Students were evacuated from the second floor of the Kern Building after black smoke billowed from an elevator shaft around 11 am. The Kern building evacuation lasted for around 15 minutes. The smoke was cleared out from the building by airing it out and making sure there was no further danger. According to campus police, no students [...]
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All Genders Welcome to The Women’s Health Symposium
A full day event is planned for students, employees, males and females titled ‘Women’s Health Symposium-It’s Your Life’ on May 9 at COS. The event will include several guest speakers that will be addressing a variety of important topics including domestic violence, diabetes, and the dangers of social media. All lectures will be performed in [...]
Get a Head Start With COS’s 30th Annual Career Day
The COS Welcome Center and Associated Student Body have teamed to sponsor the 30th annual Career Day in the quad on May 8, beginning at 9:00 a.m. A variety of booths will be available for students to acquire information and be provided employment opportunities that can jump start a future career including, banking, small business, [...]
Vacancy at the Buckeye Building
Plans for demolition are in progress to replace Visalia Campus’s Buckeye building with a new Basic Skills Center. The programs housed in Buckeye await the transfer to a new vocational center at the Tulare Campus as the board awaits state approval. “A state bond needs to pass before we get money for the project, then the Tulare [...]
Is Tulare Ready for Next Fall?
Full-time student service staff at the Tulare Center are unlikely to increase, despite a greater number of students next semester. Its small, allocated staff currently serves 1,186 students out of the allotted 1,840 seats. In the fall, the number of seats will rise to 3,000, so an increased demand for services is being anticipated. Tulare Center Provost Larry [...]
Campus Internet to Receive an Upgrade
The Internet service of the college will receive an upgrade, increasing its up-time and saving the college money. System Administrator Stephen Meier says that the new fiber-optic network, although it won’t necessarily improve on existing speed, will upgrade the current system to a much more robust and stable service. “We’re not increasing bandwidth; we’re more replacing like-for-like systems,” Meier said. “[Students] won’t experience much of [...]
COS Swimming Pool Out of Service
The COS Swim and Dive team has been practicing at Mount Whitney High School for over a month since the COS swimming pool has been out of service. The problem with the pool was the heating system and an AC company was called upon to fix the issue. They attempted to fix the problem with the filtration tanks, but [...]
Calvin Announced as New Vice-President of Student Services
Brent Calvin will return next semester wearing a new hat: Vice President of Student Services. Superintendent/President Stan Carrizosa announced in a Monday, April 29 “eNEWS” that he had reassigned Calvin — currently serving as Vice President of Administrative Services — to the position, effective July 1. The assignment comes after Frances Gusman — Vice-President of [...]
College Hires New Athletic Director
College of the Sequoias has hired Visalia native Brent Davis as its new Athletic Director, Superintendent/President Stan Carrizosa announced Friday. Davis will take over the position on July 1, 2013. Davis will replacing Lamel Harris, who resigned as Athletic Director in March. Davis is a Redwood graduate and College of the Sequoias transfer student. “Davis [...]
ASB Positions Open Now, Elections Begin May 14
The time is coming to vote in your new student representatives. Voting for the ASB student elections starts at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 14, and will end at 11 p.m. on Thursday, May 16. To make the election available for every student, regardless of what campus they are on, it will be held entirely [...]