Who is Robert Garber and why does he want to be the 19th president of Pierce College? The newly chosen college president, Garber, has a desire to make Pierce memorable for those who, like him, started higher education at community college–the “place where it all began.
Rock stars, movie stars, sports figures and now even politicians are joining the party by adding friends to their customized pages on Myspace.com. At least five of the official nine Democratic candidates for the presidency on 2008 have a page on the now world-famous Web site.
During the warm months of the year, a man makes bamboo flutes by the arboretum. Peter Stanford, 55, has been coming to Pierce College for 20 years, although he has never taken a class on campus. He found the place because a friend told him that the horticulture area had bamboo.
“Miss Hilton, you must be worth a trillion bucks,” The Penfifteen Club sang in a recent dedication to the heiress. But these days, Paris is looking more like a Hollywood hooker-and a cheap one at that. The iconic blonde and her plastic pals have, in recent weeks, managed to utterly dominate newsstands with their drunken antics.
I know we can all agree that there are times when all we can think about is enjoying a juicy hot dog for lunch but we can’t seem to get ourselves to any ballpark that normally sells that sort of thing. Well, let me put your worries to rest. QT’s Chicago Dogs is the place to be when your appetite is raging and you need a good fill of some all-natural American cuisine.
Want to get your taxes done? For free? Business 10, a course that teaches the fundamentals of how to prepare state and federal personal income tax returns, offers tax services at no charge on campus through the Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
The Campus Center filled to capacity with people intently listening to instructors lecture. They took their seats, asked questions and took copious notes. Some snuck in chitchat with their neighbors while the speakers looked away. So began the day for a group of more than 60 visiting counselors from local area high schools.
After having reared a sudden sequence of fledgling business ventures on campus, the Pierce College Bookstore is finally getting some peace and quiet as it recovers from an exhausting year. The last fiscal year, July 2005 to June 2006, brought with it a slew of expensive new undertakings-the Freudian Sip, CopyTech, the Equestrian Education Center and the Farm Store, to name a few.
The Job Center and the Cooperative Work Experience Education (CWEE) program have relocated to the new Village 8200 facility since the beginning of the current semester, offering one-stop assistance to members of the community who need employment placement.
Larry Humphrey, Industrial Technology (IT) Department Chairman, died Thursday evening at the Kaiser-Permanente Hospital in Woodland Hills after suffering a heart attack early Wednesday. Humphrey was an instructor at Pierce College for more than 20 years, and played a major role in securing funding for Pierce’s $2 million welding shop.
