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 [...]
by Israel J. Wilder
By now most of you have seen, or heard, about the UC Davis pepper spray incident.
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 Israel J. Wilder
The dollar coin hasn’t been as popular as government officials originally had hoped, decades ago. Reporters say that when the dollar coin was introduced, people were confused because the size and shape closely resembled the quarter.
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 [...]
I must say that this article is really a disappointment. You should inform yourself before making ignorant comments. Legal residents and U.S. citizens will not compete for anything because they will be the first ones to receive financial aid. After that, whatever it is left, it will go to the “illegals” as you call them. [...]
by Israel J. Wilder
As some of you may know earlier this month, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Dream Act. The California Dream Act can loosely be described as a law that grants illegal immigrants access to state financial aid for public universities and community colleges and is to take effect January 2013.
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 [...]
Actions speak louder than words by Samuel Mountjoy Managing Editor Information is essential to a successful movement, it is imperative that activists, supporters and sympathizers stay updated with accurate and reliable information. However, in this new era of technology, and the population’s reliance on it, the line between feeling and doing has become blurred. It [...]
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