Posts tagged diana garcia
A Hopeful Season for The Rams

With a young, ambitious head coach that has all the right tools to bring them back to the playoffs, the Los Angeles Rams will be a huge threat to any team in the NFL this upcoming season. “We’re going to win games,” said Marcus Peters, the newly acquired Pro-Bowl cornerback, to the NFL Network. “When you’ve got a running back like I do, when you’ve got a front-seven like I do now, all you can do is keep making plays.

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How Much “Freedom” is in our Freedom of Speech?

Twenty-year-old Michelle Carter was infamously convicted in Massachusetts of involuntary manslaughter for sending a series of text messages that encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide. Carter was convicted in June of 2017 in the case Commonwealth vs. Carter. While the morality of her actions can be discussed, the question is, what legal actions can be taken for what you speak or write?

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The Emotional Cost of Being a Student Athlete

Cyrille Njomo walks slowly from the Corsair Field to Starbucks, after practice, exhausted and weighed down by a huge backpack. Njomo is a member of the men’s soccer team at Santa Monica College, and like many other student-athletes, he sacrifices a lot in order to be part of the team. “I decided to be part of the team for the experience, my love for soccer and to be able to get a scholarship at the university," he said.

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Academic Success For Sale

While most students are struggling to enroll in classes and earn their A’s, some students at Santa Monica College have managed to purchase their guaranteed success, gift-wrapped in packages for thousands of dollars. For a price, these students can pay to enroll in “easy-A” courses and even skip school -- paid impersonators could take their courses for them.

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