By Meghan Waymire Contributing columnist In my senior year of high school, I participated in We The People, a competitive program where students perform mock congressional hearings and are challenged with questions to test their critical thinking skills and knowledge on court cases, history, current events, the Constitution and more. Although I had always been…

Hundreds gather Sept. 5 for Discoverfest, a semiannual roundup of Cal State Fullerton student clubs and organizations. (Photo by Matt Gush/ Cal State Fullerton) Biology major Elizabeth Hernandez signs up for the Chemistry and Biochemistry Club, which helps its members get into research projects on campus and careers in the field. (Photo by Matt Gush/…

For many students who are low-income, from an underrepresented demographic or the first in their family to attend college, just getting a bachelor’s degree is a feat. At Cal State Fullerton, one group of such students looks beyond undergraduate graduation — way beyond. The Ronald McNair Scholars Program helps prepare such students for a master’s…

“Tropical Confusion” by Carol Gentithes is covered with decals of flora and fauna. (Photo by Wendy Fawthrop) Pre-Columbian art from the MAW Collection includes fanciful creatures displayed on a desk with art books. (Photo by Wendy Fawthrop) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds “Standing Female Figure with Hands on Her Abdomen” is from Colima, Mexico…

Metrolink canceled one of its main routes from downtown Los Angeles to Lancaster after an older woman was killed Sunday morning when she stepped onto the tracks in Glendale. Authorities have said it was likely a suicide. Metrolink canceled its Antelope Valley line to Lancaster at the Burbank downtown…

Fresno State Bulldogs vs. the UCLA Bruins during a NCAA football game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Ca., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Fresno State Bulldogs tight end Kyle Riddering (89) catches a pass for a first down over UCLA Bruins defensive back Adarius Pickett (6) in the first half of a NCAA football…

ANAHEIM – A trailer somehow detached from a semi-truck Sunday, Sept. 16 on the Riverside (91) Freeway in Anaheim, and struck several vehicles. The crashes were on the westbound 91 Freeway at Weir Canyon Road a little after 10:20 a.m., the California Highway Patrol reported. No injuries were reported. The freeway’s Fastrack lanes, plus the…

Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her…

Stanford University’s leaders plan to strip some prominent campus references to Junipero Serra, the canonized 18th-century priest who established the California mission system that critics now blame for decimating Native American communities. The Franciscan friar was credited with bringing Catholicism…

Cal State Northridge senior Angelo Mutia is a straight man who admits he’s used a slur to describe gay men. He’s joked about transgender people. He’s dismissed as “ridiculous” any gender identities besides male and female. His attitudes changed, he said, two years ago, when he took a class to fulfill…