Valencia Voice

What’s love got to do with it?

February 18, 2010

By Roxy Smith [email protected] February is the month when love is in the air, flowers are blooming, butterflies are flapping their wings for the first time and the birds are singing. Cupid is sitting on a cloud with...

PRESIDENT SHUGART DELIVERS UPDATEON VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

October 9, 2009

(The following update on the state of Valencia Community College was sent via e-mail by Dr. Sanford C. Shugart to administrators, faculty and staff on Sept. 22, and is published here with permission.) By Sanford C. Shugart, Ph.D...

OPINION: ULTIMATE OPPORTUNIST SEIZES SPOTLIGHT

September 24, 2009

By T.J. Cole [email protected] Kanye West is a passionate guy, and looks at Beyoncé like family. I understand West -- he'S always felt like he never got his due, so he speaks up every time he gets a chance. Tayl...

OPINION: CIVILITY FALLS VICTIM TO CELEBRITY

September 24, 2009

By Reese Wallace [email protected] Yes Mr. President, he is a jackass. Barack Obama proved last night that he is indeed the voice of the nation by calling Kanye West a jackass during an off the record conversation ...

OUR VOICE: COMMUNITY COLLEGES SHOULD REMAIN 2-YEAR INSTITUTIONS

September 24, 2009

The newly devised “state school” system will demand more money from students and more competition in the admissions process. There is now a slew of community colleges in Florida adding degree programs to their curriculum...

OUR VOICE: GUN FREE ZONES

April 15, 2009

Valencia Voice Editorial [email protected] A Virginia Tech student goes on, what can simply be called, a rampage, killing 32 people. A drifter walks off the street into a Colorado public school and kidnaps a half a dozen g...

“I LOVE YOU MAN” OBNOXIOUSLY FULL OF LAUGHS

March 24, 2009

By Frank Tobin [email protected] There’s no closer a bond than the one shared by two heterosexual men; a “bromance,” if you will. You share interests, you watch ball-games, you chat about your conquests; you have all the...

HORROR REIGNS SUPREME IN ‘FRIDAY THE 13th’

February 18, 2009

By Frank Tobin [email protected] Jason, the hockey mask, the machete, that ominous theme that sounds a lot like “Kill, Kill, Kill,” anyone with any knowledge of the horror genre has undoubtedly come across this vill...

OPINION: OBAMA’S INAUGURATION SPEECH

January 20, 2009

By Adam Fishman Valencia Voice The date January 20th, 2009 will remain embedded in the minds of millions of Americans for years to come. The 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, was sworn into t...

OUR VOICE: START IMPLEMENTING PROMISES

January 20, 2009

The irony of Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, one full day after celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, is not lost on anyone. In fact, this has added to the deep symbolism of an African-American receiving the keys to ...