victim...
New Halls, Dirty Stalls: AA Building renovations leave students holding their breath
May 1, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Since the $5 million project to renovate the Applied Arts Building began last fall, campus administrators assured students and faculty still using the building during construction that inconveniences, when controllable, would be kept to a minimum. This has not been the case. The problems soared past...
Player’s cannabis exemption request denied by NFL
By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor
May 1, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Last month, Mike James became the first player in National Football League (NFL) history to make an official administrative request for exemption from the league’s cannabis ban for medical use. James’ audacious plea is one of the first notable drug exemption requests in any professional league and ...