Jannah Khalil, Staff
May 15, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Campus, Community, News, Top Stories
Sacramento entrepreneurs spoke at a seminar to encourage and teach aspiring businessmen and businesswomen to reach their potential in the business world.
The seminar was held at Cosumnes River College and was put on by Professor Man Phan, chair of the business department. The five entrepreneurs featured at the event were...
Shannon Rusche, Staff
May 15, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Campus, Community, News, Top Stories
The English department held its 11th-annual Cosumnes River Journal Release on May 4.
Heather Hutcheson, an English professor at CRC and the managing editor for the CRJ, facilitated the release and said that she thinks highly of the latest issue of the journal.
“I think it’s a beautiful collection that has a fantastic...
Alicia Ilaga, Staff
April 26, 2017
Filed under Features, Profiles
For some students, spending years at a community college saves money, as well as time for indecisive students who can’t pick a major. After all those years spent at a community college, earning general education credits and finalizing a major, there’s nothing left to do but transfer to a university where to continue an education....
Kristine Yabumoto, Staff
April 24, 2017
Filed under Features, Reviews
Music is a necessity; to work out, to drive to work, to get through hard times. It’s rare that someone doesn’t have an Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora or SoundCloud account. But which platform is the best?
Apple Music was created in June of 2015 and has taken off ever since. Verto Index, a website that rates top perfor...
Justin Cordero, Staff
April 20, 2017
Filed under Campus, Community, News
The “Our Life Stories” event on campus will gather the writers and published authors to celebrate and learn more about writing self-reflective autobiographies and family memoirs, on Saturday at 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the recital hall.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the event, the focus this year will be centered on applying...
Ashley Navarro, Editor
April 19, 2017
Filed under All Access, Breaking News, Features, Top Stories
Remember the good ol’ days when people lacked actual homes and furniture so they used stuff like crates and burlap to create some kind of structure to help them out along the way of pursuing the “American Dream?” Ah, the Great Depression. What a time.
With each old trend going into hiding, another one appears. For ...
Steven Bryla, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Sports, Women's Swimming
As the spring semester comes to a close, sophomore swimmer Sara Krajnovic, a 19-year-old biochemistry major, is ending her competitive swimming career.
Athletes at the community college level are given two years of athletic eligibility to compete in a sport.
Student athletes must maintain at least a 2.0 GPA and take a...
Jannah Khalil, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Campus, Community, Crime, News
An emergency evacuation of the library building at Cosumnes River College occurred due to a bomb threat issued on March 29.
Students and faculty who were present during the bomb threat or were having class during the library building evacuation had to undergo some quick decision-making on what to do in the situation.
“...
Steven Bryla, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Sports, The Cheap Seats
It has been 60 days since the Sacramento Kings made the right move and got rid of the “cancer” in their organization when they traded Demarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans on Feb. 19.
Fans of the Sacramento Kings had mixed emotions of despair and joy at letting the best big man in the NBA go and give up their ch...
Alicia Ilaga, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Baseball, Breaking News, Sports
The Cosumnes River College baseball team won against Folsom Lake College 9-8 on Saturday after an up and down game that allowed them to sweep the three game series.
In the bottom of the first inning, the Hawks took the lead after first baseman Trevor Ray hit a grounder to FLC’s shortstop who missed the ball and allowed Ray to...
Jannah Khalil, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Current Affairs, Opinion
A Pepsi ad that was released on Tuesday starring Kendall Jenner and a few “colorful” extras has striked massive controversy and is an excellent example of what is wrong with advertising today.
The ad depicts several diverse individuals doing their respective activities when a crowd of “protesters” passes by them. Th...
Kristi Doan, Staff
April 19, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Current Affairs, Opinion
I never really understood what it meant to look or be “too Asian,” but I spent my entire life avoiding that epithet.
Vietnamese was my first language, and my dad took pride in me retaining it as I was struggling to be bilingual in my English as a second language classes.
Not only was I struggling verbally, I was strugg...
April 18, 2017
As part of of Asian-Pacific American Heritage week, held earlier this month, English as a Second Lang...
Justin Cordero, Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Features, Reviews
“Kong: Skull Island” delivers on the monster movie genre fantasy of a giant gorilla fighting other huge creatures.
The film, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is the second film within Legendary Entertainment’s “MonsterVerse,” right after the 2014 “Godzilla” reboot and serves as an introduction to ...
Kristine Yabumoto, Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Opinion
Cage the Elephant will be coming to Sacramento on April 15 at the Crest Theatre. Many fans are excited to see their favorite band, but they might be surprised when they find out what the band will ask of them.
The event will require all audience members to put their phones in high tech lock boxes made by the compan...
Missy Amaya, Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Current Affairs, Opinion
It seems like everywhere you go you can’t escape the bombardment of Donald Trump media coverage. This makes sense, on account that he is the 45th president of the United States and he is making big changes to the country, but is the media’s harsh portrayal of him justified?
It isn’t hard to see that many news outlet...
Steven Bryla, Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Campus Life, Features
Cosumnes River College offers a wide variety of clubs and events going on its campus.
Student opinions on the different opportunities that the campus is able to offer compares to what the student body looks for in attending the right college environment for them.
For example, the campaign for the student election began ...
Editorial Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Editorials, Opinion
The concept of free speech is essential to the fabric of American society. The Founding Fathers thought it to be so important that they made it their first order of business when they wrote the Bill of Rights, which they intended to be a growing catalogue of legally-defined human rights.
As such, one can say that there are few thin...
Justin Cordero, Staff
April 5, 2017
Filed under Breaking News, Current Affairs, Opinion
It is a phrase almost everyone has heard at least once in their lifetime, in reference to the one thing we are all made to drink in the first infantile years of our life. But as people grow up, should adults still be asked the question “got milk?”
As you grow up, you’ve probably already heard the list of reasons why m...
Missy Amaya and Justin Cordero
March 21, 2017
Filed under Campus Life, Features, Most Recent
As emailed bulletins about crimes committed at Cosumnes River College circulate, students have begun to realize that they should be more cautious when alone on campus.
Many college students, especially freshmen, like to believe that the campus is a completely safe place where nothing bad can happen to them. Most of them are shoc...
Jannah Khalil, Staff
March 21, 2017
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Campus Life, Features, Most Recent, Reviews
In their first production of the semester, the Cosumnes River College theatre department presents a successful performance of Tom Sheppard’s “Arcadia.”
“Arcadia” takes place in Sidley Park, an English country estate, and fluctuates between the past and present to tell the story of what occurred at the estate year...
