Placards Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Placards For Precaution A Different Kind Of Hand-Out Guidelines For Disruptive Behavior Distributed For the first time in Pierce College history, 8 Ω by 11 inch laminated placards offering guidelines on how to deal with disruptive behavior and/or students in crisis were distributed to all faculty members this semester.
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Making a difference
More than 1,300 foster children are expected to gather at Pierce College on Sunday, Oct. 14, to participate in the Day of the Child. The Day of the Child is an event sponsored by Children Uniting Nations (C.U.N.) to raise awareness of homeless and foster children in the L.
Learning Center teacher teaches tutors with fervor
At home, Curt Riesberg leads a quiet, personal life. He lives with two cats, and he likes to spend his free time writing, fishing and traveling. At Pierce College, however, he is the new full-time Learning Center teacher since last spring, where Riesberg not only teaches reading and writing classes, but also works with the tutors there.
Christian club creates sanctuary for members
Most students don’t know much about Pierce Christians United (PCU), formerly known as The Christian Club. “I don’t believe in institutionalized religion,” said Teresa Romo, a student who has decided against joining the ranks of any religious clubs. Many students share a similar view and the PCU noticed a need for change.
New textbook editions are busting our banks
The price of tuition, plus the general cost of living, creates a very expensive equation for the average Pierce College student. Add that to the new editions of books that raise the prices for the addition of a single sentence that the publisher deemed vital to the understanding of a whole textbook.
In Defense of “Memorizing”
Your 9/26 editorial about the unfairness of being asked to “memorize” stunned me. It showed a level of immaturity often seen among college students, and thoughtlessly maligned an important step for achieving success in any field. All fields, from the arts to the sciences, require mastery (memorization) of thousands of odd new words and phrases representing the ‘language’ of the field.
Reply to opinion column – Teaching Methods Fall Short of Expectations
Dear Editor: The act of teaching is exactly that; — an act. It is a second class citizen, a miscreant, an unwanted stepchild, the loser pretending to be hip. After all, teaching is not the exclusive sacred realm here; it is learning that is sacred. It is the conscious act of the learner taking responsibility for their own learning that becomes the crowning glory of higher education.
Halloween Harvest howls into town
This weekend, Pierce College was proud to welcome back its annual Halloween Harvest Festival. The wildly popular event, which opened Friday, is located at the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard for the next five weeks, and all are welcome to join in the festivities.
Two hour power outage hits campus
You never think about how important electricity is until it’s not there. Several minutes after 8 a.m. Sept. 26, students, faculty and staff thought about electricity on campus… there wasn’t any. Pierce College President Robert Garber said that it was a Department of Water and Power (DWP) problem.
Finally Extinct
The third installment of Resident Evil has finally come and in all honesty, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. The successful video game franchise deals with one thing only: Survival Horror. In every sense, this genre has propelled the series to its current stature in the film industry.