By Angel Ayala Staff Writer Cal State Dominguez Hills student Scott Martin has been honored with the 2017 Rotary Peace Fellowship Award. Martin, currently earning his master’s degree in negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, is looking forward to the doors this opportunity opens for him. “I was shocked and pretty humbled when I got this […]
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Blacks saw it coming
By Akeem Ivory Staff Writer I am indifferent to Donald Trump’s win. Is it because I don’t think politics are impactful? No. Is it because I don’t care about some of the extremely offensive statements he has made? No. Is it because I don’t care about his policies? No. The reason why I’m not losing […]
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Trump through the eyes of a Latina
By: Lili Ramirez Staff Writer My heart sank into my stomach as they announced Donald Trump the new elected president of the United States. I embrace being a woman, I am proud of my Mexican roots, and it is a privilege for me to be American, but on Nov. 8, America let me down. I […]
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America can and must do better than Donald Trump
By Da’ Ron Frost Opinion Editor As you all know, egotistical, arrogant, misinformed, racist, misogynistic bully Donald Trump was elected the next president of the United States of America. Now that Trump won the election, I have to accept a man with no prior political experience to lead this country for the next four years, […]
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When will it be sweater weather?
By Brandon Brown News Editor Here it is, mid-November, and here I am, wearing shorts and flip-flops. In a time of year where the spider webs have been put away, the turkeys are being thawed out and there’s literally pumpkin-spice everything, one would expect the usual snap in the air that causes us to […]