Over 20 other community college newspapers across the state are publishing similar editorials against the reccomendations of the Student Success Task Force. For a full list of our sister newspapers in the fight, visit www.TheGuardsman.com. The California Community College Student Success Task Force is a name that parodies itself. The task force, charged with revolutionizing community colleges [...]
Statist worship of military veterans in the Occupy Movement by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief The Occupy Wall Street movement opens itself up to the possibility that in their statist worship of the military that one of their celebrated veterans might not be whom they claim to be. And indeed, it has happened with the military record [...]
by Raymond P. Bondad Section Editor Real Talk: Getting arrested for occupying a park, a few hours past your signed permit allowed, is just plain stupid. Even worse if you were arrested, knocked out in a sleeping bag. Real Talk: Occupying Coachella Valley should consist of the occupation of more than just Palm Desert. How [...]
A grand experiment in truly limited government by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief On Nov. 17, protesters of the global “Occupy” movement marked the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests with marches, rallies, and various mass actions. They were protesting many things: corporate greed and its influence in our political discourse, a two-tiered justice system [...]
The third end of war in Iraq does not necessarily mean the end of war by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief Bernie Quigley, in an op-ed piece for The Hill about the current crop of Republican Party presidential candidates, said this: Three of the Republican candidates for president, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, are of the [...]
Maintenance of the status quo the sole goal and purpose of partisans by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief On Sept. 17, a group of protesters gathered in New York City in a protest of corporatism and the failed policies of this government. They called themselves “Occupy Wall Street” and they did occupy. The protests persisted and despite [...]
Two Americans, two reactions by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief There was justified anger over the execution of Troy Davis, but why is there none over the White House and the U.S. government’s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki? Ivan Eland questioned this double standard, saying that “at least Troy Davis got due process (however flawed), as [...]
Students’ gripes of higher fees costs lack perspective by Samuel Mountjoy Managing Editor On Sept. 21, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill stalling fee increases for California community college students. The $10 fee scheduled to take effect Spring semester 2012 has been delayed until Fall semester 2012. The $10 hike follows last year’s $10 [...]
We are creating extremists everyday through the daily death and ruin we rain down on the Middle East and Africa by Jayel Aheram Editor-in-Chief Last Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Arab countries not to “trade one form of repression for another” and to embrace freedom and reject religious extremism as they cast off [...]
High speeds, road rage, new drivers roaming COD streets, put students at risk by Samuel Mountjoy Managing Editor Woah there! The sign says stop! The streets surrounding College of the Desert can be quite risky to the pedestrian student. With parking lots crowded with new drivers still coming to terms with the operation of a [...]
