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The Pierce College welding team won six gold medals at the regional competition in February.
Their achievements garnered them the chance to compete at the Welding State Championship com-petition in San Diego, California in April.
“Our competitions are very chal-lenging,” welding instructor Gary Wheeler said. “We prepare well, we come in on our off days, and Sat-urdays.”
The atmosphere in the welding department is clean, and full of hard working students preparing for their next competition.
The names of the winners are displayed on brass plates hanging on the wall.
“Every student has their own style, mine works for me but not for everybody, said Wheeler. “I push the buttons and they do the work, it shows in the medals they have won.”
Students praised their instructor and the freedom they have in the applications of his teachings.
“We’re given the basics, then we develop our own style,” said weld-ing student Jason Cozza.
In this year’s state competition, Pierce will have a fabricating team
known as the Fab Three.“I’m proud of the guys, they did
it themselves, its good for my ego and it is good for theirs,” Wheeler said.
The Fab Three are given a theme, a certain amount of metal, and are then required to make a blueprint developed using a Computer-aided design (CAD) program.
“I learned about this program last year, this is our second year in this competition,” said Wheeler. “If we win the State, we will go to the Nationals in June.”
The Fab three team includes three welders: Jason Cozza, Gregg Lindlahr, and Brian Burke.
Cozza is in his sixth semester and won Gold in the medal inert gas (MIG) category.
”I love the atmosphere and the people in this great all-around pro-gram. That’s why I keep coming back to compete,” said Cozza.
The class meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 5:45 p.m. in room 3805.
“The night classes work if you have a full time job,” Cozza said.
Gregg Lindlahr, one of the Fab Three, has been attending Pierce for three semesters.
“I like making things on my own, working with a team, and utilizing different skill sets,” said
Lindlahr. Burke works with his dad as a
tape welder and has been at Pierce for four years.
“It is an honor to represent the school,” said Burke. “Last years combo-welding team took first [gold] in the regional’s.”
Wheeler talked about the value of the trades, specifically welding.
“They think these buildings are built magically, they don’t realize people from these classes do that stuff,” said Wheeler. “Machine shops, auto shops, CAD draw-ings… they don’t realize this is how our inner city is built.”
Welding classes aren’t taught enough in high school or junior high school according to Wheeler.
“It’s not for everyone, it’s for people that like to work with their hands and get dirty and burnt,” said Wheeler.
The Pierce College Welding team is prepared and eager to put their trading and hard work to the test.
The competition will be held at the Local Iron Workers of San Di-ego.
“They have all the skills they need. They just have to be able to work under pressure,” said Wheel-er.
Moved to run towards hope
Welding a way to winJoe Kukuczka / Roundup
ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Jason Cozza, one of the Fab Three works away, welding to prepare for the state competition in San Diego.
Relay for Life has home base on campus
Call it scary, a dead end, or pure panic. Call it death. It is cancer and there is no cure.
With 9 days left until the second annual Relay for Life of Woodland Hills kicks off, students, faculty and community members raise aware-ness and funds to fight for a cure.
The relay will be taking place on Pierce College’s soccer fields start-ing April 9. With 25 teams regis-tered and 156 participants, Relay for Life has raised more than $16,000.
Currently, two members from Y’s Relay Rockstars have already raised more than $2,000 each and the team has collectively raised more than $8,000.
“Fundraising online is so easy to use and donations are easier to process,” said April Vilgera, online chair for the relay.
After last year’s event, more than $80,000 was raised, according to co-chair Elaine Pachecco, who hopes to see more than $80,000 do-nated this year.
“We do have money raised, but we see a majority of what is raised come in on the day of the event,” Pachecco said.
Although open to anyone, there are currently seven teams that have been created with Pierce students, clubs and sports teams. Some in-clude the French Club, American Sign Language Club and Team Brahma.
There is a one-time fee of $10 for registration and each member is asked to commit to raising a mini-mum of $100 each.
Other relay teams include Relay Runts, the children whose parents are survivors, and Y’s Relay Rock-stars, a top-fundraising team who has a 24-hour walking member.
Bryce Peterson, four-year-old son of Y’s Relay Rockstars’ captain said, “no matter how tired we are, people still need us to help them, so we need to be there for them.”
Breast cancer has touched the lives of more than 3.5 million peo-ple in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. The relay has been an ongoing an-nual event for 26 years and takes place in 19 countries around the world.
“Everyone is there because they have [in] some way been affected by cancer,” said Pachecco. “It’s a positive way to do something about cancer. People come and it’s amaz-ing. I love the support. ”
Relay for Life not only raises money and awareness for those af-fected, but also offers nearly a doz-en events all day and night.
SEE RELAY ON PAGE 4
Victor Stephen Kamont / Roundup
Cuts made, fees raised
California’s financial woes have cut back classes offered dramati-cally for the last few semesters. Summer school is not exempt from these changes.
