Imagine spending a couple of hours a week learning to ride a horse or a mule and getting a unit of college credit at the same time. At Pierce, it not only makes for a nice daydream but also a possibility. Among the more unusual classes offered at Pierce is Animal Science 621, a class that enables students to learn to ride horseback.
Friday at 11:30 a.m. near El Pueblo de Los Angeles on Cesar Chavez Avenue and Main Street near Union Station and ends at 1:00 p.m. at Pershing Square. There will be a concert and Event Center near the 5th Street and Hill Street intersection. The Saint Patrick’s Day festivities began early on campus with students getting in the “green mood.
With six weeks left, the end of Pierce College’s spring semester is rushing up on students, bringing the relaxation of class-free, glowing sunshine days for a week before they can continue on in their pursuit for education during the two summer sessions. As usual, summer classes will be broken up into two sessions of five weeks each.
More than 25 student poets, singers, musicians and dancers gathered in the Campus Center to show off their talents at the Open Mic event. Students were given an opportunity to sign up and take advantage of a free mic, an open stage and the attention of fellow students and performers.
The Spitzer Space Telescope was the highlight of the night for the Astronomy Society’s meeting April 13 with guest speaker Dr. Luisa Rebull speaking about Spitzer and the forming of stars and planets. The meeting featured the formation of stars, planets and Lyman Spitzer’s role in identifying the process.
There is a place on campus where old-fashioned ways and traditions are still held. Where cash has more value than the signature after a swipe. A place where purchasing pizza and soda on a daily basis won’t be attached to a high interest rate, creating creeping indebtedness.
With a deep, resounding “HOOOUAHH!” the current Brahmas kicked off Saturday’s volleyball game against alumni who played in the same gym as long as 22 years ago. Testosterone filled the air, but the mood was light, and the atmosphere, friendly. Many of the alumni wore their old team jerseys or state championship t-shirts, and high-fives reverberated through the gym after every point.
With the current $3.20-something (and rising…) price of gas, many drivers are searching for other options. When Pierce College tennis coach Rajeev Datt need to refill his fuel tank, he goes to a sushi restaurant. The engine of a car, he explained, is similar to that of a human heart.
A movie about basketball was being filmed at Pierce on Saturday. However, it was not your typical basketball flick. “The Minis” is a movie about a basketball team that lacks three things: height, confidence, and a fifth player… Which is where Dennis Rodman comes in.
The Associated Students Organization (ASO) has been especially vocal both on and off campus, in their recent campaign to reduce student debt. Among the latest demonstrations was a giant tombstone in memory of expensive textbooks that became prematurely obsolete, and a blow-up ball and chain, which represented students being “shackled by debt.
