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Top, Larisa Bryski, Jojo Mimmick, Rachel Mimmick, Emma Simpson and underneath the table Laynie Seltzer work the table at Chalk It Ups 25th annual art festival on Labor Day weekend in Fremont park, downtown Sacramento. Girls Rock Sacramentos goal was co-founded created to empower young women, and those who identify as female, through music and to deconstruct gender roles through team building exercises and events.

Girls Rock Sacramento seeks empowerment through music

Cheyenne Drury September 15, 2015

The co-founders of Girls Rock Sacramento (GRSC) Anna Simpson, Emma Simpson and Larisa Bryski share two things in common: they all want to deconstruct gender roles and they all want American River College...

Left to right, American River College alumnus, Brodie Mills, plays guitar, Orey Severet plays drums and lead singer and bassist, Emma Simpson, sings at Chalk It Ups 25th annual art festival on Labor Day weekend in Fremont park in downtown Sacramento. The band calls itself The Off Years, which refers to the years they were not in a band together. (Photo by Cheyenne Drury)

Sacramento band shares its origin story

Cheyenne Drury September 11, 2015

A local band, The Off Years, is a three-piece band from Sacramento that gets its name from the time period when the group was not together. Despite having known each other for over a decade, the band...

John Steensland, a former American River College student, adds finishing touches to his  chalk-drawing for Chalk It Up. He said he liked the way the texture of his art looked on the pavement. (Photo by Cheyenne Drury)

Chalk It Up draws large crowd

Cheyenne Drury September 9, 2015

Chalk It Up held its 25th annual art festival on Labor Day weekend that gave artists the opportunity to create chalk-art on the sidewalks of downtown Sacramento. The organization is a non-profit that...

Students participate by raising their hands during Professor Michael Spurgeons American River Review class. The ARR course is based around reviewing student submissions such as poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction etc. and active involvement is expected. (Photo by Cheyenne Drury)

Opinion: Speak up or your grade will suffer

Cheyenne Drury September 4, 2015

The long awkward silence after a teacher asks for student volunteers is an all too familiar experience for many college students, and while getting people actively involved can be productive, it is often...

An assortment of contraceptives spell out the word Health at the Health Center on the American River College campus. Students are invited to the Health Center on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. for services provided by the Womens Health specialists (WHS). (Photo by Cheyenne Drury)

Sex, blood and flu shots

Ashlynn Johnson and Cheyenne Drury August 31, 2015

By Cheyenne Drury and Ashlynn Johnson Sexual health services will be offered to all students beginning next Tuesday from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the Health Center located inside the Administration Building. Services...

Multicultural poet attributes her success to her time at ARC

Multicultural poet attributes her success to her time at ARC

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury May 18, 2015

A Cameroonian and American poet reflects on her time at American River College and how it brought her writing to a matured exploration of her two competing cultural identities. Viola Allo grew up in...

Breaking News: Longest serving active faculty member dies due to cancer complications

Breaking News: Longest serving active faculty member dies due to cancer complications

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury May 5, 2015

Update, May 5, 3:42 p.m.: This story has been updated to include an interview with Greg Warzecka, ARC's athletic director, and more information about Towers' education and career. The longest serving...

Raley’s employee Cody Drury stocks merchandise while on a shift as a courtesy clerk. Drury is a student at Sacramento State University and has been with the grocery store business for almost three years and he plans to stay with the company even after he receives his degree.

Opinion: Students need to expand their career horizons

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury May 4, 2015

If a college student takes fifteen units each semester, they are sitting through about fifteen hours of class lectures and labs a week. With this logic, after four years in college a student will spend...

Photo gallery: Five dive team athletes qualify for State Championships

Photo gallery: Five dive team athletes qualify for State Championships

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury April 24, 2015

  Five American River College dive athletes including Courtney Matthews, Zachary Yokoyama, Carson Marin, Javier Salcedo and Jared Saldate qualified for State Championships. They will be compete...

Improv Club holds late night rave themed event

Improv Club holds late night rave themed event

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury April 20, 2015

Mouths full of marshmallows, brightly painted bodies and on the spot humor are some of the things that happened at American River College’s rave themed Improv Club event Thursday from 10 p.m. to midnight. Theater...

Conrad Tracy, husband of Holocaust survivor Renee Heck, shows the audience the approximate location of where Heck and her mother escaped to in France when they left their home in Germany. Tracy shared the story of his wife, who had passed last spring, during an event that remembered survivors of the Holocaust.

Husband of Holocaust survivor recounts his wife’s story at college hour

Cheyenne Drury and Cheyenne Drury April 17, 2015

In honor of Yom Ha’Shoah, or Holocaust remembrance day, the husband of Holocaust survivor Renee Heck came and retold his wife’s story to students at American River College in Raef Hall room 160. Heck...

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