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Math Club ninth in U.S
Ohlone College’s Math Club has placed ninth in the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) contest. Some 1,089 colleges from around the nation competited in this event. Eight out of the top 10 schools were from California, with honors going to local community colleges De Anza, Diablo Valley, and Chabot. The first round took [...]
42 to receive awards
Ohlone faculty will honor the accomplishments of 42 students today at the annual Ohlone College Student Awards Ceremony. It will be held in the Jackson Theatre starting at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be served at a reception preceding the awards ceremony at 5 p.m. in the lobby of the Smith Center. “The event is open [...]
Registration for the next semester opens up
A glitch with Ohlone’s software provider, Datatel, has prevented registration for the upcoming summer and fall 2010 semesters from occurring as originally planned. The WebAdvisor software has undergone numerous updates to improve efficiency this year after registration errors took place in the fall semester of 2009. When the updated software was loaded into Ohlone’s system, [...]
Save the schools
I have been discussing the importance of education in slowly pulling the United States out of the mess that it’s in now. This educational boost is going to help us immensely with our fiscal debt as well as producing equal numbers of research professionals that are innovative in their thinking than the up and comers [...]
Bad food habits
Now being a college student, I’ve observed several things about my peers. The first being that we don’t sleep very much, whether it is because we are out partying too much, or because we up late writing term papers. The second though is the obscure eating habits that we have, or lack thereof. And I [...]
New district chief technology officer
Bruce Griffin has been named as the District’s Chief Technology Officer/ Assistant professor of Information Technology effective April 16. The salary is approximately $158,000 per year. Griffin started working at Ohlone in January 2008 as part of the Strata Information Group (SIG) contract. The contract was controversial at the time due to the fact it [...]
Ohlone’s Newark campus celebrates Earth Week
This week the Ohlone College Sustainability Committee, led by Newark campus teacher Narinder Bansal, have been hosting several environmentally focused activities and events around the Fremont campus and the Newark satellite campus. Activities held this week at both campuses includes a Tri-City Ecology Table, a display in the Newark campus’s lobby entitled “Ohlone’s Junk Mail,” [...]
ASOC candidates make their pitches
The ASOC candidates for executive positions gave their speeches at the candidate forum on Tuesday April 20. The senators were given three minutes each to state what their objectives and anticipations would be, if they were elected. According to ASOC Vice President Ngan Vu, who emceed the event, the common themes in the speeches were [...]
Math Club offers tutoring
The Math Club elected Xin Ma as the club’s new President on April 7 and he said he is already hard at work on his agenda. The club will host a free math tutoring session that is open to all students, this Saturday at Mission Coffee from noon to 6 p.m. Ma said the club [...]
Health Fair aims at abuse of women
Director of Student Health Services Sally Bratton, along with representatives from the Ohlone Student Health Center, welcomed students and faculty Wednesday to the 2010 Healthy Habits Health Fair. Held on the first floor of the Student Services Building, guests were free to mingle among the many booths, all of which supported the campaign to raise [...]