Water Polo coach (and former student) is living out her dream

Laney College’s women’s water polo team may have stumbled out of the gate early in the season, but their head coach Elizabeth Flynn is living a dream in her first year in command.
Flynn’s journey to Laney is atypical to that…

Peralta Colleges Foundation makes huge blunder

For the second time in three years the Peralta Colleges Foundation (PCF) fall fund raising dinner has been canceled. Together with the spring golf tournament, these annual events raise scholarship money for Peralta students.
At the Sept. 11 PCF…

The truth comes out in Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’

David Fincher’s new film, “Gone Girl”, gives us two narrators to look forward to, and we constantly ask which story is true. Amy Elliott-Dunne (Rosamund Pike) and Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) are a married couple who are about to celebrate their fifth…

Transfer Day offers direction to higher degrees

For many Laney is a stepping-stone to transferring to a four-year college. While some students might be just starting to accumulate the necessary credits to transfer, others are at the end of their journey to complete the requirements to apply to…

Librarians promote info literacy

Laney librarians teach the value of good research

Many people are certain that the Internet and the 21st century Information Age will soon make libraries and librarians irrelevant.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Librarians at Laney…

Is this mayoral candidate for real or just ‘trolling’?

This past week, between homework and extended internet browsing, I saw something that sparked my curiosity. “Who, exactly, is this Peter Liu guy?” I soon proclaimed to myself aloud, “He can’t be serious.”
These days, we’re all familiar…

Powell speaks out for education

Many of the more than 250 students who filled the Merritt Student Lounge on Sept. 23, along with other community members, to hear activist, writer, and public lecturer Kevin Powell speak on “The Toolkit for Educating the Hip-Hop Generation” may have been lured by their…

ASLC appoints new publicity commissioner

The ASLC appointed a new publicity commissioner and discussed a variety of upcoming events at its Oct. 16 meeting.
Miguel Avila, a senator in the ASLC, was appointed by President Carl Oliver to be voted into the role of publicity commissioner. The table…

Word on the Quad

The State of California just passed a law requiring students on state funded campuses to both give consent before sex. Do you this is a good idea?

“Yea, I think so.”
Yancy Bauoro
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Can politics affect what you wear?

The 90s: Clinton was in office, alternative music was in full force and fashion was at it’s peak. The 2000s: George Bush was in office, the music sucked and don’t get me started on what was “stylish.” Now that we’ve been under a Democratic president for a few years…

Scholarship funds await takers Peralta Foundation alerts instructors

Students have not received any emails from Peralta about Peralta Colleges Foundation Scholarships, as a result the number of students applying is about 20 percent lower than expected.
As you know, so many of our…

Amazon launches forum for writers

Every day we use the internet to connect ourselves with people and information no matter the physical distance. It provides us with endless collaborative possibility.
Certain companies are beginning to take advantage of this notion of connectivity, one we often take for…

Laney art hit by ‘Phantom’

A self-appointed art critic defaced a painting that was part of an exhibition on the seventh floor of the Tower building. “With all due respect to the artist and her patron, this painting and its theme do not belong on this floor, in this building, or anywhere on campus, OTHER THAN…

Farming for community

Laney Campus Forum- Oct 16, Kelly D. Carlisle, of Acta Non Verba, spoke about food, nutrition and raising local awareness. She emphasized the lack of nutritional food available locally and how it affects the community.
In East Oakland, where Kelly started her farm project, “Acta Non…

U.S. military presence in Liberia?

In 1847, the U.S’s short-lived and only attempt at African colonization came to end when the Republic of Liberia declared its independence.
Now, after years of diplomatic neglect and insufficient assistance, the U.S is returning to Liberia. President Obama’s…

Feel good — counting your blessings

Earlier this year I wrote a piece about the world of self-publishing and the new opportunities available to the average writer in ebooks, but even if you aren’t interested in writing as a career, there are a lot of reasons to put that pen to paper. Creative and…

State would savor strong ‘El Niño’

Despite a high chance that California may see above-average rainfall this winter, it looks like the statewide drought may still worsen. The Bay Area could be one of the few areas to see even slight improvement, while more than half of the state’s water reserves are…