By Samantha Bartholomew In their first joint public appearance, Jose Alcala and Brian Hawley gathered in the Digital Library Auditorium March 2 to answer questions from the public. Candidate Ben Johnson was absent due to last minute travel obligations. Brian Hawley, a local business owner, attended and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UC
By Paul Villalobos Valentine’s Day, a day known for love and affection with friends and family, was met with unprecedented bloodshed as 17 lives were lost in a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida. The shooting was carried out by Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old former student who was expelled from
By Samantha Bartholomew A good representative is someone that can be seen as a trusted figurehead, someone that can be relied upon to make the tough decisions for the right reasons. Jose Alcala has thrown his hat in the ring to be that person. Alcala attended Riverside City College, UC Santa Barbara and California State
By Samantha Bartholomew City Manager John Russo visited Riverside City College to discuss his journey to City Hall in the Digital Library Auditorium March 1. Russo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is the son of Italian immigrants. His father, a construction worker, and his mother, a dressmaker, moved to the United
By Joshua Burciaga Riverside’s homeless population has steadily been increasing over the past couple of years. In response to this, the city of Riverside held a forum Feb. 22 at the Grove Community Church that served to inform locals about Riverside’s latest attempt to combat homelessness. Riverside Mayor, Rusty Bailey, introduced speakers Tom Lance, Brian
By Marissa Moreno The first week of the spring semester at Riverside City College was more than a nightmare. The shooting in Parkland, Florida has inevitably forced the Riverside Unified School District to check every potential threat towards its campuses, and for Riverside City College this came shortly after an unfortunate on-campus apparent suicide that
Today’s high school students were born and have grown up in an era of active shooter drills and other safety efforts at schools. Some have grown to see their once open elementary school campus become blocked off by metal doors, resembling a prison even among the vibrant murals decorating its quad. But those precautions were
By Jonathan Ramirez When tragedy takes place in this country, we demand immediate and erratic solutions that sometimes disregard any form of common sense. After the wake of the Parkland High School shootings, the idea of providing guns to teachers to defend students would do more harm than good. At first, the idea of arming
By Emma Carlsen Gun violence is a result of inadequate gun laws, not the mentally ill. According to the Small Arms Survey, the principal international source of information on small arms and armed violence issues, the United States leads the world in both gun ownership and gun violence. Countries such as Switzerland and Yemen have
By Joshua Burciaga The signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and other trade deals are one of the leading causes of mass migration from Latin America into the United States. The relationship between the United States and Mexico explains our current migration patterns quite well. In the past, countries such as
