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A sweet, antiseptic smell fills the air. Students cluster over metal trays, laughing or speaking intently, while others refer back to text books with looks of confusion. It could be any science lab class. Except the students aren't gathered around groups of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks or the remains of an unlucky frog.
The majority of defendants accused of buying grades in DVC's notorious cash-for-grades scandal will end up facing misdemeanor charges. At a preliminary hearing in April, the judge dropped the felony charge for Joseph Chow, the first defendant to go this far in the court process for just buying grades, to a misdemeanor.
Tamera Trujillo doesn't wear her uniform when she attends classes at Diablo Valley College. Nor does she wear casual clothing while supervising 16 police aides who patrol the campus and issue parking citations in the parking lot. Nine units shy of an A.
The men's swim team won the state championships with a score of 488 last weekend at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, narrowly beating out Ventura College by 54 points. The championship was the first men's title since 2003, and all 10 swimmers contributed to the point total.
The Arena Theater at DVC heated up over the weekend with a series of seven plays, the "Clash and Celebration of American Cultures." "The plays are funny, caustic, dark, and serious," said director Ed Trujillo. "[They] offer warnings and hope.
If the college district's new communications director, Tim Leong, really wants to improve relations with the media, we have a suggestion: He should rip up his new plan. Channeling all press inquiries through a public relations person may work in the private sector, or at PG&E, where Leong worked for many years.
