Volume 118 Spring 2013 Roundup Issue 3

Policy on fundraising revised District policy a ects clubs

Erika Correa/Roundup ecorrea.roundupnews@gmail.com

A revised policy on fundraising is raising concern among members of the student government and chartered clubs at Pierce College.

The policy requires applications for fundraising events on campus to be submitted at least 45 days prior to the event, as opposed to 30.

The deadline was also lengthened from 45 to 60 days in advance for off-campus fundraising, according to Associated Students Organization Club Council President Or-el Vaknin.

Because of this policy, ASO clubs can’t fundraise as much as they can, Vaknin said.

For instance, ASO wanted to raise funds for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, but the newly-pushed deadline prevented them from doing so, according to Vaknin.

Additionally, raising money to aid those affected by natural disasters could also become an issue, as these events are often unforeseen.

“If this policy was in place when Hurricane Sandy hit, it would have delayed [the fundraiser the ASO set up last semester],” Vaknin said.

Rolf Schleicher, vice president of Administrative Services, says he had informed ASO of plans to revise the policy three months ago. However, there still seems to be misunderstanding between the students and the administration.

Pierce College’s Club Rush swung into its second day Tuesday, filling the school’s Mall walkway with students beneath open canopies competing for passers-by attention.

The four days of Club Rush, an event hosted every semester by the Academic Senate Organization, Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., provide student clubs a platform to publicize themselves and attract new members.

Club Rush offers a bevy of associations that suit almost any lifestyle, from the International Student Club to the Gay-

Straight Alliance.

John LuBran, Business Economy Student Association (BESA) President, welcomed all comers to join his club.

“We just want our club members to have a better understanding of economy,” LuBran said. “All of our events are free to attend.”

Christian Pilipina, a representative of the Pierce Sampuso, a Filipino club, gave some insight as to what his club has to offer.

“We have a fun environment for all young people, not just Filipinos” Pilipina said. “We often host donations with Pizzasaurus Rex and take trips to different concerts.

Marieve Elliott, a pre-vet major in her first semester at

Pierce

“I bounced around “We’re here to help encourage people in the pre-veterinary program to get to vet school, to help them any way we can.’

Eliott said her fellow club members and she help an LAbased outreached program, Catnippers, that rescues feral cats.

“Some of us volunteer to work with Catnippers down in Downtown LA,” “We spay and neuter them.”

Eliot also mentioned that the volunteers go out of their way to help wounded cats heal.

“We also give them vaccinations, deworming, clean them up,” Elliott said. “Just to give them the best live that we can.

“The problem is that most of the dialogue should have happened before,” Schleicher said. “I figured [discussions between ASO and clubs] were already happening. I’m going to sit down with representatives once accreditation is over.”

The Roundup was unable to reach ASO’s president and faculty adviser for a response to the previous comment.

[See FUNDRAISING, pg. 3]

Accreditation committee evaluates Pierce College

Club Rush hits the Mall Pierce, Mission and Valley

Committee—co-chaired by Wood—sent their selfevaluation to the ACCJC.

ursday

Two years of planning for Pierce College’s accreditation culminates this week a team of 11 educators, a team from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, visits the campus to evaluate classes and facilities.

The visit, which began Monday and will end Thursday, will determine whether Pierce meets standards that reaffirm the school’s accreditation.

“Accreditation is important to students because it enforces good health and validation to the school,” said Mia Wood, faculty accreditation coordinator. “Courses that are accredited in this institution give students the chance to transfer to a four-year institution.”

Full accreditation also enables the college to be federally funded, Wood said.

The team members will have full access to the school and will be able to walk into classrooms and meetings at anytime, according to Wood.

Back in Jan., the Pierce Accreditation Steering

“We respond to statements to show how the college does or does not show up to standards by providing evidence,” said Lyn Clark, chair of the Pierce College Council.

The standards provided by ACCJC go over the technology the school provides, where the funding for the school goes, how the school is guided by their leader, and the plan or mission for the school’s and its students’ futures.

“[The team comes] to this campus to confirm what they read in the document is what we do,” Wood said.

After the four days of evaluating, the team will put together a written assessment that determines if the school’s standards are up to code and then meet with the ACCJC and discuss their findings.

The commission will not make the final decision on Pierce’s accreditation until June.

