Oneil Spencer was driving down Wilton Street near his home in Koreatown when he noticed a wide divot in the road. He didn’t have much time to react, but he could tell it was deep enough to damage his car, so he swerved left into the next lane to avoid it.

The room was filled with the sound of ancient televisions, the energetic clack and snap of the controllers, and the creatively varied insults from the mouths of the attending patrons. There was around twenty to thirty people, many of whom had just met in person for the first time, spread across the room huddled around the behemoth TV sets, intently focused on destroying their opponents.

Although 2019 is only three months in, there have been 206 cases of measles in the United States this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those cases, 74 were attributed to the outbreak in Washington and Oregon. The Pacific Northwest region is known for being heavily anti-vaccination, as Washington, Oregon, and Idaho allow both religious exemptions and personal belief exemptions from vaccinations.

The Active Minds Club request a budget at the Associated Students (A.S.) Board meeting on February 25, at the Santa Monica College (SMC) Cayton Center. This is the latest event confirming the need for an A.S. Finance Committee’s initiative to revise fiscal policy

Sitting on at a small table in the middle of Santa Monica College’s Center for Media and Design courtyard, waiting in the midday Santa Monica sun, sits 17-year-old singer-songwriter, activist, and head of the Zero Hour Partnerships team, Arielle Martinez-Cohen.

Ever since the rise of sex education in the 1960s, debates as to the most appropriate way to implement these programs have existed. On February 19, the group “Informed Parents of California” put on a protest outside of school district offices in Chino, California, in response to the implementation of sex education curriculum under the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA).

The Associated Students (AS) kick off the spring semester with a town hall meeting at Santa Monica College’s (SMC) Cayton Center, on Wednesday, February 27. The meeting was organized to help encourage students to voice any concern or opinions they may have about the campus. “I think it’s an inspiring idea really taking into consideration what students are feeling, the demands and the needs of the students.

President Donald Trump sparked nationwide outrage when he declared a ‘National Emergency’ along the southern border. Many argue he knowingly exercised an unneeded executive order, by Trump saying, “I don’t need to do this,” before signing the documents making the order official, which would unlock funding to his long-promised border wall.

On the evening of February 27, around 8 p.m., a fire broke out in an abandoned medical building on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and South Westgate Ave. Smoke was billowing off the building as first responders arrived on the scene, “They commenced an aggressive interior fire attack,” stated on scene Chief Legal Officer (CLO)…

On February 24, noon, a group of kids met in an unassuming studio in downtown Los Angeles, ready to change the future of American gun safety and rewrite ancient legislation. The meeting was run by the Los Angeles chapter of March For Our Lives (MFOL), an activist group formed by survivors of the Parkland shooting of February 2018, and was the group’s first general meeting of the year. 

Ada Unal travelled over five thousand miles from Norway to study business at Santa Monica College. She was attracted to the United States’ open education system which would allow her to change majors more easily than the rigid system in Norway. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to study,” Unal said, “so coming here with the general ed system... it just was a better option for me.”

A group of about a hundred supporters gathered on Hollywood Blvd and marched their way down Vine St. in Los Angeles, California on Sunday. Their goal was to reach CNN’s building on Sunset Boulevard three blocks away. The conglomeration stood and listened as speakers from several progressive partisan and politically unaffiliated organizations advocated for Sanders…

The Santa Monica College (SMC) Cayton Center was an odd sight last Tuesday morning. Stacks of class textbooks on tables, each labeled with the appropriate course in front of them filled a section of the venue. Textbooks surrounded different students shaking hands, before negotiating prices.

The unrelenting sound of last Friday’s downpour complemented the monotony of abandoned construction trucks and empty site offices surrounding a large, flooded mud hole at its center. This scene was the result of a flash flood warning halting construction progress on Santa Monica College’s (SMC) awaited Malibu Campus.

Over five thousand migrants were sheltered at the Benito Juarez Sports Complex in the Zona Norte neighborhood of Tijuana, Mexico, until rain left the facility flooded. Less than a week later, the majority of the migrants were moved to a new shelter ten miles southeast of the previous one, yet some remain outside of Benito Juarez.

On last Thursday, November 29, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club hosted a presentation in Santa Monica College’s Math Complex about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict given by activist Omar Zahzah.

Loud speakers blasted Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” into a sea of nurses flooding the sidewalk at St. John’s Health Center on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, in Santa Monica, California. They held picket signs reading “Nurses are the heart of patient care” and “Nurses demand a fair contract now.” 

On Monday, November 26, the Santa Monica College (SMC) Emeritus campus was evacuated in response to a fire emergency that occurred that afternoon. At 4:06 p.m., the Santa Monica College Police Department (SMCPD) received a phone call claiming a fire had erupted on the second floor of the SMC building, in downtown Santa Monica.

Over a thousand Central American migrants have made their way to Tijuana, Mexico after an on-foot journey from Honduras. A caravan of over two thousand people left Honduras on October 13 to flee poverty and violence, according to CBS News. Their plan was to travel through Guatemala and Mexico to eventually reach the United States to seek asylum. 

Info Graphic of Santa Monica College request for club organization financial request.