2008 Woodie Awards
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A violent break-in of the DVC art gallery and theft of two artists' work in February was kept a closely guarded secret for two months by police, faculty and managers. Gallery director Arthur Scott King, as well as many art department teachers and staff, still will not speak on record about the incident.
With the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings looming, English professor Bruce Reeves took his concerns about school safety to the district governing board. Like all other DVC instructors, Reeves teaches in a classroom that can only be locked from the outside and for which he has no key.
Dozens of students were drawn to the Quad on Wednesday to watch a "lie-in" to mark the one-year anniversary of the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings and to create a dialogue on gun violence in America. Seven people dressed all in black lay down for three minutes.
Lou Dobbs' "War on the Middle Class" campaign has hit elite, private universities. Following in the footsteps of Yale, Harvard and Brown, Stanford University recently announced it will foot the bill for middle class students to attend "the Harvard of the West.
A bill that would make it illegal for high school and college administrators to fire a journalism adviser because of what students write in the school newspaper is about to go before the state Senate for a vote. "It could happen next week," said Adam Keigwin, director of communications for Sen.
