By Ian D. Jones
Copy Editor
Humor’s obviously important; otherwise it wouldn’t have evolved along with us. The political journalist Norman Cousins famously recuperated from a bout with illness, helped by marathon-ing the Marx Bros. movies. Groucho and Co. are great, but I prefer…
By Glenn Wohltmann
A dispute over more than $200,000 between the college and a Livermore charter school may be resolved, although the details have yet to be worked out.
The issue dates back to the 2013-14 school year, college officials confirmed, when instructors from…
By Mitchell Mylius
@mitchellmylius
Fans were forgiving, 20-year old artist Niykee Heaton after she became bedridden because of a back injury caused her to miss a performance at Concord Music Hall in Chicago. She had been expressing her coughs and allergies over the last…
By Jesus Mesina
@m3sinajesus
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Halo 5 is a good game. It’s fun to play, but it will disappoint the loyal fans of the series with the removal of the split screen multiplayer mode.
This is the second time developer 343…
By Carleen Surrena
@SURRENA_C
All he needed was a place to play.
The search, driven by his love for basketball, led Etienne Ettlinger to five countries, cost thousands of dollars and even caused him to drop out of high school at one point.
His pursuit has landed him here, in Livermore. He has earned…
By Tamana Ansari
@Tamana18248646
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Middle College at Las Positas College allows high school students to experience higher education while still working toward their high school diplomas.
LPC’s Middle College opened for this fall. It is not a new idea — Middle…
By Kalama Hines
@HINESight_2020
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
Only white people were allowed.
At least that is what a massive group of alleged Star Wars fans have said with the use of the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII on social media.
When Disney announced…
By Glenn Wohltmann
Not too long ago, a friend’s offspring came home from a national meeting of teens on the East Coast. That young person asked to be addressed with the non-gendered pronoun “they” instead of being called “he” or “she.”
I understand the…
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 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…