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Letter from the editor: I'm tired

By Sara BloombergThe GuardsmanI’m tired. I bet you’re tired, too, and midterms haven’t even hit yet. It’s not just school, though. I’m tired of two party politics and the Republican National Convention—the Democrats are preparing to hold their own flag waving party this week.

OPINION: Accreditation's shady past

By Alex Schmaus The Guardsman The private organization threatening to close City College is itself a threat to equity, democracy and justice. Sherrill Amador, the chair of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, has a controversial past herself. Amador resigned from her post as president of Palomar College

Opinion: blame the budget cuts, not City College

By Becca Hoekstra The Guardsman This summer I learned it sucks to have your school in the headlines. By now, I’m assuming everyone knows that City College is facing a loss of accreditation. Losing accreditation would make our credits illegitimate and prevent the school from receiving federal funds. The

Letter to the editor: Who's running the show?

Why is it that a private company has so much power over a public institution? That private company being the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. Because in that question lies answers that resound throughout our economy as the 1% seeks to extort the Commons for their own selfish

OP-ED: Socialism, Perhaps A Better Choice?

A ghost is haunting global capitalism - the ghost of socialism.

Two Years at City College

City College was an extremely rewarding, albeit challenging experience. I made it in two years, earning my associates degree and transferring to San Francisco State.

Escape From CCSF: Worth it?

It wasn’t supposed to get this personal: it was supposed to be a bi-weekly column discussing issues in education with a title that doesn’t quite make sense.