Daylight-saving Time arrives earlier

Daylight-saving time will begin Sunday and end on the first Sunday in November, stretching the spring occurrence four weeks longer than usual. This marks the first time that it will begin in March rather than the traditional April. The move was prompted by Congress in order to help conserve energy costs, prevent automobile accidents at night.

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Capsule may be lost … for all time

A Vatican artist buried a time capsule at Pierce College, but forgot exactly where he put it. “If you can find it, you can dig it up,” said Jeffrey Vallance, an American artist who attended Pierce from 1974 to 1976. At that time in his life, other than burying “close to 100” time capsules (one a week in many locations), “I was immature, getting into trouble, and doing a heck of a lot of art,” he said.

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Aids week

An HIV 101 seminar will take place today in the Life Science building from 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. as part of the HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, sponsored by the Student Health Center. This is an opportunity for the uninformed to learn a very important bit of life-saving knowledge.

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Drink, eat and sing:

An afternoon entitled “Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil” describes an event filled with French culture infused with wine, hour-d’oeuvres and of course, French music. The quote, which translates to “A day without wine is like a day without sun,” was an appropriate to title for the annual wine tasting reception that featured Pierce College’s choir, the Los Angles Symphonic Winds, the premiere of two musical pieces and a selection of Californian and French wines.

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Hot food, cool music

The cafeteria may become the coolest place on campus, at least on Wednesday evenings, with “Live Wednesday” debuting tonight from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Lots of people have asked us to offer the kind of things they can find at the Freudian Sip,” said Linda Brown, cafeteria manager.

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Is counseling enough to transfer?

They say the act of transferring from community college to a four-year university has slowly become a thing of the past. They say due to a student’s lack of understanding for the IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum), money spent for unnecessary units and stacks of books is being thrown away and lost in a sea of ignorance.

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