“Assignments will be due without prior mention, and she critiques not only your work but also your personal ethics.”

“She makes you feel stupid and worthless. I cried when I left the class and never went back.”

“He is impossible to follow. He is obviously a genius in English but incapable of teaching.”

These are just a few comments posted alongside “ratings” of Butte College professors on RateMyProfessors.com.

From its sustainability and diversity to its online-classes and expansion, Butte’s efforts to foster a true college environment are everywhere. But there is one thing the school does not have that many students on other campuses know almost like home—the dorms.

Yes, the dorms, which are typified in the media as Pauly Shore’s domain for way longer than normal, the site of floor-wide female topless pillow fights and where a freshman walks down the hall nude because someone stole his towel while he was in the shower.

On the first day of fall semester, Tegan Price made a choice. She left her Toyota Corolla at the Chico Center to catch the 8:20 a.m. bus to the Main Campus. Yet, besides her practical decision to save gas and utilize Butte College's transit system; she was disappointed to learn the two buses that arrived that morning were already full, and could only fit just a couple more students. Knowing that waiting for a third bus would only make her even later to her first day of class, she opted to drive.

When chief of police Mike Efford walked through the door, he wasn't wearing a police uniform, opting instead for casual clothes. Efford is a fairly big man with a firm hand shake and a gray goatee.

Efford said that he has 35 years of police experience, the last five of which as been with Butte College. Efford was also the chief of police for the city of Chico. He said that he would like to get more students involved in keeping the campus a safe place for students to learn. Toward that end, the campus police department has just hired seven new volunteer students.