The Union (El Camino College)

The score is tied 3-3 as the Long Beach Vikings are up to bat at the top of the second inning and No. 12 Vikings catcher Zara Mineo waits for the perfect pitch to bring runners home. ​With teammates on second and third base, there’s an opportunity to score. She hits a line drive down the right-center field and sprints all the way to third base as two runners ahead of her make it home, giving the Vikings a 5-3 lead.

One hundred backpacks were set up at the Student Services Plaza Wednesday, April 1, but the display was no joke. They were part of an exhibit called “Send Silence Packing,” which honors those who lost their lives to suicide by sharing their stories of hope and loss from their family and friends.

After 37 years at El Camino College, former coach and educator at ECC George Stanich, is being honored through the renaming the ECC Gymnansium in his name. No formal title is confirmed at the moment, according to Athletic Director Abigail Francisco. His journey started at UCLA, where he competed in a number of sports: basketball, field, track, and baseball according to a presentation at the Board of Trustees meeting Mar. 18.

Two new police officers were sworn in on Thursday, April 2 during a ceremony held in the Kenneth A. Brown Board Room, located inside the Administration building. The ceremony marked the start of their duties on campus, as family, colleagues, and administrators gathered to welcome them to the department. For officers Pablo Garcia and Ryan Brown, this moment arrived after months of training and field experience.

Before ChatGPT became the ghostwriter for essays, school assignments were sloppy, genuine and chaotic expressions of student creativity and knowledge. Now, eerie soulless writing and work can be seen across all El Camino College’s different academic divisions. Students are killing their creativity and critical thinking skills by relying on AI platforms to do their work for them.

The U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating El Camino College over a possible Title IX violation for failing to provide equal athletic participation opportunities to female students by not effectively accommodating their interests and abilities. The investigation, which opened Wednesday, March 4, follows a complaint filed by former ECC badminton coach David Levin on behalf of the women’s badminton team, one of two women’s teams cut in 2025.

Studio art major Jeremy Engel, 19, ran his pencil along the canvas, outlined key anatomy points and shaded in the ribcage of the model during professor Randall Bloomberg’s Life Drawing class at El Camino College. Engel taught himself to draw at home through YouTube videos. In his sophomore year of high school, he moved to painting still life with watercolors and acrylics.

Categories: Two classes in artificial intelligence are rolling out in fall of 2026 as part of a broader effort in developing an AI associates degree at El Camino College. The classes- AI fundamentals, and AI and Ethics-are offered through the Computer Information Systems department. “We are beginning a process, baby steps at a time basically, but…the long term being an associate degree or bachelor’s degree,” said Professor Joanna Tang, a Computer Information Systems instructor.

Lining up to get gear and tools, rolling out clay, laying fabric onto a dress form mannequin: these are all part of a trade student’s routine. These practices require students to be present and working with their hands. El Camino College student, Alexander De Alba, a welding major, works on a practice certification plate to become welding certified in the CAT building at ECC on Monday, March 30.

El Camino College will soon allow AI to be used to make course materials more accessible for disabled students to meet federal standards that will go into effect on Friday, April 24. This comes following a Technology Committee meeting on Tuesday, March 17, that defined working groups to implement a district-wide administrative policy for artificial intelligence.