Features - The Oak Leaf

SRJC's dance program includes a dance company performance course in the Fall semester and a collaborative dance performance course with the Theatre department in the spring

Finding Their Stride: The history and people of SRJC’s dance program

Lucas Cadigan-Carranza, Editor-in-Chief • December 14, 2024

Simeon Van Izquierdo was fresh out of high school and checking out the Santa Rosa Junior College campus in the summer of 2012 when he heard music blasting from the second floor of Tauzer...

Oak Leaf reporter Marty Lees sits cozy with SRJC mascot Rosco the Bear on Nov. 18, 2024.

Bear Necessities: What I Learned by Asking “Who is Rosco?”

Marty Lees, Reporter • December 13, 2024

School mascots are the sort of American kitsch that I’ll admit my fellow Brits can sometimes view a little cynically. So, when I was tasked to write a story on the redesign of Santa...

Shoppers and passersby inspect Mick's wares which include several kinds of tropical fruit and bulk quantities of berries.

Victoria Station fruit stand, the fight against father time

Benjamin Heckman, London Reporter • December 13, 2024

Standing under the awning of his London fruit stall, Mick Szilágyi gestures with his cigarette at the surrounding buildings and says that none...

Many visitors have claimed to see strange things happen with these mirrors, which some believe as being a portal to another dimension.

Haunted or Not: Sonoma County is Still Scary

Kevin Terlizzi-Bowes, Reporter • December 12, 2024

The Washoe House, on the corner of Stony Point Road and Roblar Road, has been a stop for highway travelers for over 160 years. Built as an inn...

Study Abroad Instructor Gregory Beyrer's takes students in his U.S. history class on a field trip to see Cornwell Gardens, a private key garden in London's Kensington neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2024.

Teaching Abroad in London: Instructors Share Lessons, Laughs, and Life-Changing Moments

Diego Cruz, London Reporter • December 11, 2024

On Halloween night, Study Abroad instructors Anne Belden and Lindsey Ayotte decided to crash the Graham Norton television show — without tickets...

From left to right:
Benjamin Heckman, Diego Cruz, Anne Belden, Mason Zunino, Rosemary Cromwell, Corrina Elias-Berg, Joseph Tugwell, Kayla Matsuura, Joe Tourk, Kate Owen Dildine, Nauder Maghsoodnia, Hannah Maloney.
Oak Leaf London staff stuns on the steps of AIFS Taylor House in Kensington.

The Oak Leaf Branches Across the Pond

Nauder Maghsoodnia, London Reporter • December 5, 2024

Staff members in the London Branch of the Oak Leaf have taken on the challenge of upholding the publication’s nearly 100-year legacy of excellence...