LACCD profs rank high in pay

A salary review published in the National Education Association’s newsletter, Higher Education Advocate ranks a full-time teacher’s salary at Pierce College to be $69,200 annually. This means that Pierce and the L.A. Community College District (LACCD), rank in the top half of the list that was published in the Advocate’s 2007 review, which compared the salaries of full-timers and part-timers in all the colleges in California.

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Agents of Justice

Have you ever had a dispute with a teacher over a grade? Have you ever needed an advocate to help you resolve an issue with an instructor? What you may not know is that there are people on campus whose job it is to help you in such situations. They are called ombudspersons.

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News Briefs

NB/Deadline to Drop 9 lines/ 2 inches 120 words Deborah Jackson Suggested headline: Deadline to drop or add: Nov. 19 The deadline to drop a class for Fall Semester 2004 and still receive a grade of W is Friday. Students are responsible to complete a drop card, which can be obtained in the Admissions and Records Office.

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Entering the ‘Tech Age’

Pierce is now officially high-tech. A few weeks ago, there was a cart outside of the Learning Center full of boxes. All of the boxes had “Neovo” on the side. Come to find out, each one of those boxes contained a 15-inch AG Neovo monitor. For those of you who aren’t computer savvy, Neovo is a company that distributes top-of-the-line monitors.

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Student voice

Q: The farm at Pierce may host a petting zoo to raise funds for the agriculture department. How do you feel about that, and have you ever visited the farm? I’ve never been out there. I think that it would work, and I would probably bring my little sister.

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the more the merrier

On the Pierce farm, it’s not so much “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” as it is “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” But this time it√≠s the student workers in the goat pens who have so many kids they don√≠t know what to do. Thirty-one goat babies, or “kids,” were born on the farm within the last three weeks.

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A silent tribute

Missing Students?508 words / 44 lines / 11 inches Amanda Milewski Suggested head:? A silent tribute ?The 120 “Missing Students” that stood in Swisher Park at Pierce could not move or speak, but their message of awareness regarding class cutbacks and fee hikes was seen and heard.

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Holiday Havoc

Rock for the ages Even though it’s not December yet, it’s never too early for gifts. What if one of those gifts was a group of the coolest acts in punk neatly wrapped in a day-long package? Over the weekend, five bands and one solo vocalist brought the season to new levels of rock for the Holiday Havoc festival.

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Thanksgiving

When people hear the word Thanksgiving, they instantly think of another word: FOOD! The Thanksgiving holiday is full of traditions, the most prominent being its magnificent feasts. On the fourth Thursday in November across the United States, families and friends join together.

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