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Victor Valley College 17 RAMPAGE May 28, 2013• Volume 35, No. 7 www.vvcrampage.org Most anticipated ofalbums 2013- Listby complied Compean, Daniel Entertainment Page Editor 16- Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. –Edmund Burke Powering forward into the future Degree with By Chelsea Hartshorn RamPage Reporter a guarantee Temporary fencing has blocked Victor Valley College By Nicole Stacey students from parking in lot 11 RamPage Reporter and the northern section of lot 12. These lots are currently The Student Transfer Achieve- closed for construction of two ment Reform Act (SB 1440) will solar covered parking structures guarantee students following an that are anticipated to be fin- Associate of Arts to Transfer or ished just before the fall semes- Associate of Science to Transfer ter, according to Director of admission into the California Facilities, Construction and State University system effective Contracts, Steve Garcia. in the winter/spring 2014 semes- "The work is scheduled to be ter. Prior to SB 1440, transferring completed Aug. 8," said Garcia. Construction materials and Victor Valley College students equipment are being stored in would require 60 semester units front of the Child Development or 90 quarter units in one of two Center on the north side of cam- general education patterns. pus (building 12) and by the The new transfer Associate Administration Annex Building degrees are intended to provide a on the west side (building 10). Materials for the solar covered parking structures have already been delivered and is similar educational background preventing student from parking in lots 11 and 12. for students entering a California Photo by Garrett Johnston, Managing Editor Continued in Solar on page 3 State University as a junior. “Where it becomes more cru- cial is lately the CSUs are closing their winter/spring semester,” Accreditation Live! educates campus said Counselor/Articulation Of- ficer Pamela James. By Kylie Foster Students who have fulfilled RamPage Reporter either the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC), or California State In order to inform the com- University General Education munity of Victor Valley Col- (CSU GE) pattern are still able to lege's efforts to be taken off of transfer in the fall. probation, faculty members held VVC only has three AA-T and a public forum event on May 13 three AS-T programs implement- called “Accreditation Live!” ed. These include Administration Hosted and moderated by Dr. of Justice, Communication Stud- Kaiser, a faculty member at ies, Early Childhood Education, VVC, the event allowed audi- History, Mathematics, and Soci- ence members to ask questions ology. In addition, Psychology about the accreditation efforts and English to-transfer degrees and receive direct answers from are being created. four panelists, consisting of All new AA-Ts and AS-Ts Executive Vice President Peter must be approved by the Califor- Allan, Dr. Lisa Harvey, G.H. nia Community Colleges Chan- Javaheripour, and Claude Oli- cellor's Office. The Office of ver. Instruction within the Chancel- “I hope that this event provid- GH Javaheripour Dr. Lisa Harvey, Peter Allan, and Claude Oliver answer ques- lor's office has been, and re- ed a forum and illustrated that tions during the public forum regarding the college’s progress . mains, understaffed. Photo by Todd Hadler, Sports Editor Continued in Live! on page 4 Continued in Degree on page 3 • Victor Valley College RamPage • [email protected] • issuu.com/vvcrampage • vvcrampage.org • RamPage Victor Valley College News May 28, 2013 Page 2 RAMPAGE STAFF Spring 2013 Editor-in-Chief: Kelli McGurk Managing Editor: Garrett Johnston Assistant Managing Editor: While I can say it does in a five years or this is their first and students who support Tanya Patterson way sadden me to say goodbye semester, we all continuously our newspaper’s contin- News Editor: to the RamPage, I also leave on learn new things every day. I’d ued presence on campus. Ashlee Dubach a happy note. I’m glad I can like to thank those who support The unwavering support Features Editor: walk away from this publication our publication on campus. Not we receive is what I’m Kristen Martin knowing that it is headed in a only is the newspaper good for sure has kept us here as Entertainment Editor: good direction for the future and these students who take the long as we’ve been. I’d Daniel Compean knowing that I, in part, helped journalism classes, but we strive also like to thank Sports Editors: get it there. Our student those who have Mario Gonzalez, Todd Hadler newspaper made a huge understanding Online/Soc. Media Editor: launch into the growing “It may be the end of my compassion for our Daniel Mariano online aspect of the journal- first time reporters ism