Alabama’s controversial new immigration law, HB56, has immigrants running scared. The law states that the citizenship status of all public school students must be checked by school administration. This move caused two thousand children to be absent from school the day after it was passed. Immigrants are avoiding…
San Francisco is implementing ranked choice voting in this year’s upcoming mayoral race, resulting in confusion for voters. Ranked choice enables voters to list their top three candidates. The new system aims to cut election costs by eliminating runoff elections. In light of this year’s four leading candidates…
Spring time is here and it gets feisty—it’s the race for student government positions. We have four people running for president. Two slates Bruins United and Students First! have the most exposure on campus and online, so people tend to not hear about independent candidates. This isn’t a…
Chinese American Manolo and his parents are pushed in line for deportation soon while his brother stays in the United States. What a way to break up a family. Community members have built a facebook page and a petition in order to protest these deportations. So far, only…
Alexandra Wallace, 3rd-year political science undergraduate, posts video rant about Asians in the library during finals week. The video immediately went viral on Facebook. Asian Pacific Coalition posted a response to the issue: As evidenced by the responses of outrage and hurt from our community, it is clear…
I totally forgot to talk about LCC’s Epic FAIL show last week, which is too bad, because it was pretty awesome. Here’s another event that, while not arts and entertainment related, will probably be as awesome: Ethnic Studies Now! at UCLA and Beyond. A symposium on the state…