By Jason Redmond, Ventura County Star, Calif. Jun. 23--Most afternoons Rigo Valerio anonymously pushes his janitorial cart from room to room at the Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology in Moorpark.

By Jean Cowden Moore, Ventura County Star, Calif. Dec. 28--Oxnard College is tightening its smoking policy so that people can light up only in campus parking lots starting in January.

By Bortolussi, Victoria Closely linking high school and college can make a student's journey along the career path a smooth one. "What do YOU want to be . . . ?" This is now the abbreviated question. The heart of the answer should begin and end with the student, not with the career.