Crisis on the Campus of Valley City State University
www.vcsu.edu
The campus of Valley City State University definitely has a very different feel to it this spring. Classes were cancelled on April 15th for the remainder of the spring semester. Students will continue to finish classes online for the spring of 09. Dr. Steven Shirley all with the help of others made the announcement to student faculty and staff early Wednesday April 15th. The offices of VCSU will remain open but classes will not be held. There will also be a few more changes on campus this spring. Graduation will be held in W.E. Osmon fieldhouse (bubble) instead of Vangstad Auditorium as usual. This doesn’t seem like a very major change but I think there are many students who are upset and would have loved to graduate in Vangstad. There is nothing student, staff, or faculty can do about any of this Mother Nature is in full control right now.
Dr. Shirley has done a great job keep the VCSU community updated. He sends up weekly e-mails with new updates and also speaks on the local radio station with new updates. Not only does he want to make sure the VCSU community is updated but he also wants to make sure the Valley City community is aware of what is happening.
Keep up the hard work VCSU and we will get through this fight together.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
VC Students Enrolling In Surrounding Schools
Area Schools Receiving Valley City Students
By Ryan Cunningham
www.newsdakota.com
April 21
Three area schools in the Barnes County area are receiving large numbers of Valley City students displaced by the flood.
To date, 256 students have either enrolled or committed to enroll at Barnes County North, Maple Valley, and Litchville-Marion schools. The Barnes County North school district has received 104 students from Valley City, and the Maple Valley district has received 132 students, the largest numbers in the area.
At Barnes County North, 98 students have enrolled at North Central at Rogers and six have enrolled at the Wimbledon-Courtenay campus at Wimbledon. At Maple Valley, 52 in grades 7-12 are at the high school in Tower City and 80 are at the elementary school in Buffalo. Students appear to be enrolling as a temporary measure while the Valley City district makes plans, but they are welcome to stay and finish out the year. All districts report that they are impressed with the kids they are receiving. They are expecting more in the near future, and say they are glad to have them.
I feel this is a great thing for the surrounding schools and the Valley City students too. The students are getting the opportunity to learn in new surroundings and to meet new friends at the same time. I am glad the parents are doing this for the children and not having them sit at home in front of the TV. I would want my child out learning or at least in the school setting as well. Just by having the children in a school setting it helping them in so many ways. We are taking their minds off what is happening in Valley City and also they are in a learning environment.
By Ryan Cunningham
www.newsdakota.com
April 21
Three area schools in the Barnes County area are receiving large numbers of Valley City students displaced by the flood.
To date, 256 students have either enrolled or committed to enroll at Barnes County North, Maple Valley, and Litchville-Marion schools. The Barnes County North school district has received 104 students from Valley City, and the Maple Valley district has received 132 students, the largest numbers in the area.
At Barnes County North, 98 students have enrolled at North Central at Rogers and six have enrolled at the Wimbledon-Courtenay campus at Wimbledon. At Maple Valley, 52 in grades 7-12 are at the high school in Tower City and 80 are at the elementary school in Buffalo. Students appear to be enrolling as a temporary measure while the Valley City district makes plans, but they are welcome to stay and finish out the year. All districts report that they are impressed with the kids they are receiving. They are expecting more in the near future, and say they are glad to have them.
I feel this is a great thing for the surrounding schools and the Valley City students too. The students are getting the opportunity to learn in new surroundings and to meet new friends at the same time. I am glad the parents are doing this for the children and not having them sit at home in front of the TV. I would want my child out learning or at least in the school setting as well. Just by having the children in a school setting it helping them in so many ways. We are taking their minds off what is happening in Valley City and also they are in a learning environment.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Murder/ Suicide What is our Society Coming To
Police: Five Children, Father Dead in Washington State Murder-Suicide
Families living in a quiet mobile home park in Washington were left reeling Sunday after one of their neighbors apparently shot to death five of his children at their home and then killed himself miles away.
"How could something like this happen?" asked Mary Ripplinger, whose kids were playmates of the slain children. "Everyone's asking: Why did he do it? It's not right."
Police were called after a relative visiting the family's trailer at the Deer Run mobile home park Saturday couldn't get anyone to answer the door but through a window glimpsed a child lying motionless on a bed. Click here for photos.
Earlier Saturday, police found the father dead in his still-running car near the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle. The father had apparently killed himself with a rifle,.The mother's aunt, Penny Flansburg, identified the couple as Angela and James Harrison and the children as Maxine, Samantha, Heather, Jamie and James. The father worked as a diesel mechanic, and the mother works at Wal-Mart, Flansburg said.
Ryan Peden, a classmate of the eldest daughter, who was 16, said she told him Friday night that her parents had gotten into a fight and her mother had left. The father followed the mother and tried to get her to return, said Peden, 16. Carolyn and Raymond Bader, a former neighbor of the family, told The Seattle Times they often heard the father yelling at the children. The Baders said they called the sheriff's department and Child Protective Services several times with their concerns. Click here to read more from Q13FOX.com.
This might be the one of the saddest stories I have heard in a long time. How could a father be so upset that he would do something this terrible to his very own children? Things like this are happen much too often in our society today. I am sure there are issues that were happening in the family that we do not know about and might not ever know about, but think about the mother who is still alive. She will live in grief for the remainder of her life. She lost her whole entire family in one day while she was at work. I don’t know how anyone can hurt someone this bad. I know those children did not do anything bad enough that they deserved what their very own father did to them. I hope that families that are having problems can look at this and learn from it. Know that there is help out there and that nothing is bad enough that something like this needs to take place. We should all keep this family in our thoughts and prayers as they have a long road ahead of them.
Families living in a quiet mobile home park in Washington were left reeling Sunday after one of their neighbors apparently shot to death five of his children at their home and then killed himself miles away.
"How could something like this happen?" asked Mary Ripplinger, whose kids were playmates of the slain children. "Everyone's asking: Why did he do it? It's not right."
Police were called after a relative visiting the family's trailer at the Deer Run mobile home park Saturday couldn't get anyone to answer the door but through a window glimpsed a child lying motionless on a bed. Click here for photos.
Earlier Saturday, police found the father dead in his still-running car near the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn, about 30 miles south of Seattle. The father had apparently killed himself with a rifle,.The mother's aunt, Penny Flansburg, identified the couple as Angela and James Harrison and the children as Maxine, Samantha, Heather, Jamie and James. The father worked as a diesel mechanic, and the mother works at Wal-Mart, Flansburg said.
Ryan Peden, a classmate of the eldest daughter, who was 16, said she told him Friday night that her parents had gotten into a fight and her mother had left. The father followed the mother and tried to get her to return, said Peden, 16. Carolyn and Raymond Bader, a former neighbor of the family, told The Seattle Times they often heard the father yelling at the children. The Baders said they called the sheriff's department and Child Protective Services several times with their concerns. Click here to read more from Q13FOX.com.
This might be the one of the saddest stories I have heard in a long time. How could a father be so upset that he would do something this terrible to his very own children? Things like this are happen much too often in our society today. I am sure there are issues that were happening in the family that we do not know about and might not ever know about, but think about the mother who is still alive. She will live in grief for the remainder of her life. She lost her whole entire family in one day while she was at work. I don’t know how anyone can hurt someone this bad. I know those children did not do anything bad enough that they deserved what their very own father did to them. I hope that families that are having problems can look at this and learn from it. Know that there is help out there and that nothing is bad enough that something like this needs to take place. We should all keep this family in our thoughts and prayers as they have a long road ahead of them.
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