Death of the Dome

collin james
May 16, 2013

Pleasant Hill’s iconic Cinearts movie theater, famous for its large dome structure was torn down May 8. The decision to tear down the Dome came after the city council voted 3-2 to uphold a redevelopment plan of the area around the iconic dome. SyWest, the company that owns the land that the dome... Read more »

Jason Collins takes a gargantuan leap for LGBT community

Aaron Hudson
May 15, 2013

NBA center Jason Collins publicly proclaimed Monday April 29, that he is gay in an exceptionally written article for Sports Illustrated. Collins gallantly became the first active male player in a major American team sport history to identify himself as openly gay. As Collins mentions in his article,... Read more »

Cinco de Mayo on dos de Mayo

Pablo Caballero
May 15, 2013

Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican American holiday celebrating achieving the impossible. The holiday itself is celebrated by Hispanic Americans in the United States and a small town in México where it was originally held. Cinco de Mayo event is hosted by the Latino Student Alliance... Read more »

ASDVC general election resolved despite voter apathy

Brian Bunting
April 25, 2013

They were careful, articulate speeches, poignant even. Once you got past the platitudes, there was something that made you want to root for them. This in spite of the fact that they were talking to empty seats. That was the Associated Students of Diablo Valley College (ASDVC) Election Candidate Forum... Read more »

Allegations of theft spark district audit of CalWORKs department.

Hakeem Montes
April 24, 2013

Allegations of a student worker stealing gas cards and falsifying time cards sparked a district internal investigation of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) department at DVC during the fall 2012 semester. The internal auditing report and executive summary dated January... Read more »

Bags, beats and bees

collin james
April 24, 2013

Bee keepers, activists, electric car enthusiasts, local community-run farms, and large corporations like PG&E; filled the many booths set up in front of the DVC cafeteria for Earth Day on Monday, April 22. Many were designed to raise awareness on environmental issues like the decline of bees, while... Read more »

Inquirer staff brings home the bacon after JACC conference

Troy Patton
April 18, 2013

Six current and former Inquirer staff members walked away with awards at the state-wide Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ yearly conference from April 11 through April 13 in Sacramento. The winners at this year’s conference included a third place finish for Matthew Emmanuel and... Read more »

DVC debuts Student Success Scorecard, adding transparency

Brian Bunting
April 10, 2013

DVC will be the first of California’s 112 community colleges to carry a school report card. California Community College Chancellor Brice W. Harris made Diablo Valley College his first stop in a tour of the state highlighting the features of the system designed to measure school and student success. Harris... Read more »

Demonstrators fight to save the Dome Theater

Theresa Marie
April 9, 2013

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of Pleasant Hill’s CineArts Theater on April 6 to protest SyWest Development’s plans to demolish the iconic theater so that it can be replaced by a Dick’s Sporting Goods Store. Demonstrators held signs, spoke with television news crews and... Read more »

Fast and furious: parking lot drift

Josh "Grassy" Knoll
April 4, 2013

In the afternoon on April 3, a student’s unattended vehicle seemed to have drifted out of a parking space to block the flow of traffic in DVC’s lot 7. Though the parking brake in the car appeared to be engaged, the car seemed to have rolled backward from it’s original parking spot. There... Read more »