Lead Stories
Featured Stories
Climb every mountain
SWC student keeps family, friends and
Heroes walk among us. They are ordinary people who overcome huge challenges and do extraordinary things.
Gwenn Crittle, a Southwestern College sophomore, is a hero to many of her classmates and professors. She knows the hard-knocked life and has faced down many obstacles.
Unsigned
Our wishes for the new ASO
Congratulations to the newly-elected 2008-09 ASO.
Southwestern College's Associated Student Organization does not always get the respect it deserves. Student government is sometimes unjustly dismissed as a popularity contest, but with the right members moving the school in the right direction the ASO can be a powerful force to bring about positive change to our under funded and under-appreciated community college.
Board dismisses director of EOPS
Hill alleges race a factor in termination
EOPS/CARE Director Robert Hill was terminated by the Southwestern College Governing Board at its May meeting. Though no official reason was given for the 3-0 vote, Hill had come under fire in March when EOPS suddenly stopped paying for EOPS students' books at the campus bookstore.
Going Deep
Former SWC QB stars on the field, in the classroom
Drew Westling is gone but not forgotten.
Southwestern College's stellar quarterback earned a full-ride scholarship to SDSU thanks to 14 touchdown passes, 2087 yards in the air and a 3.6 GPA. Maybe in three years his fans will see him in the NFL.
Westling knows it does not hurt to think big.
'Vote Green' wins majority of top seats
Leticia Diaz was elected president of the Associated Student Organization, defeating Senator Derrick Dudley, 372 votes to 193. Fernando Medina was third with 166 votes.
Diaz led a slate of candidates calling itself the Vote Green party that nearly swept the seven ASO executive positions.
'Vote Green' slate overspent says ASO presidential runner up
A group of Southwestern College students has filed formal complaints charging that candidates who won six of seven executive positions in this month's ASO elections violated campaign spending rules. Vote Green slate members denied any violations occurred.
Members of the triumphant Vote Green slate exceeded the ASO's spending limits, according to ASO Senator Derrick Dudley, who finish second in the presidential race to Leticia Diaz.
