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El Camino College The Union
The student news site of El Camino College

El Camino College The Union
The student news site of El Camino College

El Camino College The Union
Angel Pasillas

Angel Pasillas, Managing Editor

Angel Pasillas, 24, is the managing editor for Warrior Life. Before moving up to a leadership position with WL, he served as news editor for The Union. A journalism major at El Camino College, he would like to attend California State University Long Beach after graduating from ECC. In his free time, Angel enjoys woodworking, reading, hiking, and photography.

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United Soccer Coaches’ Coach of the Year offers insight into philosophy

By Angel Pasillas
December 6, 2024
Academic Senate members begin to fill up the Distance Education Center in preparation for the meeting on Nov. 19. Before the meeting began many of the chairs and tables were out of order. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

Academic Senate disagrees on changing Professional Development Day required hours

By Angel Pasillas
November 20, 2024
El Camino College Academic Senate President and cosmetology professor Charlene Brewer-Smith demonstrates hair trimming techniques on Lucy Dallavo's hair on Oct. 16. Brewer-Smith has worked at El Camino since 2008.(Angel Pasillas | The Union)

From student to president: the rise of a cosmetology educator

By Angel Pasillas
November 18, 2024
The El Camino College men's soccer team line up for a photograph after winning 4-0 against the East Los Angeles Huskies. The Warriors' next game takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 12, against an opponent that is yet to be announced. The men's soccer team remained unbeaten at home throughout the season. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

El Camino men’s soccer team shuts out East Los Angeles, clinch South Coast Conference title and first-round bye

By Angel Pasillas
November 6, 2024
The Vice President of Academic Affairs Carlos Lopez presents a PowerPoint slide about Block Schedules to the Academic Senate on Sept. 17. Lopez said students and employees at El Camino often have to juggle a lot during Thanksgiving. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

Proposed calendar change won’t take effect in upcoming school year

By Angel Pasillas
September 19, 2024
Spectators at the opening night reception for the Doodle and Dream art exhibition gathered at the El Camino Art Gallery on Sept. 5. The exhibition will last until Oct. 3. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

El Camino art gallery hosts Doodle and Dream art exhibition that features dream inspired art

By Angel Pasillas
September 10, 2024
Vice President of Student Services Jeff Stephenson reads applications at his office in the Administration Building on Monday, May 6. Stephenson said it’s important for the college to educate students about the services available at El Camino before they drop out. “We need to do better at getting information to students about services that we offer on the front end instead of before they reach that crisis,” Stephenson said.(Angel Pasillas | The Union)

El Camino College retention rates dip below state average

By Angel Pasillas
June 3, 2024
Steph Ishimatsu models the wardrobe essentials from the Warrior Closet. (Warrior Life | Delfino Camacho)

Head-to-toe: Affordable essentials available at the Warrior Closet

By Angel Pasillas
May 21, 2024
El Camino College's boxing instructor Rachel Pittock demonstrates a punching combo with a student on Thursday, March 21. (Monroe Morrow | The Union)

Punching Barriers: A coach’s plan to take El Camino boxing to the national stage

By Angel Pasillas
May 21, 2024
Illustration by Kim McGill

Building Bonds: How the fading memory of my mother made me grow closer to my nephew

By Angel Pasillas
May 21, 2024
Vice President of Student Services Jeff Stephenson stands for a photo in front of the Student Services Building on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (Ethan Balderas | The Union)

Life, death, education and leadership: A vice president’s unique journey

By Angel Pasillas
December 15, 2023
A telescopic boom lift sits in parking Lot L by Crenshaw Boulevard on Wednesday, Nov. 29. (Nathaniel Thompson | The Union)

El Camino’s Modular Village rebid raises cost and causes confusion

By Kae Takazawa and Angel Pasillas
December 6, 2023
Volunteers for the turkey giveaway give food bags to vehicles in line which extended down Manhattan Beach Boulevard to Prairie Avenue on Tuesday, Nov 21. (Clarence Davis | The Union)

California senator partners with local organizations for Thanksgiving food giveaway at El Camino

By Angel Pasillas
November 22, 2023
A line of cars drive through parking Lot B of the El Camino College campus waiting to receive meals from volunteers at the annual Drive-Through Food & Turkey Giveaway on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. (Ricardo Arellanes | The Union)

State Senator to host Thanksgiving food giveaway at El Camino

By Angel Pasillas
November 16, 2023
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights representative Rocio Garcia presented an informative talk in which she shared legal resources available to El Camino students on Oct. 16 inside the Student Services Building. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

Immigrant rights group offers free legal aid to undocumented students

By Angel Pasillas
November 2, 2023
Workers unloading film equipment from production vehicles parked outside of the Art and Behavioral Science Building on Thursday, Nov. 2. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

Commercials to be filmed on campus

By Angel Pasillas
November 2, 2023
Volunteers, workers and art students honor those who have passed by setting up an altar and creating a Dia De Los Muertos exhibit at the Arts Complex on Nov. 1. ( Isabelle Ibarra | The Union)

Dia de los Muertos and what it means to students at El Camino

By Angel Pasillas
November 2, 2023
Academic Senate President Charlene Brewer-Smith, left, and Vice President of Educational Policies Darcie McClelland speak during a senate meeting on (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

El Camino plans to expand artificial intelligence policy

By Angel Pasillas
October 18, 2023
Forward, Jovanny Mejia, number 11, takes it to the skies for possession of the ball against Rio Hondo at El Camino Soccer Field on Oct. 10. (Saqib Rawda | The Union)

El Camino’s men’s soccer team defeats Rio Hondo in conference game, extends streak to 9

By Angel Pasillas
October 11, 2023
A semi truck used for training sits in a large closed-off section of Lot L at El Camino College on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. (Lana Mily | The Union)

Truck Driver Program lets students drive toward new careers

By Angel Pasillas
October 9, 2023
Jeremiah Dela Cruz | Special to The Union

Keep student parking free at El Camino

By Angel Pasillas
October 4, 2023
Swinerton representatives Carlos Villacorta (left) and Tony Gutierrez at their recruiting table in the Student Services Plaza on Sept. 27, 2023. Swinerton is a $5 billion construction firm founded in 1888. (Angel Pasillas | The Union)

Construction internships available for El Camino students

By Angel Pasillas
October 4, 2023
Student at the Career and Transfer Center inside of the Student Services building on the 2nd floor on Feb. 23, 2023. (Jesse Chan | The Union)

Transfer program helps students get guaranteed admission to universities

By Angel Pasillas
September 29, 2023

Time-honored foundations: El Camino’s vintage buildings tell tales of its past

By Angel Pasillas
June 7, 2023