Hunger is hopefully not something that most of us are worring about this holiday season, however, for a growing number of people in Ventura County, hunger is a daily issue. According to the Ventura County Star, more than 100,000 men, women and children don’t have enough food in Ventura County, with more than 20,000 of them being children.
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One in 5 children in Ventura County go to bed every night hungry. Join the Student Voice in the battle against hunger by donating to Food Share. Here is a video to let you know how to help.
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Children have been taking a leading role in many reality television series as of late. TLC is packed full of shows like “Jon and Kate Plus 8” and “18 kids and Counting,” a show about a strict Baptist family, and “Toddlers in Tiaras,” which follows tiny pageant members and their stressed parents. Other examples of the craze are the ever popular Octo-mom, Nadya Suleman, who is planning to star in a reality series about her kids, and the newly famous Falcon Heene, the infamous balloon boy.
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Students looking to transfer to one of the schools in the University of California system will face an uncertain future in the wake of a 32 percent fee increase approved by the board of regents.
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Alongside 2008 republican presidential candidate, John McCain, a special lady helped publicize his campaign. That woman was Sarah Palin, and after losing the 2009 presidential election and resigning as Alaska’s governor, she knows there is money out there to be made.
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The Ventura County Community College District is making the switch from WebSTAR to MyVCCCD, and with the VCCCD on the verge of making the change official, I suggest that any of you procrastinators jump on the band wagon. My VCCCD is a great program. It runs very smoothly, and the set up is great. You can find all your classes for the semester clearly posted right in your homepage, and you can click on any of them to see general information about the class. The homepage keeps you updated with campus announcements and events. There are also options of a VCCCD email address, groups and quick links to lots of different student services. The navigation is smooth and easy.
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Geek Culture: Teenage girl porn in a theater near you
A new movement is in the air, and it features impossibly pretty glitter vampires and shape shifting werewolves that are violently in love with a shallow teenage girl. And nerds everywhere are grinding their teeth as they mentally repeat a single phrase: THAT. SHOULD. NOT. BE.
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