PCC Courier 03/20/2014

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Barney Soto/Courier Ray Hernandez, 20, straddles the “Red Pine” by Deborah Butterfield in the Boone Sculpture Garden on March 6. The garden was completed in 1999.

Aubrey Quezada Features Editor

With works of art scattered throughout soft green lawns and a small pool that cascades into a swiftly flowing channel of water, the Boone Sculpture Garden provides an escape for students

who need a quiet place to study or take a break between classes.

“The Boone Sculpture Garden offers a pleasant outdoor environment for everyone on campus,” said Brian Tucker, director of the art galleries at PCC. “For the larger community, it signals the college’s commitment to the visual arts and its contribution

Committee considers ‘release time’ reduction A spike in the amount of money paid to faculty for duties performed outside the classroom got the attention of the Budget Resource and Allocation Committee, which may look into ways of reducing the millions of dollars spent on socalled “release time.”

The paid time, known as release time or reassigned time, involves assigned duties for faculty that is performed out of the classroom or is not part of an instructor’s traditional role, according to Robert Miller.

“Reassigned faculty are performing instructional activities deemed important to the attainment of aspects of the college’s Educational Master Plan and student success,” Miller explained in an email.

Will you be going to the new Chick-fil-A near campus?

Benjamin Simpson/Courier Robert Bell, senior vice president, speaks at the Budget Resource Allocation Committee (BRAC) on March 6.

to the cultural center that is Pasadena.”

Designed by Jodi Pinto, a New York-based artist and landscape designer, the area that was once a mundane parking lot was transformed into a space to display contemporary sculptures as well as provide a forum for performances and art installations.

Named in memory of George and Fern Boone, the Boone Sculpture Garden was completed in 1999 and comprises three major components—the garden itself, the Galloway Plaza and the Jameson Amphitheater.

The garden currently features

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The Pasadena Board of Zoning voted 3-2 Wednesday to allow a Chick-fil-A to open across the street from PCC, a plan strongly opposed by college administrators because of the fried chicken company’s financial support of anti-gay groups.

“I’m exceptionally disappointed,” Student Trustee Simon Fraser said. “I’m deeply concerned that every concern that I raised and every PCC student that was here raised fell completely on deaf ears.”

Although the Board of Trustees doesn’t have an official position on the Chick-fil-A yet, Senior Vice President Robert Miller said at the public hearing that he, President Mark Rocha and other administration members had a responsibility to work within the scope of the college community, which includes many LGBT students.

“For me, Chick-fil-A is more than a corporation expressing their opinion,” PCC student Bernard Noi said. “For me, it is a symbol that has supported organization that tell me that I should not be happy with who I am. I fear for my friends. They already live stressful lives…

This could push them over the edge.”

The restaurant was originally approved

by Pasadena to start up in December last year before Pasadena City Councilman Terry Tornek appealed the approval.

Chick-fil-A development supervisor Jennifer Daw said Wednesday that the Chick-fil-A would help the community

Charles Winners/Courier Simon Fraser, PCC’s Student Trustee, spoke against the opening of Chickfil-A during a Pasadena city hearing.

by providing 50 to 60 new full-time and part-time jobs in the area and would improve the aesthetics of the location.

She said that it would be more inviting than the dilapidated building at the location formerly occupied by Burger King.

The Zoning Board was mainly concerned with the removal of two trees on the property and expanding the current drive-thru. Zoning laws in Pasadena currently prohibit any new drive-thru being built for restaurants.

Chick-fil-A applied for a permit for the expansion of the drive-thru, which was approved by the Board.

Fraser said he isn’t finished fighting the restaurant.

“I plan to contact the councilman for the area in which PCC resides and request that it be pulled again,” Fraser said.

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Senate survey complete, but now what?

Justin Clay Onine Editor After months of talking about a faculty-led evaluation of President Mark Rocha, the Academic Senate finally has the results.

Now they’re trying to decide what to do with those results.

