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On November 4, light pole banners went up around campus featuring the faces of distinguished alumni and students. The banners also revealed LACC’s redesigned logo and new slogan, “The City’s College.” The banners were a result of the hard work of LACC Foundation Development Director Leigh Stenberg and Executive Director Robert Schwartz, who contacted notable alumni to invite them to participate in the banner marketing campaign. Forty two distinguished alumni agreed to participate including actors Mark Hamill and Morgan Freeman, composer John...
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On December 8, LACC Foundation hosted a special reception honoring some of our many talented and distinguished alumni who participated in LACC’s light pole banner marketing project. The evening began with campus tours for alumni and their families to view their light pole banners. Following the tours, guests made their way back to the Student Union for hors d’oeuvres and drinks. A live jazz band made up of students from the music department played throughout the night. The event was well-attended with over 100 guests and alumni including former Los...
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On Sunday, December 6, Los Angeles City College alumnus Mark Hamill returned to his alma mater to meet with current Theatre Academy Students, followed by a Q&A session with fans, moderated by emeritus Al Rossi in the Camino Theatre. Hamill attended LACC for four semesters plus a summer session in the early 1970s. During the Q&A, Hamill discussed his time at LACC and told stories from his acting and voice over career. He described his audition for Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, during which he...
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Eva Reyes (pictured above, center) grew up in South Los Angeles with her “loud Afro-Latino family.” In high school, Eva tutored at-risk middle school students and taught dance classes. This helped her stay out of trouble and led her to work with youth and family services, specifically gang intervention. After graduating high school, Eva started taking classes at South West College and attended many other colleges in the area before finding her home at LACC. After struggling with her classes in...
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On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Los Angeles City College held their first annual ‘Veterans Have Talent’ in honor of Veteran’s Day. Before the talent portion of the event kicked off, Blas Villalobo, Veterans Advisory Commissioner at Los Angeles County Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and LACC’s Congressman Adam Schiff said a few words to the more than 200 veterans in attendance. LACC has the largest number of veterans within the Los Angeles Community College District, over 500, and was rated...
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LACC students and twins Penelope and America Lopez don’t just love coding and programming because they love the challenge of creating technology — they have also made it their goal to use technology to improve their communities. At the recent Hack for LA Hack-a-thon, on June 6 and 7, the self-proclaimed CyberCode Twins competed with over 500 other hackers and were awarded the top prize in the Children’s Health category for developing an anti-bullying app. According to a mission...
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The following excerpt is from an article entitled “When Colleges Abandon Phys Ed, What Else Is Lost?” published on January 12th, 2015 by Scott Carlson for the Chronicle for Higher Education. To see the full article, click here. It’s warm-up time at 7:45 a.m., with sunlight just starting to stream into a mat room in the kinesiology building at Los Angeles City College. A dozen students—most of them Latinas, all dressed in thick, white judo uniforms—stand at one end...
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Last December, members of the Guardian Scholars Program for emancipated foster youth were given beautifully wrapped gifts at the annual holiday celebration. One young man opened a present that contained a pair of pajamas and a brightly colored sweatshirt. While other young people might take such gifts for granted, he ran his hands slowly over the soft flannel pajamas and held up the sweatshirt and with a broad smile said, “Now I don’t have to worry about being cold.”...
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By Shamey Cramer If not for LACC, President Obama wouldn’t have invited me to the Oval Office. In 1984 I began taking classes at LA City College in hopes of getting my Associate Arts degree and transferring to a four-year school for a degree in Film and Television. One year later, I was informed I only had six months to three years to live because I was HIV-positive. I dropped out of school and returned to Chicago to be...
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