With such horrible conditions in the women’s restrooms including up to one inch of water on floors at times, no toilet paper in the stalls and scratched-up mirrors, the question is, “Who is responsible?” Careless female students, custodians neglecting their duties, or the lack of funds enabling campus maintenance? Health concerns arise and just to see the football field in better condition than one of the most likely visited places during school hours is appalling to everyone who notices.

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The title of a feature article in this month’s SOARING magazine, “The Outlandish 1,,” seems more than fitting for its author, former Pierce College student George Constantin. While a student at Pierce in 1988, Constantin “buzzed” the campus in a single-engine private plane.

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The Botanical Garden on campus is hard to miss. Occupying a two-acre site, its many features include a marsh pond complete with water lilies, a large collection of cacti, succulents and different kinds of wildlife, juxtaposed against modern classrooms in the same way the farm is to the urban sprawl of the San Fernando Valley .

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The campus will have some new neighbors on the west edge of the farm a year from now and they will be moving into a 264-unit apartment complex with a seven-tier parking structure. Bella Vista III continues and completes the ambitious complex that began with the first stage, Bella Vista I, the Oxnard Street properties, connects with the next set of apartments, Bella Vista II, just south of Erwin Street and interlocks at the Erwin Street main entrance with the southern boundary of Bella Vista III.

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LOCAL HIV Testing: Free, anonymous appointments call 818 710-4270 HIV Awareness Forum: Dr. Michael Gottlieb will speak in Computer Science room 1502 Oct. 26 at 12:35 p.m. on HIV prevention. “How to cure violence in America” Essay Contest: $100 prize, for first place 500-to-750 word essay.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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