Los Angeles Pierce Symphonic Winds (LAWinds) presents its fall concert Oct. 9 at 2:30 p.m. in the Pierce Performing Art Building (PAB). LAWinds performs seasonally in addition to the annual High School Band Festival. Community members and students who are amateur, semi-professional and professional musicians perform in this 85-member ensemble.
Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Jane Seymour, star of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” live music performances, free food and a chance to share some time with up to 2,000 excited foster children is the agenda for the upcoming Day of the Child event. Pierce College will host its third annual Day of the Child at Shepard Stadium on Sunday.
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone,” said Hendrik Ibsen, known as the “father of modern drama,” and author of the play, An Enemy of the People, that will open under the direction of Valorie Grear, on the main stage of the Performing Arts Building on Oct.
Students may not fail the entire class if caught plagiarizing on a particular paper or cheating on one single exam, according to Betty Odello, chair of Professional Ethics Committee of Pierce College. Referring to the view of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office that an instructor cannot automatically give a student an “F” for the entire course where the student is only known to have cheated or plagiarized with respect to one of several assignments that count toward the final grade, according to a 1995 letter from an attorney within the office.
Identity and password theft are on the rise and rampant worldwide. The barrage of media output is largely responsible for the public becoming aware of the alarming number of incidents that go on right under our noses, and we have become somewhat paranoid in our efforts to protect our privacy.
The historical path commenced by Clarence W. Pierce begins with some Quonset huts set upon a relatively empty plot of ground. It develops into a small agricultural farm school and culminates in a full-fledged academic college complete with farms, ranches and a rodeo stadium.
Tension heightened in the third match of the Women’s Volleyball game against Moorpark College right before the Brahmas won the game 3-0 last Tuesday. The energy exhaled from the Brahmas was excitement as fans rushed off the bleachers to pat Head Coach Nabil Mardini on the back and shake his hand.
The Roundup’s recent article, entitled “Food services: not fit,” makes evident a dichotomy on this campus between those who like the new Freudian Sip’s coffee and packaged take-along bites and those who prefer the cafeteria’s freshly served stay-awhile delights.
“Just like Heaven” is a true-to-form “chick flick” starring Mark Ruffalo and Reese Witherspoon. The story takes place in San Francisco and as predictable as it sounds, a young depressed landscaping architect named David (Ruffalo) moves into a “diamond in the ruff” apartment with one catch; the previous tenant Elizabeth (Witherspoon) refuses to move on.
In the beginning of time, the sky goddess Nut gave birth to life. She stretched herself over the sun, moon, stars and people of the Pharoah. Infamous for their wisdom of geometry, mathematics and astronomy-all being a basis for the 5,000-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza-one of ancient Egypt’s greatest feats was a lunar-based calendrical system.