On the last day of the team’s stay, it will provide an exit report of the accreditation team chair’s summary of commendation and additional information, according to Jeanie Dewhurst, accreditation team assistant.

Even though two of three colleges that were accredited last year were put on probation, Wood is confident that Pierce’s evaluation will not have a similar result.

“Everything that the standards asked us to address has been addressed,” Wood said. “It’s all but impossible that we would lose our accreditation.”

College President Kathleen Burke-Kelly said that, ultimately, what the team writes in its evaluation isn’t up to the school.

“We don’t know what the outcome will be in July,” Burke-Kelly said.

Wood said that the team is comprised of peers of the faculty and staff peers.

“We are fortunate in that the people who serve on these visiting teams are our colleagues,” Wood said. “And they are donating their time.”

There will be one more open forum, the last of three, for the faculty, and staff to address the team Wednesday at 10 a.m. before its exit report is presented Thursday at noon in the Great Hall.

Though the team will be available for comments and questions, “They’re not hanging out,” Wood said.

Jasson Bautista / Roundup

OPEN FORUM: Laurie Lema, Peter Garcia, Pedro

Avila, and Sandra Stefani Comerford hold an open forum

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KICK: Members of the Martial Arts Club Michelle Allen and President Bernard Hanamichi demonstrate their training during Club Rush on

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Dear Editors of the Roundup:

Our society has seen way too many movies and videos involving firearms, and, therefore, thinks too casually about these dangerous weapons. There are two basic reasons that I, a former United States Marine Corps 1st Lieutenant and rifle expert, will not carry a gun on campus:

1. Teachers do not wear uniforms. With approximately 210 full-time and 600 part-time faculty members on campus, how would we be able to tell who is shooting whom?

2. More significantly, Amanda Ripley in Time magazine’s “Your Brain in a Shootout: Guns, Fear and Flawed Instincts” (16 Jan. 2013) writes:

“In the New York City police department, . . . officers involved in gunfights typically hit their intended targets only 18% of the time, according to a Rand study (emphasis added). When they fired 16 times at an armed man outside the Empire State Building last summer, they hit nine bystanders and left 10 bullet holes in the suspect—a better-than-average hit ratio. In most cases, officers involved in shootings experience a kaleidoscope of sensory distortions including tunnel vision and a loss of hearing. Afterward, they are sometimes surprised to learn that they have fired their weapons at all.”

Please note that the NYC police officers routinely train extensively to be in top shape with their weapons.

For less skilled instructors to fire a weapon in a confusing and crowded classroom or on a busy walkway is unacceptably dangerous. As a senior professor on our campus, I’m not going to carry a firearm to class.

Sincerely yours, Richard J. Follett, D.A. Professor of English

Thumbs up & Thumbs down

Shapiro suitably steers students

A thumbs up to Dr. Leland Shapiro, the Director of the Pre-Veterinary Science program, and his goal of getting 200 students into Veterinary schools. Also, congratualtions to the 199 who have made it thus far. Good luck.

Cafeteria absence is an annoyance

A thumbs down to the anticipated cafeteria “Food for Thought” not being ready at the opening of the Library and Learning Crossroads.

While the food trucks do provide students with meals, the greasy food cannot be healthy to eat every day.

We request the cafeteria be opened soon.

Q: Should Pierce administration start a text alert system?

Orientation should be mandatory

Pierce could better inform students of available services

Transitioning from high school to college can be a daunting task, and a mandatory summer orientation could provide a softer landing for new students’ first footsteps on Pierce College’s campus.

If Pierce mandated an orientation orientation, it would afford students an opportunity to become better informed on what the school offers and get a running start. It may even help them better define their own goals.

Eighty percent of incoming college students have not decided on amajor, according to US News. They might not even know where to start.

Pierce offers a free online orientation for new students. And, though it hiply splices helpful information with music and video, it comes up short for students who don’t have a path in mind.

The first slide of Pierce’s orientation video says having a plan is important to fulfill educational goals a student has set out.

But the video doesn’t suggest how to go about deciding on a plan, as students cannot create an education plan through online counseling, according to the orientation.

Students who do not take advantage of in-person counseling wouldn’t be informed of what major is best for getting into what career, which classes that would entail, and what university to transfer to.

There are numerous programs geared to help students succeed, but they’re for naught if they skip orientation and never see a counselor.

