13.5″ Movie theaters and mall-wandering are being thrust aside to make way for the next hot college scene-the hookah lounge. A hookah is a water pipe device used to smoke shisha, a tobacco mixed with molasses, honey, or fruit. The tobacco is placed in “the head” on the top of the device, which is covered in foil and heated indirectly by charcoal.
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$$This Rainbow doesn’t require a pot of gold REVISED
This Rainbow doesn’t require a pot of gold By: Ben Rizzo Met with smiling eyes from Ireland to Los Angeles, rock giant Radiohead pleases the masses with their latest offering, “In Rainbows.” After a four-year slumber, the band, led by front-man Thom Yorke, made their new release available only through Internet download on Oct.
Revenge of the Social Nerds
Kicking-off its first-ever meeting, the Fellowship of Social Nerds Pop-Culture Club met in Pierce College’s Business 3201 on Oct.10. The club is the creation of 18-year-old Jonathan Brown, a second-year student at Pierce. “Part of the reason I’m doing this is because it’s not really social here at Pierce, so it’s kind of a bummer,” said Brown, “You know we just go to class and leave.
$$I’m done driving
I have never braved the Pierce College parking lot. I have never hunted for parking spaces, leaping upon them like a hungry lion. Never have I cursed to the high heavens as someone snags the space that I had been waiting on for 30 minutes. I take the bus.
Day of the Child draws smiles
Approximately 1,500 Los Angeles County foster children and their volunteer mentors attended the ninth annual Day of the Child for a day of fun on Sunday at Pierce College. Day of the Child is an event designed to bring awareness and support for the needs of children who are living in foster care, residential facilities and homeless shelters.
Students can’t find their place in the world:
English, history, mathematics and science are all required subjects of study in grades one through 12 in the United States. In many other countries, one other subject is also weighed as equally important– geography. Many Americans may be unable to locate these other countries on a globe.
Mothering and Mathematics semantics
Sheri Lehavi is happy to spend her mornings teaching math at Pierce College. It is now 6:40 a.m. The grass outside is soaked with a cool morning dew as the sun yawns and stretches its arms to the sky, still groggy from yet another good night’s sleep. Inside the Math Building, in Room 1416, Lehavi and her Elementary Algebra students are solving algebraic inequalities and graphing x and y axes.
Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some
Festival Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some Family Fun at the Harvest Festival is Far From Frightening Haunted Happenings At Pierce Fall was definitely in the air on a chilly Friday night at Pierce College, where the bright lights and banjo music coming from the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard were a sure sign that the third annual Halloween Harvest Festival had commenced.
Haunting Happenings & Mystifying Mazes
Fall was definitely in the air on a chilly Friday night at Pierce College, where the bright lights and banjo music coming from the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard were a sure sign that the third annual Halloween Harvest Festival had commenced.
$$Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some
Festival Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some Family Fun at the Harvest Festival is Far From Frightening Haunted Happenings At Pierce For good, clean, family-oriented fun, or for a festive trip to the dark side this Halloween season,” the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College is the place to be.