The baseball team at Pierce College has a new star in the making: center fielder and third hitter Calvin Culver. Currently in his sophomore year at Pierce, Culver previously played for the baseball team at Quartz Hill High School. Leadership is Culver’s most noticeable quality besides, of course, his huge talent for the game, according to his coach and teammates.
The Pierce College baseball team struggled to overcome El Camino College’s early lead on March 19, losing 12-4. “I know Pierce is a pretty good team,” said Nathan Fernley, El Camino’s head coach. “I know their pitchers throw very well; there are three or four here that are pretty good.
With only one win and three consecutive losses, the men’s volleyball team set out to defeat El Camino College on March 19, but later on lost the game, 3-1. “It wasn’t a bad loss,” said Steven Umemeto, one of Pierce College’s team captains. However, it made their standing 1-4 halfway through the Western State Conference.
Lackluster defense and net violations aided the Brahmas’ downfall, with Pierce College losing to the Long Beach Vikings 3-1 in their fifth Men’s Volleyball WSC Southern Division Game, March 26. The first game was hot as both teams battled each other with strong kills and quick maneuvers.
I never thought I would be the cause of an accident while driving and talking on my cell phone at the same time. Never say never. Recently, I was on my cell phone and driving after a long, hard day at work. It was around 5 p.m. I decided to call my sister, who lives in Texas.
Mexican culture has never been illuminated so beautifully or brutally all at once by a photographer of our time. “Danza de la Cabrita/The Goats Dance: Photographs by Garciela Iturbide,” at the Getty Center, unearths the matriarchal society of the Zapotec Indian town of Juchitán, Oaxaca, whose inhabitants are the most striking of the women she chose to photograph, because of their large girth yet extremely feminine attire.
Current plans for the food court include the obliteration of our cafeteria, the Country Café, which is not prospering the way the administration and district want it to. Plans by the Los Angeles Community College District, to bring in outside food and beverage venders to the food court, follow in the footsteps of four-year institutions such as California State University, Northridge.
Usually, when a band puts together their sophomore album, the sound rarely changes to retain the loyalty of their fans. However, this is not the case with Panic At the Disco and their latest album, “Pretty.Odd”. Panic’s first album released in 2005, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”, was laced with vaudeville inspirations and coupled with popular emo lyrics.
Despite a low student turnout, the recent Open Mic event sponsored by the Associated Students Organization had those who did attend nearly falling out of their seats. With its “paint your own theme” theme, the night began a bit haphazardly, as hosts going by the aliases Stylus and Mathematic goaded audience members into working up the courage to share anything with the crowd.
Card counting is not easy, but “21,” a drama about six Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who make millions in Vegas off this legal tactic, makes it look like fun. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) just celebrated his 21st birthday and has a lot on his mind.
