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By Mike Estrada From the Marlboro Man, official beer sponsors of the NFL and MLB, an increased fight for decriminalization of marijuana and constant commercials for painkillers, drugs have never…
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By Jacob Sykes Glasses clink together and the din of conversation and laughter roars through the room. The concrete floors are scuffed from hundreds of shoes and stained with sticky…
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By Frank Alli As students shuffle into the room, they hear: “Hey, have you eaten yet today?” The question comes from a COC staffer who is surrounded by shelves of…
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By Mark Moreno LOS ANGELES CA- The smell of smoke fills the air as chants from the voices of thousands of standing soccer fans in the stands fill the air….
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By Jacob Sykes On Soledad Canyon Road going north towards Acton, there’s not a lot of action. There are corpses of trees along the sides of the windy canyon road,…
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By Alina Herrera In 2012, at the age of 34, Antonio Valencia decided he wanted to go to college and get his degree as a business major. He knew he…
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By Sophia Lesseos It’s 3 a.m. and the grinding of coffee beans and hissing of the milk steamer fills the air as Oscar Salazar begins his early morning. Four different…
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By Leslie Yada One political showdown, five political science professors, and one minute to make an argument. The Political Science Club, Phi Theta Kappa, has organized a debate between the…
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By Ryan Burke When Santa Clarita local Joel Turner went out on a routine walk with his dog on a warm evening last summer, he assumed it wouldn’t be anything…
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By Kamryn Martell Adviser of the Trans* Alliance Jess Love is making great strides as of late. Trans* Alliance is a club on campus that helps students who identify as…
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By Ryan Burke As one of COC’s top transfer schools, Cal State Northridge is home to many alumni. Relocating to a new campus, especially a CSU or UC, is…
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By Summer Yang Katie Wynkoop, a COC student who is one of the main vocalists in the band Cover Charge, uses social media to promote her music. Wynkoop has her…
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By Jorge Ventura The spring semester is always the busiest time at College Of The Canyons with students trying to book last minute appointments with counselors to discuss what classes…
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By Luis Felipe Gonzalez A dark room, a 2015 Macbook Pro, a keyboard and a whole lot of frustration. For Cody Isaacs, a 20-year-old music producer and business student, producing…
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By Robert Block As Erica Seubert stepped up to the lectern to deliver her prepared statement to the college board, the infant resting in her arms looked forward with a…
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By Corey Marino It’s Friday, it’s been a long week, and after an hour spent on the 405 freeway trying to get back into Santa Clarita, and Kevin Davis has…
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By Jackeline Barrientos According to a flier on a bulletin board in the library, COC recently launched “Canyons M”, a mobile application for smartphones or tablets that puts access to…
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By Jesse Munoz NAPA — College of the Canyons won the 2019 California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) State Championship by a whopping 18 strokes at the Silverado Resort &…
Health / by - ago
By Natalia Radcliffe and Praditya Fulumirani Health is your greatest wealth, according to the ancient Roman poet Virgil. How about your mental health? Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t…
Feature / by - ago
Think about how often you use a piece of plastic. Maybe it was the straw in your Starbucks this morning, or the plastic bag you carried through the mall this…
Business / by - ago
By Shane Cutchall It was a cloudy, November afternoon in Communications class on the Valencia campus in Hasley Hall, and a group of three classmates in the back of the…
Arts & Entertainment / by - ago
By Jackeline Barrientos If you sit outside of the College of the Canyons art gallery, observing students as they walk past, you may notice that the majority of students completely…
Feature / by - ago
By Mauricio Gutierrez Passionate, animated, genuine- she strides back and forth in the classroom teaching interpersonal communication to a wide array of interested students and stopping every so often to…
Advice / by - ago
By Sebastian Gonzalez Many people enjoy franchise restaurants for the sake of buying a quick meal, but not enough attention is given to hole in the wall restaurants. Some of…
Spotlight / by - ago
By Daniela Torres It is an average Wednesday as Madison Spero finishes up the exam she had been studying for the night prior. Spero leaves her class still nervous due…
