By Ulises Rodriguez, Staff Reporter As the toilet paper apocalypse started back in mid-March, everyone was fighting over hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and water bottles. Now the thing that stood out to me the most was how everyone was leaving only one brand of water on the shelves. Yup, Dasani. Is Dasani that bad? Would […]
Category: Perspectives
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Protect Immigrants and Eradicate Nationalist Supremacy
Graphic by Andrea Mendez. By Brenda Verano, Staff Reporter Why exactly should immigration matter to an American nationalist? Because it should. It’s that simple. In my private utopia, I would end this piece on that, but of course, for the sake of immigration advocacy I will continue. And, no, white people who are not white […]
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Remembrance
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief She was smaller than me, her blue eyes were set in a wrinkled face and her smile was soft. She tapped my Star of David and nodded her head, “You must be Ashkenazi.” It was a simple connection, one that stemmed from a shared faith and a shared culture. Her name […]
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Student’s Research Connects Culture and Academics
Photo courtesy of Brian Cantero. By Destiny Torres, Arts & Lifestyle Editor Growing up in South Los Angeles, Bryan Cantero listened to a vast variety of music, but growing up in a Mexican household, the music that filled the walls of his home have always been corridos, traditional Mexican folk ballads. Cantero is a senior […]
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Journey to Freedom
Phuong Nguyen and his wife, Phuoc Nguyen, in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Phuong Nguyen. By Jasmine Nguyen, Culture Editor The small coastal village of Phuoc Tinh was thrown into chaos. The relatively quiet community made up of fishermen had remained peaceful throughout the conflict between the Communist and Southern Vietnamese army. But as the month […]