The Program for Accelerated College Education (PACE) is one of these programs, which aims to help students graduate in two years with fast-paced classes. The Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOP&S) helps students financially, and the Pierce College Honors Program guarantees students admission into schools like The University of California, Los Angeles.

Mandating an orientation for incoming students wouldn’t only help them get the most out of their college experience, it would help the entire Pierce community.

An in-depth orientation could allow students to get their assessment tests out of the way, enabling them to get past impacted general education classes.

Illustration by Austin Faber/ Roundup

Orientation could make it easier for students to know their way around campus and reduce tardiness in a semester’s first weeks.

Students could meet with clubs, sport teams, and student government representatives who could share some insight on how to be a part of the Brahma community.

Following suit with CSUN’s orientation, incoming students could be clued into campus safety practices, learn where the Sheriff’s office is. This could make the campus a more secure place.

A mandatory orientation could lessen the strain on faculty and staff.

Were students more knowledgeable and prepared, some of free professors’ and counselors’ time would be freed up, time they would have otherwise spent getting the information out student by student.

Pierce wouldn’t have to make any new hires, either. Both the orientations given by CSUN and Calif. State University, Channel Islands are lead by student volunteers.

The success engendered in new students by a mandatory orientation would grow beyond its roots.

Drugged driving bill needs more deliberation

New legislation leaves loop-holes and questions unanswered

wheel of a vehicle.

On paper it is easy to agree with Senator Lou Correa that being impaired by any drug is dangerous when driving, but there are too many problems that arise.

— CORRECTIONS —

Volume 118 - Issue 2

On the front page, the professor that was assaulted in the Village was not a professor, but an instructor.

In the correction box on page 2, EB was corrected to stand for English Building in the editorial, where the original mistake was in the column from issue 1, not the editorial.

The term DUI to many people simply implies the meaning of driving under the influence of alcohol, but a new bill proposed to the Calif. congress looks to tackle the issue of drugged driving.

This legislation, Senate Bill No. 289, will make it a crime for a crime for people with any trace amounts of drugs classified in schedules I, II, III, and IV of the California Uniform Controlled Substance Act to be behind the

The one that jumps right out front is the question of how an officer supposed to test if a suspect is under the infuence of drugs on the spot. Are officers going to have to arrest individuals, tow their vehicles, take them back to their station, wait for results from a drug test and then charge or release them?

It seems like too much of a hassle for any officer, let alone the police station, to go through such extensive processes with the possibility of releasing the suspect.

By Austin Faber

To prevent this, a field test needs to be created, but would it be able to accurately test that individual’s current sobriety?

For instance, how can the arresting officer be certain that the suspect is not completely sober but still have the drug in their system?

Some over the counter drugs like Sudafed and Nyquil can give false positives for meth because of certain ingredients used in both drugs.

Other drugs like marijuana can stay in your body days after usage providing a positive test for the drug, but the individual may not be impaired.

An easy solution may be an impairment test similar to ones used in cases of alcohol. However, the question then becomes, can it still be effective

for the listed drugs that can increase focus like cocaine or other stimulants.

Another problem with this bill is that it makes exceptions for drugs with prescriptions and over the counter drugs, those classified in schedule V, due to their low dosages.

Though they have a low potential for abuse, people can still be easily impaired by these drugs and the accessibility is far easier than any other drugs classified in Schedules I-IV. SB 289 is in session undergoing deliberation and should not be passed by Calif. congress. This piece of legislation is going into the right direction but its fine details need to be hammered out going forward.

Administration’s new fundraising policy hits clubs

[FUNDRAISING continued]

The deadline change to submitting requests to fundraise has to do with lack of staff in charge of rentals that are used during events, Schleicher said.

The amendment to the policy was put in place by administration this semester in an effort of to create strong cash control, according to Schleicher.

Though the district has regulations for managing funds, they aren’t explicit enough, Schleicher said.

Recent audits to the Pierce College Foundation and Business Office showed that cash controls “weren’t necessarily as strong as the district would prefer,” Schleicher said.

“We were lacking in overall cash control,” he said. “The process now allows us visibility from leadership to participating groups.”

The administration decided to improve on their policy. This change will also improve on checks and balances between fundraisers and the administration.

“[It’s] done to protect the fundraiser as well as the person who is donating the funds, to ensure the funds are being used for the purpose of the event that is taking place,” Pierce President Kathleen Burke-Kelly said.

