Seth Henderson

According to a study published by Pew Research Center on Sept. 17, more than half of adults are more likely to consume news on social media, with 52% of TikTok users reporting the platform as their main source of news, up from 22% in 2022.

X, formerly known as Twitter, leads the social media platforms as a news source for younger adults, reporting 59% of their users regularly receive news on the platform. Students at Cosumnes River College discussed the experiences they’ve had consuming news and using social media regularly.

Tyler Reed, a 26-year-old computer science major, said he gets a glance of Apple News that arrives in his email’s inbox. He said he can trust the news he gets, which has more of a “centrist-modernist” take, but he knows he has to do his research on it because he doesn’t know their original source material.

As the presidential election nears, the country’s political landscape has seen a dramatic change in recent months and The Connection asked multiple students on campus what their views of each candidate were with responses varying.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are the two final front-runners for the Democratic and Republican parties, preparing for their first debate on Tuesday. Students spoke about policies that matter to them and their personal experiences leadi...

The campus cafeteria is estimated to be fully operational by spring 2025, Director of Facilities and Operations Christopher Raines said.
Raines said the construction is projected to be complete between October and December, barring any unforeseen complications.
Irie Mitchell-Crooms, a 19-year-old Nutrition and Dietetics major, said she regularly leaves campus to find food and would appreciate a full cafeteria, making it easier to study.
“A lot of my time goes to planning where I’m going to eat f...

Sacramento non-profit organization 916 Ink, aimed at empowering youth through creative writing, recently held a workshop in the Learning Resource Center, giving students the opportunity to have their work published and earn $150 if accepted.
Poet Laureate Andru Defeye, the official poet of Sacramento, said 916 Ink’s project, “Drop a Pen,” will create a coffee table book composed of poems, pictures, interviews and other literature from people across Sacramento.
“It’s just really an attempt to let...

Approximately 12.2% of currently registered voters are under the age of 25, according to the California Secretary of State’s website, which means young voters can have an impact in the primary election this month.

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 22% of registered voters between the ages of 18-29 cast a ballot in 2022. That figure is 8% lower than the 2018 election, a trend in multiple states across the country.

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There’s a resource that most Los Rios students have already paid for and don’t use enough – yes, it’s the Universal Transit Pass, but is it a hidden gem students can use outside of school?

Students of the Los Rios Community College District pay a mandatory fee for the UTP during enrollment and besides getting you to and from school, the pass has other perks.

This is a resource that LRCCD and Sacramento Regional Transit are practically begging students to use based on the $3 per unit price tag,

According to The Sacramento Bee, local regions are facing a 75% to 85% chance of strong storms this winter due to a historically strong El Niño declared in May by the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center.

El Niño and its counterpart La Niña are climate patterns that occur when sea surface temperatures change from their norm near the Pacific Ocean’s equator, the NWSCPC said on its website.

California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer of the Valley Division Margarito Meza s

Academic and athletic competition are equally important and highly encouraged in the Hawks athletic department, said Cosumnes River College’s athletic director.

A chart hangs in the athletic department’s office that displays the cumulative GPA for each sports team at CRC and student athletes can see where their team ranks academically across the department. CRC’s cumulative GPA for all teams of the spring 2023 semester is 3.166, according to 2022-2023 CalPass data, a website that provides statu

The forecasted market size of AI in the music market is projected to reach $2.6 billion in 2032. Here is the projected market size year-to-year by a Market.us report.

Artificial Intelligence has made its way into the music industry as a creative tool.

A global compound annual growth rate of 28.6%, reaching about $2.6 billion is forecasted for the music market in 2032 with generative AI technology in use, according to a report by Market.us.

Dean of Arts, Media and Entertainment Brian Rickel sa

The conceptual design of the student housing complex by Eden Housing. The project will be built at 7800 W Stockton Blvd., which is within one mile of the campus.

The design for the affordable student housing project located within one mile of the campus has been delayed due to increased construction and labor costs, the developer of the project said.

The design with non-profit developer, Eden Housing, was set to be completed by spring of this year, according to an article published by The Conn