DMV sting operation nets 16: The Department of Motor Vehicles conducted a sweep of Pierce College March 6, running a sting operation to catch drivers illegally using disabled placards for parking on campus, netting at least 16 people. According to an employee of the sheriff’s department, most of those caught were using the placards of disabled family members.
A statewide budget increase for Disabled Students Programs and Services is expected to get the program at Pierce College out of the red in the 2006 to 07 fiscal year, according to campus officials. There will be $15.4 million for a 5.18 percent cost-of-living-adjustment for specified categorical programs and $9.
Personal counseling, a program available in the campus Help Center provides short and long term counseling to students who need help dealing with personal problems that may be affecting their school work or personal lives. The service is always free and confidential.
The matches against Glendale Community College (GCC), March 2, were quite a disappointment for the Pierce College tennis team, having had lost eight matches out of nine with a combined score for the singles’ and doubles’, 8-1, GCC took home the win. The only victory came from the doubles’ play of Steven Caswell and Tim Perez from Pierce defeating Norik Otuzbiryan and Darek Mardirosian from GCC, 9-7.
Ah, beer! The warm happy feeling children get for Christmas is here for the beer lover’s holiday: Saint Patrick’s Day. Although some people save the beer indulging festivities for this one day a year, I try to get a head start and keep the ball rolling afterward.
The Pierce Auditorium filled with eager people all looking and stumbling for their correct seats. Families gathering with friends all waited to see and hear the same thing, the Kadima String Quartet and Friends. The room quieted as the lights dimmed and two violinists, one viola, and one cello player walked to the center of the stage and sat down.
It was nearly a full house, as elegant renditions of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert filled the main stage of the Pierce College Performing Arts Building on Saturday evening. The majority of the audience seemed to be senior citizens.
Helping her students understand how they belong to the immense universe is Carolyn Mallory’s goal. A professor and faculty adviser for the astronomy department, Mallory has been teaching at Pierce College for four years. She is passionate towards making her students recognize that astronomy lies within them.
Leroy Thomas III wants students to learn when they take his class, but it won’t help them toward a degree. Leroy Thomas teaches traffic school. Thomas’ class runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every other Saturday on the Pierce College campus in bungalow 391 and its 20 seats are usually all full.
Wearing bed sheets and playing an ancient Roman, standing on the podium pretending to be the Greek god Zeus are among Eugene Larson’s many techniques to help make his students understand history better. Larson, chair of history and humanities department and history professor, has spent 36 years teaching at Pierce.
