Heavy rain and cold temperatures impact homeless residents – El Camino College The Union

Tim Warren, 58, a Dominguez Channel resident, faces danger due to the flooding caused by a rainstorm Wednesday, Nov. 20. Homeless encampment residents face the increasing the risk of accidental drowning as one encampment resident drowned in 2017 as a result of surging water levels during a storm. Photo by Rosemary Montalvo/The Union

By Jose Tobar

Following record heat conditions in California, the homeless residents of the Dominguez Channel are expected to face a storm during Thanksgiving weekend, along with temperatures that are expected to drop into the 40s and 50s, according to the National Weather Service. This comes after the first wave of a storm that struck Los Angeles County…
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Review: Solo artists shine during Concert Jazz Band’s resounding performances – El Camino College The Union

David Moyer, Director of Jazz Studies at El Camino College introduces the band and provides a brief explanation of the songs the audience will listen to during the concert in Marsee Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Photo credit: Jose Tobar

By Jose Tobar

The El Camino College Concert Jazz Band played a luminous set of classic jazz standards to a scarcely populated audience in Marsee Auditorium that nevertheless caused their ears to perk up on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Songs from jazz giants including Thelonious Monk, Horrace Silverman, Quincy Jones and local legend Gerald Wilson were brought to life…
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El Camino College The Union | Bill that gives homeless students place to sleep is ‘weakened’ by amendment

Roxann Toshiko Tomiyasu heads over to the Schauerman Library to do homework for one of her classes Monday, Sept. 9. Tomiyasu is homeless and slept in her car in Parking Lot F but was asked to leave by El Camino College Police Department officers during the summer. Rosemary Montalvo/The Union

By Jose Tobar

For 65-year-old El Camino College student Roxann Toshiko Tomiyasu, her car serves as the last refuge from the many dangers of being homeless and sleeping on the streets. After she received her associate degree in arts as an automotive technology major at ECC last spring, Roxann was allowed to sleep in her vehicle overnight in…
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Hiring event will bring students, alumni and over 50 companies together – El Camino College The Union

Automotive technology major Rene Ocegueda rotates a tire in his Automotive Technology 1 class. Career Education oversees over a dozen programs like Automotive Technology and is organizing an event in October to allow students to meet potential employers. Omar Rashad/The Union

By Jose Tobar

El Camino College students and alumni will get the opportunity to explore career options and learn more about job opportunities with over 50 companies at the upcoming Career Education Hiring Event on Thursday, Oct. 3. Adrian Delgado, job developer and job placement specialist for ECC’s Career Education, said companies including SpaceX, the U.S. Census Bureau,…
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ECC ranked among top 100 schools for Hispanic students – El Camino College The Union

El Camino College President and Superintendent Dena Maloney speaks to students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at the First-Gen STEM Luncheon during First-Gen Awareness Week on Monday, Nov. 4. For the second year in a row ECC made the “Top 10 Schools By Major” list in the Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education Magazine when it was recognized for awarding the most general engineering degrees to Hispanics students in 2017. Photo credit: Jose Tobar

By Jose Tobar

The Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine recently recognized El Camino College as one of the top 100 community colleges serving the largest number of Hispanic students nationwide this year. ECC is ranked at No. 15. and also earned a top 10 spot in the “Top 10 Schools By Major” category for awarding the most general…
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EOPS recognized for 50 years of service – El Camino College The Union

Edith Gutierrez, the director of the EOPS, CalWORKs and CARE programs at El Camino College talks about the 50th year anniversary of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services at an Academic Senate meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 19. That day, the Academic Senate passed a resolution recognizing the program’s 50th Anniversary. Photo credit: Jose Tobar

By Jose Tobar

The 50th anniversary of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services that first emerged in 1969 as a result of the civil rights movement is being commemorated at both the state level and across multiple community college campuses in California. At El Camino College, the Academic Senate passed a resolution on Tuesday, Nov. 19, reaffirming its…
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Administration commemorates long-time coach with renaming of football field – El Camino College The Union

The El Camino College football team being led out by former head coach John Featherstone and current head coach Gifford Lindheim ahead of the regular season finale against Cerritos College at Murdock Stadium. Jose Tobar/The Union

By Jose Tobar

With family and friends in attendance, former El Camino College coach John “Feather” Featherstone ran onto Murdock Stadium’s football field to be commemorated for his award-winning-31-year career. During the pre-game ceremony, Featherstone received a replica plaque that would solidify his legacy at ECC before winning the coin-toss for the Warriors. “[He is] a true warrior…
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Proposed law will re-evaluate the true cost of college – El Camino College The Union

David Nieto poses for a picture outside the Bookstore at El Camino College on Thursday, Sept. 26. As a third-year student, he has maintained a 4.0 G.P.A while experiencing food and housing insecurities that have forced him to live in his car for a few months last year.

By Jose Tobar

“Unfortunately, you find people like myself who fall through the cracks who really can’t make ends meet,” Nieto said. “Because in the day in age with the cost of living you have to choose: Do you want lights or do you want to go to school? You want food on the table or do you want to get that A? It’s a big choice.”

As a child, David Nieto grew up in a neighborhood of East Los Angeles and lived in a household with gang ties going back three generations.   College was not in the works for him, he said. But things changed. “I realized there was more to living than dying for something,” he said. “So, whichever…
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Annual commencement ceremony celebrates 2019 graduates – El Camino College Union

ECC student’s decorated mortarboard, at Murdock Stadium for graduation ceremony, Friday, June 7. Photo credit: Elena Perez

The air horns blew and the confetti-filled cannons exploded over the hundreds of graduating students dressed to the nine in their blue cap and gowns. The applauses, hoots, whistles and cheers of the crowd sitting in the bleachers seemed to never stop, as name after name—some badly mangled—were called to come up. On Friday, June…
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