AVC BELL RINGS IN PALMDALE INTERIM CAMPUS FATE UP IN AIR.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick and Peggy Hager Staff Writers PALMDALE - Some 1,400 students began classes Monday at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley College's interim Palmdale campus in a former aircraft plant recreation center. The new facility on Avenue P at the edge of Air Force Plant 42 gives south Antelope Valley residents a place to take college courses that is closer and more convenient than the crowded Lancaster campus. ``It took me not even 10 minutes to get here and less than five to find my class,'' said Palmdale resident Taylor Payne, 17, a Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
The 47,000-square-foot building, built in the 1980s for B-1B bomber assembly workers, is ideally suited for college courses. The building has nine rooms that can be used as classrooms - each big enough for 35 to 44 people. The site also has a gymnasium, four tennis courts, a fitness center, two lighted softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' fields, a sand volleyball court and four handball handball Any of a variety games in which a small rubber ball is struck against a wall with the hand or fist. It can be played in a three- or four-walled court or against a single wall by two or four players (in singles or doubles games, respectively). courts. But the campus's long-term future is in doubt since landlord SR Technics tech·nic n. 1. technics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process. 2. technics (used with a pl. verb) Technical details, rules, or methods. 3. America canceled the lease allowing classes after the fall semester. Citing negotiations with a prospective buyer, SR Technics America last month exercised a clause in the agreement allowing it to cancel the three-year lease after the fall semester. Whether the college will be allowed to stay will be up to the prospective new owner, which has not been identified. ``We hope to have something a little more definite as soon as they announce whoever is coming into the site,'' college spokesman Steve Standerfer said Monday. ``We need something definite by October. October is when we lock up our schedule for spring.'' Things were running smoothly Monday, Standerfer said, other than some students having a hard time finding the driveway leading off Avenue P to the new building. Some people thought that a directional sign pointed to a nearby American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. building, and others ended up at the guarded gate to the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control air-traffic control air-traffic control air n → Flugsicherung f center. Students said the Palmdale campus had more openings in classes than the main campus, no traffic problems and free parking. At the Lancaster campus, a parking permit is $15 a semester. Even though the main campus is closer to his home, Chris Beck, 18, of Quartz Hill is attending the Palmdale campus because it has class openings to fit his work schedule. He signed up for classes from 6:30 to 10:50 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays so he can work at a local law office. Beck said he didn't want the Palmdale campus to close. ``Oh, God, I wouldn't be able to work as many hours,'' said Beck, who plans to attend law school after college. ``This is like a university with all the overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . If I had to go to AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C I'd lose three hours a day.'' To serve the growing south valley, college officials hope eventually to establish a permanent 80-acre campus as part of a master-planned housing development proposed on 540 acres south of Barrel Springs Road between 37th and 47th streets east. Palmdale and college officials have been working on the plans for several years with developer David Bushnell Noun 1. David Bushnell - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Bushnell, Father of the Submarine . In the interim, AVC and SR Technics America had entered a three-year agreement allowing the college to use the recreation center in the plant where SR Technics was modifying jetliners for Federal Express and other companies. The cost was to be $10 a year. SR Technics shut down the Palmdale plant after its parent company ran into financial difficulties, worsened by the post-Sept. 11 airline industry slump. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Instructor Laolu Laditan speaks to his math students Monday on the first day of classes at Antelope Valley College's interim Palmdale campus on Avenue P. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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