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From left, Alex Fulton, Rene Flores-Jowell, Rene Bisnett, Michele Gobern talked about their hidden challenges to other students at Hidden Challenges College Hour Dec. 3. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

Challenges for DSPS students discussed at College Hour

Emily Thompson • December 7, 2015

American River College hosted a College Hour on Thursday featuring a panel of students from Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) to talk to other students about the struggles they have faced...

Students from the American River College Study Abroad course HIST 399: Italian History and Culture, pose on a rock in Greece during their stay in summer 2015. Studying abroad can open up many opportunities for students to experience different cultures. (Photo Courtesy of Ashley Nanfria)

Opinion: Students should explore study abroad opportunities

Emily Thompson and Ashley Nanfria • November 30, 2015

A previous version of this story falsely reported that the students were sitting on a rock in Italy. They were in fact in Greece. Studying abroad is a life-changing opportunity that benefits not only...

A slide on the Great Baisn Overview at the college hour that covered the troubles that the Native American tribes went though in the 1800s on Nov. 5. (Photo By Emily Thompson)

Struggles of Native Americans discussed at college hour

Emily Thompson • November 6, 2015

The struggles of the descendants of the Wada-Tika Northern Paiute of the former Malheur Indian Reservation in southeast Oregon were discussed at Thursday's college hour. “I like to talk about (the...

Haunted: The Arnaud Legacy by ARC adjunct Erika Mailman who goes by her pen name Lynn Carthage in this novel, talks with students about her writing process and reads selections from this book in College Hour Thursday. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

English professor presents her novel at college hour

Emily Thompson • October 30, 2015

American River College adjunct English professor Erika Mailman talked about the writing process for her book “Haunted: The Arnaud Legacy” and read some scenes from her story at Thursday’s college...

Funeral services education booth featured pumkins carved by members and candles for sale to students. The Haunted Harvest themed club day took place on Thusday in front of the student center. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

Campus activities promoted at Halloween-themed Club Day

Emily Thompson • October 23, 2015

All the clubs at American River College got together in front of the Student Center on Thursday for a “Haunted Harvest” themed Club Day. Clubs decorated their booths and the quad with Halloween...

Four out of every 10 people in the United States are able to donate blood, yet only one in 10 actually does. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

Opinion: Everyone who can should donate blood

Emily Thompson and Ashley Nanfria • October 19, 2015

By Emily Thompson and Ashley Nanfria When someone in the United States is in need of a blood transfusion every two seconds, everyone who can needs to give blood. A little needle is nothing compared...

The Underground Girls of Kabul was talked about at a college hour on Thursday. The college hour discussed women and the inequality they are faced with in the developing world. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

Gender inequality discussed at college hour

Emily Thompson • October 12, 2015

In the developing world there is an extreme inequality between men and women when it comes to education, health care and rates of domestic violence. In an honors reads college hour Thursday, American...

Students who have signed up for the blood drive wait before getting called on to go inside the bus. The Blood drive took place on campus at ARC on Sept. 29th. Photo By: Ashley Nanfria

ARC students help save lives

Emily Thompson • October 2, 2015

Blood Source came to American River College on Sept. 29 and Sept. 30 in hopes of getting students to save lives by donating blood. Blood Source is a full service blood bank that caters to 40 hospitals...

Welcome Day signs were featured in the hallways around the ARC campus. The event consisted of Club Day and Transfer Day and was hosted on Sept. 24. (Photo by: Ashley Nanfria)

Welcome Day brings many opportunities to ARC students

Emily Thompson • September 25, 2015

American River College held welcome day on Thursday, which included club day and transfer day, in hopes of getting students more involved in the school and informed about transferring.     “Let...

Mathematics and instructional technology professor Phil Smith hosts a college hour Thursday on the process of changing a persons name in California. (Photo by Ashley Nanfria)

Changing legal names discussed at college hour

Emily Thompson • September 11, 2015

Fitting in, becoming more distinctive and responding to life changing events are some of the reasons why adults decide to change their names. American River College mathematics and instructional technology...

Professor Bill Zangeneh-Lester lectures to his HUM 300 students. Zangeneh-Lester will be the one of advisers for the new Humanties and Philosophy Club starting in October of the fall 2015 semester. (Photo by: Ashley Nanfria)

First ever Humanities and Philosophy Club to start in October

Emily Thompson • September 9, 2015

Meta C.A.R.P.L, which stands for cultural, art, religion, philosophy, and literature is a new humanities and philosophy club that will start Friday, Oct. 2 at 1:30 at American River College, with the location...

Gerry Otis Simpson, also known as GOS, stands in front of his series Let The Children Play at his studio on Del Paso Boulevard. Simpson, a former ARC visual merchandising professor, hopes that his gallery will reinvigorate the Del Paso art community, which has declined in recent years. (Photo by Barbara Harvey)

Former ARC professor paints a different scene of Del Paso

Emily Thompson • September 1, 2015

Despite his recent success, painter Gerry Otis Simpson, better known by his art-world moniker, GOS”, only ever picked up a paintbrush for the first time as a way to decorate his walls cheaply. “I...

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