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.
Flu vaccines pierce the college By: Ben Rizzo 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.
Pierce College in collaboration with the American Red Cross will be hosting a series of blood drives on campus throughout the year. Both establishments are determined to get the word out to students. Many people do not take the time to donate blood for several motives.
A slice of pizza or a free T-shirt is oftentimes 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 marketing on California campuses.
Science will have a new home in The Center for the Sciences, a new building project currently being developed near the Mason Street entrance to Pierce College. The idea for the Center for the Sciences first came about in 2000 when Pierce College went through a master planning process, which included creating a central building for the science-related departments.
Blushing when a fan asks him to sign her pants instead of the handout photo, Colton “Lil’ C” Burton, a member of the boy band The Power of 3, smiles and obliges, then moves on to the next autograph. The 12-year-old smiles and shakes hands, distributes hugs and takes direction from his mother, hovering protectively behind him.
This Rainbow doesn’t require a pot of gold By: Ben Rizzo Met with smiling eyes from Ireland to Los Angeles, rock giants Radiohead pleased 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 October 10.