As of now, one session of lim-ited classes has been scheduled for summer 2011, but classes are still susceptible to revisal depending on near future decisions.
According to Barbara Ander-son, dean of academic affairs, the
already reduced class options for students may be erased all to-gether since it is in the hands of the public.
“If the voters vote in support of extending the taxes that were in place, then we’re planning on going forth with offering limited summer school,” Anderson said.
Some of the classes currently planned include English, math and speech.
The PACE program will offer a summer quarter with some of-
ferings before the PACE program shortens its semester long quarter, according to Donna- Mae Villan-ueva, dean of academic affairs.
“The PACE schedule is being reduced from the usual eight weeks to seven weeks in length,” said Villanueva.
The BRIDGE program will of-fer classes in English, math, speech and personal development classes for student success, according to Anderson.
Elizabeth Clemmons, 20, is a
pre-veterinary major. She doesn’t like the minimal options of classes available.
“It’s frustrating. The [pre-veter-inary] program takes long enough to get into,” Clemmons said.
Clemmons also suggested that with the course offerings being cut, the longer it will take to complete her time in school.
“It’s going to take even longer for people to get out of Pierce,” Clemmons said.
Melody Soto/ Roundup
Sydney Grossman/ Roundup
Summer school ambiguous at best
No stranger to victory, students are headed to take state
Joe Kukuczka / RoundupSPARKS FLY: Protected by gloves and goggles, heat from Wheeler’s student welders cause sparks to fl y in every direction.
Opinionpage 2
Time to study, not play.
Photo Essaypage 6
Pierce’s beauty exposed.
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Election time is here for the ASO.
California Community College students registering for fall semes-ter will see a significant change in their tuition as a result of a $10 per unit fee increase.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed bills Thursday, March 24 that cut bil-lions in California’s budget directly effecting the California Commu-nity College District; raising fees from $26 a unit to $36.
Not all students on campus were aware of the change in fees that will be affecting them directly.
“It’s crazy, I had to quit my job because it didn’t pay enough for my education,” said Noe Gomez Jr., 19, art major.
Gomez receives no financial aid and is still currently unemployed.
“There’s so many other ways to tax people, why choose education,” said Gomez.
Brown and state legislators cut $400 million from the community college system overall.
These cuts have forced students on campus to explore other options in order to fund their education.
Brittney Pasion-Perez, 22, child development major received a fee waiver from the Board of Gover-nors for spring semester.
“I’m transferring next se-mester,” said Pasion-Perez after learning of the fee increase. “A couple years ago I would have been outraged.”
Pasion-Perez plans to transfer to CSU Los Angeles.
“With the prices of education I’m facing, I’m going to pay $5,000 for 12 units. I wish I was paying $36,” said Pasion-Perez.
The last time community col-lege students saw a fee increase was in 2009, when Gov. Schwar-zenegger signed bills raising the per-unit fee from $20 to $26.
In the past, students attending California Community Colleges did experience a time when post-secondary education was acces-sible, meaning free, to everyone.
In 1960, California Gov. Ed-mund G. Brown signed a ‘Master Plan for Higher Education.’ The bill committed to ensuring higher education as a major state priority and granted “tuition-free” educa-tion, according to the University of California’s office of the president.
The first bill seen that did not contain a tuition-free clause came in Sept. 1983, according to ar-chives of the Los Angeles Times.
A random poll was conducted among students around campus and the results were as follows:
83% Aware of Budget Cuts
61% Registered to Vote
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A page one story on the chair of the adriculture and natural resources had his name two different ways. His name is Leland Shapiro, Ph.D., not Sahpiro.Another page one story referenced Kathleen Burke-Kelly. The second mention of her name was misspelled.Her name is spelled Burke-Kelly, not Buke-Kelley.Valorie Grear, professor of theatre arts had her name misspelled on second reference in an article on ‘Born Yesterday’ in the Arts & Entertainment section of the paper.Nam Tran, Four Corners Co-op co-founder had his name misspelled on the second reference in the article, ‘Not guilty after 17 years.’ His last name is Tran, not Tram.
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A Roundup photographer, Jose Romero had his name misspelled in a credit to his front page photo. His last name is spelled Romero, not Ramero.The same mistake was made with Cesar Monge’s name which was misspelled in a credit to his photo titled ‘Casting call.’ His last name is Monge not Mongew. Credit was given to the wrong photographer on the Features page, for the 4-Corners Club in the Clubs 411 section. Devon Trammell was not the photographer, Jose Romero was.
Far from perfect
Maria Salvador / Roundup
The Pierce College Library has a total of 55 computers available for students. The first 10 have a 30 minute time limit, the other 45 are located in the library lab and are available on a “first come, first served” basis.
It’s very convenient for students who do not have computers or printers at home.
