Los Angeles was struck by a heat wave of 90-plus degree weather 19 days during the month of October, making it the second hottest October history, according to the Los Angeles Times. According to the Los Angeles Pierce College Weather Station Web Site, the highest temperature of those days was 98.
The passage of Measure J, a $3.5 billion bond for the Los Angeles Community College District, means more new buildings and renovations to Pierce.
Pierce College will be participating in the Great Southern California Shakeout, the largest earthquake preparedness drill in U.S. history, tomorrow at 10 a.m. There are 2.5 million participants so far in the ShakeOut Drill. 279 businesses and164 schools just in the greater metropolitan Los Angeles area are participating in the ShakeOut Drill, including the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The football team will be playing its homecoming game off the home turf tomorrow, due to a rescheduling at Santa Monica College due to poor air quality yesterday. Head coach Efrain Martinez said that they were really looking forward to playing the game. “We had the best week of practice in months,” Martinez said.
The last football game of the season was close enough to go into overtime, but ultimately ended in defeat.
Pierce College hasn’t stopped at a recycling program in the push to promote environmental friendliness, as changes to campus greenery are in sight to lower water usage. The “Go Green” movement motivated a few biology professors who, after originally proposing drought-tolerant plants for the Botanical Garden in 2001, are now pushing for the same kinds of plants around campus in place of unused lawns.
Due to their opponent’s overwhelming power and a superior number of players, the Pierce College football team was destroyed by Antelope Valley College, 54-7 in front of numerous opponents’ spectators at Quartz Hill High School football stadium Saturday afternoon.
The women’s soccer team beat the Raiders in penalty kicks to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
Trainers do their best to get injured players back on the field as soon as possible.
The women’s volleyball team defeated College of the Canyon’s, 3-0, Thursday. The hard-fought game likely clinches first place going into playoffs.
