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Mark Young myoung@foghornnews.com Del Mar College owes a former employee over half a million dollars after losing a lawsuit over a contract dispute. Former history professor Bruce Olson sued the college in June 2012, after Olson felt the college was breaching a contract that had come from mediation of a settlement from two previous lawsuits Olson had filed against the college. During mediation from the first two lawsuits, Del Mar College agreed to allow Olson to participate in an early retirement program if he promised to drop the lawsuits and release Del Mar College from liability. The two previous lawsuits…
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Vivien Sanchez Co-editor-in-chief Del Mar College Guy Watts called the college a “sea of mediocrity” that is swamped by “unprepared students” in an October letter to the editor in the Island Moon newspaper. His comments, especially a proposal to place the so-called unprepared students, or those in remedial and GED classes, on West Campus while “restoring the central campus as a center for academic excellence for prepared students,” were heavily contested at the December Board of Regents meeting. Watts said, “prepared students” largely come from the more affluent areas of the city, including Padre Island, Flour Bluff and…