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     PennWest California University is honoring Latinx Heritage Month by organizing a series of events designed to inform students about Hispanic culture and encourage creativity in the process. Hosted by the Cal U Art Club, Cal U Catholic, and the Hispanic Student Association, this week’s event consisted of a showing of the film “The Official Story,” along with a variety of crafts including beading and painting.      According to the official website, National Hispanic American Heritage Month, which spans from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, celebrates the many ways Hispanic Americans have influenced and enhanced American culture today.       The film, “The Official Story,” is a fictionalized rendition of actual events that occurred in Argentina throughout the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, beginning in 1976. The goal of this event was to simultaneously educate students about the history of Argentina while also teaching them about traditiona...

   Students and religious leaders all over the world stood together around flagpoles to pray over their communities last week in accordance with the annual See You at the Pole event. The PennWest California campus was no exception as New Life Christian Fellowship, STAND, and Cal Catholic, the campus ministries, assembled a group of students and faculty to pray and sing songs of worship around the school’s flagpole. Despite it being 7 a.m. and 45 degrees, fifteen students and four faculty members of the PennWest California campus rallied together to pray and spread hope to their campus community. Kim Carson, campus minister who oversees New Life Christian Fellowship, attended her first See You at the Pole event in middle school and has been involved with campus ministry since she was in college. She holds a firm belief that See You at the Pole is both impactful and important. “I like that it’s a collaborative thing open to anyone,” she said. “I think it’s always helpful...