Category: Features

Harris got the Roz Chast Award for her zine, The Adventures of Moon Vibes & His Super Power Man Bun and Vega took home the Raina Telgemeier Award for her comic Welcome to Riverview. (Cover art courtesy of Harris and Vega)

James O’Keefe Comic Contest Helps DVC’s Comic Artists Reach New Heights

May 25, 2020

The official stay-at-home order sent out by the Contra Costa Health Service states that everyone is allowed to go for walks. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Hinson)

5 Ways to Not Go Stir Crazy In Quarantine

May 10, 2020

Why It’s Important to Recognize Our Grief

Monique Cardenas, Guest writer

May 8, 2020

The last couple of weeks have been emotionally difficult for me. It has been hard to keep track of time and the days seem like a terribly long summer vacation, with no friends or pool days in sight. I’ve gone from FaceTiming my friends every...

A Different Kind of Proposal: Traveling Through Italy in the Time of Coronavirus

May 2, 2020

Coronavirus creates many extra challenges for international students at DVC and across the U.S. (Photo courtesy of The Conversation)

For International Students at DVC and Across America, the Coronavirus Presents A World of Crises

May 2, 2020

Bullet hole in a sculpture by Don Drumm| caused by a .30-06 round fired by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State on May 4, 1970. (Photo by M. Stewart)

50 Years After the Killings at Kent State, What has America Learned?

May 1, 2020

Lindsey Barrows, a 22-year-old part-time student, said she finds the DVC campus more sustainable compared with other schools she has attended. (The Inquirer file photo).

Greening DVC: Progress and Challenges in Building a More Sustainable Campus

April 28, 2020

CSU East Bay - Pioneer Heights Student Housing
Hayward, California (Photo courtesy of Popochen)

Growing Up in the Iran-Iraq War was a Struggle. Life as a Trans and Homeless Student In the Pandemic Is Even Harder.

April 25, 2020

With Isolation Comes Depression: The Dark Side Of Quarantine

Alison Lucha, Staff member

April 25, 2020

It has been more than a month since Contra Costa County issued a “shelter- in- place” order to slow down the spread of COVID-19, and Diablo Valley College students who live in the area are still struggling psychologically with...

DVC students are hoping that they will be able to go back to school soon. (Kat Uher/The Inquirer).

DVC Students Try to Stay Positive In Transition to Online Learning

April 24, 2020

DVC recently announced that remote instruction will continue through the spring semester as well as during summer. (The Inquirer file photo).

Online Instruction Presents New Learning Curve for DVC Faculty

April 24, 2020

The value of social media in an era of social distancing

Navid Mehdipour, Staff member

April 16, 2020

Since the Jan. 20 discovery of the first case of the Coronavirus in the United States, over 670,000 people have tested positive for the disease and more than 34,000 have died. For more than a month now, citizens nationwide have b...

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