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Megan Fitzmorris

Megan Fitzmorris, Features Editor

Spring 2016, Fall 2016

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The trailer framework is the first step in the City College construction academy tiny house project, Thursday, Nov. 17, at the City College Wake Campus. The academy is using their recently awarded grant money to build an entire mobile tiny home with shrunk down features and multi-purpose appliances.

SBCC Construction Academy begins tiny house for tiny lives

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
November 18, 2016
Jackson Hayes, student sustainability coalition president, stands in front of a new garden on Tuesday, Nov. 15, outside the City College West Campus Cafeteria. The gardens are made to make a more sustainable campus.

Latest project of sustainability club brings fruit trees to SBCC

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Features Editor
November 18, 2016
Campus Center will not be rebuilt, will stand for now

Campus Center will not be rebuilt, will stand for now

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Associate Editor
November 12, 2016
Susan Rose and Daraka Larimore-Hall talk about the future of the Democrat party in Santa Barbara after learning of Donald Trump winning the presidency on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at The Mill in Santa Barbara. Democrats won all the major local elections.

Plastic bags banned statewide, environmentalist call it a victory

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Features Editor
November 9, 2016
Michael Kourash, owner of Santa Barbara Design Center, gets interviewed during a taping of ‘Design Santa Barbara’ on Friday, Nov. 4, in Santa Barbara. City College interior design students assist Kourash during the taping of the show to utilize skills they are learning.

SBCC students create rooms for TV Show, ‘Design Santa Barbara’

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Features Editor
November 7, 2016

Dr. Anthony Beebe on short sick leave, EVP is acting president

Megan Fitzmorris, Associate Editor
October 26, 2016

Open forum organized to help create a SBCC vision statement

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Associate Editor
October 24, 2016

Voices: ‘Where is the strangest place you’ve had to spend the night?’

MEGAN FITZMORRIS and OTHMAN MECHKOR
October 4, 2016
Mark Broomfield, ground maintenance supervisor for City College, demonstrates the daily recycled-water routine on Thursday, Sept. 8, on the West Campus lawn. The sprinklers normally go off on a timer around four a.m. before students arrive for their classes.

Recycled water restores SBCC lawns from brown to green

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Associate Editor
September 12, 2016

SBCC electro-pop band breaks into local scene

MEGAN FITZMORRIS and NATHAN BARRETT
May 6, 2016

SBCC electro-pop band breaks into local scene

MEGAN FITZMORRIS and NATHAN BARRETT
May 6, 2016
Nicholas Steil, vice president of Student Affairs, visits the men's locker room in the Sports Pavilion at Santa Barbara City College, Friday, Feb. 28. Steil, has been pushing for the initiative to allow homeless students access to locker room showers for over three years.

Showers to be available to any City College students in need

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
April 23, 2016
A panel related to the book “Just Mercy" talked about their personal perspectives and experiences with incarcerations and the criminal justice reform programs, Thursday, April 21, in the Administration Building Room A160 at City College. The main topic discussed was the need for change in the American prison systems and the aftermath of the emotional damage that it produces on individuals who come out of prison and how society views them.

Former felons discuss life after prison and overcoming hardship

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
April 22, 2016
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Dr. Kelly Lake set to give 37th Annual Faculty Lecture April 13

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
April 11, 2016
Alison Malmon, founder and executive director of Active Minds Inc., speaks to a large audience about mental health in young people on Tuesday, March 22, in the Garvin Theatre at City College. Malmon founded Active Minds after her brother passed away from suicide and she found that there were no support groups for individuals with mental health issues on her college campus.

SBCC holds lecture on issues surrounding mental health

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
March 23, 2016
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Eccentric online dating websites offer unique options for users

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, CHRISTIAN WALKER, and TANNER WALKER
March 22, 2016

SBCC Spring Dance Collective to showcase student choreography

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, CHANNELS STAFF
March 21, 2016

SBCC Spring Dance Collective to showcase student choreography

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, CHANNELS STAFF
March 21, 2016

Women’s rugby club empowers SBCC students

ALONZO MACIAS-PEREZ and MEGAN FITZMORRIS
March 15, 2016

Women’s rugby club empowers SBCC students

ALONZO MACIAS-PEREZ and MEGAN FITZMORRIS
March 15, 2016

City College students need to become more politically aware

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
March 11, 2016
Ramirez practices styling on mannequins on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the Santa Barbara Cosmetology Academy in Goleta, Calif. Ramirez's main focus in the program is hair cuts and dyes.

SBCC student excels in program with motto ‘deaf can do it’

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels staff
March 5, 2016
Student Senator Emily Gribble speaks at the Santa Barbara City Council meeting regarding the proposed noise ordinance on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at City Hall. Student Senate members Gribble and Lexi Valas personally spoke out against the ordinance but wanted to be clear that the Senate would not take an official position.

City approves changes to noise ordinance that gives $350 fines

MEGAN FITZMORRIS, Channels Staff
February 10, 2016
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