Summer Lomendehe, Staff Writer
March 18, 2019
Filed under Most Recent, News
When it was announced on March 2 that the police officers who shot Stephon Clark would not be charged, the decision was met with mixed responses.
Clark was a 22-year-old Sacramento man who was shot multiple times after two officers mistook his cellphone for a gun. Counseling Dean Shannon Cooper said this incident has impac...
Kellie Bevins, Staff Writer
March 18, 2019
Filed under Most Recent, News
Following an investigation that occurred in early 2018 when a 20-year-old student filed a sexual harassment complaint against a former counselor, Cosumnes River College has since assembled a task force to enact change in college culture.
College President Ed Bush said he is pushing to increase awareness of campus-wide progra...
Michaela Graves, Staff Writer
March 14, 2019
Filed under Most Recent, News
Asian Pacific Islander Women Voices held their first community event discussion in honor of Women’s History Month on March 7 in the Winn Center. The event was held by community groups such as Advocate Sacramento, the Indian Association of Sacramento and My Sister’s House of Sacramento.
The event was designed for different cultura...
March 14, 2019
Assembly Bill 302, or the Safe Lot Legislation Bill, would allow homeless community college students to s...
March 6, 2019
The Dream Center partnered with the Council on American Islamic Relations to host a “Know Your Rights...
Alexandra Trigg, Staff Writer
March 2, 2019
Filed under Campus, News
The California Department of Transportation sponsored an event on campus that would help demystify the state application process for prospective applicants on Feb. 21.
Thirty students stopped by BS 153 so they could listen to current Caltrans employees talk about necessary steps to take when seeking government-related jobs. While some ...
Summer Lomendehe, Staff Writer
February 28, 2019
Filed under Campus, News
Several staff and faculty met on Friday to discuss ways to make the LGBTQ community more visible on campus.
The meeting was prompted by a previous one between a few faculty members and American River College’s Pride Center Director Emilie Mitchell, where they discussed the center’s efforts and their progress.
...
February 21, 2019
Many college students struggle to afford good food that is enough to keep up nutritional levels, acc...
Summer Lomendehe, Staff Writer
February 19, 2019
Filed under Most Recent, News
Since the test of the Los Rios Emergency Notification system on Jan. 24, students have received several real emergency notifications this semester.
Los Rios Alerts, which may also appear as notifications from RAVE Alerts, is a form of direct communication between the Los Rios Police Department and the students and faculty on...
Summer Lomendehe, Staff Writer
February 17, 2019
Filed under Campus, Most Recent, News
With the semester underway, a few professors have started to implement the classroom use of personally-favored names and pronouns.
Communications Professor Daniel DuBray said he passed out a personal information sheet to his students on the first day of class where they could indicate their preferred names and pronouns. On...
February 12, 2019
This spring semester, the library has implemented a new loan program that allows students to...
February 6, 2019
The Sexual Reproductive Health Clinic began offering its services this semester.
The campus Health...
Lilianna Ordaz, Opinion Editor
January 22, 2019
Filed under News
The Academic Senate voted and approved an interim executive team at a meeting on Wednesday.
Academic Senate for California Community College Northern Representative Cheryl Aschenbach and Sacramento City College Academic Senate President Gayle Pitman were in attendance to help assist Cosumnes River College faculty decide on ...
January 22, 2019
Women's March Sacramento hosted their annual Women's March on Saturday.
Thousands of people came bearing signs and w...
Lilianna Ordaz, Opinion Editor
December 28, 2018
Filed under Briefs, News
Academic Senate Secretary Donnisha Lugo resigned effective immediately on Dec. 14 and Vice President Constance Carter resigned effective on Dec. 20.
With the resignation of Carter, she will no longer be able to take on the presidency for the Academic Senate next semester.
“Due to the continual, nefarious actions o...
December 10, 2018
Sacramento County has applied to get a part of the 553 million dollars in state funding intended to he...
December 10, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article on Nov. 20 about the preventions p...
Stevie Gutierrez, News Editor
December 10, 2018
Filed under Community, News
Sacramento voted yes on Measure U in November to replace the previous half-cent sales tax with a full-cent tax that will be in place indefinitely, raising the tax from 7.75 percent to 8.75 percent.
The sales tax increase will go into effect by April 1 of next year and will be used to assist in youth programs, affordable ...
Lilianna Ordaz, Opinions Editor
December 10, 2018
Filed under National, News
The National Climate Assessment released their yearly report in November and emphasized the damaging effects of climate change and where our nation is headed if change doesn’t happen soon.
President Trump was quick to dismiss the finding in the report saying that he doesn’t “believe it.”
California has had th...
Marysol Olvera, Staff Writer
December 10, 2018
Filed under News
The deteriorating air quality that was hitting the Sacramento region caused by the Camp fire in Butte county, forced the Los Rios College system to close all their campuses on Nov. 14 for the following week.
The decision came via Rave Alert on Nov. 14.
“Regional air conditions have not improved as anticipated, so...
