3 min readCome hear Cesar Aguirre Rap at the Benefit Concert for Casa Maria! Tuesday Nov. 25th, at 7p.m. at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress Street. $7 donation or free if you don’t have it. by Cesar Aguirre, I have always been a very passionate person. One of my greatest passions is music. I was raised around musicians. Both sides of my family are very talented. I can still remember listening to my Tata strumming his guitar in the living room or pulling out his amp and microphone so I could MC while he played Tiger Rag on his accordion. I had

6 min readCheck this out! College Athletes of the World, Unite By Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the greatest and most conscious Brother to ever play basketball.   College Athletes of the World, Unite By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar November 12, 2014 Jacobin Life for student-athletes is no longer the quaint Americana fantasy of the homecoming bonfire and a celebration at the malt shop. It’s big business in which everyone is making money — everyone except the eighteen to twenty-one-year-old kids who every game risk permanent career-ending injuries. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at UCLA, AP Photo, When I played basketball for UCLA, I learned the hard way how

2 min readby Cesar Aguirre At Casa Maria we have been studying The Joy of the Gospel by Pope Francis and I have been lingering on some of the discussions we’ve had in our book study group on Thursdays. Last week we discussed the first three chapters of the book. Thanks to Msgr. for challenging us with his thought provoking questions. Like he said, “it’s not enough time to discuss in an hour, we need to revisit the parts that speak to us and study.” I was asked to give my thoughts on this quote, “The worship of the ancient golden calf