By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief The north building of the Leo F. Cain Library doesn’t have fire sprinklers and it’s technically legal, but the news took many on campus by surprise, especially those who work for one of the organizations or programs recently moved into the space termed the Student Success Hub. In a Town Hall […]
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#ElectHer Workshop Builds Female Trailblazers of Tomorrow
By Dayzsha Lino, Staff Writer As women continue to take congressional seats on Capitol Hill, the approximately 11,000 female students at CSUDH are looking for ways to get their voices heard. The Women’s Resource Center held its third annual #ElectHer event on Wednesday, Nov. 20th in LSU 324. The workshop attracted dozens of young women […]
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Leaving Private Prisons Behind: A Brief Saga
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief An Introduction to Private Prisons Private prisons have been in America since San Quentin opened in California in 1852. But their numbers swelled in the 1980s with the Reagan Administration’s “War on Drugs.” Critics of the private prison system focus their rebuke of the system on the inhumane way that private […]
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Power to the People: Professor Discusses Improving the Legal System
By Destiny Torres, Staff Writer The ugly reality of the criminal justice system in the United States is that America makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners, with a disproportionate number of them young males of color. How this country got to this point is what James Forman […]
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Prisoner No More
By Yeymy Garcia, Managing Editor You might see Robert Garcia, or Bobby if you know him well enough, a muscular guy with a tattoo on his right bicep walking around campus confidently with his shaved head held up high ready to greet you with a smile and a “wassup.” He may look a little older […]