Craiglist ad results in strong arm robbery on campus
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 8, 2013
According to a campus crime bulletin, a woman told police that she had posted a Craigslist ad to sell her phone and when she met a buyer, she was robbed in Parking Lot C on May 7. The prospective buyer, who was accompanied by another man, met the victim in the lot at 7:50 pm. The suspects reportedly... Read More
Student rights slowly dwindling as time goes by
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 8, 2013
Restricting free speech isn’t just an issue of the past If you feel that, as a student, or a youth, you have no rights, it was worse before 1969. In September of 1965, the Tinker family, in keeping with a nationwide movement, donned black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. Not only did... Read More
Tuition and book costs continue to rise
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 8, 2013
Students pay more money for classes and supplies “I wasted like $5,000 on school in one year.” That’s the cost Zayra Rodriguez, an American River College nursing major, has to pay for her schooling. Unit prices for California community colleges hit an unprecedented high in 2011, at $36,... Read More
American River College prioritizes student athletes
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 8, 2013
Priority registration and an athletic counseling center give players an edge over the normal student Financial help is given to students at American River College for a variety of reasons, including disabilities, military service and financial struggles. You could also just be an athlete. It... Read More
Bad games are not just a problem of burnt out pixels
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 7, 2013
The ability to become the biggest name in the industry while doing everything wrong is not unique to video games. Wizards of the Coast current rights holder to the most highly recognized tabletop roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons produced the third edition of the game in 2000 (followed... Read More
“Iron Man 3” proves that comic book-based films can have real depth
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
May 3, 2013
Post-traumatic stress disorder, nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety attacks, a feeling of a loss of security—some of the conditions a trained soldier can expect coming back from war. Now imagine being a civilian scientist, who’s never trained for combat, is protected only by revolutionary... Read More
The cream rises, but the scum rises higher
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
April 25, 2013
There is one industry where being terrible at your job seems to be the ticket to the top. Whether video or tabletop, the biggest game companies often seem to have little to no clue what they’re doing. The most recent examples are Blizzard and Electronic Arts, but, if you look father back,... Read More
What we’re reading: 9 Mainstream Comic Book Characters Who Came out as LGBT on the Page (and Not in a Press Release)
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
April 18, 2013
What we’re reading is a new feature that will update every Thursday online. It will share the articles of the day that the Current staff is reading and our perspectives and thoughts on them. 9 Mainstream Comic Book Characters Who Came out as LGBT on the Page (and Not in a Press Release) via Topless... Read More
Confessions page throws spotlight on campus indiscretions
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
April 3, 2013
Students take to the Internet to rant, confess, and call each other out. Such are the confessions to be found on the American River Confessions Facebook page: “After almost two years of college I’m seriously considering calling it quits.” “I cheat on my girlfriend regularly with... Read More
Sex, blood and games
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
April 3, 2013
Two gangs face off for war in the city streets. Explosions burst, blood flies and splashes, and bodies drop with sickening thuds. A woman invites a man in for coffee and they have sex. One of these appeared in a popular video game (many, in fact), bought by many children, the other was rendered... Read More
Medical marijuana is not but smoke and mirrors
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
April 3, 2013
Pot should be legal, but not for the reasons advocates argue Certainly, the intake of THC, the narcotic substance within cannabis, has medical benefits. But so do the intake of nicotine and alcohol. Hell, I’m pretty sure that if you looked hard enough, you could find an argument for the medical... Read More
Act for the freedom of information
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
March 13, 2013
Ideas cannot be caged I am a pirate. I drink and carouse with my friends, I traverse a frontier fraught with danger, wonder and potential wealth and freedom, I flagrantly disregard social mores and traditions, and I consume media in a way which greatly angers the trading companies and hardly... Read More
The cost of console gaming is “too damn high.”
