The Valley College Lady Monarchs softball team will be practicing and playing offcampus for the 2014 season, as a new parking structure is scheduled to be constructed this summer where the curre...

The Valley College men’s and women’s track and field teams are getting ready for the California State Championship this week. “Qualifying for the state championship [made] it a successful season—not a phenomenal one, but successful,” said Valley’s ...

In a season filled with questionable player returns, there was no question about how the Lakers’ season would end. After all, they were just avoiding the unavoidable. Everyone thought that pla...

A play with muppet-esque monsters and naughty musical numbers? Yes, please. “Avenue Q” is an anti-politically correct musical that deals with sensitive subjects like racism, sex and homos...

The spirit of conservation was enthusiastically embraced Friday at Valley College’s Arbor Day Festival. Around 100 people attended the event presented by the ASU and Eco-Advocates club. The day featured live entertainment, a tree-scavenger hunt and a r...

It’s 90 degrees in Indio. The blistering sun is baking people during Coachella’s second weekend. It’s dusty, dirty and dry. People are soaked with sweat, crusty with the desert valley’s grime. They’ve paid $349 plus travel expenses to journey many ardu...

Congress is once again attempting to encroach on citizens’ privacy. It should spend more time creating jobs and keeping the country solvent while finding a way to stop sequestering and spending less time on what Americans are searching on the web. Afte...

Today’s rebels, tomorrow’s terrorists. What is going on in Syria today or Libya last year does not differ from what happened in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The Taliban went from freedom fighters again...

Common sense finally prevails as the government has decided to maintain the ban of small knives on planes. Allowing knives on planes is about as stupid as snakes on a plane. It is baffling why the government would even consider it in the first plac...

Since 1980, college tuition has tripled at public and private four-year universities and doubled at community colleges, making student loans skyrocket. The average student graduates owing more than $26,000 with more than 40 percent in deferral status. ...

The Associated Student Union and the Tau Alpha Epsilon honor society celebrated five Valley College instructors at the Apple Awards Monday afternoon in Monarch Hall. Three instructors received Crystal Apple Award, voted on by students, and TAE recogniz...

After presidential candidate Ana Mezhlumyan and running mate Anoush Alexnyan lost...

In March 2010, 17-year-old Spencer Belko woke up to find himself in a trash bag in the trunk of a car being driven by his best friend and a drug dealer. They thought the now Valley College student had died of a heroin overdose and, in a panic, they dec...

Hamburgers and hot dogs were grilling at the patio next to Monarch Hall last Thursday as the CalWORKS program on campus held a fundraiser and canned food drive to benefit homeless Valley College ...

Valley College has started its new construction project for a new Community Service Center on the corner of Ethel Avenue and Hatteras Street, formerly known as parking Lot E. “There will be some impact on parking,” said Abraham Garcia ]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 1.3041879 News Waleed Rahman | Staff Writer News http://www.lavalleystar.com/sections/news/bill-proposes-more-classes-at-higher-price-1.3041875 Deziree Miller | Valley Life Editor
By: Deziree Miller | Valley Life EditorCalifornia community college students may have to pay more tuition for summer and winter sessions.

California community college students may have more course offerings if they can afford to pay the full price for tuition. A new piece of legislation is being proposed that would widen the number of courses available to the state’s community colleg...

Coach Greg Venger has worked at Valley College for two weeks, but he is already sporting a green Monarchs sweatshirt and holding a ring full of nearly 20 identical keys to vario...

I never thought I would see the day. The day when cloudy, gloomy skies in Los Angeles defined how the whole city felt after finding out Kobe Bryant would be out for the next six to nine months.

]]> Tue, 7 May 2013 1.3041669 Sports I never thought I would see the day. The day when cloudy, gloomy skies in Los Angeles defined how the whole city felt after finding out Kobe Bryant would be out for the next six to nine months. 

Romeo Gonzalez | Editor in Chief Sports http://www.lavalleystar.com/sections/valley-life/learn-to-cool-off-at-psychological-services-anger-management-workshop-1.3041667 Alton Pitre | Staff Writer
By: Alton Pitre | Staff WriterStudents take in ways to fight for their calm and keep rage away.

Anger is a natural element expressed by humans, but if it is not coped with in the proper fashion, it can be detrimental.

Valley College's Psychological Services conducted a free “Anger Management” workshop f...