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Automotive classes teach necessary life skills

Automotive classes teach necessary life skills

By Andrew Weedon, Scene Editor March 14, 2018

When someone mentions general education classes you probably think of four subjects: math, science, English and history. The idea is that these four subjects will give you a base knowledge to survive...

Athletes express concern about gun legislation

Athletes express concern about gun legislation

By Efrain Valdez, Social Media Editor March 14, 2018

As the best professional boxer of the 20th century, and renowned activist, Muhammad Ali once said, “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” National Basketball Association (NBA) all stars Lebron...

Arming school faculty furthers Americas gun violence issues

Arming school faculty furthers America’s gun violence issues

By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor March 1, 2018

With everything going on today, arming teachers seems to be America’s next step toward insanity. Will officers protect the rights of every teacher who chooses to carry a gun, or will they shoot them? Will...

Limited instructor availability sullies learning environment

Limited instructor availability sullies learning environment

By Editorial Board March 1, 2018

California community colleges have followed an evolving trend of hiring easily replaceable part-time professors instead of cultivating a crop of costly, yet better prepared,  tenured-track employees. Students...

Temporary Disruption

Temporary Disruption

By Robert Clinton, Opinion Editor March 1, 2018

In a nation driven by a 24-hour news cycle that blurs the lines between fake news, breaking news and the hyperbole spewed from the mouths of talking heads and paid corporate shills, less sensational stories...

Transient ‘fast fashion’ trends spawn global scourge

By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor February 20, 2018

While women walk around with a $12 little black dress on to support the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, think about the young girl making your dress inside a factory under extremely poor conditions, receiving...

Lack of campus liaisons foster divide in community relations

Lack of campus liaisons foster divide in community relations

By Editorial Board February 20, 2018

Over the past year, the Contra Costa Community College District has continued what some see as a disturbing trend of decreasing the number of people of color in leadership positions at Contra Costa College. On...

Valentines Day ignites false sense of love through materialism

Valentine’s Day ignites false sense of love through materialism

By Michael Santone, Associate Editor February 20, 2018

For many, the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day is etched in an atmospheric romance of greeting cards, candle lit dinners and the occasional afterglow of holiday lust. Scented bouquets of red roses...

Rap on repeat: Xanax, coke, weed and lean

Rap on repeat: Xanax, coke, weed and lean

By Anthony Kinney, Associate Editor February 12, 2018

Drugs and music go together like rock stars and rehab. Even before the cocaine-fueled dance parties that thrived in 70s disco clubs to today’s promethazine-induced comas at house parties, music and...

Halftime performance echoes NFL problems

Halftime performance echoes NFL problems

By Robert Clinton, Opinion Editor February 6, 2018

Ever since Colin Kaepernick was effectively blackballed from participating in the 2017 NFL season, football just hasn’t been the same and although I haven’t watched a complete game this season, my...

Mainstream movements obstruct real feminism

By Alondra Gallardo, Opinion Editor January 30, 2018
Issues that affect white women, affect women of color even more.
Threats of ICE raids demand preparation to impede arrests

Threats of ICE raids demand preparation to impede arrests

By Advocate Staff January 30, 2018

In the wake of recent threats by the federal government to conduct sweeping immigration raids across Northern California and the Bay Area in general, civic leaders and state employees have vowed to stand...

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