industry. This will no Senior Writers: journey with the Ram- who nervously Gabriel King, Ethan McGarvy doubt bring our paper up to walks into an inter- the standards of many major Page but it is only Staff Reporters: view. We owe a lot Abbie Berg, Rasheta Driver, Kylie publications. Behind the to our current advi- Foster, Chelsea Hartshorn, Abram scenes this was a long pro- another fresh start with a sor Nick Hartman, cess, as we started work on who came to us in Martinez, Brenda Ortiz, Janice Shore, Alexandra Roland, Nicole Stacey, the website long before I long road ahead.” the middle of a Jana Squire took the EiC position. Build- difficult time as ing a website from scratch , has put so much of Special to the RamPage: completely scrapping it and to provide unbiased news for the his own blood sweat and Stacey Sytulek, Photographer rebuilding it, then scrapping that campus and the community. The tears into our success. Adviser/Instructor: and building it through a new benefit of writing for our stu- Finally my staff who has Nicholas Hartman web design site can eat up a lot dent publication is that we do worked tirelessly these Administration/Faculty/Staff Mentors: of time as you can imagine. On have a bit of a cushion to fall past two semesters even if Jennifer Fowlie, Tim Isbell, Scott Mul- top of that, we had to also put on. We are students, and this is I was sometimes a diffi- ligan, Deanna Murphy, Robert Sewell, Karen Tomlin, Paul Williams out a newspaper every two a learning environment and our cult boss, has carried this weeks. Our staff who has stuck stories are only as good as the paper. I’d be nowhere Printing: through all this is one dedicated information we are provided. without my managing Victor Valley College Campus Print Shop team. Nothing hits you harder than editor Garrett Johnston’s Mission Statement: It is true what they say about that first email regarding an balance of power. I walk The Victor Valley College RamPage is a this line of work. You need to article that you spent countless away not sad to say good- student-run newspaper that aims to develop somewhat of a thick hours working on trying to inform and entertain the Victor Valley bye and not worried about Community. We strive to teach and skin. Our staff experienced one make it right. As we learn this the future of the RamPage, of the hardest news stories profession, we learn how to be preserve core journalistic values I am confident that this while supporting the unity of the we’ve had to report on in the as resourceful as we can, but paper will only continue campus community. RamPage at the end of last year, there are times when we may on the ladder of success. It and we all learned a lesson not not get it right. The important may be the end of my CONTACT INFORMATION only in news reporting and cov- thing is that we are always will- journey with the RamPage ering such a delicate topic such ing to admit a fault, correct it (760) 245-4271 Extension 2773 but it is only another fresh [email protected] as suicide, but lessons in hu- then learn from it. That is what start with a long road manity. I think we all grew as makes us better reporters in the ahead for the rest of the www.VVCRamPage.org journalists as well as human future. staff. beings that day. I would like to thank all those —Kelli McGurk The RamPage is a newspaper published Whether they’ve been here for faculty staff, board members Editor-in-Chief as an educational exercise and First Amendment Public Forum by students at Victor Valley College in Victorville, Calif. The views expressed by the RamPage are not necessarily those of VVC, its Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, staff, Associated Student Body Council or students. The RamPage welcomes press releases, story ideas, letters to the editor, guest articles and guest editorials. Submit pro- posed items to [email protected] VVC’s journalism program belongs to the Associated Collegiate Press, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the Journalism Association of Community Colleges. RamPage Victor Valley College News May 28, 2013 Page 3 Degree from page 1 something I think we should Solar from page 1 utilities and from the California have done 10 years ago,” said Solar Program. The solar struc- “They're still working with an Campbell. Deliveries to the site will come tures will overtake 80 percent of office of three,” said James. Dubbed “A Degree with a from Spring Valley Lake Park- the schools electricity. After a new AA-T or AS-T is Guarantee,” the AA-Ts and AS- way entrance. "Installing energy efficiencies submitted there is a lot of back Ts are designed to ensure transfer "The construction should not throughout campus generate and forth between VVC and the from a California community affect the students and staff as savings to the overall general Chancellor's office.