It’s time for students to make their voices heard. On May 13 the polls will open on Blackboard and Central Oregon Community College students will have until May 15 to vote in the three elected members of the student council. In order to be eligible to vote in the elections, according to Gordon Price, the [...] [...more]
The 2012-2013 student council has $525,000 to allocate for next year’s budget, Taran Underdal, Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College advisor, stated at the council meeting on May 1. “You have more student fees to allocate than you ever have before,” Underdal explained to council members. Megan Cole, the director of fiscal operations for [...] [...more]
The keys to happiness could be in an adult’s ability to play, according to Amy Howell. The Central Oregon Community College Social Science Lecture series kicks off spring term with “The Power of Play” on May 10. At the event Amy Howell, director of Early Childhood Education at COCC, will be facilitating activities and discussions [...] [...more]
Branch campuses are often not included in on-campus events, according to Eliot Collins, director of student affairs at Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College. Collins believes the reason branch campuses have not been involved in the past is due to the small student representation. “Unfortunately the nature of the beast has been to focus [...] [...more]
Dear Editor, I appreciate what COCC does for Sexual Assault Awareness, with their events and signs around campus. I myself attended Smart Start this past week. However, I was disappointed by their selection of events. There are two items that I would have liked to see included in this series. I noticed that there was [...] [...more]
We asked four students on campus “What’s the most valuable thing you’ve learned at COCC?” “Manage my time.” -Pablo Quesada “To be at school every day and be on top of your work.” -Katrina Greene “Type One diabetes is possibly transmitted by Camplo bacteria by our modern method of housing [...] [...more]
Defiance could be described as The Walking Dead meets Firefly meets Halo. Set in a dystopian Earth landscape, the show features a traveling veteran and his adopted alien daughter who stumble upon the ruins of St. Louis, Missouri, and the town of Defiance. The year is 2046. Earth was attacked by aliens and retaliated by [...] [...more]
Campus community members called for an increase of over $80 million to the proposed 2013-2015 budget during testimonials given to elected officials on April 19. Students and faculty from Central Oregon Community College attended the regional meeting of the Joint Ways and Means Committee at the William Healy Armory in Bend. At the meeting, members [...] [...more]
A big change is coming to the college in summer 2014. On April 15 James Middleton, the president of Central Oregon Community College, announced that he will be retiring in June 2014. Middleton’s retirement has been announced 14 months in advance in order to allow for a thorough search by the board of directors for [...] [...more]
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