However, it can be equally inconvenient when other students who are not working on academic assignments use the computers for social networking sites and watching movies; in spite of a sign posted indicating that the computers are for academic use only.
Some students lack the common courtesy and blatantly ignore the fact that they are using computers in an academic setting, they should make them available for other students with genuine academic needs.
Simply putting on headphones does not justify watching SpongeBob Squarepants greatest episodes, while tweeting and updating ones Facebook status, on a library computer.
At CSUN’s Oviatt Library there are more than 200 computers available for student use.Due to the large number of computers in Oviatt Library, in addition to the plethora of other
computer labs available on campus, CSUN can afford to allow their students to work on the computers without any time restriction, as opposed to Pierce.
We cannot afford such a luxury.Although both the Pierce College Library and the Oviatt Library are both located on college
campuses, they are both facilities that are open to the public.CSUN library computers designated for public use on the first floor do not require a
username and password for log in. However, the third floor lab requires users to log in and verify that the user is a student of the university.
The Pierce College Library should implement a reasonable time limit on all computers in the lab area.
A system should also be implemented where students are required to log in with their student I.D. number, this will prevent random library patrons from holding up the computers, such as the alleged Dr. Drew Pinsky stalker.
Charles Pearson, the alleged Dr. Drew stalker, was arrested on March 3 2010 at the Pierce College Library, after posting a status update on Facebook that revealed his location.
These systems should be active until there are more computers available for students.We understand the library staff does not have the resources available to make these changes
now But this is something to keep in mind when the new library is built.Most Pierce students are adults, or close to the age where they are legally identified as an
adult, so the library staff should not have to look over students’ shoulders to monitor if they are using the computer for legitimate purposes.
Or maybe they do.
—EDITORIAL—
Libraries are for studying, not lollygaggingWith limited computers available, priority should go to students with legitimate needs
Corrections fr om last week’s issue, names misspelled
Dear Shepard Fairey,Do you remember when street art used to be taboo?
When graffiti artists didn’t have a crew of people working for them? When they used to put their necks on the line to put their own work up on the streets? How about when art galleries were created by yuppies for yuppies, and graffiti artists wouldn’t be caught dead in a gallery?
Well, Shepard, I hope you don’t mind if I call you Shepard. I mean, after all, I do feel like I’ve seen you grow as an entrepreneur.
Anyway, Shepard, any local Angeleno can tell you that street art isn’t what it used to be. What once used to make the general public cringe and was only associated with a “gang” lifestyle is now making people stop in their tracks to see the “urban” art produced by our very own locals.
Not only is there acceptance by the general public, gallery owners are catching on to this trend. The more “risky” owners are trading in their photographs of pieces of naked bodies for spray paint cans, political cartoons and hard-to-read lettering.
If you check the L.A. Times or Brand X postings for art gallery openings, it seems as though more than half of them are some sort of “street art” inspired gallery.
Read the rest of this column on www.therounduponline.net.
The sheep need a ShepardStreet art has shift ed fr om taboo to trendy
Rosie Fatemi / Special to the Roundup
—COLUMN—
Former Pierce College students Tommy Jaxson and Randy Kerdoon both commercial radio broadcasters spoke to students in the Great Hall, on Tuesday March 22.
As part of the Media Arts: Speak-er series, Kerdoon and Jaxson spoke to students. Both of them got their start in radio on the original broad-cast station here at Pierce.
“It’s nice to see in 35-years the parking situation hasn’t changed,” said Kerdoon after himself and Jax-son arrived late to the Great Hall on Tuesday afternoon.
Jaxson and Kerdoon, who both at one time worked here on campus, are now working together on KNX 1070 on a morning show.
“Pierce College Radio means so much to me,” said Jaxson. “It was a tremendous learning experience for me.”
The old broadcast radio station was run much like KLOS 95.5 at the time according to Jaxson.
“We were trying to emulate the top 40 radio stations,” said Jaxson.
Kerdoon grew up wanting to be a sports commentator also attributes his success in the field to the Pierce radio.
“I wanted to do commentary on the school games so I took an old reel to reel deck to a game at El Camino College,” said Kerdoon. “Eventually I was traveling with the team to ev-ery game.”
Jaxson and Kerdoon careers in commercial broadcasting inform students of the difficulties of making it in the industry.
“The vehicle was here for us to do what we wanted to do,” said Jaxson. “But if you want to make it in this industry you have to have a lot of passion to do this job.”
They warned students of the trials of trying to make it in the industry. Both offering stories of all the years they bounced around the country from station to station before getting their big breaks.
“We love this gig,” said Kerdoon.
“If you want to do something know that, if you want to learn you have to do it.”
Jaxson and Kerdoon spent time answering questions on interview-ing techniques for students and of-fering advice for those interested in the business.