However, no matter what the results of the survey turn out to be, the Board of Trustees won’t bother considering them. Board President Anthony Fellow stated in a letter to the Senate earlier this month that the senate has no authority to evaluate the

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In general, reassigned time costs the district roughly $3 million dollars a year, according to Miller. Senior Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs Robert Bell and Executive Director of Business Services Joe Simoneschi and Miller provided members with some data to present a better picture of how that may be able to save some money by reducing the amount of faculty on reassign time at PCC. By making some adjustments to the amount of time some faculty members spend out of the classroom, such as having only 21 full-time faculty members on reassigned time instead of 33, the school could

president and the board won’t acknowledge its survey results. “[Board policy] does not recognize any purported evaluation of the Superintendent/President by the Academic Senate or any ad hoc committee formed for that purpose,” Fellow wrote on Mar. 4. “We decline to give any consideration to any evaluation or survey not conducted in accordance with the process set forth…”

Last October, the Board approved to extend President Rocha’s contract through June 30, 2017 after conducting their

own close session evaluation process.

The Senate survey was approved in February and distributed to all full-time faculty. An email sent this week by Senator Stephanie Fleming to administration officials stated that some of the options being discussed include widely publishing the results, making the results public with President Rocha’s consent, or keeping the results between the senate, Rocha and the Board of Trustees.

“Releasing the survey would confirm or not the faculty’s

opinion of the president,” said Academic Senate President Eduardo Cairo. “It is one thing to assume, but if you have a survey and you see that other people have the same feelings then there is a reaffirmation of your feelings.”

The administration’s initial response to the survey, back when it was first introduced, was that it was unnecessary. The survey was originally sent out in February after Senate members expressed concern about being left out of the formal evaluation process by the Board.

see savings of $522,716 in total funding, according to Simoneschi.

Faculty member Mary-Erin Crook was shocked at the 48.9 percent increase in release time spending between the 20122013 and 2013-2014 school year and wondered why the school increased the amount of time set aside for faculty reassigned time.

Miller speculated it might be the result of the district setting aside a $1 million a year for the Student Access and Success Initiative (SASI) that funds “inhouse” innovative projects like Pathways or Stats and Liberal Arts Math (SLAM), which are supported by faculty who are given the time to assist these programs.

“We provide release time and

stipends to faculty to do work that many other districts say are within the scope of their contracts,” Miller said.

Bell wanted members to understand that the data was just for consideration and that these figures are not suggestions of what they will do. The data that was provided was just a way to show the committee how much could potentially be saved.

He also emphasized how important the issue was because the work those faculty members do, instructional or non-instructional, serve a purpose to student achievement.

“All of these engagements... underpin student success, “said Bell.

Crook and committee CoChair Danny Hamman were interested in receiving data from

previous years to get a comparison of the amount of release time that had previously been provided to faculty.

Simoneschi said that he did not see how comparing data from the past would help dictate what the committee would do in the future and that the lack of a centralized system needed to retrieve data makes it difficult to put those numbers together.

Crook felt that having that data from previous years would help the committee create a more workable policy on reassigned time that would come from faculty perpective. Miller also did not see what comparative data would do for informing members about the future.

Hamman compared looking at past data to studying history to get a better understanding of the past to help plan for the future.

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“Publication of the results of the evaluation of the president involves the basic right of the senate to speak freely on issues concerning the college,” said Senate Treasurer Dan Haley, in an email.

With the survey, and other issues still to be resolved, the Senate has voted to have a special meeting this coming Monday, even though the meetings are usually held bi-weekly.

“We have so much work that the senators graciously voted to add additional meeting to those already scheduled,” Cairo said.

Benjamin Simpson/Courier Robert Miller, senior vice president and assistant superintendent, speaks at the Budget Resource Allocation Committee (BRAC) in the C Building on March 6.

reassign (was then) would help you looking in the middle of it,” Hamman said.

Miller directed Simoneschi to put together data showing release time costs over the last few years.

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2012 JACC General Excellence Award-Winner Editor-in-Chief Christine Michaels Managing Editor Philip McCormick Online Editor Justin Clay Asst. Online Editors Tiffany Roesler, Aerika Dave Social Media Editor Concepcion Gonzales Asst. News Editor John Peters II Opinion Editor Raymond Bernal Asst. Opinion Editor Tiffany Herrera A&E Editor Samantha Molina Asst. A&E Editor Lucy Patrikian Features Editor Aubrey Quezada Asst. Features Editor Monique LeBleu Lifestyle Editor Paul Ochoa Asst. Lifestyle Editor Janel Leonard Sports Editor Daron Grandberry Asst. Sports Editor Andrew Salmi Photo Editor Antonio Gandara Asst. Photo Editor

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Transgender equal rights now Emma Koffroth and Raymond Bernal Staff Writers

We as a society must find a better way to reach out to our transgender citizens.

