Valley College continues to struggle in its attempts to find a long-term dining service for its more than 15,000 students after the Cadillac Grill shut its doors recently. The closing signals another failed effort for the college to provide food services for its students.
Monarch Hall was the place to be Thursday, as the Dean's Reception honored Valley College's best students with a combination of food, music and an inspirational tale of success against overwhelming odds. "This is such a wonderful day," said Tyree Wieder, Valley's president.
Valley College celebrated the opening of its Family Resource Center on April 12 when people from all over campus crowded into bungalow 49 for a ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome members of the Child Development Department to their new location. The building was left vacant after the Job Training Center moved to a new space.
A campus-wide power outage shut Valley College down Thursday afternoon, abruptly sending students, faculty and staff home early and affecting hundreds of evening students and faculty unaware of the closure. High winds that knocked out power for more than 100,000 people across southern California are believed to be the cause of the outage, which occurred at approximately 3:30 p.m.
Valley College student Eylene Pihrez has enough to worry about as an astrophysics major, yet she has to deal with complicated schedules and special procedures just to make sure that she can take all of the classes that she needs. "Physics and chemistry labs overlap with math so students can't take the classes they need to continue in the series," said Pihrez.