April 2007 marked the 21st anniversary of Jeanne Clery’s rape and murder in her Lehigh University dorm room. As a result of this tragedy, Congress passed the “Clery Act” of 1990, which requires that all institutions of higher education publish their crime statistics for the past three years (e.
Proposition 92 aims to reduce student fees by $5 per unit and make several other changes to the state’s Constitution, in hopes of securing much-needed funding for California’s growing community colleges. Also known as the Community College Initiative, Proposition 92 will appear on the Feb.
Death. Many words and sensations come to mind in describing your current condition this Tuesday morning in December but this one sums them all up. It’s 8 a.m., you find yourself in the same place you were at 8 p.m., sitting on the toilet, with a roll of toilet paper in one hand and a bucket in the other, while fluids run from every orifice as if you are a faucet with its knob left on.
Pierce College, in collaboration with the American Red Cross, is hosting a blood drive on campus, today. Both establishments are determined to get the word out to students. Many people do not take the time to donate blood for several reasons. Some of the reasons they choose not to donate are: they are never personally asked, it is not convenient, or they are simply scared.
A groundbreaking ceremony at Swisher Park Thursday, organized by the Los Angeles Community College District board of trustees and the president of Pierce College, introduced the construction of two new buildings that symbolize the future. Approximately 100 members of the development project gathered at the ceremony for the Center for the Science and Student Services buildings, which will consist of 149,775 square feet — almost the size of three football fields.
The Steven E. Schofield Aquatic Center at Pierce College, formerly the Pierce Pool, was unveiled Sunday, by Friends of Pierce Pool before a swimming clinic, coached by 14 professional-class swimmers, including Olympic-class swimmers Tamas Kerekjarto and Ous Mellouli.
A slice of pizza or a free T-shirt is often all it takes to lure a college student into filling out a credit card application that could haunt them for years to come, but passage of the College Student Credit Protection Act (AB 262) will regulate this type of marketing on California campuses.
As wildfires blazed in Canyon Country and Malibu, Pierce College once again became the destination for horses being evacuated from threatened areas. While horses were arriving in trailer after trailer, the sounds of revelers at the Halloween Harvest Festival and the music from the Persian festival wafted over the area, mixing with the whinnying of frightened horses at the equestrian center Sunday.
Ghosts Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Ghosts on a Mission Unexplained Apparitions Unfinished Business With Halloween festivities in full swing, sightings of costumed ghouls and goblins are not unusual, and although the occasional Britney Spears getup can be quite scary, nothing is as frightening or disturbing as an actual spine-tingling encounter with the spirit world.
Since the release of the controversial documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” everyone is about recycling and saving Mother Earth. But once you’re done reading this issue of The Roundup, what do you do? Do you do the convenient way and kindly recycle it? It’s sad to say the fact that most of these newspapers will simply become trash since they are being left on benches once readers are done, and will be scattered all over campus creating an eyesore on that green grass of the campus.