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
March 12, 2013
For the price of freedom to play any game release, you could buy two used cars-or one, and a decent computer (and still play a lot of games). For the first 22 years of home gaming consoles, up to the Nintendo Entertainment System, rarely did a console breach the $200 mark (give or take ~10... Read More
Free online courses may not transfer
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
February 27, 2013
Online class provider, Coursera, provides free courses that don’t transfer. Late priority for enrollment. A student body competing for limited class slots. Costly tuition. Classes cancelled for lack of interest. It is clearly getting more difficult for students to get the classes they need... Read More
Android maverick Ouya fights the console war
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
February 26, 2013
The console wars thunder into motion once more. Nintendo released the Wii U last year. The PS4 has just been announced. Fans wait with bated breath for Microsoft’s entry. But the biggest news in gaming this year may be an Indie console the size of a classic Rubik’s Cube that says unflattering... Read More
HR 287 makes video games smut
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
February 12, 2013
Apparently Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) teaches one to kill by stomping on arrows set to a catchy and memorable beat. Also, Real Time Strategy games about directing troops, such as Starcraft, somehow confers the proficiency and callousness necessary to shoot human beings. I’m sorry, but I... Read More
“Beautiful Creatures” surprisingly charming supernatural romance
Korbl Klimecki, Web Editor
February 8, 2013
“Beautiful Creatures” is a supernatural romance movie based on a series of novels, as many movies of the last decade seem to be. The story revolves around supernatural beings, known as Casters (which is to say, Spellcasters, or hereditary witches), whom are pulled between Light and Dark.... Read More
What’s new in 2013
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
December 5, 2012
The Current keeps you covered before next semester with upcoming news, music and movies As another year draws to a close, you hold in your hands (or view on your screen) the last edition of the Current for the fall 2012 semester. As this is the last issue of the year, we will be unable to... Read More
Entrepreneurs kick the traditional investment model and start going to the crowd
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
November 21, 2012
Reaper Miniatures, Bones: $3.4 million. Rich Burlew, Order of the Stick: $1.2 million. Amanda Palmer, Theatre is Evil: $1.1 million. Those numbers are the amounts raised of three Kickstarter campaigns. With the exception of Reaper Miniatures, they’re not the most funded or even in the top... Read More
‘Rise of the Guardians’ somewhat predictable but enjoyable cinematic gift
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
November 18, 2012
A shadowy, ill-intentioned man of fear steals all the teeth collected by the tooth faerie in order to sway the belief of children. The boogieman messes with holidays, inadvertently creating a mythical figure crossover. And apparently, the Sandman fights like Kratos from the “God of War”... Read More
In Our Heads- Korbl Klimecki
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
November 7, 2012
TV- “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” Season Three Yes, it’s a half-hour toy commercial for pre-pubescent girls. It’s also the creation of Lauren Faust with compelling characters, engrossing plots and references that only the periphery audience of adults will catch. The villain... Read More
The Tone of Politics
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
October 24, 2012
Every four years, people have a big argument about the tone of politics and how we have lost civility in public discourse. Try to guess which presidential candidates said the following in the course of campaigning: “(My opponent) is a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who wants to start... Read More
Wiener Works serves small-town tastes with choices in hot dogs and brews
Korbl Klimecki, Staff writer
October 24, 2012
Imagine a hole in the wall with a décor of cluttered posters, local celebrity photos and vintage beer adverts. Imagine food made from scratch rather than cheaply premade, a fridge half full of microbrews and Pabst Blue Ribbon on tap. Wiener Works might almost be the epitome of a hipster restaurant,... Read More
‘Sweeney Todd’ opens to nearly full house
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
October 13, 2012
The theatre department of American River College opened their performance of Christopher Bond’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s play “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” on a high note Oct 12. A vicious barber stalks across stage, spittle flying with his... Read More
ARC rocks the bells
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
October 10, 2012
A strange sound was heard ringing out over campus on Sept. 21. For the first time in two years, the library bells chimed, confusing many. The bells were then silent for another week and most students probably forgot all about them. The last time the bells rang on campus was in 2010, just before... Read More
To Boldly Go: The past, present and future of space
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
September 19, 2012
After history was made for NASA and space exploration, one can only wonder what else lies out there With the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket on May 22, 2012, the landing of the Mars Curiosity rover on August 6, 2012, and the unfortunate death of Neil Armstrong August 25, 2012, it’s been... Read More
Sidebar: culinary building renovation
Korbl Klimecki, Assistant Web Editor
September 19, 2012
The Culinary Building is slated to be the next renovation on campus. Ground will be broken July 1, 2013, with completion of construction expected by January 1, 2015. Similar to current renovations, the Culinary Building renovation is partially funded by a bond that financed campus renovation... Read More
