By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
As the school year grinds to a halt, many of your classmates are preparing to graduate or transfer, and if you’re sticking around LPC a little longer, you might be thinking, “I should be up there on the stage…
By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
An era is about to end. In the fall, Ernie Jones, my Dad,will no longer be a fixture at Las Positas.
Dad’s retiring from teaching full-time, a reality that’s hard to wrap my head around. He’s been at LPC since…
By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
According to a 2012 Harris poll, 1 out of every 5 adults has at least one tattoo. According to Forbes, Americans spend about 2.3 billion dollars yearly on getting them. Until recently, I wasn’t one of them.
Until late 2015,…
Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
Over break I learned that comedian Roseanne Barr, who has never shied away from controversy, had, in a 2009 photoshoot for a satirical Jewish magazine, dressed as Hitler eating burnt gingerbread men.
Of course, there’s been some controversy about it, but I’m…
By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
On March 14, the world lost one of the greatest scientific minds since Albert Einstein.
Professor Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease – which can kill within months of diagnosis - in 1963. He famously…
By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
If mass shootings become normalized, we lose more than just precious lives.
Seventeen people lost their lives in the recent Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida. Twenty-eight were killed in Sandy Hook. Twelve people died at Columbine and twelve died…
By Ian Jones
@IDJONESPHOTOG
Free tuition for the first year of college?! In October, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 19 (AB-19,) the “California College Promise,” which provides just that, into law.
Previously known as the Board of Governors fee waiver, the California College…
Seventeen people lost their lives in this week’s Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida. Twenty eight were killed in Sandy Hook. Twelve people died at Columbine and twelve died in the 2012 Aurora shooting.
Sixteen were killed in San Bernardino. Thirty two at Virginia…