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News by Emily Forschen December 12, 2018

Key administrators ignore student petition

Lylah Schmedel was holding her breath last week for a few different reasons. In the hazardous air quality due to the most devastating wildfire in California history, dozens of schools locally closed for student health concerns. Las Positas College and Chabot College…

Editorial by Express Editorial Board December 12, 2018

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The Express endorses a candidate for chancellor

UPDATE: Dec. 18, 2018: The Board of Trustees has interviewed all three candidates and selected none of them. The search for a new chancellor will be indefinitely postponed. Read more here. The Express, after careful consideration and review of all three candidates, endorses…

News by Emily Forschen December 12, 2018

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Chancellor search heats up in public forum

Emily Forschen @Emilyschen_ UPDATE: Dec. 12, 2018: The Board of Trustees has interviewed all three candidates and selected none. Read more here. The hunt is nearly ending as the search for a new chancellor of the district has narrowed down to three. The candidates…

Sports by Arion Armeniakos December 12, 2018

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Men’s basketball starts off strong

By @ArionArmeniakos The Las Positas College men’s basketball team is off to yet another positive start this fall as the California Community College Athletic Association men’s basketball (CCCMBCA) season begins to take shape and teams slowly ramp up their preparation for the beginning…

Sports by Arion Armeniakos December 12, 2018

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Fire smokes out Hawks playoff run

By @ArionArmeniakos After another successful regular season, the Las Positas women’s soccer team fell in the first round of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) playoffs round for the second year in a row. The Hawks finished 13-3-3 in the regular season, almost…

Sports by Arion Armeniakos December 12, 2018

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Volleyball team on the rise

By @ArionArmeniakos When starting up a new team, there is always the fear of failure and falling deep behind the competition as you’re essentially bringing a group of strangers together and asking them to perform on the same level as other already established…

Opinion by Rebecca Robison December 12, 2018

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LPC has a drug problem

@RebeccaRobiso19 According to a 2014 report by samha.gov, 1 in 5 college students partake in drug use. This statistic has since risen. Las Positas College seems to be a well rounded school, with a 71 percent success rate in course completion as of 2017.…

News by Arion Armeniakos December 12, 2018

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Gov. Brown vetoes nightlife bill

By @ArionArmeniakos On Sept. 28, the bill that would have allowed two Bay Area cities to turn up even later into the night was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Oakland and San Francisco were included in Senate Bill 905, which would have permitted the…

News by Rebecca Robison December 12, 2018

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BART’s new safety measures leave many uneasy

@Rebecca.Robiso19 Nia Wilson was simply trying to get on the train, just like everybody else on the platform. The 18 year old was alongside her sisters, Letifah and Tashiya, on July 22. That night, Wilson was randomly stabbed in the neck and killed at…

Opinion by Victoria Lachnit December 12, 2018

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Students feel disrespected by their own school

(Photo illustration by Victoria Lachnit) “Students first.” That’s the motto that many of Las Positas’ administrators preached. It’s tied onto email signatures, splashed across other documents and school literature. “Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.” That’s the Oxford Dictionary definition of the word facetious--…

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