“It was pretty insightful,” said Maksud Yusabov a 20-year-old jour-nalism major. “When I came I didn’t think it would have this much rela-tion to journalism.
The Media Arts: Speaker Series will be hosting its next event on May 18th at 3 p.m. in The Great Hall. The event will feature documentary filmmaker Scott Anger.
The events are open to all stu-dents and faculty and refreshments are available.
“You have to want it,” said Ker-doon about the broadcasting indus-try. “If you want it bad enough you’ll find a way to get there.”
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Chancellor Daniel LaVista rec-ommended, during the “Report From the Chancellor,” that the board make use of electronic devic-es to cut costs to the budget.
“It’s a way to save money by sav-ing paper,” said LaVista.
The district will save $17,000 yearly by not printing out agendas
for both the public and the board members.
Chancellor LaVista also an-nounced his plans to create an in-dependent citizen panel to oversee and be responsible for construction oversight throughout the district.
Plans for the panel are still in the initial stages.
An announcement is planned for April 27.
District going paper less
The board voted unanimously to rename Swisher Park, located east of the Center for the Sciences on the Pierce College campus, Rocky Young Park after former Pierce College President Darroch “Rocky” Young.
“In honor of Rocky Young’s
extraordinary dedication to Pierce College and his tireless leadership in revitalizing the educational op-portunities geared to future gen-erations of student,” said Joy Mc-Caslin, president of Pierce College.
The date and time for the dedica-tion ceremony was not announced.
Renaming Swisher Park
The Pierce College Council voted collectively during yester-day’s meeting in the College Ser-vices Building Conference Room to name the volleyball court after
Ken Stanley, a retired Pierce Col-lege coach.
Ken Stanley started the Pierce College men’s volleyball team in 1976, and eventually led them to three state championships prior to his retirement in 1997.
Volleyball coach honored
The company that is leasing the trailers situated in the Village, some of which have served as classrooms and offices for four years, will be removed in August and replaced by another company’s trailers.
The selection of the lease oc-curred in a public contract process bid. The new company will cost al-most half of the amount of the cur-rent trailers.
“Classrooms that were scheduled to start in September in the Village
will probably have to be relocated,” said David Tsao, Swinerton manag-ment team project director.
Barbara Anderson, dean of aca-demic affairs, expressed that there was a plan to vacate the Village as soon as possible and that Pierce College was working with Swiner-ton to minimize the impact on stu-dents as much as possible.
“We haven’t planned any sum-mer school classes in the area. The Outreach Program will move tem-porarily to what was formally the nurses area,” Anderson said.
Goodbye, village trailers
Campus news
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Radio guys: from KPCR to KNX
Jose Romero/ RoundupRadio: Randy Kerdoon shows a photo of himself as a College student during the 70’s.
Kevin Reynolds/ Roundup
Briefi ngs and updates on campus happenings
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April 7Candidate fo-
rum
(Noon to 2 p.m.
in the Great
Hall)
April 11, 12ASO and
Student Trustee
Elections
(9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and
4 to 7 p.m.)
April 13
Ballots
counted and
results
announced
(10 a.m. in
ASO
Conference
Room)
June 1New Student
Trustee begins
term of office.
July 1New ASO officers
begin term
of office.
TBDBallots counted by
the district election
committee.
ASO Election Timeline
After orchestrating the ‘March in March’ rally and with the pres-sure of the state’s budget crisis, the Associated Students Organization (ASO) turns its focus towards the ‘Hands Across California’ fund-raiser.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges is expect-ing to bring one million people including students, celebrities, and selected officials together on April 17.
All participants will join hands
in a line up and down California to help raise money that will directly benefit the California Community Colleges Scholarship Endowment (CCCSE), a permanent fund that provides annual scholarships to thousands of students every year.
“We can help so many students by participating in this,” said ASO Sen. Jonathan Fackler, Scholar-ship Committee chair. “If we raise enough money, we could potential-ly see 50 new scholarships avail-able exclusively for Pierce College for years to come.”
The Bernard Osher Founda-
tion will match every dollar that is raised from now through June 2011.
ASO will be hosting the Schol-arship Benefit Night in connection with ‘Hands Across California’ at the T.G.I. Fridays in Woodland Hills.
In order to participate in the Scholarship Benefit Night, students would have to eat at the restaurant and present the event flyer so that 20 percent of their profit will go to the Pierce College Scholarship fundraising cause.
President:
Regemralph Corpuz
Gabriel Mellibosky
Kevin Sparks
Ashley Wert
Vice
President:
Febe Ruiz
Treasurer:
Alexander Alvara
Fernando Aquino
Ronal Quintero
ASO Candidates
Club Council
President:
EJ Tormes
The race is on again for the ASO
Holding hands to make a bold statement
Four guest speakers from UC Berkley and one from UCLA were in the Great Hall Wednesday speak-ing about transferring to a four year
university during a meeting held by the Filipino Club.
