At COS Health Services, eating disorders are recognized, even for those students who refuse to recognize it within themselves. Provided there are options for counseling, nutrition regimens, and referrals to advanced health services outside of COS. “We don’t get all that many students coming in for anorexia and bulimia. I think there’s a lot of shame and stigma related to those two disorders so a [...]
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Student Artists Dominate State Competition
For two COS students, the opportunity to attend the 11th annual California Sculptors Symposium was secured by entering and winning a statewide art competition. Esther Perez and Jessica White, Fine Art majors under the tutelage of art professor Richard Flores, were awarded scholarships to participate in a week-long series of workshops, after submitting samples of [...]
Finding Balance at COS Through Tai Chi
A New Tai Chi – Moving for Better Balance course will be taught at COS beginning May 6. The class will be taught by Instructor Jeff Alexander who holds tai chi certifications from the Tai Chi for Health Institute, the Arthritis Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health. The course is scheduled to run [...]
COS Student Creates a Sanctuary For Women
Women who desire a common kinship will feel at home with the newly formulated “Women’s Inspirational Nights,” being held at Café 210. COS child development major Krystal Aginaga, 27, saw the need for a group that would give support and encouragement to women in their everyday endeavors. Not long after, she filled that need. “I [...]
Veterans Services Brings in New Coordinator
A new coordinator for COS Veterans Services has recently taken up post. Ashley Muniz, a former academic adviser for Fresno State, is still finishing her master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Administration. Muniz’s experience and research focus have allowed her to be especially prepared for her new position. A native of San Diego, Muniz has [...]
COS Police Now Alerted By New Tech System
The COS Police Department is obtaining two new alert systems to reach more COS students effectively in the case of an emergency. The first alert system, Alertus, is a desktop system that, once activated, will send out a full-screen pop-up alert throughout COS desktops. The desktop user can then confirm that they have received the [...]
COS’s Lori Cardoza honored with Common Threads Award
Lori Cardoza sits on the Tule building’s balcony recalling that when she was a COS student the Tule building did not exist. Cardoza, COS Board of Trustees president, said she hardly recognizes the college, but that it has grown in a positive way. Cardoza is this year’s recipient of the Common Threads Award for her community work. [...]
Local Skaters Break Ground on ‘Do It Yourself’ Skate Park
Visalia skaters have broken ground on what will become the next do-it-yourself skate park in Visalia. Danny Johnson, a business major at COS, and his friends have been putting their free time into building a skate park in an abandoned warehouse skeleton in southwest Visalia off of Santa Fe street. Accordingly nicknamed “Skate Fe”, this [...]
COS Doing a Harlem Shake Video
You’ve all probably have seen it by now: a fairly normal scene opens up, people going about doing their thing, but there is something off. A person, usually masked or otherwise, is dancing. Then all of a sudden, the crowd will break out their own creative costumes and dance moves and join in. It’s the [...]
Visalia Has Poets. Did You Know It?
In the back of a dimly lit pizza parlor are literary enthusiasts with an appetite for competition. In front are judges laying down the laws of poignancy. Founder Michael Jasso is leaving people hungry for more, in Visalia’s first-ever competitive poetry organization. “It seemed like Visalia was lacking that literary art element so I kind of wanted [...]