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San Francisco, Calif.

Suicide rates outnumber homicides

By Dan Harrington The Guardsman Imagine the impact to the City College community if half the current student body disappeared. Certainly their peers would try to keep them from leaving. In reality, nearly that many Americans die every year by taking their own lives. Mark Stalnaker, suicide prevention coordinator of

Q&A: Nanette Asimov, higher education reporter for the SF Chronicle

On March 25, we sat down with Nanette Asimov to talk about the accreditation crisis and her coverage of City College for the Chronicle. This is part one—part two will run in the next issue, along with an analysis of stories in the Chronicle that have been published about

Softball: Improbable comeback validates season

By Dan Harrington The Guardsman The Rams home finale April 16 against Chabot College featured great defense and crafty pitching from start to finish. City’s 4-3 win required a comeback from the biggest deficit of the warm afternoon, and the Rams did it in stunning fashion. Rams pitcher Alexis

I left my heart in India

By Mckenna Toston The Guardsman I told myself a hundred times I wouldn’t cry on my last day. I never cry. Why should I now? It’s not like I fell hopelessly in love with a man who lives on the other side of the world, who I’ll

It’s important to use restraint with social media

Staff Editorial Last week was a lesson in the power of social media and how it can expose truths and help perpetuate falsehoods at the same speed. News of explosions at the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and injured more than 180, went viral and investigators quickly appealed to

“Admission” doesn’t make the grade

Gina Scialabba The Guardsman Princeton. You all want to know the secret to getting in, right? Tina Fey has it. I only wish I knew the secret to getting the 100-plus minutes of my life back that I spent in this movie. It is not the comedic powerhouse combo of

Supes evaluate pedestrian safety

By Sara Bloomberg The Guardsman Pedestrian collisions have declined citywide since 1990, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), but a string of fatal accidents over the past couple of months in District 7 has residents concerned. The most recent fatality occurred March 4 when a 17-year-old girl