The Express news staff went to downtown’s Cesar Chavez Park this fall to capture the grassroots effort by City College students and staff as they did their part in the greater national Occupy Movement, which began on Wall Street and continues to spread throughout the country.

Express multimedia editor L.T. Clayton produced the video that captured Occupy Sacramento protesters pledging Oct.6 to occupy Cesar Chavez Park for a month as an act of solidarity with the national Occupy movement. A number of City College students participated in the protests.

“Folks are out of work and feel that the government, at [read more...]

Donations of canned foods don’t usually yield tangible returns, but City College’s cosmetology department held its fall semester canned food drive, inviting students, staff and community to donate canned foods in return for a free haircut or manicure.

A multimedia editor for saccityexpress.com, Vincent Fernandez, examined how this act of goodwill benefits the Sacramento homeless community in the video “Food for Beauty.”

The semi-annual canned food drive gives cosmetology students the chance to practice their skills on a variety of hair types, and the interaction between client and cosmetologist is one of the benefits of the food drive. Cosmetology instructors [read more...]

Express Multimedia Editor L.T. Clayton has a look at the Occupy Sacramento movement.

The University of California, Davis recently had to cut four sports teams due to the cuts incurred by schools across the state this year. The question on our minds is whether or not that same kind of cutting could be seen at City College. This is a documentary on the process we here at SacCityExpress.com went through to publish the story.

Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo: these are just a few of the artists who would enshrine the surrealism movement of the early 20th century into the annals of art history. Their bold investigations into the symbolism of the subconscious influenced countless artists to pick up the brush and paint something more real than still life or portraiture could afford. Nineteen-year-old, City College student Hannah De La Rosa is one of these artists.

De La Rosa, an art major who’s been attending City College since the fall semester of 2008, says that her interest in art became apparent at a [read more...]

Photojournalism student Susanne Shirley put together this slideshow on Oak Ridge Elementary School and how they depend on the school lunches program for the success of their students. Oak Ridge is one of the area’s public schools that faces tough cuts if they do not improve standardized test scores.

City College held their semesterly club day March 11, 2010, an event which allowed different campus clubs to promote themselves. While smaller than the club day of the previous semester, students were nonetheless having a good time eating and socializing.

The play “The Meeting” made it’s premiere at City College on Feb. 4, taking place at the Student Center. It dramatizes a fictional meeting between two of the most influential figures from the Civil Rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

City College men’s and women’s tennis team prepares for their new spring season, with their first opponent being bad weather.

For many students, starting college is a big event. They can become overwhelmed by bigger classes, larger campuses, and for some, being away from home for the first time. Many students find it difficult to get around a new campus, and don’t know where to turn for help.

Now imagine that the United States is not even your place of birth and English is not your first language. Where do you turn?

At City College, it would be the International Student Center and Reginald “Reggie” Jean-Gilles, the counseling clerk who always has a friendly smile and a sincere, “Can I [read more...]