University of California admissions are more competitive than ever, with high school graduates in California at record high numbers. But will a decrease in high school graduates in the coming years mean an easier transfer into a UC? Not necessarily, said Elizabeth Atondo, transfer director at Pierce College.
Monday was a day dedicated to Cesar Estrada Chavez, the most persistent Hispanic civil rights leader of the 20th century. Born March 31, 1927, on a small farm near Yuma, Ariz., Chavez has become a symbol for the Hispanic community’s struggle for equality, justice and respect.
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 vendors to the food court, follow in the footsteps of four-year institutions such as California State University, Northridge.
“Stop eco-terrorism!” “Get out of Iraq and stay out of Iran!” “Impeach Bush!” “Don’t eat bananas, Dole kills babies in Mexico!” “Fight for women’s rights in Africa!” “Stop bad military recruitment practices!” “Don’t buy products from China!” “Save the habitat of the three-legged Canadian kangaroo cousins!” OK, so maybe that last one isn’t true, but making fun of anything Canadian is inherently amusing and judging from the glut of causes to support at the recent Los Angeles so-called anti-war protests, I’m sure you could have found someone to champion it.
Owen Wilson stars in “Drillbit Taylor,” a PG-13 comedy about a homeless guy pretending to be a bodyguard to make some money off of three wimpy kids. It is the first day of high school, and Ryan (Troy Gentile) and Wade (Nate Hartley) are positive that they will be popular this year.
“Who remembers the Armenians?” When Adolf Hitler asked his subordinates during World War II whether any of them recall the killings of more than 1 million Armenians in the early 1900s, there was no response. Today, Pierce College is taking a step in spreading awareness of the Armenian Genocide through the medium of art, with the opening of the “Power of the Poster”exhibition in April – the month of commemoration of the genocide.
Music artists today are getting stabbed in the back, this time not by faulty contracts, but by the fans that illegally download music as opposed to buying CDs. CD sales are down dramatically. According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s Web site, downloading music for free causes $12.
A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed a fact about teenage girls today: One out of four has a sexually transmitted disease. Chlamydia, a bacterial infection and the most common type of STD in the United States, is also the most common among women at Pierce College.
The Pierce College ENCORE/Oasis program continued its lecture series March 13 with Professor Norm Levy’s talk entitled, “Freedom vs. Security post 9/11.” ENCORE students accounted for the vast majority of the participants, but other students joined in as well.
