Spring Break
San Diego City College Graduation will be held on May 22 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. As of May 8, there will be 875 graduates for spring and summer with 218 participants, however City College should "have bout 350 signed up to participate by graduation," said an evaluations office official, who added, "There are still a lot of people who will sign up to participate."
The City College women's badminton team came second behind Irvine Valley (6-2) in the Orange Empire Conference March 4. The two losses ended their winning streak spanning three years, however, the defeat by Irvine Valley is overshadowed by the team's other successes this year.
Have you ever watched a movie and, despite the fact that you are watching it for the first time, you feel as if you've seen it already? The highly anticipated "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" falls prey to the forces of deja vu.
I was sitting on the couch at my friend Joey's downstairs loft with his older sister and Alli. Joey was fondling his new gold chain wrapped around his neck. I hadn't noticed his trendy throat decor until the ceiling lights bounced off of it into my eye.
With summer here, school almost over and almost three full months of free time in Southern California, what can you do to keep yourself occupied? San Diego has hundreds of activities that cost little to no money and, as college students, this is important.
Joseph Shannon refuses to be silent about the recent budget cuts. On May 15, Shannon organized a student rally to raise public awareness about the consequences of axing education funds. As the money evaporates, Shannon fears that the futures of his classmates will disappear with it.
BEAT is the acronym for Bringing Education and Activism Together and it is a new organization here at San Diego City College that will become active in the fall semester, if approved by the Associate Student Government (ASG).
Merging reality with the nonsensical on film is a tough art to master. Better known as surrealism, the genre has been around for decades and mastered by few (mainly directors such as Luis Bunuel, Jean-Luc Godard and Hal Ashby). Their films were ground-breaking in that, realistically, the plots didn't always make sense, but they didn't need explaining. And surrealism is like that: If done well, it's revealing and transcendental. If done poorly, it's just plain confusing.
