Financial aid restrictions on undocumented students who do not meet certain criteria are counterproductive for an institution funded by its enrollment.
But that is exactly what is happening here at Contra...
Adding a 2.0 GPA minimum requirement to a statewide financial aid program does increase the incentive for community college students to do well academically.
But it also puts more pressure on academic...
Menstruation is often described using different expressions including “it,” “the thing” and “the red monster.”
The cycle takes the form of an actual being as a result of these nicknames, as...
While many argue that the suspension of UC Berkeley’s $3 billion Global Research Campus Project (GC) in Richmond is just a hiccup in the master plan to inject a research industry into the city, others...
Director Nate Parker’s film “The Birth of a Nation” based on the Nat Turner-led slave rebellion in 1831 will be released Oct. 7 amid a storm of consternation and dispute.
The film received national...
For the second season in a row the Comet women’s soccer program will forfeit all of its scheduled games and the strange thing is, nobody seems to care.
It’s easy to point out sociological reasons...
About $6,500 in property was stolen from campus in four separate incidents over the summer.
Roughly $4,600 was Contra Costa College’s property while $1,900 belonged to Lathrop Construction Inc., the...
By Denis Perez, Assistant Photo Editor
• Sep 1, 2016
People of sound mind can agree that American social values and our extreme focus on materialism have ignored the sovereignty of other nations as well as that of its own citizens.
The way this generation...
Canvas, the online learning platform recently approved for all 113 of California’s community colleges, will change higher education in the next 10 years more than any new buildings could.
Do not be...
I'm really not comfortable with people, and that’s something of a failure in a journalist. Talking to new people is always uncomfortable, even when I’m not trying to extract information from them,...
When I was 6 years old, my idol was figure skater Michelle Kwan simply because she looked like my then image of sleek black hair, pale skin and dark brown eyes.
As I grew older, I started to worry about...
It is estimated sneakers get more than 1,200 people killed each year, and Nike’s Air Jordan brand in particular deserves blame, according to Marc Bain on qz.com.
Depending on the shoes in question,...
