Movie Review-The Blind Side

When people think of football players they tend to think about the quarterback, the key player who runs the team. What they don’t think about is the player who protects the quarterback’s “blind side,” the left offensive tackle.
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RVCC: Tattoo U?

Tattoos are a common sight on campus. Students, and even some faculty and staff have them — although they’re easier to spot in warmer weather.
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HBCU admissions and transfer fair

RVCC hosted the Malcolm Bernard Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) admissions fair on Nov. 18. RVCC students interested in transferring met with transfer admissions counselors from nearly 50 schools. About 1,500 New Jersey high school students also attended.
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RVCC Receives Economic Award

The Somerset County Business Partnership has given RVCC one of three 2009 awards for economic vitality.

According to the organization, the school earned recognition for providing affordable education and job training amid record enrollment increases and a national recession.
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Norb and Ellie Hirst win cycle raffle

Holding the right $20 raffle ticket put a 2009 Harley-Davidson Pewter Denim XR-1200 motorcycle in Norb and Ellie Hirst’s garage.

The couple had the winning ticket in the RVCC Foundation raffle, Monday, Dec. 10, to benefit the Williams Harley-Davidson Athletic Scholarship fund.
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Phi Theta Kappa Induction gallery

On Nov. 13, 104 students were inducted into RVCC’s Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, a group formed to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students.
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Men and women's round ball scores and schedule

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Remembering Jennifer Zois

RVCC lost one of its own when Jennifer Zois passed away on
Nov. 4.

Zois was RVCC’s master scheduler, managing the complex task of assigning classes to classrooms each semester. In her five years at the college, Zois advanced from record specialist in the Enrollment Services Department to administrative assistant in Corporate and Continuing Education and finally to the scheduling position in the Academic Affairs office.
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Campus construction pace quickens

The new student center is one step closer to becoming a reality now that a committee of students, staff and administrators selected a design from four finalists on Dec. 7.

The Board of Trustees will vote on the design at its Thursday Dec. 17 meeting.
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Swine flu clinic draws young, old

Raritan Valley held a three-hour H1N1 flu vaccination clinic on Nov. 23 in the college atrium. The clinic, run by the Branchburg Health Department, was open to healthy young people under 25 years old and others designated “priority populations” by the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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Women and gender studies papers sought

Students can submit their academic work on women and gender to the RVCC Women and Gender Studies Steering Committee for possible submission into the Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference.
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Faculty looking for a better IDEA
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A faculty committee is scrutinizing the way students evaluate their classes and the instructors who teach them. It could recommend that school officials adopt an alternative to the current instrument, but a recommendation is unlikely to change the way things are done this year.
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Email, snail mail and now smail mail

The school email system is about to change.

RVCC Management Information Services (MIS) will have a new Google-hosted email system ready for students in the spring. Features include document storage that allows faculty to grant access to their students. Faculty will also have new accounts, but will be able to retain their current Exchange/Outlook email accounts as well.
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Life after RVCC… where do we go from here?

RVCC is an ideal starting point for many — quality higher education for a fraction of the price of other colleges and universities.

But where do we go from here?
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