The softball team may not have done as well as they did in the two seasons preceding them with only five wins and 35 losses this season. “Our strength was the team knew that we didn’t have a strong pitcher,” said Head Coach Pat Grennan. Freshman pitcher Amanda Mayora joined the team late in the season and then had to leave due to injuries.
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uWink offers techno spin on dining in the iPod age
Technology has finally brought the restaurant eater into the kitchen. The invention of the stove is old news like ancient artifacts and the waitress is slowly being phased out like the Mayans. In the wake of Apple’s iPod revolutionizing our take on music, uWink is revolutionizing the dinner rush.
‘Georgia Rule’ just doesn’t
Two words can describe “Georgia Rule”: continuous confusion. The Boston Globe has called it “a bad idea dreadfully executed.” The Chicago Tribune says of the movie, “Maybe ‘Georgia Rule’ should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer.
Baseball: League champs, departing coach
The baseball team ended their season after losing a decisive third game of a three game series to Riverside Community College in the first round of the Western State Conference playoffs hosted by Pierce College Saturday. The end of the season comes in bittersweet fashion as Bob Lofrano, in his final season as head coach, received the Coach of the Year Award for the WSC South Division, leading the Brahmas to a regular season division championship with a record of (29-17).
Volleyball: Coach of the year, semi-finals
Despite losing 2-3 to Irvine Valley in the semifinals of the State Championship April 27, the men’s volleyball team ended the season with a 14-5 record. Head Coach Eddie Stanislawski was selected as the Western State Conference Coach of the Year and Joe Padapolous was named to the All State Tournament team, both for their impressive performances.
News Briefs
NB/Deadline to Drop 9 lines/ 2 inches 120 words Deborah Jackson Suggested headline: Deadline to drop or add: Nov. 19 The deadline to drop a class for Fall Semester 2004 and still receive a grade of W is Friday. Students are responsible to complete a drop card, which can be obtained in the Admissions and Records Office.
Entering the ‘Tech Age’
Pierce is now officially high-tech. A few weeks ago, there was a cart outside of the Learning Center full of boxes. All of the boxes had “Neovo” on the side. Come to find out, each one of those boxes contained a 15-inch AG Neovo monitor. For those of you who aren’t computer savvy, Neovo is a company that distributes top-of-the-line monitors.
Student voice
Q: The farm at Pierce may host a petting zoo to raise funds for the agriculture department. How do you feel about that, and have you ever visited the farm? I’ve never been out there. I think that it would work, and I would probably bring my little sister.
the more the merrier
On the Pierce farm, it’s not so much “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” as it is “The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.” But this time it√≠s the student workers in the goat pens who have so many kids they don√≠t know what to do. Thirty-one goat babies, or “kids,” were born on the farm within the last three weeks.
Agents of Justice
Have you ever had a dispute with a teacher over a grade? Have you ever needed an advocate to help you resolve an issue with an instructor? What you may not know is that there are people on campus whose job it is to help you in such situations. They are called ombudspersons.