It doesn’t just affect student fundraising, but also faculty and staff-driven efforts to raise money within their departments, according to Burke-Kelly.

News Briefs

Farm Center back in business

The Pierce College Farm Center office staff confirmed that the market will be open for business Friday.

The market sources produce from Pierce and other local growers.

Though there is no date set for its annual Easter event and the Civil War re-enactment has been canceled, it’s ready for weekend birthday parties and weekday field trips, according to staff.

100 sessions for summer

Pierce College will have 100 new eight-week classes in the summer session for the first time.

“The eight-week sessions are especially helpful in the skill-building classes like English and math,” Pierce President Kathleen Burke-Kelly said to The Pulse Online. “Students do better in these when they have more time.”

Anthropology Lecture Series continues

Anthropologist and photographer Lee Corkett will present a lecture, “How do transnational technologies and ideas interact with local imaginings of cultural and social identity?” in the Thursday, March 21 at 1 p.m. in Behavioral Science 1308.

Suspect identified

The man detained March 4 for assaulting an instructor in the Village has been charged with making death threats, according to officials. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Tyshaun Middleton by a friend, is being held on $40,000 bail in the Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles, according to Deputy Peter Gomez of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

Pierce College student Tim Hamilton said he and Middleton were “close. Really, really close,” and that Middleton had been expelled from

William Howard Taft High School.

Middleton told another friend the night before the incident that he was going to see his girlfriend at Pierce in the morning, according to Hamilton. “He was intoxicated,” Hamilton said. “It could’ve been anything, knowing Middleton.”

Middleton’s girlfriend’s father had filed a restraining order against him after he repeatedly took a car of the family’s, according to Hamilton. “He’s a little wild,” Hamilton said. “He wants attention all the time.”

Sheriff’s Blotter

Incident Report

vehicle at around 9 a.m.

3/06 - Vehicle Damage - An unknown person keyed a vehicle in Lot 6.

3/05 - Vehicle Damage - A hit-and-run to a parked vehicle took place in Lot 8.

–Compiled by Matt Gottesman and Tim Toton

Carlos Carpio/ Roundup

GLASS: Tyshaun Middleton, 19, kicks the rear window of a squad car after getting arrested the morning of March 4.

Round the farm

The Pierce college farm, which was established in 1947, still continues to give hands-on training for transfer students and graduates of veterinary schools. Their duties consist of daily feeding, cleaning and maintenance of the facilities. Student volunteers are under the supervision of Russ Schrotenboer, an agriculture technician.

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Gabrielle Titmus, student, holds a 3-day- old lamb at Pierce College’s Farm on Tuesday March 12, 2013. The lamb was named Cupcake by the students.

John Gutierrez/ Roundup

Top: An adult male Boer goat at the Pierce College farm center.

Left: A mother sheep stays in the farrowing barn at the farm with her lambs until they are big enough to be integrated with the herds on the pastures at Pierce.

Below: A group of Boer goats looking for food as a herd on one of the many pastures here at the farm.

ENCORE brings passions back to life Older students take opportunity to pursue long-awaited dreams

Nicole Pinto/Roundup npinto.roundupnews@gmail.com

The students were gathered outside, waiting to go into their watercolor painting class and take a seat at their desks that were carefully arranged in a rectangular formation. A student graciously agreed to come outside. She sat on a bench. Her face was lit by the sun, and her outgoing personality shined through the genuine and welcoming smile on her face.

Twenty-one years ago, Christina Pickard had an injury that made her feel like her life had no purpose.

It wasn’t until she enrolled in the ENCORE program, she said, that she found meaning again.

ENCORE is a program that provides older adults with high-quality education and a place where they can be themselves, share experiences, and learn.

ENCORE classes are offered on a free non credit or fee based not for credit classes.

“Classes are free and curriculum are approved and funded through Sacramento (some classes have a nominal materials fee),” according to ENCORE’s website. It can be a lifesaver for some who have lost loved ones. When they come to class, they can meet people who understand what they’ve been through and support each other in a welcoming environment.

Pickard has been a student with the ENCORE program for about nine years, and its given her the opportunity to fulfill one of her life long dreams: oil painting.

“You don’t get many life fantasies to come true. And one of my life fantasies was to study painting with oils. And here I am,” Pickard said.