The speakers are from PASS (Pilipino Academic Student Servic-es) and students at UC Berkley.
They touched on a variety of top-
ics from financial aid to life on the UC Berkley campus.
“A lot of this info students don’t know,” said Camile Conanan, 20-year-old sociology major, a guest speaker from UC Berkley.
During the Pierce College Coun-cil meeting Ken Takeda, vice presi-dent of Administrative Services, dropped the bomb to the members that Pierce was going to cut the en-rollment.
This also means that there will be cuts to part-time faculty.
Takeda doesn’t know exactly how many classes or faculty mem-bers will be cut next year, but he knows it will be more than enough.
“Cuts can be fairly steep,” said Takeda. “We won’t know how many classes we will have until the state budget.”
After informing the council of the news, the council then ques-
tioned if Pierce was going to re-place the recently retired teachers.
His response was that they were taking it into consideration.
Throughout the rest of Takeda’s report he touched on the school’s budget and stated that the state bud-geted about $1.4 million to Pierce which he hopes to receive soon.
Ken Takeda, vice president of administrative services, presented the preliminary budget for the year.
The projected ending balance is $8.4 million. Takeda noted a signif-icant growth, due to an additional $1.4 million that was awarded to community colleges by the state and that would be distributed to Pierce College next month.
For Takeda, the projected bal-ance is, “a relatively good result for a bad year.”
It was proposed that $2 million out of the ending balance for 2011 and an additional $450,000 from a separate account would be set aside for use in 2012.
Takeda said that the decision on how many full time faculty posi-tions will be filled would be decid-ed March 2012 during the District
Budget Committee meeting.President Joy McCaslin said that
in the next council meeting, mem-bers were going to “at least try to do some replacements,” for the in-structors who has retired last year.
One of the last topics mentioned was student enrollment.
“If the tax measures for next year don’t pass, we’re going to have to cut our enrollment far beyond this,” Takeda said.
The film festival organized by the Diversity Committee for Spring 2011 will have a student empower-ment theme.
The festival is scheduled for the first week of May.
Film screenings will take place
in the Great Hall throughout the morning, evening and afternoon.
Anthropology professor Diane Levine said the May 2 through May 5 dates set for the festival were still “tentative.”
In addition to the film screen-ings, student contests in photog-raphy, art and short film will take
place. Prizes in the form of gift cards
for the Freudian Sip or campus bookstore will be awarded for each category.
First place winners will receive a $200 gift card, second place a $150 gift card and third place a $75 gift card.
Great Hall fi lm festival continues in MayMelody Soto / Roundup
Melody Soto / Roundup
Pierce ends the year, unexpected surplus
PASS gives academic seminar on collegeEduardo Razo/ Roundup
Lower enrollment means fewer professorsAlexis Antoniadis / Roundup
Rodrigo Carbonel / Roundup
More news that’s fi t to print
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After opening ceremony at 9 a.m., with remarks from president Joy McCaslin, the relay has live en-tertainment, a taekwondo demon-stration, art-n-crafts stations, food and much more.
From the ‘survivor lap’ to danc-
ing, and raffles to eating, the event never sleeps. Once dark, there is a Luminaria Ceremony where deco-rated bags are placed around the track in honor of, in support of, or in memory of someone who has battled cancer.
Relay for Life is still open for registering teams and members, and is always looking for more do-
nations. “There is no rhyme or reason
to why some people lose and some people win this battle,” Pachecco said. “All we do know is that early detection is key.”
The race still on to fi nd a miracle
It is ASO political campaigning season once again at Pierce College.
The student gov-ernment is actively in-volved with the growth of the campus and is heavily involved with students, fac-ulty and staff, according to ASO website.
The student body gov-ernment consists of three branches: the senate, club council, and court.
Students can run for one office by registering by the posted due date, which was March 15.
In order to run for politi-cal office the student must maintain a 2.0 GPA and be enrolled in at least 5 units, according to the ASO elec-tion code.
Campaigning ASO po-litical candidates are eligi-ble to post up to two posters and can also pass out fliers using the ASO template.
The total cost shall not exceed $300, according to the ASO election code.
If a Pierce student who wishes to run for office has missed the deadline, it is still possible to run as a write-in candidate.
Elections will take place outside the Student Com-munity Center on April 11 and 12 and results will be announced the following day at 10 a.m. in the ASO Conference Room.
The newly elected offi-cials will begin their term beginning July 1.
Coburn Palmer/ Roundup
Elections begin in 2 weeks for the 9 ASO candidates
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The bond that funded the ITAP card and gave Pierce College the opportunity to sell ITAP cards to students who use the Metro for only $15 is empty, according to ASO President Daniel Axelrod.
“So for next year the two options are to get rid of the I-TAP card completely or have a referendum to make all students pay anywhere between $25 and $50, and whether you take the Metro or not you’re forced to buy the card, so it’s a bad situation,” said Axelrod.
Starting next semester, even students who do not use the Metro might have to pay a $25-$50 fee to subsidize the ITAP card in addition to the already debated unit fee increase if the referendum is passed.
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RROUNDUP: March 30, 2011OUNDUP: March 30, 2011 Features 55Clubs 4-1-1From ballet to batt ling , campus is well balanced
Street Dance Club:
• Club is comprised of students from differ-ent dance classes on campus.
• The club competes in dance competitions against other schools. Within the team, there are 60 members.
• In order to join, audi-tions are held bi-annu-ally. The next opportunity to be apart of the club will be in June, prior to their upcoming event that month.
—For info on upcoming events check out the club on facebook at www.facebook.com/undergroundswing.
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Anime Club:
• The anime club at Pierce Col-lege was created as a place for fans to watch films, play video games and socialize.
• “It is not like other clubs, it’s more of a social event,” Jones said. You can meet people and just hang out.”
• The club meets for six hours but they take breaks between movie showings.
—They meet every Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Center for the Sciences room 91120 and anybody can join,
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For more than 50 years, Pierce Col-lege has produced a student-run maga-zine.
Direction Magazine, which offers numerous opportunties for students to have their works published, has been composing poems, short stories and photog-raphy since 1959.
Maria Bates, professor of English for seven years, teaches the English 32 class, which is the course that automatically puts students on staff.
“I think it’s getting more
elaborate,” Bates said. “We get about 2,000 submissions and only 25 to 40 works get se-lected.”
There are standards for the poems and stories to be pub-lished.
“We call people when they score high and if they meet the standards,” said Bates. “But [if they] lack on something we try to help them.”
Stories need to be well writ-ten and have proper grammar. Poems need to consist of imag-ery, rhymes schemes, etc.
“We also publish [in] differ-ent languages,” said Bates. “We look for quality work, original [work], and all kinds of repre-sentation.”
This semester, the magazine had enough money to create a DVD for the students.
Some of the conetents of the DVD contains works from stu-dents who dance or have created films.
This class meets once a week in English building 1206 on Mondays and sometimes they meet in the Computer Lab.
The students also take several fieldtrips throughout the semes-ter and go to places like printing houses.
The trips allow them to try and get sponsored.
Eva Murray, liberal studies major, is the Art Editor for the magazine.
“We have three different sec-
tions: we have publicity, editing, and art,” said Murray, 25.
They get a lot of their funding from the Associated Students Organization (ASO).
In addition to the ASO, the students create bake sales and orginize an open mic night to raise awarness to their magazine and earn more funding.
“This magazine comes out at the end of the semester in June and it is available in the Student Store for $5,” said Rebecca Rabitoy, 21-year-old English ma-jor and editor. “But get it soon because it sells quickly.”
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Direction coming in JuneStudent editors and writers compose a yearly magazine
UD / RoundupFINISHED: English professor Maria Bates takes a moment between classes to show off her students’ publication ‘Direction’ magazine.
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A spring in their step
Students line the walls of the North Gym, South Gym and Dance Studio, each Sunday in preparation for the Pierce College Spring Dance Concert.
The rehearsals, which began March 20, will continue until the weekend of the Spring Dance Concert, scheduled for three perfor-mances May 13 - 15 in the Performing Arts Main Stage.
Various dance styles including modern dance, ballet, jazz, musical theater, tap dance, dance drama, dance improvisation, hip-hop and social dance will be showcased during the presentations.
Open auditions on March 19 welcomed Pierce College students as well as community members, all hoping for a spot in the Spring production.
Marian S. Weiser, director of the dance theater department and Jacqueline Eusanio, who teaches Middle Eastern and social dance, were on the committee that supervised the auditions.
“We had 128 people who auditioned,” said Eusanio.” “It’s the most we’ve ever had.”
Although dancers were limited to three pieces, Weiser encouraged everyone to audi-tion for all dance numbers.
To Weiser, dance is a life-learning process.“I know some 80-year-olds out there taking
dance classes,” said Weiser. “Dance requires dedication and commitment but it’s also exit-ing and fun.”
The concert will feature a total of 18 dances. Students are in charge of choreo-graphing 15 numbers. Guest companies will put on two dances.
During the fall semester, the dance depart-ment organizes an annual folk dance concert, but the Performing Arts Main Stage is sched-uled to be demolished and reconstructed during that time period, one folk dance from Soviet Georgia will be included in the program and supervised by Eusanio.
In addition, Weiser, will create a nine-minute dance to the music of Samuel Barber, composed for the opera “A Hand of Bridge,” by the Italian- American, Gian Carlo Menotti.
Weiser puts the musical piece into a modern era. She plans on having soprano and alto vocal-ists, accompany dancers on stage.
One of Weiser’s big concerns was making the concert as diverse as possible.
“I balanced the concert for sight and sound,”
said Weiser.Practices began at 8:30 a.m and ended
at 6 p.m. They went on simultaneously and lasted for an hour and 30 minutes at a time.
Monica Garcia, 28, is participating in two numbers, a hip-hop and a jazz lyrical piece. She will be spending four hours ev-ery Sunday at Pierce College. She arrived early in the morning and left after attend-ing the one hour mandatory meeting that all dancers are required to attend.
Garcia, who has been dancing off and on since she was 13-years- old, participated in the folk dance concert produced in Fall 2010.
“I had a really good time. I wanted to come back before I transfer out of here [Pierce],” said Garcia.
Like Garcia, several dancers have par-ticipated in other large-scale Pierce College dance production.
Zennetta Taylor, 22, is one of those people.
Since she started attending Pierce College in 2006, Taylor has been in seven shows.
This semester she is part of a jazz, hip hop and ballet number.
“I look forward to performing each piece on stage,” Taylor said.
Loui Sagastump, 28, is also participat-ing in three dance numbers.
Although he has transferred from Pierce, he came back for another Spring concert and is now learning the steps for a contemporary, jazz and hip-hop choreog-raphy.
“It feels like home because you get to see those familiar faces,” said Sagastump.
Erik Teno, 31, is enjoying the bond he has made with fellow dancers and is awaiting the end results.
“It’s fun to see an array of dances compacted in one show,” Teno said.
For more information visit http://info.pierce-college.edu/theater/
May 13 & 14 :
Spring Dance Concert
8 p.m.
May 14 :
Children’s Dance Concert
Matinee at 2 p.m.
May 15 :
Spring Dance Concert
Matinee at 2 p.m.
Jose Romero/ RoundupTECNIQUE: Pierce College students Diana Cabrera and Staav Goldrevch practice in the North Gym on Sunday March 20
With auditions over, rehearsals begin for 3 concerts
Crystal Endless/ Roundup1-2--3-4: Denis Freehan and Dana Craig run through scenes from Act I as Harry Brock and Ed Devery dur-ing a recent rehearsal in the PAB.
Engaging senses
Photographers, professors and friends gathered for Engaged Stu-dents Observers photography exhi-bition, celebrating the culmination of Pierce students’ photography class with the Getty Center.
Ten students who were enrolled in photojournalism courses from College of the Canyons, East Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Pierce colleges had the opportunity to work on a photography project with the Getty.
Students were able to work hand-in- hand with In-dian photogra-pher Sudharak Olwe who led the workshop about photogra-phy and social documentary.
“Tonight as you can see is the culmination of the proj-ects that they[ the students] produced” said Monika Del Bosque, gallery director and the assistant professor of art as she looked around the room with a smile.
As a student at Pierce who has only taken a couple of photo classes, Lorena Perez-Valladares really feels like she has learned a lot and is proud of herself as well as her classmate’s work.
Having a friend that is a fire-fighter Valladares was able to get behind the scenes of their life.
She feels as if she was able to express that through her photos.
“I’m really excited about it all coming together, we’ve been work-ing on it for a couple of months now and it’s good to see everyone’s work out” said Valladares.
The room was filled with photos with captions and podcast which provided history and background information each photographer experienced.
“Everyone did something that went beyond what they were already capable of” said Gerard Burkhart who teachers photojour-nalism at Pierce College and Santa Monica College.
Burkhart describes social documentarily as the most power-ful kind of still photography story telling that there is available ever.
Amber-Rose Kelly who has been in the department for two years had 7 pieces in the show.
“My favorite thing about the media department is that every-thing is really hands-on and run by the students”.
Students worked really closely with Olwe, an artist who was fea-tured in the Getty Center last fall where he learned about the craft and art of documentary photogra-phy.
After that experience he then went off to do projects of his own explained Del Bosque.
The room was filled with over 30 people, food and refreshments were provided .
The event lasted from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Pierce College Art Gal-lery as every picture told a side to a story.
The photographs will still be on display through Thursday, April 21.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
Cesar Monge/ RoundupLOOK AND LISTEN: Students and members of the community partake in podcast description of photos displayed in the Pierce College gallery.
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‘Engaged Student Observers’
Information
The Gallery will be up until
April 21.
Addmission is free
For additonal information visit
www.piercemediaartsdepartment.com
or call 818 710-2262
Student photograhers works with the Gett y
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Overconfidence and poor execution got the best of the Brahmas Saturday after-noon, resulting in another ‘L’ in the loss column.
The Pierce College baseball team led almost the entire game; up until the ninth inning, when the L.A. Valley College Monarchs (3-7, 6-16) evened the score at five to send the game into extra innings.
