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Is Getting a College Education a Right or a Privilege?

Is Getting a College Education a Right or a Privilege?

College is becoming more expensive for students By Audrey Garces In recent years, the question of college education being a right or a privilege has risen to the surface as one of America’s predominant hot button issues. California’s UC school system has pushed their tuition hikes back to

‘it’s not just harmless water vapor’

By Isra Ahmad CONTRIBUTOR Before I began college, I couldn’t have identified an e-cigarette if I saw one. In my first semester at San Jose State University, I sat next to a student who was openly smoking an e-cigarette in my community health class, to my surprise. Since I

Point your anger where it really belongs

Football is awesome, right? We canFootball is awesome, right? We can’t get enough of it in this coun- try. It’s a year-round obsession, even though the regular season is only 16 games spanning three or four months. Each game is hyped and treated as if they are a

More Money, More Problems: College Style

By Keiara Allen contributor Imagine that you just got accepted into that dream university. You know the one, that college that you rushed to meet the applica- tion deadline, typed the statement of purpose until your fingers pul- sated in agony, and begged your professors to complete the letter of

Eliminating Pacific Islander Stereotypes

By Cassandra Ordonio contributor When do you ever see Pacific Islanders in the media? How are they portrayed, in your eyes? During my first year at City College, I was reading the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle and there was a headline that caught my attention: “Bay Area

What do you think of drones suddenly being accessible to the public?

Drones should remain in the hands of the people who need them By Cassandra Ordonio It seems as though new types of technology are being produced every year and advance us by a decade. We have large, flat screen televisions installed in the walls of our living room, and we

Much ado about nothing with civilian drones

By Matthew Patton The Guardsman So there are people out there that have reservations about drones being available in the civilian sector. There’s this prevailing fear/notion that surveillance technology like that is something that should be only in the hands of our government, due to the very real