By Jennah Booth October 2, 2019 At least one American River College student was involved in a car accident in parking lot A just before 11 a.m. Wednesday. According to ARC Public Information Officer Scott Crow, there were several vehicles involved but no one was injured. Crow said that although Los Rios Police Department was on-scene, they…

By Jennah Booth September 30, 2019 American River College art student Miguel Gonzalez-Miranda’s portrait “Inner Puzzle” has sat in a narrow closet in the back of the James Kaneko Gallery since early spring. Intended to hang in a student art show in February, the glass-framed, mixed-media collage was too heavy to hang and needed to be returned…

By Jennah Booth May 8, 2019 “It’s cool that you can be mean to people and not care.” I’m not an unkind person, so a passing comment like this, despite its genuine intent, would typically send me into a confused panic just nine months ago. I would search through all of my social interactions, trying to find…

By Jennah Booth May 8, 2019 Jessa Ciel is an activist and an enigma. A chameleon of an artist across many mediums. The American River College photography professor’s portfolio ranges from a social justice art installation, to directing her own short films and working on the Academy Award-nominated film “Lady Bird.” Ciel is a filmmaker, photographer and…

By Jennah Booth May 1, 2019 California Governor Gavin Newsom visited American River College today to commemorate International Workers’ Day by job shadowing custodian Maria Arambula and groundskeeper Brenda Baker. Newsom also discussed and signed an executive order at ARC which acknowledges California’s growing globalization and technological advancements, and how they often lead to the automation of…

By Jennah Booth March 25, 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1963: “A riot is the language of the unheard.” When Sacramento police arrested 84 people in East Sacramento on March 4, however, the demonstration was far from a riot, according to Dronme Davis. Davis is an American River College student who works with the college’s…

By Jennah Booth March 20, 2019 On Monday evening, the phrase “white lives matter,” a slogan associated with white supremacy movements and far-right political ideologies, was found scrawled in a restroom on the American River College campus, according to an email sent to staff by ARC President Thomas Greene Tuesday afternoon. “While we do not immediately know…

Demonstrators raise their fists as they block the intersection of J and 8th in protest of Stephon Clark’s death on March 29, 2018. (photo by Ashley Hayes-Stone) By Jennah Booth March 4, 2019 Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced Saturday there would not be any charges filed against the officers who shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark…