March 2, 2007 Roundup While I am a champion of Freedom of the Press, I was greatly distressed at the tone of your editorial under Viewpoints, on the current state of the campus, in the Feb. 28 issue of The Roundup. We are all aware of the many problems and difficulties that exist right now, but I feel the general tone was overly negative and mean-spirited.
The Pierce College men’s volleyball team is at a current 3-2 standing with a goal to win the state championship. First year head coach Eddie Stanislawski hopes to lead them there. Since Long Beach City College went undefeated and took the state championship last season, they are still the ones to beat.
My head hung low beneath the bill of my baseball cap as I tried to disguise my hangover from the night before. Slumped deep into the concave-shaped chair intricately placed in the back of my 11 a.m. journalism class, I started to feel the consequences of my actions in my stomach.
The first of March was a breezy, gray day in the San Fernando Valley, one of those days that force Angelenos to wear the winter outfits we keep in our closets to use for only two months out of a year. Maybe the increasingly angry El Niño phenomenon will change that.
Swirling smoke saturates the air near the student store, the most popular smoking section at school. I make my way to the small square marked out on the ground- a holding pen for future cancer patients. School regulations say that you must be 20 feet away from any building to be able to smoke, but I have a gut feeling that inch-by-inch our rights are being tarnished like the enamel of our teeth.
I was a regular 19-year-old student at Pierce College with goals, dreams and desires like any other man my age, until suddenly my life took an unexpected turn. About a year ago, ESPN Deportes, which is a subsidiary channel for the worldwide-known sports channel ESPN, announced that auditions for the reality show “Dream Job: El Reportero” (The Reporter) would take place in six different cities across America.
Since its first opening in January 1964, the Whisky A Go-Go has undergone many changes, but still remains a crowd hot spot on the Sunset Strip. For a time, the Whisky only played recordings with no live band, but this changed as live bands became the main music played throughout the night.
Jamba Juice or Starbucks? Carl’s Jr. or Panda Express? Why not all of them? The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) has recently put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for anyone interested in embarking on a new construction project that will feature a food court as well as a commissary for one of its bigger campuses-Pierce College.
Despite a very tight schedule of only three weeks and various behind the scenes administrative issues, during the winter intercession, 30 classrooms around the Pierce College botanical garden received a face-lift. These classrooms are located in the Math, English, Social Science and Behavioral Science buildings.
With four of seven seats on the L.A. Community College District (LACCD) board of trustees on the ballot this Tuesday, the battle for control in the country’s largest community college district is heating up. The Alliance for Education, a reform group headed by former trustee Pat Owens, is running a slate of four candidates against the four incumbents, and two independent candidates have joined the race for seat five on the board.