Sloppy defense and poor offensive execution hin-dered the Brahmas’ chances, as they were defeated, 7-5.
The result brings the Brahmas even with Valley College on the season, and their overall record to 12-10.
Head coach John Bushart said the team had learned a hard lesson.
“I think we just relaxed. We assumed that the game was over,” said Bushart. “Once you shut it down it’s hard to get it going again.”
Starting pitcher Ryan Santhon led the early inning charge for Pierce College at the beginning of the game as he had another solid outing.
At the top of the first inning, Valley College could have taken the early lead, as they loaded the bases, but the Brahmas’ left-hander prevented them from scoring.
James Wharton hit the only home run of the game in the third inning, a two-run blast well over the wall in left-center field.
By the end of the seventh inning, the Brahmas led by four, but that changed quickly during the top of the eighth when the lead diminished, as the home Brahmas maintained the slight 5-4 advantage.
After the Monarchs scored three runs, Kevin Tol-bert was brought into the game to pitch the rest of the inning.
The Monarchs evened the score with one out in the ninth, with clutch hits and well-executed approaches at the dish.
Looking to recover the lead, the Brahmas made costly mistakes and failed to capitalize when scoring opportunities were presented.
Players were left on base in the 11th, 12th and 13th
innings.A base running error in the 11th inning proved
costly when Justin Fredlender, who was coming from second base, hesitated on third and was thrown out at home plate.
“I don’t know if that was the best move,” said Brahma catcher Travis Forbes. “I don’t know if he ran through a stop sign or the coach actually sent him, we made some mistakes.”
The team relied heavily on pitching in the last four innings, according to Fredlender.
“We have to keep hitting the ball,” Fredlender said.
Forbes commented on how he will think differ-ently during future games.
“We thought four runs was going to be enough, we should never have that attitude,” said Forbes. “We should always think we got to get more, we got to get more.”
Head coach Bushart looked to the future as well.“We’re still playing okay, we just stumbled today.
There’s a lot of season still left,” said Bushart.Pierce will play West L.A. College Thursday at
Joe Kelly Field. Game starts at 2:30 p.m.
Aft er riding victory wave, Brahmas stumble and fall to ValleyMelody Soto / Roundup
Pierce squanders lead in defeat
It seems like yesterday that I first held you in my hands, a new tournament, a new bracket.
Hard to believe that just two weeks later, I would be unable to stand the sight of you.
I’d taken a different approach this time, picking purely from the heart. I may not have fully believed that Notre Dame could come through, but I wanted to, so I made them my national champions.
I went with my gut, going purely by instinct.I’d never heard of Morehead State, but they were
the first to shake my confidence. Their defeat of Lou-isville marked the first casualty of my Sweet Sixteen, but hope still endured.
Surely, I thought, this is an isolated incident. It will all get better.
How wrong I was.Other picks began to come undone, but as I looked
upon you, the green marks still outnumbered the red.Even when those upstarts from Virginia laid an-
other blow to what was once a Sweet Sixteen, I wasn’t worried.
Besides, it was still early, just the first round. Ev-erything would be fine.
Then, the next dagger.It was one of my bold predictions, one of those that
I’d hoped would catapult me to the top of the pool standings. St. John’s in the Elite Eight. I remember how proud of myself I felt when I first made the selec-tion.
I’ll look pretty smart for this one, I thought.It took just one round for those Bulldogs from Gon-
zaga to make me regret it. Suddenly, where I once felt confidence, I began to feel doubt, yet hope endured.
You continued to suffer in the second round. The fall of Pittsburgh to Butler, the fall of Kansas State to Wisconsin. The red marks were finally starting to become prominent.
And then…disaster.I couldn’t wait to watch. I got off work and came
straight home. The Irish were playing the Florida State Seminoles, and I knew that it would be my redemp-tion.
At least, I thought I knew.It all happened so fast. Suddenly I was standing
among the wreckage sifting through the rubble of what just days before had seemed so strong and inde-structible.
My champion was gone, and with it, all hope of success.
I failed you.All the hope we had is gone. Every game I watch
now is a bitter reminder of what might have been.If only I’d chosen more carefully. If only I’d kept
my heart out of it. If only I’d chosen more upsets.It will be a long year until we meet again, and I will
have a chance to make things right.Next time, it will be better. Next time, we’ll suc-
ceed.Next time.
Joe Kukuzcka / RoundupDEJECTED: Tyler Peddicord sulks moments after Valley College ties the game Saturday Mar. 26. Valley College beat the Pierce College Brahmas in the 14th inning, 5-7.
Joe Kukuzcka / RoundupBAD HOP: Justin Fredlender fi elds a line drive against Valley College Saturday Mar. 26 at Joe Kelly Field.
“I think we just relaxed. We assumed that the
game was over.” -John Bushart
Pierce College Head Baseball Coach
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