Recruiting student-athletes at the community college level is challenging, but for Contra Costa College women’s soccer coach Amanda Beckenhauer, finding players for her second season as coach was nearly...
Some thoughts on the nature and purpose of justice have been churning inside me for a while and I think I am ready to share. Inside our legal system, what the law enacts is called justice and any injustice...
By The Advocate, Editorial Board
• September 30, 2015
The Associated Students Union is preparing to launch its Grant for Support program for the third time. If history tells us anything, it is that the Grant for Support program is likely to be a failure.
The...
Failing to relay information in a timely and effective manner has created significant problems at Contra Costa College. So much so that a free, and eco-friendly parking permit option is on the verge of...
By Jose Jimenez, Spotlight Editor
• September 23, 2015
When the mother of my child and I split up for good, I used to think the worst.
It was a bad ride, ups and downs, until one day we both went our separate ways.
Looking back now, I believed I was living...
By The Advocate, Editorial Board
• September 18, 2015
Despite having $60 million set aside from the Measure E bond for a new Science and Allied Health Center and $22 million in total for the Physical Education complex, the athletic department now has an opportunity...
The murder of Kathryn Steinle by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez at Pier 14 in San Francisco on July 1 has called into question the safety of sanctuary cities.
A sanctuary city is a term self-applied to...
By Roxana Amparo, Associate Editor
• September 2, 2015
After taking a few steps toward a more inclusive and greater America, with regards to immigration, the nation is set up for major steps back depending on the outcome of this year’s presidential election.
Republican...
By The Advocate, Editorial Board
• September 2, 2015
Despite Contra Costa College undergoing open heart construction for two years now, its faculty, students and administrators have managed to keep its other organs from failing.
Being able to maintain daily...
By Jose Jimenez, Spotlight Editor
• September 2, 2015
Every time August rolls around there is one constant image that continues to run through our minds when it comes to sports and our campus — fantasy football.
OK, maybe it’s a little extreme when comparing...
As my time as editor-in-chief of The Advocate slowly nears its end I am able to grasp what the pressure of responsibility has done to my outlook of the world I had taken for granted.
While I will still...
With the passage of Measure E by voters last June, the district was provided $450 million in additional funding to be used exclusively to improve facilities on its three campuses.
And while The Advocate...