Transgender people already deal with societal discrimination and dismissal from family members based on their gender identities.

But apparently they must also deal with suicide attempts.

The largest study of transgender people to date was recently released with shocking numbers.

The study from the American

Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows a link between discrimination of transgender people and the exceptionally high suicide attempt rate among the population. One of the most staggering percentages is the percent of suicide attempts of transgender individuals at the college level.

“Seventy-eight percent of survey respondents who suffered physical or sexual violence at school reported suicide attempts, as did 65 percent of respondents who experienced violence at work,” according to the Williams Institute survey findings.

Different factors influenced the numbers as well, including a higher rate for those whose families rejected them, members of a minority race, and those who had doctors refused to help them.

Being refused medical treatment by so-called professionals simply for being transgender, that alone should be unacceptable to every one of us.

The recent California law that allows transgender students to choose the public restroom, sex-segregated sports teams and programs based on their self-identification regardless of birth gender may help, but these numbers must give us all pause.

If more laws have to be passed to help protect our fellow transgender citizens, then let’s pass them.

On the PCC website, Health Services offers links to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center and PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) for those who suffer from difficulty due to their gender orientation. We should always remember that transgender people are members of our family as a whole. They are our parents, our children, our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends and they should be treated with the same respect as we treat our families.

it, if that is what the victim wants.

Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced Bill AB1433, “would provide that the written agreement shall also require any report of a Part 1 violent crime or hate crime received by a campus law enforcement agency to be immediately reported to the appropriate local law enforcement agency if the victim consents, and forbid such a report absent that consent,” according to leginfo.ca.gov.

This is a bill that is long overdue, considering the statistics of rape reporting.

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that one of the most under-reported crimes is sexual assault, at 60 percent unreported.

Of the 40 percent of rapes that do get reported to the police, 10 percent lead to an arrest, eight percent get prosecuted, and four percent lead to a felony conviction, according to RAINN. According to a survey completed by the National Institute of Justice, there is a lot of confusion for colleges trying to comply with the existing legislation, the

Clery Act. The study confirmed that only 37 percent of colleges that participated in the study fully comply in reporting crime statistics.

The study stated that many of the schools that participated in the study did not have a sexual assault response policy.

Student safety should be a top priority at colleges. If a college does not have a clear policy to follow for reporting incidents of sexual assault, then student safety isn’t one of their top priorities.

Assembly sexual assault bill long overdue Tiffany Herrera Asst. Opinion Editor

If a student on campus is raped and reports, the college has a responsibility to do everything it can to help. The college should be acting in the victim’s best interest, not in the best interests of the college’s image.

Colleges shouldn’t be able to wait a year or hide it all together.

When a student reports a rape or any kind of sexual assault, the college should immediately report

VOICES: What should the college invest in next?

Nagisa Mihara Online Photo Editor Benjamin Simpson Scene Editor Billy Skelly Staff Writers: Jessica Arceo, Matthew Kiewiet, Emma Koffroth, Mary Nurrenbern, Robert Tovar, Kristina Wedseltoft Staff Photographers: Joseph Adajar, Josh Balmadrid, Jorell Brittenum, Victoria De La Torre, Andrew French, Chris Martinez, Mary Nurrenbern, Barney Soto, Daniel Valencia, Rocio Vera, Charles Winners

“More full time faculty members. The best practices show that student success is higher when teachers feel more connected to the campus.”

Matthew Henes, Math Instrutor

“A tutoring program for higher division English courses.

They don’t really offer as many tutors for higher divisions like they do for English 100.”

Luis Ibarra, English

“We need to either demolish the U Building or refurbish it. People complain we don’t have enough classrooms, but we have this huge building that we could use.”

Chris Langstaff, construction

“They should help educate students about how to get financial aid. A lot of people come from out of state and they aren’t familiar with the process to get financial aid.”

Joshua Hayden, psychology

“More music programs.

The college could work with the high schools around to get everyone involved in music programs.”

