The art department at Pierce College will be presenting its Annual Winter Arts Festival on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Art Gallery’s patio. “It’s a great opportunity to see what the ceramics classes are up to and to do gift shopping early,” said Gallery Director Mary Oliver.
College life can be a trying experience for students, both new and current. The road to receiving a higher education is paved with an entirely different series of challenges from those of high school. But who is the major contributor to the lackluster performance? Is it the institution or the student body who “makes or breaks” an academic career.
The hottest new sound uniting teens and Latinos today across the country is reggaeton. From L.A. to New York, people are singing to their favorite artists and listening to what some are calling the new music phenomenon. Originating in Panama and then moving to Puerto Rico, reggaeton is derived from Jamaican reggae.
It’s a tedious task these days to turn on the TV or rock radio and find a band that isn’t a clich√©d, fresh-out-of-high-school upstart. Lucky for rock enthusiasts everywhere, Audioslave is making their best music ever now without severing ties to their colorful pasts.
Based on Puccini’s opera “La Boheme” and Jonathan Larson’s revolutionary “rock” musical, “Rent” tells the story of a group of bohemians living in New York City’s East Village struggling to live life, pay the rent and deal with the AIDS epidemic. The story centers on Roger (Adam Pascal) and Mark (Anthony Rapp), two roommates.
Wanting to leave her small town behind, Ashley Lugo packed her belongings and took one last look at Deltona, Fla. and its 83,000 residents. Three thousand miles later, in the San Fernando Valley with 20 times more people, she fearlessly unloaded her things.
The Pierce College baseball team continued their winning streak when they defeated Bakersfield College Thursday at home 7-6 and 7-5 on March 14. At Thursday’s game, Bakersfield lead 1-0 for the first two innings until Willie Cabrera, sophomore second baseman, hit a double that brought Andrew Tapia, freshman outfielder, home for Pierce’s first run of the game at the top of the third inning.
“A Piece of My Heart,” a well-written and exquisitely performed anti-war Vietnam play, can be described in one word-intense. It is not for the faint of heart, with emotional strings attached to every descriptive word on a gray stage with few props to support the deep meaning of each line.
The Registered Veterinary Technology program at Pierce College has one new full-time employee “on staff” now, that means the staff is serving as both an instructor and a veterinarian for the farm animals. Rebecca A. Yates has begun to work as a full-time instructor and veterinarian for the RVT program at Pierce from this fall semester.
Prof. Richard J. Follett led a workshop on accreditation Nov. 18 for the Pierce College Council (PCC). The purpose of the meeting was to self-evaluate how well the Council is currently working, if the PCC can function more effectively and to prepare for accreditation self-study.
