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Accusations fly at Senate as ASB elections near

Accusations fly at Senate as ASB elections near

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 19, 2015

Sen. David Hylton accused Sen. Garrett Kegel of having ulterior motives Tuesday for proposing the bill that enforces term limits on Associated Student Body Student Senate members. Sen. David Hylton...

ARC unveils tribute to mother of Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider

ARC unveils tribute to mother of Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 18, 2015

Jean Foley Greider was so well liked by students that her former colleague Bill Becker joked that she should have a fan club dedicated to her. Becker was present at the unveiling of the Greider Grove,...

Contemporary fictional masterpieces like Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring not only broaden the imagination, but may increase empathic comprehension, according to a recent study at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Opinion: Broaden your horizons with fictional literature

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 14, 2015

While textbooks that are required reading for students help to hone in their grasp of the course material, they risk missing out on the emotional pull a journey through Middle Earth generates, or the suspense...

Vehicle burglary in ARC parking lot Friday

Vehicle burglary in ARC parking lot Friday

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 14, 2015

A vehicle burglary was committed in the American River College parking lot around 2 p.m. Friday, according to the Los Rios Police Department crime log. The crime log states that the suspect was brandishing...

Three Student Senate members to seek higher office

Three Student Senate members to seek higher office

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 12, 2015

Three members of the Associated Student Body Student Senate have confirmed that they are seeking higher office ASB during next month’s elections. Garrett Kegel, Senate director of activities, will...

Senate censures two members at Thursday meeting

Senate censures two members at Thursday meeting

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels March 6, 2015

Clubs and Events Board President Jeremy Diefenbacher and former Student Senate director of activities David Hylton were censured at the most recent meeting of the Associated Student Body Student Senate. The...

Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider will be speaking at ARC about her discovery of telomerase

Joseph Daniels and Nicholas Corey March 6, 2015

Story by Joseph Daniels and Nicholas Corey   Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider, who will be speaking at American River College on March 16, was awarded after she discovered telomerase. Telomerase...

Two high-ranking members of ASB student government resign

Two high-ranking members of ASB student government resign

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels February 27, 2015

An earlier version of this story falsely reported that David Hylton had resigned from the ASB Student Senate. In fact, he remains on the Senate having only resigned his director of activities position. Two...

Three car crash near Davies Hall sends driver to hospital

Three car crash near Davies Hall sends driver to hospital

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels February 17, 2015

Three cars were involved in a rear-ended crash that took place on College Oak Drive between Davies Hall and the administration building at around 9 a.m. The driver in the car in front was taken to the...

Opinion: “Career” college students need to move on

Opinion: “Career” college students need to move on

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels February 14, 2015

Newcomers will likely find students enrolled in their classes who have been attending American River College for years and are essentially what can be called “career students.” Students who have...

Attendance is becoming a recurring problem at recent ASB meetings

Attendance is becoming a recurring problem at recent ASB meetings

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels February 12, 2015

The Associated Student Body Student Senate swore in a new senator while voting another one onto the board on their meeting on Feb. 10. Richard Dean, a first semester student, was sworn in and Dan Massey...

Nobel prize winner to speak at ARC

Nobel prize winner to speak at ARC

Joseph Daniels and Joseph Daniels February 9, 2015

Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Carol Greider, will be speaking at American River College during a ceremony that will honor her mother, a former ARC professor, on March 16. The event is open...

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