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Goalie bounces back from injuries

By Lucas Almeida The Guardsman After missing most games last season due to severe jaw and knee injuries, you could say the City College men’s soccer starting goalkeeper is a warrior. Martin De La Torre, 21, is a passionate mechanical engineering student and dedicated athlete who went above and

Students make City College fall for fashion

By Dannie Hawkins The Guardsman The Smith Hall cafeteria’s typical atmosphere of hunger-diminishing and homework-finishing was recently dynamically transformed into a venue of excitement and allure by a series of student-produced fashion shows. Student models in smokey, wing-tipped lined eyes and styling hair into angelic curls and edgy buns

Nursing program highly competitive

By Lynette Martinez Competition is high for prospective nursing majors at City College, so they will need more than compassion and commitment if they want to get into the program. That was the central theme issued by Registered Nursing Department Chair Margaret Noonan in a nursing program introductory seminar held

Times change to comply with the law

By Dalton Amador The Guardsman After being in violation of state law for the past five years, City College is now publishing the exact time classes begin and end. All community colleges in California must conform their scheduling practices to the standards set by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s

Education is stuck in a hundred-year-old rut

by Becca Hoekstra The Guardsman In the fast-paced world of Google, social media and the 24/7 news cycle, our Industrial Age education system is a dinosaur relic in need of retirement. Get this: the standardized test is almost 100 years old; it was invented in 1914. Today, we throw

Rams make history, advance to State Championship against Mt. San Antonio

By Lucas Almeida The Guardsman Walnut, Calif. — Players prepared and practiced hard all season long with one main goal in mind—to come to this stage of the competition and bring the trophy home but no matter what happens, the City College men’s soccer team knows they are making

Community mourns slain Oakland teen, seeks justice

By Curtis Coloma Around 400 supporters of the Justice for Alan Blueford coalition met at noon on Nov. 10 in downtown Oakland for a peaceful march against police brutality. The coalition formed shortly after Blueford, an 18-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on May 6 by Oakland Police