The sterile room is quiet with blue chairs lining the walls and anxious students looking over papers. Above them, a poster hangs with the quote “You measure the size of accomplishments by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” This is the waiting room for the counseling office and where most Pierce College students begin their long journey to graduation.
Pierce butters up faculty By: Ben Rizzo Follow the pleasant aroma of freshly-popped buttery popcorn downstairs from the Pierce College Library and you will find the Faculty Staff Resource Center (FSRC). Opened in July, the center provides staff and faculty, both part-time and full-time, a place to complete classroom preparations, hang out with other faculty members or just enjoy some peace, quiet and popcorn.
Code blue emergency is the name of the Pierce College safety system that is going through an investigation to be upgraded. The blue box system is triggered by fake calls more than it is by real emergencies. If you take a walk around all 427 acres of Pierce’s campus, you will notice a pattern of 22 blue emergency boxes scattered consistently throughout the grounds.
Spectators and team members witnessed a one-sided game as Pierce College Women’s Basketball team humiliated Victor Valley College at the first game of the season with an upsetting score of 98 to 28. Brahmas started strong with a breaking stampede that shook and shattered the Rams’ defensive and offensive game plan, making Brahmas dominate the entire game from the beginning until that buzzer sound blew at the end of second-half.
Any band can have great musicians who pour their heart into the music. Any person can step on stage and play a tune. However, in order for a band to be remembered they must do one thing: Make you tap your feet. On Friday night, at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, a band did just that.
Reading (REVISED) Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Recreational Reading Habits The College Student and Recreational Reading Do College Students Read? “Catcher in the Rye,” “1984,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Great Gatsby” and “Harry Potter”- Using the wonders of Facebook, these are the top books read by local college students in the network.
Jay-Z’s latest effort, “American Gangster,” not only marks a return to greatness for the legendary emcee, it marks the return of quality hip-hop to the mainstream. According to Jay-Z, “Gangster” chronicles the rise and fall of a fictional larger-than-life crime figure loosely based on Frank Lucas, Denzel Washington’s character in the film of the same title, and on his own experiences.
426 words / 35 = 12″ Sex is an extremely relative term to college students of all ages and from all walks of life-but there’s no doubt that to some degree or another, many of them are “doing” it. Whether or not a person decides to be sexually active is based on a plethora of personal values and beliefs.
During two years of working at a mall, you meet many unique individuals. Some may weird you out, while others are inspirational. Within the confines of malls across the nation, there are groups of people who come together to work out their bodies and their minds.
Christmas spirit and brotherly love come together for the holidays in “Fred Claus”, a one hour and 56 minute film of two polar-opposite brothers who try to settle their differences and make it through the Christmas season. What is special about this film is not the subliminal Christmas message that everyone should give and love, but about the pure essence of family and why families will always stick together until the end.