Diana Greer, Counselor

“I think dance should have something for itself. It would be right for them to have a place to perform for themselves.”

“Newer desks. The classroom environment could be improved upon.”

“The library could be renovated. Maybe we could make it more comfortable and add a lounge.”

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Joe Adajar/Courier PCC student Neomi Sano eating a bowl of ramen, right, at local ramen resturant Shinsengumi. Above, a closer view of a ramen bowl at Shinsengumi is shown.

Concepcion Gonzalez/Courier Lucky Baldwins is a local PCC student favorite. Traditional British food like fish and chips—their most popular dish—is served along with a large assortment of beers on tap.

Billy Beans Skelly/Courier Angel Hernandez, top, and Jose Botello, right, both order a veggie burrito and Gabriel Diaz, left, ordered carne asada tacos at Alberto’s Mexican Food. Botello and Hernandez are both business majors at PCC and Diaz is a graphics communication major.

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Interviews aside, Perez also knew he wanted to give guests the opportunity to tell their story with a playlist, having them not only play songs that have influenced them but explain why.

“Everybody has a song that they love or has influenced them in some way,” said Perez. “But this also shows you what to listen for in a song and why it’s good.”

Even though it is broadcast online, Perez decided to name the program “The Mixtape” because it gives listeners the opportunity to discover music in a more personal way that differs from websites like Spotify and is more like a mixtape.

“I thought it was a generic name but it makes sense,” said Perez.

Hector Lozano, a soundboard engineer, feels that Perez’s program really gives the guest an opportunity to tell their story in detail.

“It’s more of the guest telling their story than I’ve seen on other shows,” he said.

Though the goal of the show is to showcase PCC’s talented students and expose listeners to new music. Perez said his main goal is out helping Lancer Radio.

“In a larger sense I was trying to help the station,” he said. “I figure if I can help Lancer Radio in some way it’s by having [PCC] students on.”

Sarah Barker, who not only decides who gets a program on Lancer Radio but also teaches TVR 14A, the class required in order to even audition for a program, said that what makes the show unique is the host.

“Once a student pitches a show, what makes the show unique is the DJs,” Barker said.

As for what he hopes for his listeners, Perez wants to

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Discover new music through ‘The Mixtape’ The internet’s impact on the way we consume music is something that goes beyond album sales.

Things associated with old technology like liner notes and mixtapes have lost their importance in music discovery. With websites like Spotify and Pandora now suggesting new artists to listen to and Wikipedia available to read up on the artist and their influences, who needs to ever touch music?

Gabriel Perez, a former musician and PCC student, noticed that while the internet does make it easier to discover new artists similar to the ones you like, it is a little harder to discover artists that differ from your usual taste.

“I was trying to find a way to listen to songs outside the genres I listen to [and] discovering new music is kind of difficult nowadays,” said Perez. “I’m getting old and I don’t want to waste my time listening to bad music. Just give me the good music.”

It was with this in mind that Perez got the idea to create his Lancer Radio program “The Mixtape.”And while the concept of the show went through many stages in Perez’s mind, the one thing he knew he wanted to do was interviews with musicians from PCC. “I wanted to do something challenging and also to do something that was relevant to PCC and spotlighted the students,” said Perez.

A musician himself, Perez decided he wanted to ask his guests questions he would want to be asked. “What shaped you as a musician?” said Perez. “[Then] you get to see what’s important to them in terms of music.”

The most barbaric instrument John Peter II Staff Writer

Scott Campbell played the bagpipes by the Mirror Pools on a recent Wednesday afternoon, filling the air with their unmistakable sound.

“Bagpipes are by far the most barbaric of instruments, because they are so loud,” Campbell said.

Campbell, mechanical engineering, is known as Scott the Bardbarian on Facebook.

“I do a role-playing show called Dungeon Master and I decided that I would give my character the class bardbarian,” he said. “It’s like a bard, but loud.”

Campbell has recently formed a pipe band and routinely practices by the Mirror Pools.

Steven Shin, undeclared, said it was cool that Campbell was able to just be himself and play the bagpipes on campus.

“I like it,” said Hanif Payandeh, engineering. “I grew up in Canada and they always had bagpipes at official functions.”

This semester, Campbell brought his bagpipes to his music appreciation class.

