Major changes to the College of Marin will soon become readily apparent to students, faculty members and the Marin County community. The force that will bring this change is the "Green Project" or "Green Vision," that college officials hope will bring COM to the forefront of California's junior colleges.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake caused ravaging fires to erupt in the wake of violent shakings. The earth ruptured along a northern part of the San Andreas fault nearly a century ago casuing widespread destruction. The same fault line runs about 1,080 feet away from where the College of Marin's Bolinas Marine Laboratory currently stands.
The effects of the devastating earthquake that struck the Kashmir region of Pakistan on Saturday, October 7 burden the thoughts of one College of Marin student perhaps more than others. Samar Wajih, 23, a communications major, immigrated to the United States from Pakistan four years ago at the age of 19 for college. She grew up in Karachi with her family, who now live in Islamabad, Pakistan's northerly capital city. The massive earthquake that jolted northern Pakistan has ripped into Wajih's family life.
Oanh Huynh, former College of Marin student and office manager for the Echo Times, died Nov. 15 following a sudden and brief illness. She was 21.
UPM ratifies contract College of Marin administration and a faculty union have broken a labor negotiation stalemate and are close to settling the union's contract. For nearly 16 months the United Professors of Marin, a union at the COM that represents faculty, had been negotiating a contract with the district. The union ratified a drafted contract on Oct. 18. That places the district in the driver's seat because the next step is for the board of trustees to either accept or reject the contract. The contract will be reviewed at the Nov. 15 board of trustees meeting, COM President Frances White said.
It was a landslide loss for Governor Schwarzenegger's ballot measures. The governor fought hard to see that each of the eight propositions made it onto the ballot of the November 8 special election. California voters shot down all eight, leaving the governor scrambling, trying to do whatever possible to regain his popularity, which has already been creeping south with the populace.