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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As a 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.

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21 For the past three days, wind-whipped flames have engulfed California, spreading from Santa Barbara to south of the boarder of Mexico. For one Orange County neighborhood, not all the fires were started by Mother Nature but instead, at the hands of an arsonist.

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Creepy, creepy, creepy….as the darkness envelopes gore enthusiasts a little early for Halloween, even though being an early-bird for trick-or-treat, the cold did deliver a bloodcurdling sensation as The Stranger (Ben Foster) said “That cold ain’t the weather.

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46 It wasn’t long ago when television comedy ruled the evening. I recall turning on my favorite sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle” 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.

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