The View From Here – The Skyline View

Journalism’s Impact: The View From Here

December 6, 2018

Filed under Columns, Opinions, Showcase, The View From Here

Journalism is a privilege that not every American citizen can understand. Journalists get to use their platform for what they believe is important, such as news pieces, opinion pieces, sports coverage, feature articles, and more topics that involve giving information to the public in a specific format.With journalism, we have t...

Expanding your view

Simone Ledbetter

December 6, 2018

Filed under Columns, Opinions, Showcase, The View From Here

Our community college district needs to encourage students to explore interests outside of their major.With the way things are currently, students are encouraged to only take classes in the field they’ve chosen and some find general education to be a burden and hindrance to their goal. But students need to explore their int...

The View From Here: The prevalence of student homelessness

Simone Ledbetter, Editor-in-chief

November 8, 2018

Filed under Columns, Opinions, The View From Here

Homeless college students is a topic we’ve addressed before, but with recent studies, I would like to further stress the importance of helping these students in our community. When people think of the word homeless, it is sometimes imagined as drug addicts or ‘dirty’ people on the street. But the harsh reality is, es...

The View From Here: Taking sexual assault seriously

Simone Ledbetter, Editor-in-chief

October 9, 2018

Filed under Columns, Opinions, The View From Here

The way society addresses sexual assault is detrimental to both the victim and society as a whole. The unfortunate reality for many of these victims is that when reporting the crime committed upon them, they are made to feel they should not have reported the crime at all. This of course leads to great repercussions such as...

The View From Here: When the accused becomes the accuser

Lauren Gozon, Interim Editor-in-Chief

August 29, 2018

Filed under Columns, Opinions, The View From Here

The recent news of Asia Argento’s alleged sexual abuse and settlement has all of us on our toes; especially those following the #MeToo movement. According to reports from The New York Times, Argento agreed to a settlement of $380,000 for her very own accuser, actor Jimmy Bennett. Initially, Argento denied the claims and...