“Infama Moralia” written by Pierce College Spanish Professor Fernando Oleas is a book composed of 1365 vivid and compelling stanzas that take you back to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book is written in Spanish. The title comes from Latin meaning Infamous Moral.
Pottery throwing demonstrations, blown glass, jewelry and food are just a few things to expect at the upcoming Ceramics Winter Arts Festival.
Unable to repeat as champions of the seventh annual Brahma Thanksgiving Shoot-Out, Pierce College instead brought home the third place trophy, beating East Los Angeles College, 97-67 Sunday afternoon in the South Gym. Rio Hondo College captured this year’s championship, defeating Citrus College in overtime, 99-91, capping off the weekend-long tournament.
At the beginning of the season, women’s soccer striker Yasmine Yahoum suffered a potentially season ending injury, but she came back to make some amazing contributions at the end of the season. She was kicked in the ribs in the Victor Valley tournament on Sept.
In light of CSU campuses accepting 10,000 less students for the fall ’09 semester, Pierce College students that are planning on transferring to a university may feel discouraged. Applications are up 20 percent this semester for CSU schools and 36 percent for transfer students.
The number-one-ranked women’s volleyball team at Pierce College ended their 61-home-game winning streak in the second round of regionals, with about half of the spectators cheering for Orange Coast College (OCC) at the South Gym Saturday night. Pierce finished out the state finals 1-1, with a season score of 30-2.
Barack Obama’s platform awakened sleeping collegiate voters. More young people than ever before came out to the polls Nov. 4 to vote for change in this country. We followed through by voting and now we are expecting the proposed ideas from our President-elect to actually happen.
“Downtown Los Angeles was hit very hard,” he told the group. “Most of the high rise buildings have collapsed…” Pierce staff members wore bright red and yellow vests as they digested this information and decided what they would do in the event of a magnitude 7.
The purpose of this event was to bring “more awareness on campus” and to not just focus on recycling, but “everything regarding sustainability,” said ASO President Christian Amatulli, 27.
