The Torch

Retail Hell

by B. Tanner Fogle in Features

The Problems of the Fourteenth Grade

by Allison Kirkham in Departments

Hoe Down!

Bros and Bro-Hoes, we get it already. Stop making yourself look like an idiot.

by Julie White in Departments

Hoe. Hoe. Hoe. Along with the holiday season we just dealt with, Supercross (a dirt biking competition) is starting up. Supercross is an amazing race between professional motocross racers and their motorcycles. Unfortunately, what comes along with the sport is quite sad.

It's in the Blood

A photo essay by Jason Demesquita

by Jason Demesquita in Photo Essays

An in-depth and graphic look at how blood is drawn, tested and used for research.

Scuba Diving Delivers

A photo essay by Tommy Van Deusen

by Tommy Van Deusen in Photo Essays

The Scuba Diving course at FC offers students the chance to discover a new world under the sea.

Off-Road Racing

by Claire Webster in Online Exclusive

Women are breaking into what was once considered a man's world, taking their jobs and now playing their games.

SuperMoto Mania

by David Conklin in Photo Essays

The latest craze in motor sports is SuperMoto and draws large crowds to anywhere there is dirt to watch the bikes speed by as they make their way to a jump.

Student Soldiers

by Antonio Kilpatrick in Features

They're locked, loaded and ready to…write? Many students at Fullerton College are faced with the challenges of completing homework assignments on time, passing exams and trying to balance this maelstrom of academia, with a competitive work schedule while still having a good time.

Whatever

A look at today's culture by Allison Kirkham

by Allison Kirkham in Departments

A look at the phrase "whatever" and why it has stuck around much longer than its other nineties-phrase peers.

Plastic Surgery Pressures

Young girls in Southern California are feeling the need to alter their bodies in order to feel normal.

by Lauren Whalley in Features

Plastic surgery has become a temptation that many young people must deal with on their journey to accepting themselves.

Lazy Daze

Some ideas for summer from the managing editor

by Jessica Chen in Departments

A series of suggestions for what you can do when you find yourself with extra time on your hands this summer.

Vote or Die

(but only if you know what you're talking about)

by David Stellzmuller in Features

It is going to be a banner year for Politics in 2008. In a crowded field where there is no real front-runner, each vote will be a call to action to forge a new path, Republican or Democrat. However, who really cares? If you actually vote, you are probably either red or blue through and through.

'All You Need is LOVE'

by Sheena Dickens in Features

No one can argue that there is plenty of love in Las Vegas, whether it is from a casino entourage, a slot machine or a card table, or even more appropriate, a random person in a bar. However, there has never been love in Vegas like The Beatle's "LOVE," a Cirque du Soleil at the Mirage.

Modest Mouse

by Sheena Dickens in Online Exclusive

One of the most popular bands in the indie music scene is dissected and analyzed.

The Debt Diet for Students

(don't get fat on credit)

by Sheena Dickens in Features

If there is any diet resolution made in the year 2008 it should be a debt diet. Forget about carbs, trans fat, and even exercising. This year, cut down on you're spending intake and high cost APRs. By following these guidelines, and utilizing these credit card tips, you will certainly find that you're jeans don't fit as well or that you might need a bigger purse because you're wallet is getting fatter - and that's a good thing.

The Boys Are Back

The start of baseball season sends fans into a frenzy.

by Heidi Nanigian in Features

While the 2007 baseball season started not too long ago, Angel's fans were excited long before the first pitch was thrown from the mound.

Living Online

More students are discovering the freedoms of web-based classes.

by Leo Postovoit in Features

Professor Paul Lester's evening Communications 300 class meets every Monday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Students attend class at California State University, Fullerton and sit in on lectures. "It's a bit different," says Lester. The thing is, Lester's class isn't just a bit different, it is virtual.

Young Lovers

by Julie White in Features

Walking down the aisle is a landmark moment for most people. The dress, the bouquet, all of your friends and family watching the union of you and the one you love. Then after that, what have you got left to look forward to? Maybe graduation from high school? Statistics report that more than 50 percent of teen marriages fail within the first 15 years.

My Story: Paris in the OC

by Johanna Winner in Features

I have gone through all the things many foreign students go through. It is very hard to adapt to another culture and a different lifestyle. It has now been five years since I came to America and I wanted to go back to France for the first three of them. I came to America in the middle of the year, and I expected it to be exactly like the T.

Welcome to the Real L World

The challenges of coming out and having fun in Orange County.

by Ashley Benson in Features

Alternative lifestyles are becoming the norm, but some are still persecuted for their sexual preferences.

Passport Pandemonium

Passports are now something that is part of every trip to TJ, so here's how to get yours without too much fuss.

by Raquel Lazaraga in Features

The need to have a passport to travel out of the country is now more important than ever. It is nearly impossible to cross the both the Mexican and Canadian border without one.

Work Hard for Your Money

by Mijael Javiesky in Features

The occupational world has much to offer, with increasing multitudes of jobs and opportunities. This is extremely true in the world of college students who have yet to discover a career that they can call their own. Interestingly enough, Colleges today are not only providing academic fields to advance careers, but they are also providing opportunities to gain experience in occupations as well.

Pattern Recognition

by Allison Kirkham in Departments

Fullerton College fashion students don't spend their time sitting around considering fashion, they spend their time creating it. Joneshia Jenkins is no dressmaker's dummy when it comes to fabrication of fashion, she spent her semester making this shirt for her final project in the Intro to Fashion class.

On Campus: Fashion

Renee Young

by David Young-Treanor in Departments

Fullerton College's latest addition to itsfaculty Ms. Renee Young the new fashion and design teacher. Though this is her first semester at Fullerton, Renee has been in the needle and thread game for quite some time. She has worked at Mt. SAC, and Fetum College, as a fashion and design teacher.

Girls Just Wanna...

Alternative modeling website is a goal for some and a mistake for others, according to two models.

by Tenesha Garcia in Features

The popular but underground scene of suicide girls is revealed, as is their lives and how they got to be who they are.

On Campus: Where to Go

Sheilah Stokes

by B. Tanner Fogle in Departments

Eat What You Know: Sheilah Stokes is a Fullerton native who knows all the places that you want to be if you hangout anywhere in the city. She teaches English at FC, and in her spare time soaks in the city. "What I really like about Fullerton," she says, "is there's all of these unique places you can go to.

Different Worlds

International students are in for a surprise when they come to the real OC for the first time. La Habra isn't Laguna, and they're definitely not in Belgium anymore.

by Johanna Winner in Features

Before coming to Fullerton College, most international students have an idea of what it will be like. Knowing that FC is located in Orange County, many students that come to FC from another country imagine the beautiful people with money and mansions who live on the beach and have amazing lives in a place where it never rains.

On Campus: Television

Janaki Parikh

by Sheena Dickens in Departments

Accessible Anthropology: With a world filled with CSI's and murder mystery television, we wondered what a real expert of bones and forensics has to say about current television and reality-take-over T.V. So, we looked no further than our own campus to seek the opinion of Janaki Parikh, a barefooted anthropology professor with sophistication and a thing for aliens and Harry Potter.

On Campus: Music

Doug Kresse

by Sheena Dickens in Departments

Mind Over Music: Doug Kresse may be one of the coolest professors on campus, though you may not realize it because he teaches two of least "cool" subjects in college- speech and debate. However, he has received a very creditable reputation for being quite knowledgeable when it comes to hip, indie music and what's hot in the industry.