Put a big smile on your face: Drop by Music Room 3400 on a Wednesday afternoon and experience a class of older adults having a blast learning the ins and outs of improvisational theatre. If you thought retirees were too old for this stuff, think again.
Been to your local coffee house lately? Some students make a living off caffeine addicts. Working for a major coffee company is interesting business, but it does have its drawbacks. The subject of our ire is also the object of our desire — customers.
Students still undecided about a career path or having difficulty choosing a major can take a seminar offered by the Pierce counseling office Nov. 16, 1-2:30 p.m. in Bungalow 398. The workshop will showcase personality and career-interest tests designed to help students make informed decisions regarding their choice of major and future careers.
The PACE program at Pierce has a new director: Art Gillis, a business instructor and former accountant and tax specialist. The Program for Accelerated College Education (PACE) offers an eight-week program geared toward working adults who want to earn an A.
Petitions to receive course credit by exam are available in the Admissions and Records office. The Fall Semester deadline to take and pass the exams is Nov. 19. Credit by exam may be attempted only once per course, and all prerequisites to the course must be met.
The Declaration of Independence is the next topic in a series of lectures by Pierce professors. The lecture will be presented by Richard Skidmore, professor of business, on Tuesday, 1-3 p.m. in the Physics-Engineering Building, Room 0914. The Tuesday lecture series, which is open to the entire campus, will continue Nov.
If term papers are a “headache,” Cliff Notes online claims to be the aspirin. College students can now find assistance for those often-troublesome literature essays they have to write for English classes. Cliffs Notes, the famous black-and-yellow-striped booklets, are now available online with summaries of 180 titles from classic English and American literature.
Whether you prefer them scrambled, poached or baked in a cake, the farm at Pierce can meet your egg needs now they have once again decided to sell ‘free range’ eggs. For the first time in nearly 15 years, the farm is selling chicken eggs for $3 per dozen or $5 for two dozen.
The weather once again provided for a fantastic ‘What the hell?’ column as a portion of campus turned into ‘Lake Pierce.’ It seems the soccer fields double as a drainage area for rainwater runoff. The ‘Pit,’ as it was named, was constructed to conform to building code drainage requirements when the adjacent parking lot was revamped.
‘Winter Wonderland’ is the theme for the Staff Appreciation Banquet Nov. 11 in the Campus Center from noon to 2 p.m. The Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society hosts the event to show appreciation to Pierce staff. The banquet features food and entertainment.
