Subway inks 5-year deal
Franchise aims to open in renovated cafe by Oct. 1, limited service begins Aug. 25

By Josh Bohling
Editor

After four rocky years that have seen three different food vendors come and go, North Lake officials are optimistic that a long-term resident for the cafeteria has been found.
Fast food chain Subway has signed a contract that is expected to keep the franchise on campus through 2008. Within weeks, construction aimed at giving the cafeteria a "Subway look and feel" is expected to begin.

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Cause and Effect

In the summer of 2002, many of the veteran faculty members at North Lake College were preparing their lectures and materials for classes that they would be teaching here in the fall.
This summer, some of those same faculty members are doing the same thing, but preparing to teach at different schools in the district. Others are either unemployed or working in different fields.

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Club awards
scholarship

In 2001, with only one member, two advisors and a vision, the International Club (IC) was on its way to establishing the first North Lake College scholarship for international students.
After several flyers were distributed, banners were hung and classroom visits were made, appointed president Teresa Nguyen and advisors Satu Birch, a former International advisor, and Olivia Villagra were ready to organize the first IC meeting.
"It was a vibrant group of students from all backgrounds," remembers Maria Brereton, who later became IC's vice-president.

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New era begins

When you hear the word bureaucrat, you might picture someone who tries to maintain a status quo. A person who speaks in trite, nothing phrases. Someone so far away from you that they are impossible to relate to or communicate with.
Enter Dr. Jesus "Jess" Carreon, new DCCCD chancellor and anything but what was just described above.
The first thing you might notice about him is his sense of humor, a sharp wit cultivated from his three decades of experience as an educator.

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Study with leisure

Hippies, ticks, tree huggers. Professor Kent Reppond, a class of sixteen, two vans, and a road trip. Welcome to Biology 1411: Introduction to Botany.
There are promises of early mornings and seven-hour hikes. Reppond warns us to increase our red blood cells. I'm wondering if I'll come back alive.
In the two days it takes to get to Pingree Park, Colo., I learn everything I need to know to build alliances. I try and forget I'm on a class field trip. We count the cows or "moo mine" the long pasture stretches in the flatlands of Texas.

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Students give library thumbs up

North Lake Community Library celebrates first birthday, evaluates effectiveness

By Jane Bell, M.L.S.
Special to the News-Register

North Lake Community Library just completed its first year of operation and has received high marks from students.

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