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Analogue cigarette machines (nondigital) are still present in Portugal.

Top 10 cigarettes I smoked in Europe • 11390 Views

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If you’re tired of changing your virtual background over and over, here are a few games to keep your Zoom calls fresh.

Five free online games to play on Zoom with friends • 920 Views

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A graphic of the characters Shrek and Donkey edited to have their faces swapped.

From movie to meme: “Shrek” turns 20 • 387 Views

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System Of A Down: Daron Malakian (top left), Serj Tankian (top right), John Dolmayan (bottom left), Shavo Odadjian (bottom right) come together with new music for the first time in 15 years raising over $600,000 for charity.

System of a Down is back with two chilling new tracks • 376 Views

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Hard to follow plotlines while failing to appeal to a younger crowd, both The Selfie Man and Friend Request scare viewers for all the wrong reasons.

Horrible Horror: Awful internet-themed horror movies I’ve watched so you don’t have to • 235 Views

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Duy Pham is a first-year student at Santa Rosa Junior College.

A story during quarantine • 216 Views

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When your vote doesnt directly decide the winner of the Presidential election, does your vote still matter?

Opinion: “Your vote doesn’t matter” — A response • 210 Views

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The Contax G1, a relic of of 20th century engineering

The Contax G1: The camera I hate to love • 170 Views

Pandemic Stories
Opinion: What I gained from two coronavirus outbreaks
I help out many essential workers like Heinrich, who works at the Manazana apple sauce plant in Rohnert Park. Essential workers are often patient and understand the stress I am going through as an essential worker myself.
Unearthed
Abby Selby is a fourth-year SRJC student.
To the Latino Man Standing by My Garden as He Texts
Vida Javdan has been taking ESL classes at Santa Rosa Junior College for three years. She says the quarantine has helped her get involved in her childrens education.
Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Florence Gomes is a first-year International student at SRJC.
Nardos Asfaha is a second year SRJC student.
Duy Pham is a first-year student at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Fabian Amarillas a fifth year student at Santa Rosa Junior College, and his younger brother, Yancarlo.
Arts & Entertainment
A grassy field surrounded by redwood trees with a clear blue sky.
Travelling doesnt have to take you hundreds or thousands of miles from home; there are all sorts of summer vacation experiences just an hour or two away.
The cover of No Visible Bruises, a book about domestic violence.
Crooks Coffee has a very Poe-esque vibe to their cafe- and their coffee.
The cover of Greta Van Fleets 2021 album The Battle At Gardens Gate.
The band Empire of the Sun wearing original second-hand pink costumes with pointy pink hats made by designer Svetlana Shigroff.
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Sports
Opinion: Alex Smith deserves the 2020 NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year Award
The highly anticipated 10-part documentary “The Last Dance” aired its first episode April 19, and 20 years after the Bulls’ dynasty, it seems like they never left.
Truist Park home of the Atlanta Braves is one of the many stadiums across the country that sit empty thanks to fallout from the novel coronavirus.
SRJC baseball players and coaches feel the pressure of an altered recruiting cycle thanks to COVID-19s cancelling the 2020 spring season.
If the articles 10 workout ideas dont seem challenging enough, invite your dog to participate.
Opinion: Postponing the Tokyo Olympics is a reasonable — and perhaps beneficial — choice
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Features
Santa Rosa Junior College Student Body President Delashay Carmona Benson speaking at a BlackOut walkout May 5.
Sergio Santana-Peralta (pictured left) towering over his mother Alberta Peralta (pictured right).
A photo of a black cat seated in a windowsill.
Sydney Gittins, a girl with reddish brown hair and bangs wearing a painted blue jumpsuit, sits in between a few of her art pieces (a cactus woman statue on the left, behind her is a drawn art piece set in a kitchen and on the right is a painted stool).
A collection of snapshots of Paradise High School teachers and students from Last Days at Paradise High.
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Features
Opinion: Pay the players
A person sits at a desk taking notes and watching a lecture on their computer screen.
All U.S. citizens should be able to pass the naturalization test that is required for immigrants to obtain citizenship.
Biden did his part, let’s do ours: How to kick Trumpism to the curb
What we learned from 2020
For his inciting role in yesterdays incident at Capitol Hill, the President must be removed from office.
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Magazine
Period pains: how menstruation still holds women back
10 iconic films from the 2010s
Firefighters, police officers and Healdsburg city staff gather Friday, Nov. 8 at the Healdsburg Plaza on the night of Coming Together in Gratitude, days after the Kincade Fire.
The challenge is to go 24 hours without digital devices and internet access to test capacity for a disconnected life.
Kincade Fire Gallery
Fake reality: SRJC students unprepared for a fake news world
“That’s just how it is”: Trials and tribulations of modern day dating
When we post the past: How social media shapes identity
Double life: Classes by day, jokes by night
Baseball players at all levels are hitting more home runs than ever before, leading players, coaches and managers to ask why.
SRJC safety Kasey Kikuyama demonstrates a perfect form tackle against Fresno College Sept. 7. Though there is slight helmet to helmet contact, Kikuyama leads with his shoulder and wraps up nicely.
Dr. German Ascani prescribes and administers ketamine for psychotherapy at his West Sonoma County office.
Store important survival supplies and low-tech entertainment in a stout backpack you can grab at a moment’s notice.
Frank Chong was hired in January 2012 as Santa Rosa Junior College’s fifth president and first Chinese-American president.
Carceral state: The prison industrial complex wasn’t the solution for my mom
SRJC conducted a survey last spring asking students to report on their mental health during the last 12 months..
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Relaxing hikes in Sonoma County
CBD: A natural remedy for todays ills?
Rhiannon Jones was crowned the 2019 Miss Sonoma County at the 73rd Annual Miss Sonoma County Scholarship competition on March 2, 2019.
Makeup has no gender
Passion for fashion
In the dugout with Amy
After revitalizing the cheer program, coach Dori Elder hosts cheer team tryouts on April 8.
SRJC freshman high-jumper Waisea Jikoiono set the top mark in California with a 6-foot-7.5 inch jump early in March 2019.
A second chance at life
Resistance: Now and forever
Lessons I learned from my autistic brother
SRJC nursing student Jocelyn Zhaori Contreras-Toscano is vice chair of Student Life and co-chair of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanista de Aztlán (MEChA). She flew into the U.S. at age 2 on the lap of a stranger and talked with the Oak Leaf about the difficulties of being undocumented.
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A student-operated publication at Santa Rosa Junior College.
A student-operated publication at Santa Rosa Junior College.