With the new semester just beginning, a new schedule has taken effect. It extends class length, adding 10 minutes to every in-person class, and removes finals week from the end of the semester.
Though the extended classes are little more than a minor…
Las Positas College’s annual Welcome Back Week saw anti-abortion protesters with the organization Project Truth visiting campus to share their points of view. They have visited LPC a total of four times.
Abortion is a hot-button issue, and people across the political…
Students at LPC use all kinds of social media, such as Instagram, Whatsapp and Snapchat. Social media is a big part of everyday life, especially for teenagers and young adults.
Social media can also be difficult to put down. Many apps have…
Today, algorithms designed to keep users endlessly scrolling deliver Americans their news through conflicting headlines, videos stripped of context and a ubiquitous partisan spin.
The instinct, for those that wise up to the doom-cycle, is to disengage. This yearning to unplug is known…
It’s been two years since the Grammy-winning hit “Not Like Us” became the summer anthem that had the world jeering Drake. It’s been 15 months since Kendrick Lamar put the nail in the coffin of their historic battle by performing his legendary…
A swelteringly hot pulse. A staccato synth buildup. A voice seems to fade in and out of a light-headed daze as steam fills the atmosphere. A pressure cooker of sounds that mirror whip cracks frame lyrics of sweat dripping on to concrete.…
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Hearing these words rarely makes the experience easier. Understanding that life moves forward does not make it any less difficult to live through life’s transitions.
Like many students at Las Positas College, my time here is…
The engines ignited with a thunder that rattled the Florida coast, and for the first time in over half a century, humans began the journey back toward the moon — not to land, but to pave the way for everything that comes…
A sink full of dishes. Clothes spilling out of a hamper. An unmade bed. Unfinished projects. Missing assignments. These are all things that can be found in the living space of someone with ADHD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Or at least, that is…
The war in Iran has entered its seventh week, a conflict fought with bombs, planes and memes. But while the United States and Iran trade viral videos, the wallets of U.S. citizens are drained, American soldiers are returning home in body bags…
