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Expensive housing may explain high tuition rates

Expensive housing may explain high tuition rates

By J.B. Evans The Guardsman Students lucky and determined enough to pursue higher education must choose from a narrow and paltry variety of financial options, including the rare chance of receiving a scholarship, the demand of taking out exorbitant student loans or the reliance upon their parent

Students smothered by loans

Students smothered by loans

By Calindra Revier The Guardsman I suspect that many students feel hopeless and undoubtedly confused as they trudge through the winding and dark path that is student loans. It starts simple. The current 4.66 percent interest rate, elevated outrageously from 3.86 percent just last year before, is expected

Should campus police carry guns?

Should campus police carry guns?

Campus police must carry guns to protect City College. Arm them. By Patrick Cochran The Guardsman All it takes is one crazed individual to turn a peaceful campus into a killing zone. We must have armed campus police to combat and prevent a massacre. Tragedies at UC-Santa Barbara and Virginia

Ferguson shooting, nothing new

By Matthew Patton The Guardsman Ferguson is all over the place. Let’s just get that out there, front and center and out of the way. The events that are happening in this town of 21,000 people are a microcosm of the country. Lost in much of the discussion

Bridging education with technology can bring better results

Bridging education with technology can bring better results

By Charles Innis The Guardsman I frequently overhear older people refer to “kids these days” as doomed. With the enormous popularity of smartphones, social media and computer use among young people, a pessimistic attitude has been forming among those who grew up without them. Many older adults believe the upsurge

We must overcome these toxic perspectives, eradicate oppression

We must overcome these toxic perspectives, eradicate oppression

By Ariana Bindman The Guardsman “Hey girl, whatʼs your fuckinʼ problem?” said the man in the blue hoodie as he grabbed me by the shoulders, putting me in a situation that I have become all too familiar; situations that I have been told to expect to happen to me since

Donald Sterling's punishment will not solve issues of racism

We live in a racist world.