Pickard describes ENCORE as lifegiving, and, for many others, lifesaving.

“It’s literally life-giving for many people because you reach a point where circumstances don’t allow you to participate in many life functions out there, and this gives an opportunity,” Pickard said. “I’ve heard comments from people saying that

‘I would literally die if I didn’t have these programs because I would just sit at home, curl up, and give up.’”

Like Pickard, many of her classmates have joined ENCORE because it gives them the opportunity to pursue their dreams and the chance to start a new chapter in their lives.

Seventy-five-year-old Paul Melzian, who has been with the program for five years, decided to pick up a paintbrush nine years ago after retiring from the graphic design field. He describes ENCORE as the best thing that happened in his life after leaving his occupation.

-Christina Pickard ENCORE Student

“I always wanted to do watercolors, and I had a chance after I retired. I am as happy as a lark,” Melzian said. “There is no way I could have gone and done all of this without ENCORE, which is almost too good to believe that we have this. We all wonder how long its going to last.”

Seventy-nine-year-old Bennett Levin, also worked in graphic design for some years and went back to school through ENCORE after retiring.

“I don’t have much motivation to paint on my own. I need a place and a time to go and do it,” said Levin. “And it has been very helpful for me to have this facility available and to have wonderful instructors as John Paul.”

Since attending ENCORE, Levin has been given the opportunity to exhibit his

paintings in the San Fernando Valley Art Club and the Valley Watercolor Society, and is now teaching two art classes at a senior residents’ home.

“It’s kind of like starting a whole new career at my age,” Levin said.

Adjunct professor John Paul Thornton has been working with ENCORE for two years teaching art history and painting classes.

“I really love it. The thing I love about it is the students who are here are bringing with them their tremendous life experience,” Thornton said. “They are incredibly educated and traveled. I can’t say a thing in there without someone reminding me and making sure that I am saying everything the right way.”

Thornton said that, on average, he has about a 100-person waiting list for each of his classes, and that his students are eager to learn and rarely miss lectures.

“They are in some ways living their dreams. They are making their dreams a reality,” Thornton said. “Its not just leisure. Ideally, ENCORE is keeping them positive. There is a real sense of community here.”

Marilyn Weiner, another ENCORE student, described how her life drastically changed after her mother’s death, slowly pushing her into depression.

She received the Pierce catalog in the mail, signed up for classes, and started school with ENCORE.

“It was a big stretch to step out of the box and leave the house because literally, I was so sad. It put people back in my life. It put art in my life, and I was able to express myself artistically, giving my emotions into the art,” Weiner said. “It has just been such an enriching and incredible experience. I wake up in the morning at 4 o’clock to see its time to start painting.”

ENCORE is not a program where seniors take classes and leave. There is a sense of community, according to Thornton.

“I keep thinking about the line in the Gettysburg Address that this nation should have a new birth of freedom, and that is what ENCORE has been for me and I know for many others,” Pickard said.

For more information about ENCORE, go to community.piercecollege.edu/encore.

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ARTISTIC:

LA painter shows work in Art Gallery

Featured artist to host lecture for topography exhibit

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Local Los Angeles painter Peter Liashkov will showcase his new exhibit “Topography of Memory” March 14 through April 17 in the Art Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.

Liashkov will conduct a guest lecture on March 14 at 6 p.m. for the reveal of his exhibit. A reception will follow immediately in the Art Garden.

For more information on the event, contact Gallery Director Monika Del Bosque at delbosmm@ piercecollege.edu.

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Janet Rosen shows off a painting depicting a photograph she took in Vietnam of a woman weaving, while in the Art Gallery on March 4. Rosen, who taught art for 23 years to elementary and middle school students, has been on the ENCORE program for four years.

“It’s literally life-giving for many people because you reach a point where circumstances don’t allow you to participate in many life functions out there, and this gives an opportunity.”

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Spiking it up with the Hoosiers

Outside hitter stands tall after signing with D-1 volleyball program at Indiana University

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Danetta Boykin, who has had a successful twoyear run for the Pierce College’s women’s volleyball team, continues her journey as she verbally commits to playing next year at Indiana University.

Pierce Athletic Director Bob Lofrano gives high praise to Boykin and the work she put in to get to the Division I level.

