Photo Courtesy of Micajah Truitt
God winked at Southwestern College on April 8 as a partial eclipse of the sun briefly dimmed and cooled SoCal. Other parts of America on a bending path from West Texas to Maine had a full eclipse experience, including nearly 4-and-a-half minutes of a circular sunset that dropped temperatures as much as 20 degrees in Texas and the midwest.
Astronomy faculty set up a solar viewing center on the roof of the Math and Sciences building. Students fared better than early indigenous Caribbean people who were fooled by malevolent Christopher Columbus who convinced them his god was eating away the sun in 1503. Some American conspiracy theorists, including the notorious Alex Jones, peddled paranoia for profit.
