Letter to the Editor

To Whom It May Concern: In reference to the editorial, Making a Clean Sweep, dated October 10, 2007 I work in one of the departments at Pierce. I arrive to work at 7:45 AM and open up the building. I see our custodian cleaning as I arrive. The bathroom is always in ship shape order when she leaves.

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College “Lab Rats” Just After The Cheese (Updated)

It’s the backdrop for countless teen comedies. A guy is broke, so he goes with a friend to the neighborhood sperm bank, and after some embarrassing antics, he comes away with some quick cash and that’s that. This perfect mix of pleasure and quick cash kind of makes someone wonder why they keep making more Starbucks and not more sperm banks, right? “I’ve been to a (sperm bank) before,” said Jaime Garza, 23, a business student on campus.

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Empty recycle bins (revised copy)

Since the release of the controversial documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” everyone is thinking about recycling and saving Mother Earth. But once you’re done reading this issue of The Roundup, what do you do? Do you do the convenient way and kindly recycle it? It’s sad to say that most of these newspapers will simply become trash since they are being left on benches once readers are done and will be scattered all over campus creating an eyesore on that green grass of the campus.

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New Colors Could Be In Order

The Pierce College Council met on Thursday to address potential beautification efforts on campus as well as discuss several school-related issues. Some members of the council, made up mostly of administrators and faculty members, suggested that the school’s current arrangement of buildings and their colors may not be as welcoming to students as they would like.

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$$Eighteen and still waiting

12.25″ Most of us were probably counting the minutes as they slowly ticked by on the long and ever-so-slow march towards becoming 18 years old. Hitting 18 struck a victory bell that rang loudly and clearly-you know, that kind of ring that renders nearby witnesses into a state of shock because it is just that epic.

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