OPINION – City Times

REVIEW: Drama department slays in first performance of “She Kills Monsters”

October 28, 2019

In the world of fantasy, life can be whimsical. However, fantasy can also be cruel.

REVIEW: San Diego Symphony brings people of all ages together

Jasmine Mcknight, City Times Correspondent

October 18, 2019

On Oct. 6 I attended the San Diego Symphony concert with Rafael Payare as the new conductor. I wasn’t really too sure what to expect, except maybe a lot of older people, which there were, but there was also a good mixture of younger people as well, which surprised me but also made me happy, seeing that more people around my age were starting to like classical music.

EDITORIAL: More transparency needed on cafeteria issue

May 8, 2019

For three years City College students have hungered for a cafeteria due to limited food options. Many spring 2019 graduates will leave without ever setting foot in the City College cafeteria, which had been promised to them as far back as fall 2018.

OPINION | Nothing to be ashamed of for City College Knights basketball

March 2, 2019

Despite a first round playoff elimination after consecutive state finals, the Knights concluded a successful season.

The American Nightmare

May 23, 2018

In a 1967 NBC News interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, roughly three and half years after his famous “I Have Dream” speech on the Washington Monume...

“Marvel’s Black Panther” shifts a historically inaccurate rhetoric

February 28, 2018

Towards the end of "Marvel's Black Panther", I was fighting back tears. You see, Holl...

Why Volunteering Makes me Happy?

October 31, 2017

The week of service at City College is the busiest week thus far for students, faculty, and alumni. They can volunteer to serve their downtown communi...

Hey Mom, I’m queer!

October 5, 2017

National Coming Out Day is next Wednesday, a day that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people can come forward and declare to whoever...

Make college more affordable with textbook alternatives

Joshua Nelson

April 11, 2017

It’s over halfway through the semester, and I still haven’t opened my textbooks. Even though I bought them with every intention of doing so, it just hasn’t seemed necessary. Textbooks seem to be a dying art form. They are quickly being replaced with new information mediums. No more are the days where in-class videos were shown by hungover teachers or substitutes. T...

I like to read

James Stevenson Jr.

April 11, 2017

In the past year, I have read three books — “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” “Dreams and Shadows” and “The Forever War.” I have also read two graphic novels: “Superman: American Alien” and “Saga.” Since childhood I have been a disciple of reading. I love the touch of a good book, feeling the pages as I turn them, and the sensation of being immersed i...

I Don’t Like to Read

Esai Melendez

April 11, 2017

The average human attention span lasts about 8.25 seconds, which is shorter than the 9-second attention span held by a goldfish. This is according to the Statistic Brain Institute. In short, people can’t pay attention for long periods of time; and that includes me, especially when it comes to reading. I’ve never been able to sit still reading a book or even something...

Letter from the Editor – The press under fire

March 14, 2017

Journalist Dan Rather calls it "an emergency." And it is. Said Rather, "The time for normalizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Trump has long sinc...