“It worked out perfectly,” said music appreciation professor Dr. Alison Bjorkedal. “We were discussing the Middle Ages that day

and the bagpipe is an important musical instrument from that era of European history. It was a great opportunity for the class to see a bagpipe up close and to hear the strength of the sound.”

Campbell began playing bagpipes in the sixth grade at Altadena’s Foothill Middle School and has taken private lessons ever since. It takes two years of dedicated practice to start playing well, he said.

“The biggest challenge to playing bagpipes is starting out because it takes so much air,” Campbell said. “But once you are able to play, learning new songs is not much of a challenge.”

Now he performs at funerals, weddings and golf tournaments.

He books his gigs by word of mouth and on his Facebook page, scottthebardbarian. The gigs help pay for his classes at PCC. Campbell said he was a little nervous when he first started playing in public, fearing that people would be critical of it.

But as of yet, he has never heard any negative comments about his bagpiping. Instead, it seems to draw favorable attention.

Between sets that afternoon, there were isolated bouts of applause and two people stopped

Billy Beans Skelly/Courier Gabriel Perez hosts “The Mixtape” from inside the Lancer Radio studio on Feb. 28.

be able to introduce them into new genres of music.

“If some people can listen to it and expand their library of music exposure I’d be happy with that,” Perez said.

So tune into the “The Mixtape” Thursdays at 8 p.m. and let Perez, as he says in his intro to the program, “take you back to a time when playlists weren’t drag and drop.”

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and spoke with him.

“People frequently approach me asking questions about [the bagpipes] and I’ll talk to them for a bit and continue playing,” he said.

A bagpipe consists of four main parts, a blowstick, a bag, a chanter and one or more drones (pipes). The bag can be made of animal skin or synthetic material.

Campbell chose to play the bagpipes because of his Scottish heritage.

According to Scotland’s official website,www.scotland.com, they are the national instrument of Scotland.

“I play bagpipes for fun,” he said, then placed the bag under his arm, blew air into the blowpipe and began to play “Amazing Grace” in the final rays of the setting sun.

works by renowned artists Deborah Butterfield, Stephan Balkenhol and Jack Zajac and another sculpture by Ken Price will soon be added to the collection.

The plaza and amphitheater have ample seating and several trees provide shade for people to sit or lay in the grass.

“The sound of the water creates such a tranquil environment,” said Elaine Kwak, sociology, who is drawn outside by the small waterfall that begins at the plaza and flows through the garden past the amphitheater.

Musicians especially embrace the amphitheater and it is not uncommon to walk by and hear someone singing or practicing an instrument.

“I like the open space and the fresh air. When it’s sunny, I’d

rather be outside than inside,” said Andrew Velazquez, liberal studies, who retreats to the sculpture garden to play his guitar.

At night, the Boone Sculpture Garden becomes a whole different animal. With lighting that outlines the path system and trellises and seating strategically placed in the plaza and amphitheater, which are both circular in shape, Pinto’s landscape design reveals a galaxy surrounded by buildings dedicated to the arts and higher learning.

“I got out of class late one night and when I stepped out of the C Building to walk to my car I thought this place was magical,” said Julianne Ramos, psychology.

“The way the lights hit the sculptures and the shadows they cast were so beautiful to me it was almost surreal. It’s my favorite place on campus.”

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Coffee house showcases student art Monique LeBleu Staff writer

A literal accident brought a group of PCC students together for a gallery showing of their art at the Zephyr Coffee House and Art Gallery.

While at their favorite study spot, students Matt Brugger, an art major looking to transfer, and Chris Dillinger, who attends Santa Monica City College, formed the idea for the installation at the popular café, gallery and hookah bar.

“I have five pieces up [in the showing],” Dillinger said.

“There wasn’t really a set theme for it. It’s really just for exposure. It’s something that Matt and I were originally going to do together.”

But fate would have a different idea. A car accident delayed Dillinger during the installation, which prompted the call for art and there the baby grew.

Although unsure of exactly how many pieces are installed altogether, Brugger spoke openly on his work.

Using acrylic and watercolor, his pieces are interspersed among three rooms in the gallery. He highlighted one called “Spirit Meat Suit and Sunspots.”

