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8 ways to get to City College for free this month

The region is celebrating the release of PRONTO with free rides on regional public transit

Jakob McWhinney, Multimedia Journalist • September 9, 2021

City officials are offering free rides on public transit through the month of September in celebration of the launch of the region’s new fare processing system, PRONTO.

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Power returns after outage closes City College campus

The Transfer Center, packed with students trying to make application deadlines, was evacuated.

Brian Mohler, Arts & Entertainment Editor • November 30, 2018

An SDG&E power outage darkened City College and a large portion of downtown San Diego, Balboa Park and Golden Hill at approximately 11:15 a.m. on Friday. A cause has not yet been determined.

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Students walk out to protest Trump

Shaylyn Martos • November 17, 2016

Students from San Diego City College and two nearby high schools walked out of their classes for the first time since 2014, marching through the streets of downtown San Diego in solidarity against President-Elect...

Longtime theater professor becomes new arts co-chair

Katie Rodda joins Alicia Rincon to lead Visual and Performing Arts

Lauren J. Mapp • November 11, 2015

San Diego City College’s Visual and Performing Arts department has a new department co-chair, Katie Rodda, who started in the position as of June of this year. Department co-chair predecessor, and...

Realms of homelessness brought to light

Destiny Ortiz • September 27, 2015

Downtown San Diego is surrounded by skyscrapers that do exactly that. They scrape the sky. When you look a little lower, you’ll find people who are walked around and stepped over. It’s the...

Editor’s Note

Angelica Wallingford • May 21, 2015

Dear readers, Hunched over my computer looking through edit after edit of this issue, I noticed one common theme within all the stories: community. Community is almost always associated with your neighborhood,...