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Cinco de Mayo marked by festive celebration

Cinco de Mayo marked by festive celebration

By Ekevara Kitpowsong Mid-day salsa dancing on San Francisco’s Valencia Street? What better place to celebrate this year's "Cinco de Mayo" -- one of the City's most treasured traditions. The festival is usually held in Dolores Park, but the park is currently under

Five Strange and Wonderful Things You Can Only Find At City College

Patrick Cochran City College, the Harvard of South-Central San Francisco, is a truly strange yet wonderful place when you take the time to explore around campus. With so many interesting nooks, crannies and eccentric people on the Ocean Campus, we thought it was deserving of a top five list celebrating

The future of journalism matters at City College

By Marco Siler-Gonzales NEWS EDITOR At a time when smartphones and tablets have made way to lightning fast news streams and countless new forms of media, aspiring journalists must take into account their ability to maneuver through this hyper competitive race of distributing information. Shrinking newsrooms and the increasing expectations

Students make retro fashion statement

Students make retro fashion statement

Michael Burkett Staff writer The Fashion Department’s Fash Direction & Coordination (FASH 47) class performed at Smith Hall on May 5, showing off retro fashions from the 1980s and 90s along with some of today's fall fashions. The looks were put together by clothes donated from Goodwill’

Voices of immigrants demonstrate achievement to hold third annual Dream Graduation

Voices of immigrants demonstrate achievement to hold third annual Dream Graduation

Otto Pippenger Staff writer For the third consecutive year the undocumented student advocacy club, Voices of Immigrants Demonstrating Achievement (V.I.D.A.) will be holding a dream graduation for undocumented students graduating from City College. From an office the size of a cubicle in the Student Union, the small

Drought prompts horticulture dept. to cut down on water usage

By Steven Ho STAFF WRITER The buildings and grounds department decreased its water usage last year after receiving a letter from the public utilities commission. “We have decreased our water usage in the landscape by 35 to 40 percent,” Landscape Supervisor Stephen Peterson said. Peterson said vegetation that was watered

Best of CCSF photojournalism on display

Best of CCSF photojournalism on display

Patrick Cochran On Thursday April 23 there was a large turnout for “Life on the Hill: City College and All Its Glory”, a photo exhibition on the Ocean Campus that featured some of the best photos that Guardsman photographers have taken during the past two years. Bungalow 615 was packed