Billy Beans Skelly/Courier From left to right, Kelsey Cox, Julia Fouser and Krystal “Tree” Herrera sit inside of the Zephyr Lounge, sketching and communicating with each other on March 6.

“This piece was an attempt at collage/decollage,” said Brugger. “I like re-purposing old paper mementos, love notes and photographs, recycled trash and media, tearing and reapplying at

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“I started drawing when I was seven or eight because I liked to make up stories and I wanted to draw the characters for my stories.”

Kelsey Cox, a photographer and art major at PCC, had been preparing a portfolio for her transfer to either MassArt in Boston or Cal State Long Beach when she was asked by Brugger, a fellow 3-D art classmate, to join the installation for her firstever showing.

With prior schooling in makeup, she used her skills in the portraits of friends and captured images during her participation in the study abroad program at PCC in 2012.

“I didn’t really have any expectations my first show,” she said “So I was just excited to have my art up somewhere. But so far it’s just been nice being able to share the event with our friends and have people come and check out our stuff.”

For this collection of PCC students and artists, the unifying goal in this event was mutual support and exposure, as being seen is part of what it means to be an artist.

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“One is of artist Mark Bradford and the other is an actor in costume: Ariel from ‘The Tempest,’” said Bijeljic.

“The pieces are of artists that glorify other artists. I am glorifying other people I find worthy of idolizing,” he said.

PCC art major Krystal Herrera, known as “Tree” by her friends and as an artist, feels that art gives her a voice.

“Since I was born mute, I have difficulties communicating and talking to people, whereas through art I can show my abilities on canvas, paper, wood, etcetera, to express unlimited possibilities,” she said. “I express being mute where I feel I can use art to be a strong medium.”

Tree uses both bought and recycled materials with oil and watercolor to create pieces such as “Christine” and “Bewildered,” which are featured in the installation.

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Dynamic swimmer dominates

Daron Grandberry Sports Editor

Focused and ready to improve upon her successful 2013 freshman performance, Lancers’ sophomore swimmer Shannon Cheung possess a rare ability to excel in both the classroom and the swimming pool.

“Shannon’s a hard worker and she is very focused and goal oriented,” 15-year swimming head coach Terry Stoddard said. “She has a bigger picture. She wants to compete at a 4-year university so she’s not just training for this season.”

The versatile and dedicated political science major plans on attending law Rocio Vera/Courier school in her near future, but not beSophomore swimmer Shannon Cheung, the 2013 South Coast Conference Swimmer of the year, practices at the PCC fore she returns to the pool in hopes of Aquatic Center on Tuesday during swim practice. improving her second place finish at last goal oriented, competitive, and driven like Cheung is the only returning sophomore. ships as well.” year’s CCCAA State Championships.

Shannon is. She’s a joy to coach.”

“I just try to do my best in the pool Although the 2014 season remains “Shannon has improved a great deal On Friday, Cheung was instrumental and hopefully everyone else will follow young, Cheung hasn’t had any problems from last year,” Stoddard said. “She came in the Lancers’ South Coast Conferand put in 110 percent as well,” Cheung as she has already recorded 18 first place to our school thinking she was a sprinter, ence-opening victories over Chaffey said. “I find leading by example to be victories on the season. but now she’s dabbling in the distance and host Long Beach City College. most effective.”

“The main difference this year is our freestyle events.”

The Lancers (2-1 in overall dual meets) In February, Cheung was more than depth,” Stoddard said. “We have more Last year dominated with effective for the Lancers with nine first people at the top and our second-tier of Cheung individual event place victories in only two meets. swimmers are the strongest we’ve had advanced all wins in 12 of “Shannon is really talented swimmer,” probably since our 2003 championship the way to the the 15 events, Wong added. “She works hard and she team.”

State Champiincluding three has earned all of the awards and accoCheung credited her swimming success onships where individual wins lades she has received and will receive in to hard work and training that the experishe finished from Cheung. the future.” enced Stoddard has implemented. second in the “Swimming Although Cheung is poised to become “We just have to continue to work Individual with a swimmer one of the Lancers most decorated swimhard,” Cheung said. “We’ve sort of Medley against of Shannon’s mers, as a young freshman, the versatile beefed up our training and that allows California’s caliber motiswimmer only expected to participate in a us to help each other out a lot more this elite junior colvates yourself few events. year.” lege swimmers. to perform at “I had my mind set on one or two The standout swimmer who is pasThis year, your best and events last year,” Cheung admitted.

