Jerry Guon and Darrell Robb have been friends for years. They both attended Pierce College-Guon in the 1950s when it was still the Clarence W. Pierce College of Agriculture, and Robb in the 1980s, studying computer science. But that’s not where they met.
A new Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) board trustee will be appointed today to replace Michael Waxman, who resigned from office and relocated to Washington, D.C. Waxman was the former president of the LACCD board of trustees. Waxman left the board at a very critical point for the LACCD because the board will also need to choose a new chancellor when Darroch “Rocky” Young will leave his top post in August.
“We appreciate your interest in the University of California, Santa Barbara. “We have evaluated your application for admission for the fall 2007 quarter and regret that we cannot offer you admission to UC Santa Barbara at this time.” The letter was pleasant, yet patronizing; rejection usually is.
After more than a year of preparation that involved hundreds of faculty, staff and students and an intensive three-day visit by a group of colleagues, Pierce College was given a positive evaluation by a visiting accreditation team. The study was performed by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) team under the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, which visited Pierce during the week of March 19.
Books piled up in a heap around a cardboard tombstone as speakers debated the soaring prices of textbooks on campus. The Associated Students Organization’s “Textbook Funeral” on March 27 brought together faculty and administrative staff in a symbolic protest of textbook publishing companies.
While observing fellow classmates at Pierce you might see signs of a narcissistic Generation Y on the bound. The student looking intently at themselves in their car door and then through every reflection they cast on doors and windows on their way to class, the flood of MySpace and YouTube practically anywhere the Internet is accessible on campus, and the occasional student that seems to speak in class only to hear his or her own voice.
It’s clear so one can walk through it but the promised aromas of Primrose Jasmine and Lemon Scented Gum have been over shadowed by the scent of dead leaves. Now all that fills it are several types of lifeless plants and dry shrub. The Giant Sequoia is now an undersized dehydrated tree and the Birds of Paradise are singing for water.
An informal memorial for Bert Sanchez will take place Monday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Building’s Mainstage. Sanchez, who taught at Pierce College for 11 years, died Friday, March 9 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.
Last year another U.K. Hip Hop artist by the name of M.I.A. was getting all the buzz in the magazines and on stations like MTV2 because of her innovative sound that combined multiple genres. This year’s newest U.K. import that people are already and are going to be talking about is Lady Sovereign.
