On January 10, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a budget cut of $12.5 billion from state spending due to the $26.6 billion budget deficit. The proposed budget will cut $400 million, a 6.8 percent reduction in funding, from California community colleges.

Banksy: friend or foe? When a street artist is considered in the same league as Picasso or Warhol, is he free to spray paint wherever he likes?

One student's dissatisfaction with academic services offered at Santa Monica College.

A biting criticism of the youth of today's sheer ignorance towards world politics  

Budget cuts almost always mean education will suffer, Guiliana Dakdouk questions why something so important is so frequently losing funding.

Nayla Paschoa preaches taking credit for what you put out onto the World Wide Web, and accepting that colleges might see it.  

A positive outlook regarding the new marketing techniques employed by sites like Facebook and Youtube

The recession does not justify removing access to basic healthcare for so many people.

A forum for frustrated Santa Monica College students to voice their concerns about school related issues.  This week: Parking tickets and Meter Maids.

  Difficulties will be encountered if one fails to adjust his/her lifestyle accordingly after undergoing the Lap Band surgery. 

Belle asks, "I've been on a few dates with a guy and want to get serious.  But I'm a virgin, and I don't want that to scare him away.  When should I tell him?  Should I tell him at all?"

Will reading on the Kindle, iPad and Nook have negative repercussions in years to come?   Or will technology increase readership?

Sharon Obsatz, Santa Monica College Professor of Journalism and Communications, comes to the defense of smokers and requests that the school and its anti-smoking students take it easier on nicotine addicted members of Santa Monica College.  

A compelling article demanding the public's acknowledgement of the Internet as a basic human right.  

"Do guys know that the way sex is in porn looks good but doesn't feel good?"

A harrowing recount and personal evaluation of the intense brutalities and injustice recently overcome in Egypt

An opposing side to the sexting epidemic:  That it is never a good idea, regardless of what you tell yourself.

When Raven Wadley-Wright is asked if she thinks sexting is a bad thing, she replies with a resounding, "no". 

3-D television, when looked into more closely, seems to be nothing but another useless marketing ploy.

SMC professor of History, Jeff Cooper, gives his opinion on the situation in Egypt, and how it affects us here in the United States.