“As sionate about government and politics is Cheung has try to keep with I started training more with coach I already considering her options after her already shown her at pracwas able to expand a little bit more and Lancer career is over. improvements tice.” Freshman improve my strokes. I basically try to help “I hope to get into law school,” from last year, swimmer Tiffa- wherever I’m needed.”

Cheung said. “I don’t know where I’m with first place ny Wong said.

Already an amazing student-athlete, transferring yet, but my dream colleges finishes in each Cheung capCheung continues to work hard on are Claremont, Georgetown University of the Lancers’ tured first place improving her first place stroke and and UCLA.” first five meets. in the 200expressed her goals for the Lancers’ this Cheung will look to continue her amaz“Shannon yard freestyle season. ing 2014 season as the Lancers travel to Rocio Vera/Courier is an amazing (2:02.65), the “This year we want to place higher at East Los Angeles College to participate This season Cheung has recorded 18 first athlete and 100-freestyle our conference meets and win more dual in an SCC double dual meet against Mt. place victories in only five meets. student. She (58.29), the500meets,” Cheung said.

“I want to improve SAC and ELAC on Friday. trains all four free (5:24.27) and also anchored an and build on last year and see if I can The first race is scheduled for 12:30 strokes,” Stoddard added. “It’s like a exciting 400 freestyle relay team in which improve my times at the state championp.m. coach’s heaven to have an athlete who is

Losing streak continues for Lancers baseball Andrew Salmi Asst. Sports Editor

The struggle continued for the Lancers Tuesday when they played host to the Vikings of Long Beach City College and lost their dismal 11th game in a row by a score of 9-1.

The woes began on March 4 with a 15-1 loss to East Los Angeles College and an 11-run seventh inning. The Lancers have gone 0-7 in South Coast Conference play and have failed to score more than two runs in any of the games they’ve played so far in conference.

After a three-game sweep last week to El Camino College, this was not a great start to a series against Long Beach.

“We need to not let our pitchers give up that many hits,” head coach Evan O’Meara said. “If you have pitchers that aren’t hitting their zones, balls are going to be hit over fielders’ heads.”

The game in a nutshell for the Lancers occurred in the bottom of the fourth inning, where PCC managed to get something going on offense with three consec-

utive singles to start off the inning.

After singles by sophomore catcher Jason Clark, freshman first baseman John Sevilla and freshman center fielder PJ DeZotell, the Lancers bad luck came back to them to halt any chance of good fortune.

Sophomore second baseman Kai Nakamura lined out into a double play, then freshman designated hitter Nick Perez fouled out to end the inning without any runs crossing the plate.

Against LBCC, the Lancers were hit hard for 15 hits, six of which were doubles past PCC outfielders. Bad angles with routes to fly balls kept the Lancers from getting several key outs.

Clark provided the only RBI for PCC in the bottom of the fifth inning to drive in freshman third baseman Eric Grajeda.

Clark and Grajeda combined for four of the Lancers’ eight total hits, with Grajeda having the team’s only double in the bottom of the seventh.

“As I’ve said before, we need to find momentum and keep it going,” Clark said. “We also must play consistently solid defense.”

The Vikings offense did most of their

damage in only three innings, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning, two runs in the top of the third inning and three runs in the top of the fifth inning.

A bright spot for the Lancers was the relief effort of freshman pitcher John Flores, who pitched two scoreless innings in the eighth and ninth innings without giving up any hits or walks. He also managed to strike out the side in the top of the ninth inning.

“He did a great job out there today,” said O’Meara on Flores’ efforts. “However, we’re struggling in all facets of the game and we’re in a losing state of mind right now.”

After losing their 11th straight game, the Lancers are now last in the SCC with a 3-15 record.

The Lancers will look to bounce back and end their losing streak on Thursday, March 20 as they travel to play Long Beach at 2:30 p.m. The closing game of the series will be held at Jackie Robinson Memorial Field on Saturday, March 22 with the first pitch slated for noon.

PCC Sports Information Catcher Jason Clark throws out a runner at first base during PCC’s loss to LBCC Tuesday at Brookside Park.