$$No books required, professor’s lecture is more important than the book
Many students are budgeting themselves in-able to buy that over-priced book requirements teachers demand for their classes. But in Professor Craig Meyer’s class, the only things you need to bring is yourself, your mind and don’t forget your pens and papers.
$$Mothering and mathematics
Mothering and mathematics By Ben Rizzo Sheri Lehavi is happy to spend her mornings teaching math at Pierce College. It is now 6:40 a.m. Outside, the grass is soaked with a cool morning dew, as the sun yawns and stretches its arms to the sky, still groggy from yet another good night’s sleep.
$$New program helps volunteers
Like most volunteers who give a little to their community and the world, a non-profit organization is one step behind them, pushing them to make better use of their services. Newly organized Empower L.A. was present at the Day of the Child event, an event designed to give foster children a good time, in the Pierce College Shepard Stadium on Sunday and the event staff was in need of their services.
$$No Text in Class
A vexing problem associated with text messaging on cell phones during class has become a full blown crisis without a curable solution on two fronts, according to Pierce College faculty. In each semester for the past three or four years, Ken Windrum, professor in cinema, says there are about one or two students in each of his class who need constant reminders not to check for messages or type on their cell phones during movie screenings.
$$ Students Serving Suits Everyone
The option is being given at Pierce College to earn college credit while giving back to the people that surround us every day. Students at Pierce are volunteering their time to help many different people in their community. Not only do students get to help others in need and gain experience in their field work of choice, they also earn one CSU transferable unit.
$$ Lost? Try geography
History, English, mathematics, and science are all required courses to be passed in our kindergarten through 12th grades in the United States. In many other counties across the world, one other subject is also weighed as equally important, geography. Some of these countries, many Americans may not even be able to locate on a globe.
Making a clean sweep
Cleanliness seems to be a priority everywhere these days, so why has Pierce College been left in the dust? According to Plant Facilities Director Paul Nieman, 21 custodians are on campus every morning to make sure our campus and classrooms are maintained.
Looks like heartbreak for The Heartbreak Kid.
Audiences did not want to see the update of the 1970s Neil Simon comedy “The Heartbreak Kid,” although it was hilarious. Ben Stiller and the Farrelly brothers (Bobby and Peter) could not rekindle the flame in the anticipated comedy from their last smash hit “There’s Something About Mary.
Screenwriters lecture to aspiring wordsmiths
On the evening of Oct. 2, Pierce College Student Success Committee and Creative Voices presented “An Evening with Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio” on the Performing Arts Mainstage. The affair opened up with a dazzling series of clips from Elliott and Rossio’s co-written movies, such as “Shrek,” “Aladdin,” “The Mask of Zorro” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy.