By Johanna Calderon The Spanish Club’s purpose is to help others not lose their first spoken language. Students speak the entire meeting in Spanish. It helps because when they started school, teachers required students to speak English when the students came to the U.S for the first time. Club member Fatima Alvarado Platero is from El Salvador and she knew some English when she was going to school in El…
by Johanna Calderon Legalizing marijuana is a big issue that students want to happen because the students do not have to worry about being detained and it would change how others see it, but should not happen. However, if it becomes legalized it can be more problematic than it is. If it was legalized, some of ELAC students would consume this product during school hours and that would be a…
By Johanna Calderon & Dorany Pineda The East Los Angeles College Health Center held their first ever health fair on Thursday promoting healthy living. One of the booths was dedicated to nutrition, which had useful information that addressed student eating habits. The information included how to read the nutritional labels on packaged foods, how to keep track of their caloric intake and the foods they consume, and how to get the…
By Johanna Calderon No Manches Frida is an extremely funny and deceiving comedy that keeps the audience laughing. This movie is a remake of German film “Fack ju Göhte”, a derivative of the German version in terms of the setting and scenarios. The films music track went well with the story, featuring a mixture of both English and Spanish songs that keep the movie flowing. Directed by Nacho Velilla, starring…
by Johanna Calderon An East Los Angeles College student, Eros Saldana, is getting his poetry book published by Creating Space through Amazon.com. He entered the Talent Show again because he had in the fall the past, but this time, he read a poem to the audience. His poem focused on immigration because it a hot topic around the world, but he writes mostly about love. “I never title my poem…
by Johanna Calderon Students are more focused on social media than paying attention in class. When they’re in class, they can’t seem to let go of their phones for hours. Chris Turk is an art instructor at East Los Angeles College and he sees how phones take control of his students. Turk has been working at East Los Angeles College since 2001 and he didn’t see problems with the phones…
By Johanna Calderon Robert “Bob” Dawson revisits old jazz with the Jazz Band at the First Friday Jazz Series on May 6 in the S2 recital hall. Dawson wanted to bring some of the old jazz back in the concert and had some of the audience members dancing in their seats. “(I was trying to) get a classic jazz song with a really good icon arrangement. I featured people from the band and wrote a song for…
By Johanna Calderon East Los Angeles College presents the 11th Annual Repertoire Dance Concert Let’s Dance Company’s, directed by Kimberly Rabins and co-director Kristin Reutiman, the rehearsal assistant’s Breanne Genite who’s ELAC graduate, May 13. In the performance there are eleven dancers and each performance has a different style of dance. The dancing consists of different choreography such as stretch, hip-hop and jazz to contemporary and lyrical. Some of the choreography…
By Johanna Calderon Students from Child Development 45 experienced hardships disabled students have around campus March 30 at the Night Walk. Professor Linda Wilbur gives this assignment every semester to students so they can observe disabled students’ experiences. The students are planning to teach children with disability. The students were blindfolded, in crutches and on wheelchairs around campus. They had to use the vending machine, but it was challenging for them. Wilbur…
By Johanna Calderon “Run for your Wife” presented by the East Los Angeles College Theater Art Department will open March 18. “Run for your Wife” is the story of a selfish man and touches on the themes of betrayal and lies. The comedy is written by Ray Cooney, and co-directed by Tom Atha and Laura Rhi. The story revolves around a taxi driver named John Smith who is secretly married to…