In my one year at Pierce, I have never braved the college parking lot. I have never hunted for parking spaces, leaping upon them like a hungry lion. Never have I cursed to the high heavens as someone snags the space that I had been waiting on for 30 minutes.
It wasn’t long ago when television comedy ruled the evening. I recall turning on my favorite sitcom and laughing within minutes. Then, along came comedy’s unscripted adversary, reality television. Although a handful of legitimate and harmless comedies might still exist, the reality boom has spawned a majority of absurd, tasteless shows and outrageous behavior.
Kicking-off its first-ever meeting, the Fellowship of Social Nerds Pop-Culture Club met in Pierce College’s Business 3201 on Oct.10. The club is the creation of 18-year-old Jonathan Brown, a second-year student at Pierce. “Part of the reason I’m doing this is because it’s not really social here at Pierce, so it’s kind of a bummer,” said Brown.
Pierce College offers a way to earn college credit while helping out people in society every day. Students at Pierce are volunteering their time to help many different people in their community. Not only do students get to work with others in need and gain experience in their fieldwork of choice, they also earn one CSU transferable unit.
Many students find themselves unable to afford the overpriced books that are required for many classes. But in Professor Craig Meyer’s class, the only things you need to bring is yourself, your mind, and your pens and your paper. Why? Unlike many other teachers at Pierce College, Meyer doesn’t require a book in his classes for two reasons.
As a child in Armenia, Ramela Abbamontian wondered how her mother could design remarkable artistic decorations out of seemingly boring backyard flowers. Now working on her Ph.D in art history at UCLA, Abbamontian makes a living analyzing the myriad of artwork throughout history, helping students learn about the intricacies and impact of commonly ignored aspects of art.
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.
