Reform Fresno Unified By Mark Arax I don’t mean to pick on Ruth Gadebusch. She seems like a perfectly dear lady. Her regular column on education in these pages is a place of quaint ideas. However, [...] Continue Reading
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Flipping the Frame, Combating Stereotypes
By Mary McGinnie (Editor’s note: On March 18, Californians for Justice held an event titled FlipTheFrame in Fresno. The premise of the event was to challenge negative stereotypes some may have toward [...] Continue Reading
Can Our Divided Nation Come Together?
By Ruth Gadebusch A recent issue of our ever thinner daily devoted an almost whole opinion page to the conditions of our society as regards the seemingly “never the twain shall meet.” Coming as it [...] Continue Reading
Fresno State Student Cupboard Alleviating Student Food Insecurity
By Lizbeth De La Cruz Last year on Nov. 24, the Student Cupboard opened its doors to Fresno State students. As part of an initiative that works to make sure that food insecurity is not a problem on [...] Continue Reading
A Short History of Evolution: A Theme and Variations
By George B. Kauffman “Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution, do you believe in it, do you accept it?” was a softball question lobbed by a journalist on Feb. 11 in London. A potential 2016 [...] Continue Reading
WE’VE GOT SPIRIT!
By Jennifer Ellis When I am older and I look back on my high school years, I’ll think about prom, films I created, winning several media awards, the fun I had in leadership, hanging out with my [...] Continue Reading
Dividing the School District Will Not Solve Anything
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, a group is advocating dividing the Fresno Unified School District. This time it is an east-west divide, apparently thinking they are so clever in including affluent and [...] Continue Reading
AB 60 Driver’s Licenses: A 20–Year Struggle to Drive Safely in California
By Stephanie Canales | Contributions by Stacy Suh and Daisy Vieyra Working for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) to inform the immigrant community about [...] Continue Reading
Youth Film Festival on Water Crisis
By Victoria Lee ACEL Fresno Charter High School students have created a great opportunity for youth to get involved in a film festival to identify solutions to the water crisis. We have been in a [...] Continue Reading
Truth and Reconciliation: Fresno Pacific University Examines Peace and Justice through Theater
By Hannah Brandt For years, American college campuses have lulled themselves into a complacent slumber regarding political activism and social justice. The decades of ambivalence among American youth [...] Continue Reading
We Are All Tired and Can’t Breathe
By Ernesto Saavedra On Dec. 3, 2014, thousands of people from all backgrounds gathered in 43 cities, and more, in response to the missing 43 students (as of Dec. 7, it was 42) from the Raúl Isidro [...] Continue Reading
How to Make Wheat Paste
By Abigail Janzen Wheat paste is a simple nontoxic adhesive that has been used through the ages. An alternative to the liquid adhesives you might get at the store (e.g., Elmer’s, Gorilla Glue), wheat [...] Continue Reading