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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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Cerritos College celebrates Ecuadorian culture for Hispanic Heritage Month

Cerritos College celebrates Ecuadorian culture for Hispanic Heritage Month

Vivian Yglesias, Staff Writer
October 14, 2019

Cerritos College hosted an Ecuador musical and dance in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on Oct. 9. The dance was performed by alumni students, Yolanda Villegas and backup dancers, dressed in Ecuadorian...

Art in its greatest form, even if it's just a key-chain. Photo credit: Vivian Yglesias

Concha keychains made in Mexican art making workshop

Vivian Yglesias
October 9, 2019

Hispanic Heritage Month is tied in with many events that have students learning about different cultures. An arts and crafts workshop specifically focused on Mexican culture with the making of concha keychains,...

Dr. David Betancourt plays with the Pep Band during rehearsal

Jazz it up: Cerritos College pep band let the good times roll

Derrick Coleman, Staff Writer
November 6, 2018

The Cerritos College pep band, led by Dr. Betancourt, play at every game and provide that school spirit that is needed to win games. While the pep band carries a lot of history, the students in the band...

An excited Erick Villa places in first place at the Marukan Cup of Culinary Arts of Excellence competition. The competition was held on Oct. 19.

Marukan’s fifth annual culinary arts competition welcomes high school contestants

Elizabeth Corcoles, Arts & Entertainment Editor
October 22, 2018

High school contestants were given the chance to compete with current Cerritos College students in the Culinary Arts program and alumni of the program for the first time at the Marukan Cup of Culinary...

University Mega Fair offers resources to students looking to transfer

University Mega Fair offers resources to students looking to transfer

Marilyn Parra, Staff Writer
September 1, 2018

Cerritos College held their University Mega Fair at Falcon Square Aug. 30 with over 60 college representatives. A variety of colleges attended to answer any question students had about transferring. Representatives...

Newly hired head coach for the tennis team Qunn Caldaron. He just meet his tennis team on the first week of school.

2018 Tennis season begins with new head coach

Jah-Tosh Baruti
January 17, 2018

The Cerritos College 2018 Tennis campaign will start on Jan. 30 on the road at Glendale for the women's team and at home vs Santa Barbara College each at 2 p.m. This season marks newly minted Head Coach...

The ups and downs of Obama’s college proposal

January 21, 2015

The community college campuses around the country were abuzz with the news of President Obama’s proposal of free, 2-year community college. It seemed like this was the best thing to come out of the Obama...

Broken elevator leaves students stranded

Broken elevator leaves students stranded

Luis Guzman, Freelancer
January 13, 2015
Students are left without the use of the elevator in the Social Science Building.
Free tuition has no downsides

Free tuition has no downsides

Luis Guzman, Freelancer
January 13, 2015

College is expensive. Obama’s proposal to give free community college to everyone in the United States is a beautiful idea. Obama’s current proposal, if it is passed into law, would require...

Hip-hop and academia can mix

Grester Celis-Acosta, Opinion Editor
September 13, 2014
When you think of hip-hop, you think of the vulgar music that sometimes doesn’t have any meaning other than sex, drugs and violence. But what if this music could be used in academia to teach a college course such as English? Would it work?
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