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Posted on October 2, 2013November 2, 2020 by: Daron Grandberry

OP-ED: Affordable care act brings more decisions for students.

October 1 marked the first time Americans were able to shop for private insurance in health insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

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Posted on April 24, 2013April 29, 2013 by: Raymond Bernal

OP-ED: Ding dong the witch is dead!

“Ding dong the witch is dead,” the British people sang and they did so with good reason. The witch in this case is former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died.

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Posted on April 24, 2013July 11, 2013 by: Andrew Salmi

OP-ED: Registration fiasco is no surprise

Although there was no priority registration for Extended Spring, this disaster shouldn’t be incredibly surprising to students.

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Posted on April 24, 2013July 11, 2013 by: Tiffany Roesler

OP-ED: Registration fiasco is the result of no winter

The registration fiasco could have been avoided if the calendar had been left alone. The Board and administrators tried to fix something that was never broken.

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Posted on April 10, 2013June 4, 2020 by: Alumni Staff

OP-ED: North Korea should be taken seriously

As a country with an already tumultuous relationship with its neighbors, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has decided to test the world’s patience by increasing threats of military action.

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Posted on April 2, 2013June 4, 2020 by: Alumni Staff

OP-ED: Iraq War a necessary evil

The Iraq War has been an arduous process with trillions of dollars spent and thousands of both American and Iraqi lives lost. While this military endeavor is widely regarded as a horrific combination of misinformation and arrogance, some good has actually come from our involvement in that nation.

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Posted on March 27, 2013April 16, 2018 by: Alumni Staff

OP-ED: Consumers responsible for healthy choices

The government should not make the decision for the consumer on what to eat or drink; individuals should make the healthy choice for themselves and their family.

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Posted on February 26, 2013September 15, 2020 by: Tiffany Roesler

OP-ED: Pope is irrelevant in the United States

Let’s face it, the pope is not relevant to American Society. The United States may be the land of the free, and the home to a colorful spectrum of races, cultures, values and religions, but it’s a country known for Hollywood, The Big Apple and obesity, not for its deep religious affiliations.

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Posted on February 25, 2013November 2, 2020 by: Benjamin Simpson

OP-ED: Drone assassinations undermine the U.S. Constitution

With President Obama’s use of drone assassinations in Pakistan and Yemen, he has overstepped the bounds of the United States Constitution and garnered himself the power over life and death, more power than any one man should wield.

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Posted on February 25, 2013June 4, 2020 by: Adam Mitchell

OP-ED: Dorner’s actions don’t support claims

Dorner’s actions are in no way justifiable; corruption is not eliminated by killing, but instead perpetuated by the use of violence.

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Jessie Shone, Features Editor Halle Mitchell, Assistant News Editor Asa Stonebraker, Editor-in-Chief Maryam Tall and Carmely Contreras from Pasadena City College (PCC) Courier look and discuss the Journalism of Community Colleges (JACC) SoCal Regional Conference 2026 session guide to choose the first breakout #1 session they want to go to while they complain about the keynote speech "AI & Its Impacts on the Newsroom" by Olivia Smith from University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg in the first floor of Manzanita Hall at California State University Northridge (CSUN) on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Shone told them, "I can't even call her [Smith] a journalist. For an 'Artifical Intellegence (AI) Specialist' she relies on AI way too much to answer basic questions..." 

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Taylor Fitzgerald, Henry Horn and Jessie Shone sit in for the keynote speech, “AI & Its Impacts on the Newsroom” in Kurland Lecture Hall at California State University Northridge at Northridge, Calif. on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026.

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Etymology major at Pierce College, Samantha Jauregui, practices for their upcoming Folklore de Mexico showcase with their folklorico club on the Sierra Quad at California State University of Northridge in Northridge, California on Saturday, October 10, 2026. The Ballet Folklorico Aztlan de CSUN has been a club since 1969, and is one of the oldest folcklorico groups in the Northridge area.

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Today at the JACC, the regional journalism confere Today at the JACC, the regional journalism conference for community colleges, held a feature keynote relating to implementing Artificial intelligence. Let’s see how student journalists view these talking points.

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