By Robert RiosStaff reporter For centuries, artists have wielded satire, irony and wit as weapons expressing their ideas and feelings concerning serious social issues. One of the modern masters of that was Jose Guadalupe Posada, a Mexican-born, prolific illustrator who lived from 1852-1913 and whose work was a backdrop to the Mexican Revolution and future […]
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CSUDH Enrollment Record Means Campus Housing Demand Increases
By Monique DavisStaff Reporter With enrollment increasing by nearly percent this semester, California State University, Dominguez Hills has set a new enrollment record, but it also means a huge crunch in the University Housing Complex. According to housing student assistant Daylin Joseph, “For the 2019-20 school year, the housing department has experienced the longest waitlist […]
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Examining Diseased Roots
By Destiny TorresStaff Reporter It may be surprising to some, but facts are facts: the U.S. has the highest population of prison inmates in the world; 67 percent of them are people of color, which represent only about 37 percent of the American population; and the massive number of incarcerated persons needing to be housed, […]
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Putting the Corrido in its Proper Perspective
By: Destiny TorresStaff Reporter Alexandro Hernández grew up in the small Texas town of Del Río, just across the border from the Mexican city of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila. But what drove him to become a musician wasn’t the traditional border town soundscapes of conjunto, the Texas-Mexican version of norteño, but metal and hardcore punk. But as […]
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No Love in This Elevator
LA County Fire Department workers trying to free a student who would spend nearly two hours in an elevator Wednesday night, an elevator one person described as “the DMV in an elevator shaft.” Photo by Dayzsha Lino. By Matthew AlfordStaff Reporter A quick trip between floors of the North Library Wednesday night turned into nearly […]