Feature / by - ago
By Shane Thomas A new project underway is exciting Santa Clarita’s youth. There is a new skate park under development in Castaic, CA. This 9,500 square foot area is under…
Feature / by - August 20, 2018 2:00 pm
By Kaitlynn Tedrick Club participation has long been a tradition in the college experience. However, students are growing busier with their academics; could the growing pressure on academic achievement dampen…
Advice / by - August 20, 2018 12:43 pm
By Mike Estrada You can’t walk around COC without noticing its beauty; from the always fresh cut lawns to the trees and flowers that produce radiant hues of colors from…
Feature / by - August 20, 2018 12:00 pm
By Jonathan Hurtado On the southern end of College of the Canyons’ Valencia Campus is a building with simplistic architectural characteristics surrounded by bright green grass and a handful of…
Advice / by - August 20, 2018 10:00 am
By Ashley Bautista Looking for assistance with the college experience at COC? Resources for Individual Success in Education is a new program at College of the Canyons that has partnered…
Travel / by - August 20, 2018 8:00 am
By Marriya Ahumada You fight the traffic to make it on campus and by the time you get there, you have five minutes before your class starts. When you pull…
Feature / by - July 31, 2018 12:00 pm
By Brandon Laue Dealing with cancer is one of the most difficult things in life, and some people lack the proper support needed to take care of themselves. Michael Hoefflin…
Feature / by - July 24, 2018 12:00 pm
On each floor of Mentry Hall and Hasley Hall, small digital counters slowly tick upwards into the tens of thousands. The figures displayed on seven of them as of this…
Feature / by - July 17, 2018 12:00 pm
By James Gend It’s like wearing six layers of clothing in a hot, steamy desert in the middle of summer. Light flashing all around you, with only two narrow peep…
Feature / by - July 10, 2018 2:30 pm
By Maria Garcia There’s a strong smell; it could be the burnt metal or the laser cutter at work. The loud noise of the machines at work fills the room…
Sports / by - July 3, 2018 5:00 pm
By David A. Gonzales If they aren’t learning new songs on the guitar or studying intricate work in kinesiology, they are scoring goals on the soccer field. Longtime friends Jennifer…
Entertainment / by - July 3, 2018 2:30 pm
By John O’Donnell A whistle blows and the countdown begins. The ball is thrown and then immediately lost in an intense commotion of iron and sweat. The clash of metal…
Feature / by - June 26, 2018 2:30 pm
By Praditya Fulumirani Millennials don’t care. Those aren’t my words, that’s just what the figures say. “Heal the world/ Make it a better place/ For you and for me/ And…
Feature / by - June 26, 2018 12:00 pm
By Mercy Kowalski The devastation of outliving your child is even greater when their life was taken in their own classroom, where they are supposed to be taught, feel safe…
Feature / by - June 12, 2018 12:00 pm
By Sophie Tucker Before attending College of the Canyons, or any college, for that matter, students are required to take a math placement test to determine how much they do…
News / by - June 6, 2018 8:00 am
By Elizabeth Medina In the back you can hear a tick tick tick as the clock makes its way to 5 o’clock. It’s evident the class is exhausted since the…
News / by - June 4, 2018 7:00 am
By Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer and Cástulo de la Rocha The two of us are among dozens of commencement speakers at California’s colleges and universities this year who are calling…
Opinion / by - April 26, 2018 8:00 am
By Rigo Carbajal NCAA athletes entertain millions across the country. However, college athletes are exploited by the NCAA itself, many commercial establishments, merchandise sales and even their own coaches. Division…
Opinion / by - April 24, 2018 11:58 am
By Natalia Radcliffe Free speech. Here in the United States, it is taken for granted. Our founding fathers thought it was important that in the new country they were creating,…
Opinion / by - April 21, 2018 7:00 am
By Michael Chang As we all know, the topic of gun violence and, more specifically, gun control has been a very controversial issue that has been in the spotlight. While…
Opinion / by - April 18, 2018 11:00 am
By Tyler Castillo A feud between the two most popular games currently is heating up as both games move to mobile, but is one still better than the other? PUBG…
Opinion / by - April 18, 2018 7:15 am
By Kai Turner If you’ve been paying attention to the usual jibber jabber in media recently, you most certainly will have noticed that the issue of guns and people, or…
Opinion / by - April 17, 2018 12:30 pm
By Valeria Vazquez After the events on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the student survivors took it upon themselves to lead a sweeping movement regarding gun…
Opinion / by - April 17, 2018 7:00 am
By Andrew Garcia People first, figures second. Being a professional athlete, musician, public figure, celebrity, etc. doesn’t mean you should sacrifice your expressions and attitudes as a fellow American. This…
Business / by - February 12, 2018 6:28 pm
By Jose Luis Aparicio Jr. So, you’re a licensed driver in California and you make enough money to afford a monthly car payment. Congratulations! The open road waits. Your first…
