Passenger for life

In the fast-paced world of the San Fernando Valley, it’s hard to picture a Pierce College student sans a car. Driving to school, work, social activities or the occasional shopping spree, a car is as much a necessity as a cell phone. Well, I’ve got a shocking confession to make: I don’t have a car.

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The best of deceiving:

Hitting Pierce College theaters next week is the first-ever film festival, “Celebrating Diversity.” Headed by Sylvia Silva, compliance officer and chairwoman of the Diversity Committee, the film festival will take place from April 23 to 27 in various places on campus.

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Winds leave campus in the dark

Due to 65 mph winds in the San Fernando Valley, a power outage affected most of the Pierce College campus along with parts of the Valley and Los Angeles Thursday at approximately 12:45 p.m. According to Dubinsky, manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who did not give a first name, strong winds caused power lines to collapse as well as trees to topple over, knocking down power lines.

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Library databases world at fingertips

Each year, $30,000 is spent on 29 databases available to students for free in the library and in their homes. Subscriptions for search databases allow students to view journals and full text articles from databases such as InfoTrac, LexisNexis academic, Newsbank and Business Source Premier, the world’s largest full text business database.

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“F” for e-mail failure

The beginning of the semester is a critical time for students to enroll in classes and get off to a good start for the rest of the year. In this day and age, technology has taken over and the “best” way to reach anyone is through e-mail. During the end of first week and beginning of the second week on the Pierce campus, it was not.

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Orange Line on fast-track to serve Valley

The Metro Orange Line will usher San Fernando Valley residents for free on its official grand opening weekend, Oct. 29 and 30. In addition to free rides for two days, on Oct. 29 there will be community festivities from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., including information tables, vendor booths, community organizations and many more activities at these participating stations: Pierce College, North Hollywood, Los Angeles Valley College, Balboa and Warner Center.

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Teachers OK new pay $cale

Los Angeles Community College’s faculty overwhelmingly approved a new contract, including a 5.23 percent pay raise for 2005. The new contract was drawn up after nearly a year’s negotiations. An estimated 173 full-time teachers and 500 part-time teachers at Pierce will be impacted by the projected pay raise.

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High Holy Days

Jewish people from around the world will celebrate the High Holy Days, which according to Rabbi Yakov Vann of the Calabasas Shul, is a time of reflection in all of our relationships from the evening of Oct. 3 to sundown Oct. 13. The two holidays the High Holy Days are centered around are Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year) and Yom Kippur (the day of atonement).

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