N_AT_dvawareness Adam Taylor 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.
Education meets politics as the Associated Student Organization travels to Sacramento and Washington D.C. to better themselves in leadership and lobbying skills. The trip to Washington D.C., hosted by the American Student Association of Community Colleges, will focus on the teachings of lobbying to community college students and the discussions of certain issues to various senators.
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.
Manuel Veloria Adam Taylor “That cold ain’t the weather. That’s death approaching,” muttered the Stranger, piercing the eerie, blood-curdling silence. “30 Days of Night,” which was released nationwide Friday, delivers not only great lines, but also nonstop gore and spattering blood.
The Pierce College Brahmas cooked the Bakersfield College Renegades 3 games to 0 in their third Western State Conference Southern Division game last Friday. Like tigers in a coliseum, Pierce and Bakersfield were at each other’s necks in the first game. In the beginning half, both teams played a game of tag with the scoreboard as one point after another was gained from both sides.
I have never braved the Pierce 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. I take the bus.
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, “You know we just go to class and leave.
This Rainbow doesn’t require a pot of gold By: Ben Rizzo Met with smiling eyes from Ireland to Los Angeles, rock giant Radiohead pleases the masses with their latest offering, “In Rainbows.” After a four-year slumber, the band, led by front-man Thom Yorke, made their new release available only through Internet download on Oct.
13.5″ Movie theaters and mall-wandering are being thrust aside to make way for the next hot college scene-the hookah lounge. A hookah is a water pipe device used to smoke shisha, a tobacco mixed with molasses, honey, or fruit. The tobacco is placed in “the head” on the top of the device, which is covered in foil and heated indirectly by charcoal.
Proposition 92, also known as the Community College Initiative, aims to reduce student fees by $5 per unit and make several other changes that will affect more than 2.5 million students at California’s 109 community colleges. “The most direct impact on students is that the initiative will lower student fees, currently at $20 per unit, to $15 per unit,” said Pierce College President Robert Garber.
