My head hung low beneath the bill of my baseball cap as I tried to disguise my hangover from the night before. Slumped deep into the concave-shaped chair intricately placed in the back of my 11 a.m. journalism class, I started to feel the consequences of my actions in my stomach.
Year: 2007
Angry Angelenos in good old-fashioned fist-fight
The first of March was a breezy, gray day in the San Fernando Valley, one of those days that force Angelenos to wear the winter outfits we keep in our closets to use for only two months out of a year. Maybe the increasingly angry El Niño phenomenon will change that.
Killing me softly… A smoker’s dilemma
Swirling smoke saturates the air near the student store, the most popular smoking section at school. I make my way to the small square marked out on the ground- a holding pen for future cancer patients. School regulations say that you must be 20 feet away from any building to be able to smoke, but I have a gut feeling that inch-by-inch our rights are being tarnished like the enamel of our teeth.
Well, it was almost a chance for a ‘dream job’
I was a regular 19-year-old student at Pierce College with goals, dreams and desires like any other man my age, until suddenly my life took an unexpected turn. About a year ago, ESPN Deportes, which is a subsidiary channel for the worldwide-known sports channel ESPN, announced that auditions for the reality show “Dream Job: El Reportero” (The Reporter) would take place in six different cities across America.
Unwinding your nights at the Whisky A Go-Go
Since its first opening in January 1964, the Whisky A Go-Go has undergone many changes, but still remains a crowd hot spot on the Sunset Strip. For a time, the Whisky only played recordings with no live band, but this changed as live bands became the main music played throughout the night.
Food court on the menu for campus
Jamba Juice or Starbucks? Carl’s Jr. or Panda Express? Why not all of them? The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) has recently put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for anyone interested in embarking on a new construction project that will feature a food court as well as a commissary for one of its bigger campuses-Pierce College.
Classrooms get face-lift during winter intercession
Despite a very tight schedule of only three weeks and various behind the scenes administrative issues, during the winter intercession, 30 classrooms around the Pierce College botanical garden received a face-lift. These classrooms are located in the Math, English, Social Science and Behavioral Science buildings.
Trustees election no sure thing
With four of seven seats on the L.A. Community College District (LACCD) board of trustees on the ballot this Tuesday, the battle for control in the country’s largest community college district is heating up. The Alliance for Education, a reform group headed by former trustee Pat Owens, is running a slate of four candidates against the four incumbents, and two independent candidates have joined the race for seat five on the board.
Knowledge on loan:
At the Jan. 24 Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees meeting, Associated Students Organization President Abraham White disclosed a program that would involve the renting of expensive textbooks. The program will provide the opportunity for students to rent the most expensive books by paying a small amount to use them for the entire semester.
Classes, offices move into the future
Amidst a flurry of lumber litter and wet paint, the “Future Village” sits at the center of the largest-scale and most complex plan in recent Pierce College history. Estimated to span the course of five years and cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Village project is at the very least an impressive undertaking.