The holiday season is quickly approaching upon us. Typically, we would be excited to gather around the dinner table with our families and celebrate without a hitch, but not so much this year.
The pandemic has already changed how we gather with our loved ones and friends, but now we have to reevaluate...
Robert Mowry is a Strategic CTO and University Blockchain Certificate Instructor who teaches at CSUSM’s Extended Learning Center.
For many who are attempting to carve out the beginnings of their career, the uncertainty of a volatile job market coupled with COVID-19 concerns can make the prospect...
Maria Jungers, Assistant Opinion Editor
• October 26, 2020
The pandemic has greatly impacted the way that we use paper money.
In hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus, more signs are popping up in businesses that require customers to pay debit, credit or even contactless payment.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages touchless...
Mass communication is a form of media that is happening everywhere. It ranges from watching the news, listening to the radio or reading information from the internet.
Cultural theorist Stuart Hall defines representation as, “using language to say something meaningful about, or to represent, the...
Voting during a pandemic has become a major issue as election day gets closer.
States including California are taking precautionary methods to ensure that everyone gets a chance to vote this election cycle.
Seeing as the stakes are high for this election —from local to federal—there is no...
If you haven’t noticed the copious amount of construction in smaller cities and the simultaneous increase in the number of trendy restaurants, shops and breweries, then you might be living under a rock.
If you have noticed, ever wondered why?
The answer is gentrification, the process in which...
Ever wondered why we are so addicted to our phones, more specifically to social media?
The Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma has provoked millions of viewers to rethink how much time they spend on social media and become more conscientious of tech companies’ real purpose in society.
The...
The world lost a true icon a few weeks ago when the Supreme Court announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg died due to complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas.
Ginsburg pushed to serve on the Supreme Court as long as she could and became an icon while doing so.
Ginsburg had always been a champion...
In our current society, we have adapted to using gender-neutral and non-discriminatory identifiers. Using these terms gives those who are non-binary a way to identify themselves properly.
More recently, the use of the term Latinx has become a subject for debate within the community and in the media....
This story was updated on Oct. 13 with links to reporting on the alleged misconduct.
A whistleblower came forward with claims of hysterectomies performed on female detainees without their consent at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia,...
Ariel Lopez, Assistant A&E Editor
• September 29, 2020
This story was updated on Oct. 1 to include the student petition to lower CSUSM tuition.
Despite not being able to use most of the on-campus facilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CSUSM students are still required to pay the full cost of tuition, much to the dismay of many students.
Over 850...
Maria Jungers, Assistant Opinion Editor
• September 29, 2020
The issue of climate change is becoming more concerning, as wildfires are visibly moving faster along the west coast.
Just this year in the states of California, Oregon and Washington, there have been five million acres of land burned, thousands of people who were forced to evacuate their homes...
