Echo Times

Board slows progress on academic center

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

College of Marin's board of trustees voted 7-0 to delay picking an architect for the new academic center, sometimes called the gateway building, after hearing several hours of comments during its Feb. 16 meeting at the Indian Valley Campus. Most of the remarks came from Kentfield residents like Deborah Haberman, who worried the community around campus had been left out of the decision-making process.

Too big, too small or just right?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

A constant drone resonates in a College of Marin design classroom, where urban studies major Corwin Bell unloads his backpack before the start of a 3D design class. The walls of the current fine arts building cannot mute the clattering hammers, welders, and a giant crane-all of which industriously contribute to a three story edifice outside- but noise is not what irks Bell about the nearby project.

Board meeting illustrates people's power

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

A recent decision to delay choosing an architect for the College of Marin's new academic center, scheduled for completion in 2014, may seem irrelevant to many of the college's current students. After all, it is 2010 and most people aim to leave the school within two-to-three years, though that sometimes proves more difficult than anticipated.

Remembering "Red's" march to victory

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

They came out of Marin County, at a time when homes sold for under $10,000 instead of a couple of million, and gas cost 15 cents a gallon. The year was 1948. Harry Truman was president; Earl Warren was governor of California, and London was getting ready to host the first post-war Olympics.

COM casts a young Hamlet

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

For serious mountain climbers, Everest often marks the peak challenge of their careers; for many serious actors that zenith can come from playing William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," which College of Marin will stage between March 5 and March 21.
"It is probably one of the most difficult roles ever written for any actor to play, and that's why all actors want to try it sometime during their lives," said long-time COM drama instructor James Dunn.

Finding her voice and her beat

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Echo Times: What art classes you are taking now (or have taken) at COM ? Bradley: I have studied three years of dance including ballet and modern dance with Kristi Kuhn, Deborah Graham, and Sandi Tanner. I've also taken dance and theater with Sandi Weldon.

Language faculty preps for film festival

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

College of Marin will be holding its third annual International Film Festival from February 26 to April 2. The festival offers six films, each focusing on one of the foreign languages offered at COM, including American Sign Language. One instructor from each language taught chooses the film that is shown.

History instructor advocates for Haiti

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

For College of Marin professor Walter Turner the destruction in Haiti is personal. He knows people who have been affected. He has worked with them. He has great respect for them. While some are numbed by the horrors of yet another barrage of devastation during an era that has seen so much worldwide destruction, Turner places great importance on maintaining a long-term focus on Haiti and the relief efforts there.

Softball returns after long absence

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

tball team opened their season, Nicole Hartfield got out of bed, only to discover she had assumed the program's head coaching position. The team's original coach, Dianna Albini, had just been appointed a judge in San Francisco. Having signed on as assistant coach for the Mariners' first season since the 1990s, Hartfield was not familiar with the junior college level and unsure of what to expect from COM's first softball team in over a decade.