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Photo: Sunsets in the valley

Examiner/Jason Hemsath

The Antelope Valley offers beautiful sunsets, almost as a reminder to students that the semester is finally coming to an end. Have a great summer, AVC!

OPINION: Elevator safety is still not a priority at AVC

Elevator safety at the college is still not a priority. According to a letter received by Terry Cleveland, the Director or Risk Management and Environmental Health at Antelope Valley College, the responsibility for the expired permits in the campus elevators lies with the Division of Occupation Safety and Health.

DOSH is the issuing authority when it comes to these permits, but it is pure fantasy to believe that any liability for equipment failure that may result from faulty components lies with them.

In my opinion, the responsibility of the college would be met by posting signage indicating the state of the elevator permits on all of the campus elevators.

Students have a right to make an informed decision. Leaving the student uninformed until they enter the elevator, where they may not even have line of sight to the permit, is socially and morally unacceptable.

In addition, a campus wide email and a post on the campus web site should be done. In the event of an unfortunate accident, the college could be held legally responsible for any injuries sustained.

With the budget crisis that has been plaguing California junior colleges, this kind of irresponsibility is contemptuous at best and should be rectified immediately.

Furthermore, Cleveland informed me that any and all inquiries regarding the lack of permits should be referred to Daniel Owens, who is the Acting Director of Maintenance and Operations.

Well, up to the point of posting Owens has been unavailable for comment. Keep checking back over the break for new details as they emerge.

- By Chris Gonzalez

OPINION: The death of the English language

You morons.

Look what you have done to the English language. Look at how you’ve defiled it.

Look at how we’ve managed to take every technological advance we’ve made in the past two hundred years or so and turn them into something designed to make us talk like cavemen. You can’t deny it – how we’ve managed to take this world of constant information and higher understanding and turn it into a verbal nightmare.

It’s bad enough that technology has become redundant; with every phone a computer, every computer a television, every television a clock, and every clock a phone. But now we’re so content with this constant stream of information that we can’t even take the time to formulate complete sentences. We’ve made a language for intellectual junkies. Every acronym and abbreviation costs you dearly. You’re trading your ability to speak for mindless drivel you find amusing for no more than a minute. Are you insane?

So much for attention spans.

You want proof? Take the time and actually use that technology for something besides Youtube. Go find a letter, any letter, from any time period from the Civil War to the mid 1950s. Now compare that letter to the past fifteen text messages you’ve written. Odds are good that you sound like a special needs child with crayons and a penchant for eating them. It’s not supposed to be like this, folks. We’re supposed to be improving language, not raping it.

It’s gotten so bad that if you use any kind of creative license, people simply won’t read. Yet if you write “wuts up,” you have an instant response. That, my friends, is inexcusable.

This does not, however, mean that you are allowed to use words you in no way comprehend, take five minutes to say what could be said in one, or repeat what you say incessantly.

So please, on behalf of the English language, stop being such a moron. Read a book or something.

- By Ben Fassett

FEATURES: Fashion by students, for students

Ginger flaunts a cocktail dress - photo by Jason Hemsath

The Fashion Design Program held a fashion show called “Fashion by Design” in the Applied Arts Plaza on May 26th.

The fashion show was produced by the CT-101 Principles of Clothing Selection class and all the planning, decorations, organization, door prizes and coordination were provided by the students as well. A lot of the designs made by the students are created to reflect the industry. The models were students in the program as well, and featured their designs to include apparel for business, formal gatherings, casual daywear, and even just relaxed attire.

Some of the classes that are apart of the fashion design program are CT-101 Principles of Clothing Selection, CT-050 Sewing Basics, CT-110 Clothing Construction I: Fundamentals, CT-115 Speed Tailoring, CT-141 Tailoring, CT-242 Pattern Making by Flat Pattern, and CT-243 Draping for Fashion Design (Independent Study). All courses are specifically designed with new content, skills, equipment, and demonstrations.

The fashion design program courses are changing a little in the upcoming fall semester. With the conclusion of the fashion show the new and improved Clothing and Textiles-Fashion Design Certificate Program was announced for students interested in fashion or fashion majors. The fashion show was a good way to show off what students can be looking forward to learning in the courses.

AVC is the only community college in this area that offers a fashion design program.

-by Katrina Green