Isis Piccillo won first place for participation in the on-the-spot opinion writing competition at the 2019 JACC State convention. Piccillo wrote about award winning journalist Kevin Fagan’s keynote speech...
Local non-profit ‘Lead to Life’ melt guns in front of city hall in a symbolic act of defiance.
By Michelle Snider.
Attendees for a “People’s March” carry banners through downtown Oakland...
by Sarah Carpenter & Brian Howey
Brian Howey & Sarah Carpenter are finishing their tenure as co-editors-in-chief of the Laney Tower.For four tumultuous and exciting semesters, we’ve kept...
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May 17, 2018In this issue …
News: How safe are we?News: Teachers union concerned about class cutsOpinion: Is being a Black woman on the internet worth it?Opinion:...
Journalism Association of Community Colleges gives Tower 11 awards for writing, design
By Bonnie Oviatt
The Laney Tower earned 11 awards at the 2017 Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC)...
Sarah Carpenter/TowerA letter to the editor
By Sadiq B. Ikharo
I am writing to let you and your editorial staff know that the District and College Administration are working very hard to fix and...
The story “Ripped off” (May 5) begins with an engaging aesthetic framing the issue on hand, yet the way the story is broken up and positioned all over the Tower is a bit of a nuisance, especially...
There’s a tradition at the Laney Tower: on their way out, editors-in-chief write farewell op-eds in which they offer advice or words of wisdom to their readers.
I’m deviating from this tradition...
Here at the Laney Tower, we do our best to reflect the comings and goings of not only the Peralta Colleges, but also the East Bay community at large. Our audience isn’t the tech-bros gentrifying the...
Six representatives from Laney College attended the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) 2014 NorCal Conference at California State University, Sacramento on November 8, 2014. Vying for...
