Elon Musk will make Twitter more unsafe with his free speech push
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has acquired the social media giant Twitter for $44bn.
More people should get vaccinated
Notable East Los Angeles College alumni encourage Angelenos to get the COVID-19 inoculation as LA County grapples with the public’s vaccine fears.
Pandemic restrictions claim popular landmarks— fan-favorite venues close
Arclight and Pacific theaters announced their permanent closing, and it just adds to the long and depressing list of losses millennials continue to face as they grow older.
OPINION: 2020 election ads fly off Twitter
Twitter has decided to ban political ads for the 2020 election due to false and fake ads people create for campaign runners. What Twitter is doing is great, because it ensures a fair election.
Technology diminishes social skills
By Justice Yman Gordon Most young people today seem to be more comfortable with talking to someone through a screen rather than face-to-face. Social media affects the youth the most and it’s going to get worse. The new-found way of socializing through technology rather than in real life will get people nowhere. Some parents are losing their children to a world of irrelevant media. As a parent, keeping your child…
App gives students self-control to study
By Lucero Rodriguez With procrastination being a factor with common distractions of Facebook, Instagram and other social media, stopprocrastinatingapp.com blocks these distractions from getting in the way of doing school work. Stopprocrastinatingapp.com helps students achieve their academic goals. It provides three different options to help manage the Internet and block specific websites in which distracts the user. According to the website, the first option is “to block the Internet, but…
Technology inturrupts everyday life
By Russell Zazueta With the increasing distraction brought by the internet, it’s surprising the human race hasn’t grown antennas for brains. With the way this generation heeds texting, social networking and online dating as prime communication, kids are going to grow up missing the point of vis-a-vis. It’s killing the human spirit, as well as how we interact with each other and our imagination. Even worse, a student posse will…
Students, faculty use social media
By Freddy Monares The art of obtaining a college degree is evolving and the world of social media is opening the lines of communication. College is now a little easier through the access of Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets that connect students with professors and other classmates. Groups specifically made for East Los Angeles College textbook sales, ELAC in general and other issues surrounding our college are popping…
New email system leads to missed deadlines
By Jesus Figueroa East Los Angeles College students have no choice, but to use the new glitchy cloud email system to receive information from the school. Since cloud is new to ELAC, the system has had many problems that have caused students to get frustrated and miss deadlines. Most recently, the system was down for a day causing students to wonder when the system would be back up…
Students need place to study
By Rebeca Vega In the process of making room for new buildings and new parking spaces, the campus lost something old: its study areas. This is not to say that East Los Angeles College has nothing to offer its students; we still have options, or what’s left of them. Elans can crunch numbers at the mathematics lab, equipped with five rows of computers, a printer and several tables for students to…