The nine colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District have been redesigning their Web sites to be more standardized and accessible, increasing functionality for all students and staff while maintaining individuality amongst the colleges. Utilizing OmniUpdate, a web content management service, the reconstruction of the Web sites will bring the same format to each LACCD college so that somebody browsing one college’s site will be able to access another college’s site in the same way.

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Heads bobbed and fingers snapped as students were treated to music and poetry performed by their peers last Thursday night at the Freudian Sip Café. The cool temperatures surrounding the outdoor stage near the Sip were offset by the warm reception given to each performer.

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More than a dozen features and upgrades are planned for the campus mall, some which may provide a better opportunity to enjoy the scenery in between classes. The campus mall, the main walkway stretching from the Freudian Sip to Parking Lot 7 near the Mason Street entrance, will boast a multitude of additions intended to complement the grand opening of several new buildings currently in development.

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James Domine is the music director at Pierce College and the leader of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra. Domine’s latest composition, Legend for Orchestra will be unveiled Nov. 17 in the Performing Arts Building at Pierce. The composition is based on Romance of Taliesin and is comprised of 12 episodes called tableaux which are continuous musical sequences.

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David Beckham is supposedly the “face of American soccer.” Well that’s great, we have an Englishman trying to bring the world’s greatest game across the pond and expand it here in the states. There is nothing wrong with that, but there is something wrong with how it is being done.

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Shakespeare returns to Pierce College with a twist in the theater arts department’s latest production, “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).” The comedy, by Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald, is the story of a literature professor who is sucked into the works of Shakespeare, learning insights about the Bard’s genius and about herself.

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Thanksgiving is a holiday that brings together American families and close friends to celebrate an event that happened in 1621, in a colony called Plymouth, now Massachusetts. American society has misrepresented the facts of the actual first Thanksgiving.

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has constructed a plan that will adjust electricity rates in the San Fernando Valley for the summer, while increasing the rates for Los Angeles as a whole. The restructured rates will go into effect Jan. 1, 2008.

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Students guaranteed seat in core classes during winter intersession By: Ben Rizzo In an effort to compensate a growing need from increasing enrollment, Pierce College is guaranteeing seats to eligible students in core English and math classes during the 2008 Winter intersession.

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The Pierce College women’s soccer team settled for their fifth tie on Nov. 6, a scoreless match against Glendale College at Satoris Field in Glendale. The Brahmas held an opponent scoreless for the 21st time in 22 games this season, but on offense, found it nearly impossible to penetrate the unorthodox alignment of the Glendale defense.

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