Haley Duval, Editor-in-Chief

January 6, 2021 • No Comments

The U.S. Capitol was breached with Pro-Trump protestors on Wednesday afternoon, as lawmakers were gathered inside to formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in November’s presidential election. California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley released the following statement in response to the events transpiring at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6: "The actions of violent rioters who have trampled our nation’s Capitol and our sacred democratic process must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. Our thoughts are with our state’s Congressional delegation, some of whom are graduates of our colleges, as they seek to carry out their constitutional duties. Community colleges are among the most democratizing...

Victoria Meza, Reporter

December 9, 2020 • No Comments

A BC webinar was held called "Salud Mental y Bienestar Durante el COVID-19 (Mental Health and Wellbeing During COVID-19)" and hosted by Kathleen Murphy to talked about the mental health of people, whether they were students or not. The first half of the meeting was held in Spanish and the second half was hold in English, both with interpreters. The first half was with Doctor Tania Pachecho, who talked about mental health in rural communities. Dr. Pachecho started to talk about the importance of this program, and why they did it in the first place. She was accompanied by Sandra Celedon who was explaining that she works in several healthy communities and she keeps building healthy communities to work with groups that are going to be able to...

Victoria Meza, Reporter

November 30, 2020 • No Comments

BC hosted webinar called Committing to Transfer as a Key Racial Equity Strategy was held on Nov 19. The event started with the introduction of the host, Michele Siqueiros, and the Sec. of State Alex Medina. Siqueiros said that, for 16 years, they have been fighting to ensure that all students have equal opportunities regarding their color of skin and social status. Sec. of State Alex Medina started talking about the controversial 2020 election. He explains that, since the events happened with the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19, and much more there has been an increase of voters; mostly people from 18 to 21 years. Then he explains that they have been trying for students to get a higher education. According to Medina, some students...