By Kalama Hines
The memory is as clear to me as Crystal Pepsi. A pair of 12-year-old boys riding their bikes to and from school each day, my friend Terence and I would make regular stops at the local shop to spend whatever…
By: Glenn Wohltmann
Student Assistant
This is an open letter to Sergey Brin, the head of Google[x], the division of Google aimed (seriously) at making science fiction, what are described as “moonshot projects,” a reality.
Google is responsible for building the self-driving car, which…
By Shayla Gasca
There’s a dead body on campus.
But it’s nothing to worry about. Las Positas College’s science department has had a cadaver lab for two and a half years.
The Cadaver Lab, located in room 1857, is a workshop where advanced anatomy students…
By Shelby Escott
“Crimson Peak” is an elegant take on horror, a film set at the turn of the 20th century, a period when mystics and mediums rubbed elbows with British aristocracy.
If you are expecting a fast-paced thriller full of cheap scares and…
By Carleen Surrena
@SURRENA_C
The sun was bright on this October afternoon, creating a glare off the pool at the Las Positas College swim complex. It may be fall, but no clouds were among the powder-blue sky backdrop highlighting the rolling vineyards on the…
Tamana Ansari
@tamana18248646
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The elevator in front of the 2400 building has been broken for almost a year, causing difficulties for its intended passengers, students with disabilities.
Ian Jones, a student at Las Positas College and former editor of The Express,…
Shayla Gasca
@shaylamaritza
About 150 shootings have happened in the United States since 2013, according to everytownresearch.org.
Police say Christopher Harper-Mercer fatally shot eight students and an assistant professor at Umpqa Community College on Oct. 1, 2015.
For years LPC has prepared…
Mitchell Mylius
@mitchellmylius
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Scott Miner’s students leaned in. He fired up the torch.
Miner was doing a welding demonstration on a skyscraper in San Francisco. The building was just about ready to have some plumbing installed. All his students were crowded…
By Nicholas Biria
“Welcome Home Jenny Sutter” tells the story of a returning Iraq Veteran, struggling to come to terms with her life in the aftermath of war. The play explores what it means to lose, and find, a part of…
By Glenn Wohltmann
Study after study has shown Millennials – people born between 1980 and 2000 – love public transportation.
The most recent, a 2015 survey from Zipcar, said Millennials are environmentally conscious and would sooner part with their car, television or…