Battle to quit social media induces anxiety
By Cindy Pantoja, Staff Writer
September 11, 2018
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
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
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
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
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
By Editorial Board
May 15, 2018
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
By Editorial Board
May 1, 2018
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
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 ...
Televised police murders normalize racial bias
By Robert Clinton, Opinion Editor
May 1, 2018
I make it a habit not to watch the murder of unarmed black people when those videos surface because when I do, it feels like a piece of my humanity is lost as well. What makes it worse, I know that saturating the nation with images of citizens, who look like me, being treated with blatant disrespect...
District board trustees ignore sexual harassment
By Denis Perez, Editor-in-Chief
April 24, 2018
When a person commits a horrible offense, those close to that person have to decide whether to be on the right side of justice or on the side of protecting a friendship. For the Contra Costa Community College District Governing Board trustees, picking the latter was easier than the former. Being on the ...
Undocumented students cannot share in Food & Wine’s success
By Editorial Board
April 24, 2018
Every year local celebrities, vendors and residents come together in the name of food, wine and the opportunity to offer culinary arts students a chance to travel the world at the annual Food and Wine Event, held on Sunday. But what serves as an opportunity for many, is just another mandatory class...