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  Commanding. Magnetic. Outgoing. These are the words friends have used to describe Arabelle Ramboyong, the 25-year-old teaching major also known as “Rambo.” Ramboyong is a blogger, photographer, filmmaker, athlete, cook, and according to friends, an all-around good human being. “She has a big vibe, you can feel it from when you walk in front of her, she [...]

    Adam Klein was not born into the world of silence that his parents lived in. Instead, he was gifted with the eyes and ears for music and storytelling. Today, Klein, 28, is enjoying his passions working as a television producer on his most recent project, the animated show “L.E.A.S.H.” for the Animal Planet Network. “Producing is a [...]

      A rustic, six-foot, wooden cross draped in purple silk and Jesus’ crown of thorns mounted the platform of Hacienda Christian Fellowship Easter Sunday. Reverend E. Perez Romero, stood at the podium to give the resurrection sermon.   “Most of us see death as the point of no return,” Romero said. He referenced his exposure to various religions as [...]

One in 10 college students in the United States confronts depression or mental illness. Ross Szabo was one of them. Szabo, now an award-winning campus speaker, will be discussing his ongoing personal battle against mental health issues at Mt. SAC on May 13 in Building 9C from 1-2 p.m

Yvonne Bojorquez, 16, is one of 27 Village Academy High School students who worked on “Is Anybody Listening?” a class project, which led to a chance encounter with President Obama.  Dressed in matching decadent black and white attire, the students exited an electric vehicle testing center across from the high school.  There, they met privately [...]

When students think of adjunct or part-time professors, the thought of the challenges they face do not always come to mind. The thought of spending endless hours on the road each day to get from one class to another does not seem realistic, but is a reality. In order to make ends meet, part-time professors [...]

A fenced-off forest area. Swamps and coyotes. Not the types of things one would expect to find across the street from a community college. What is even more surprising is that the 20 acres of land on Temple Avenue belongs to Mt. San Antonio College. In the mid-1950s, school administrators decided to set aside 10 acres [...]

Elmer Fangonil was grounded a few years ago at Mt. SAC, languishing with no career and little passion for school. Then his future literally came out of the sky. Fangonil, a Mt. SAC aeronautics program graduate, is now an air traffic control specialist at the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Oakland. Besides being responsible for [...]

An exclusive interview with Mt. SAC English professor Luivette Resto reveals that after working on her poetry book for over seven years, Unfinished Portrait, has finally been published and hit the stands.