“It’s a great thing for Danetta. She’s come a long way from Birmingham [High School] to reach this pedestal,” Lofrano said. “She gets to reap the benefits of working hard and as a result [she] gets to compete at the national level.”

Boykin, who played outside hitter for the Brahmas, became one of the most highly-soughtout players in the nation after helping the Brahmas win two straight back-to-back state championships while being named 1st Team AllConference twice and the state’s most valuable player in 2011.

With Pierce in the rear-view mirror, Boykin is now going to play against competition that is just as tall, fast and talented as she is. Boykin goes from playing in the Western State Conference to one of the nation’s most competitive conference at the Division I level: the Big Ten, which includes the five-time national champion Penn State.

Boykin, however, welcomes the competition and the opportunity to compete against the very best. She will have to be at her best to earn playing time for the Indiana Hoosiers.

“I want to be the best and compete against the best,” Boykin said. “I want to develop more and become the best player I can be to help my team win.”

Despite the Hoosier’s five national championships, they have not been a historically-strong program. They have never won a conference championship and despite having recent success by making it to the Sweet 16 in 2010, they posted a lowly record of 12-20 in the 2012

Baseball: 5 – 12

season. Boykin hopes to change that though when she becomes a Hoosier.

“I talked to Tom Crean [Indiana’s men’s basketball head coach] and he actually was one of the people who persuaded me to come and become part of the winning tradition at Indiana,” said Boykin “I talked to Sherry Dunbar [women’s volleyball team head coach] as well, and the coaches told me they want to win. If you want to win, I want to win and I want to compete against the nation’s elite.”

As Boykin’s time winds down at Pierce she remembers her beginnings, from the first time she picked up the sport at Birmingham High School to the last two years playing for Pierce under the guidance of head coach Nabil Mardini. It was Mardini who helped turn her from raw talent to one of the most wanted outside hitters in the nation. “Her work ethic is second to none,” said Mardini. “She’s humble, modest, comes hungry to practice and is always eager to learn and help her teammates get better.”

-Nabil Mardini Head coach

Boykin credits both Mardini and her high school head coach Dave Lertzman for helping her develop as a player.

“My coach Dave Lertzman was the first one to go up to me and he gave me a shot to join the team sophomore year. I made the varsity team, and God blessed me to work hard,” Boykin said. “Nabil has helped me the most out of anyone, mentally and physically in and outside the volleyball court and without him I would not be the player that I am today.”

Still, Boykin has a lot to look back on and remembers her time growing up as a player at Birmingham and blossoming into a Division I talent at Pierce.

“I am very thankful for Pierce for helping me achieve my goals, and I thank Dave Lertzman for getting me started with volleyball and I appreciate Nabil for helping me continue at volleyball and pushing me to be the player I thought I could never be,” Boykin said. “No one is going to beat Pierce culture and I will forever be a Brahma.”

Sports Briefs

The Pierce College baseball team is currently riding a five game losing streak. Their last win was on Feb. 23 against El Camino. In their last five games the Brahmas pitching are averaging 9.6 runs, 7 earned runs, 6.6 base by balls and 4.4 strikeouts.

The Brahmas next game will be March 14 away against Ventura at 1 p.m

Softball: 3-9-1

The Pierce College softball team’s losing streak has reached eight games in their last nine games. In their double header against Santa Barbara they tied in first game and lost the second game by three in a shutout. Their next game will be a double header against Allan Hancock on March 12 at 1/3 p.m. at the softball field.

Boykin’s stats:

-Games played: 77

-Kills: 322

-Kill percent: .387

-K/G: 4.18

-CCCAA Women’s Volleyball 2012 State Championship All-Tournament

Team

-2012 All State SoCal Selection

-2011 MVP of State Tournament

University commitments:

Janelle Futch - Gonzaga University

Jessica Burns - Briar Cliff University

Brooke Dawson - Loyola Marymount University

Men’s volleyball: 6 - 4 The men’s volleyball have won their last three games. They are 3-0 in conference games with three wins and losses while at home. The Brahmas have an impressive 2-0 record on the road. Their next game will be at El Camino on March 15 at 6 p.m.

–Complied by Carlos Islas

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MVP: Danetta Boykin poses by the two championship trophies Pierce won in her time with the team.

“Her work ethic is second to none. She’s humble, modest, comes hungy to practice and is always eager to learn and help her teammates get better.”