By: Nicole Khoshaba

After my last attempt at being on a VH1 reality show, I vowed to myself I would never try out for one again; then I got that e-mail.      I periodically receive e-mails from Iconic Casting because I am on their mailing list and I alw...

By: Levi Ogden

     I was not in favor of House Bill 3200, known as the Health Care Reform Bill. It is either too much too soon or not enough too late. Personally, I find that the reforms are either nonsubstantive, and that the federal government nee...

By: Kristopher Pierce

In light of certain events that have taken place in our country over the past few weeks, a cautionary note is in order.   In one of my classes recently, we discussed the impact that various right-wing radio and television programs have had (and con...

By: By Nicole Khoshaba

 Tiger Woods addressed the public about his indiscretions for the first time last week. Woods has been avoiding the media since Thanksgiving when the now infamous incident that involved his wife Elin Nordegren using a golf club to break the back wind...

By: Staff Editorial

     Since MJC alumnus Jeremy Renner was nominated for multiple Oscar awards, students, faculty and and staff have been rooting for the actor and talking about it nonstop. Renner has been interviewed on the David Letterman Show and Nat...

By: Danielle Porter

     Why does it seem that we as a people have always found a way to deprive innocent people of their rights? Women didn’t get the vote until 1921. For years African Americans couldn’t use the same bathrooms let alone ea...

By: Danielle Porter

     I’m sitting on the couch watching T.V. with my little sister, I’m 10 years old and it’s a Friday night. My favorite block of cartoons is playing across the screen, and then I hear it: the sound of the door being ...

By: Kristopher S. Pierce

The Disneyland ride says that “It’s a small world after all.” I get what they were trying to say in that song. I really do. But if you are someone who has rarely traveled outside of California, the world is a much bigger place than you c...

By: Paul Guerrero

The pathway to communication is solely pushed towards the internet. This new age we witness that everything is transformed to online; online bill pay, order take-out food, registering classes for school, communicating with friends and colleagues, updating...

By: Paul Guerrero

Major businesses find themselves struggling these past two years since the economy took a fall. Businesses have been faced with laying-off veteran employees, downsizing the company and trying every marketing tactic known just to stay alive. As a last reso...

By: By Danielle Porter

why not start dating? That’s what people do, now isn’t it? I didn’t exactly know how to approach it though, because this isn’t the same world that it was in the past decades. People don’t just “date” anymore; ever...

By: Danielle Porter

Ter⋅ror⋅ism [ter-uh-riz-uh m] 1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. 2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3. a terroristic method of gover...

By: Kristopher Pierce

I am a conservative evangelical Christian and a member of the Republican Party and I believe that George W. Bush‘s War in Iraq was wrong....

By: Lauren Rash

   It has been said that if every person in China formed a single line, due to the population rate, it would be never ending; the line would continue forever. The same could be argued regarding our country’s debates over marijuana. No...

By: Lauren Rash

When did the requisite to obtain the Peace Prize, an award that is held at the highest of levels (at least in America, that is), evolve from DOING something to TRYING to do something or even saying they are GOING to do something?...

By: Irene Castillo

  It was 4:30 p.m. The time smiling or laughing wouldn’t be allowed for the rest of the day. He had come home frustrated again, something I knew he’d take out on my mom. Minutes later, he began yelling at my mom telling her she was usele...

By: Paul Guerrero

About 58% of West Coast voters believe that marijuana should be taxed and legally regulated just like alcohol and cigarettes, according to Zogby International Polling, a company that specializes in polling and market research.      Af...