Jubilation greeted the Accreditation Commission of Junior and Community Colleges’ announcement that DVC is no longer one step away from becoming a satellite campus of Los Medanos or Contra Costa College.
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DVC student recalls his experiences fighting a war
The night-vision goggles cast the road in a soft green glow, a familiar if otherworldly view of Iraq. We watch for five, maybe 10 minutes, but we see nothing unusual. To 26 Recon Marines, it’s just an ordinary dirt road, marked by a few potholes, weaving its way to a village.
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DVC library features Bay Area artist's decades worth of work
Created in the past 10 years, the work includes Native American and Western cultural themes, animal and bird art and some acrylic, abstract collages and paintings.
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The Inquirer supports the on-campus rally March 4 to protest fee hikes and budget cuts that have forced the closure of classes and drastically reduced funds for programs like EOPS, CalWORKS and Disabled Students Services. Sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society, the rally begins at 11 a.m. in the area between the Student Union and the cafeteria.
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Solo collection features painting, video, etching, lithography and digital prints
Today is the last chance to view a collection of solo work by new printmaking instructor Toru Sugita that includes a rope installation outside the DVC Art Gallery.
Talking animals, shape-shifting snakes, Malaysian pirates, knights, a woman born from a melon, and a dragon appeared onstage Feb. 18 in the Performing Arts Center.
Fire alarms push students out of buildings and into rally
The fire alarms were set off at the Humanities, Business and Foreign Languages, Liberal Arts, Faculty Offices and other buildings on Thursday, with some areas experiencing alarms sounding more than once.
Students will soon shell out more money to park their wheels, but they will be able to buy semester passes online and use debit/credit cards for the machines.
A young Asian woman sustained minor injuries Feb. 17 after she was struck by a car in the crosswalk on Golf Club Road near the Camel Back apartment complex.
The words “dating,” “love,” “sex” and “passion” should never be associated with pain, manipulation, abuse and neglect. Yet too many young people, most often women, allow themselves to be put in bad situations without the courage or will to leave.
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A DVC engineering major recently complained to me about a common problem: side conversations that distract from the professor’s lecture. “I paid good money to listen to a professional expand my knowledge, not to have it reduced by updates about ‘Survivor,’” he said.
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“The thing I felt most was a prick in my finger to test my hemoglobin level,” Anji Nolan said after deciding to give blood for the first time earlier this month at a blood drive put on by Blood Centers of the Pacific.
Vikings start baseball season with a fresh new roster
DVC’s head baseball coach Mike Neu has a challenge ahead when it comes to equaling the success of last year’s 35-win team that ended up No. 3 in the state.
Cash-for-grades scandal comes to a close with 240 day sentence for last defendant
The cash-for-grades scandal that involved DVC students selling hundreds of grades out of the college’s Admissions and Records office between 2000 and 2006, ended Oct. 30 with the sentencing of convicted middle man Khalid Nemati.
Holiday season opens with concert by DVC's philharmonic orchestra and choir
DVC’s philharmonic orchestra and choir will join forces for a concert Dec. 5 that features Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No.6 in D Major and selected opera favorites from the likes of Mozart, Verdi, and Gilbert and Sullivan.
With so many students scrambling to find a CSU or University that will accept them, we shouldn’t be surprised that so many qualified students are met with a resounding “NO!” from admissions committees across California. As a DVC student with a 3.
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A semester of hard work and commitment was reinforced Nov. 5 at the Northern California conference of the Journalism Association of Community Colleges, where Inquirer editors and staff members took home awards for photography, page design and reporting.
As a high school student, I volunteered to help with the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life event. But I was shocked at how many young people refused to help with what is essentially a 24-hour party.
Rally against cuts
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