The City College choir will be performing an American Pop Concert twice this weekend, once on Friday Oct. 14 and again on Sunday, Oct. 16. Both concerts will begin at 8 p.m. and be about an hour and a half long.

The daytime choral ensemble and the evening choir will sing popular and patriotic American songs.

The event will cost $5 at the door which will raise scholarship funds for City College students that will be singing in Carnegie Hall next year over Memorial Day.

“We feel very prepared [and we] should have an excellent concert,” says Doreen Irwin, City [read more...]

Don Meyer, a regional sculptor, brings a whole new meaning to “Recycle, Reduce, Reuse.” Because he has done just that by employing items the majority of people would not think could be used in such a fashion. One item, for example, is his mother’s old dentures.

In the piece, “Mother’s Milk,” Meyer used a milk carafe, a small board and a chess piece to create his work of art. The chest piece lays on what would resemble a bosom, and acts as the nipple. And of course, there are the dentures.

“It had the artist’s mother’s actual false teeth,” says [read more...]

You see them in the parks, on the bus benches, laying on stairs and standing on street corners. Some try not to look at their faces, but the face of a homeless person is more than what lies on the outside.

The Cultural Awareness Center at City College held World Homeless Day on Oct. 10 to promote awareness of homelessness in the Sacramento area and the organizations that try to help them.

Francisco Dominguez, a national photographer who started his activism at City College during the mid ’80s as a student, introduced the event by showing photographs of the homeless [read more...]

“Learn to Surf this Saturday!” It was as simple as that, those few words on a sign near City College’s cafeteria caught my attention and intrigued my sense of adventure. Now a week later, I can say that I now know how to surf.

On Saturday Oct. 8, City College’s “Adventure Club” hosted an opportunity of surfing lessons for two hours for only $60. This included board and wetsuit rental, and most importantly, a ride.

Bright and early Saturday morning before the sun had even cleared the skyline, 15 brave and groggy students found [read more...]

The ancient Maya are often credited with predicting 2012 as the end  of the world. Some feel that the end of the world is an outrageous idea  while others are scrambling to experience all that they can before the  end of time.

Michael J. Grofe, 41, a Philadelphia, Penn., native, is a City College  anthropology and archeology professor who went from chocolate  factory owner to Mayan culture expert.

After starting his undergraduate work in marine biology at the  University of Miami and completing it at the James Cook University in Australia, Grofe says he went on to earn [read more...]

City College has many on campus clubs that get recognition because they  are easily accessible.

However, there is a club that works together off campus that many people  do not even know exists.

New and still unnamed is a club that goes out every Thursday at 6:30 p.m.  to feed the homeless.

Shannon Gibbons, is the president and the only official member of the club.  Communications professor Patricia Harris-Jenkins is the listed club  adviser because of the club’s newness.

Gibbons has been helping feed the hungry for the past year religiously at Newman Catholic Community located on 5900 Newman Ct., [read more...]

Hanna Gough

“My journal because it has all my

memories written down.”

Brittaney Pilcher

“My cell phone so that I could call to make sure

my family was safe and check statuses of the disaster.”

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