News Briefs

Kristen Aslanian and Michaia Hernandez

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Registration for fall 2013 ongoing

Students anxious to ride the Internet cloud in the new Library and Learning Crossroads will have to wait at least one more week.

There is still no set date for when Wi-Fi is expected to be up and running, according to Pierce IT Manager Mark Henderson. Workers stopped installation on May 1 to focus on a more pressing issue.

“The other project was the fax and phone for Community Services,” Henderson said.

The worker responsible for completing the set up of the Wi-Fi is on vacation for the rest of this week but will return to work at the library Monday, he said.

The LLC opened to students on April 10 and has had minor

Paggi said that Wi-Fi at the new library is being held up by “a couple of parts,” and that when they arrive, Wi-Fi will be up and running.

“Testing and deployment will be conducted over the next few days,”

Henderson said in a May 2 email.

Still, there are banks of new fullyoperational research computers hooked up to the Internet.

When asked about using the banks of computers with a hard wired Internet connection, regular library user Guillermo Granados said he’d rather not use or rely on a secondary computer to do his online work.

“It’s a pain in the neck [not to have Wi-Fi],” Granados said. “[With it] I would be able to actually do research. All I can do now is read my textbook and take notes.”

College shelters horses

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In addition to volunteer workers and the facility, Pierce provided food and water for the horses, according to Samantha Gartsman, president of the Boots and Saddles Club.

However, because not much of LA county was affected by the Springs fire, there weren’t many horses sent to Pierce.

“We could have anywhere from 100 to 300 horses,” said Jim Brown, one of the security officers on campus who helped out with the evacuation, on Friday.

Lori Seely, from the LA County Animal Care and Control Volunteer Equine Response Team, says that she has worked with the Pierce team “a thousand times.” She applauds the campus team on their ability to keep up with the emergency situation.

“They’re amazing,” Seely said. Regardless, the process went

Incident Report 4/24 - 4/29

smoothly, according to volunteers.

“If my horse ever had to be evacuated –just seeing how well they’re taken care of here –I would want them here,” said Agricultural Assistant Randi Katz. Incidentally, the weekend was also the first time Pierce hosted a 4-H youth development event, which included equine competitions planned for the arenas in the Equestrian Center. For the event, approximately 20 horses were kept in one of the barns on site.

“I feel like it was a double whammy for us,” Katz said. “We tried to get them accommodated [at the same time as the evacuation].”

It has been two or three years since the campus was last used as an evacuation center for displaced animals.

“California has the best emergency response system in the world,” Connolly said. “Everybody knows where to go, what to do and how to do it.”

4/24 -- Miscellaneous Incident -- An employee at the Pierce College Farm reported that somebody was tampering with farm equipment.

4/26 -- Student Incident -- A student was being aggressive and demanding with Special Services staff.

Student work featured in annual show

[ART continued] with Del Bosque for another show but this year she is in the show.

“I’m happy to be a part of the show in general. If you win something it’s great, too, ” she said. Ellsworth submitted a children’s illustration of a library with a pig, fox, and rabbits that was drawn in 2012 using a one-point perspective and cross hatching in graphite called “A Fox’s Library,” she said.

Another contestant is fine art major Irina Kenij, whose very first oil painting was selected to join the other pieces of private adventure and exploration. Her painting is called Memory of Iran and it is a self portrait with Arabic symbolism and a quotation from Bahá’u’lláh, she said.

Kenij said her painting is like “when you close your eyes and things start exploding in your mind.”

Fall 2013 registration for continuing students is currently under way. To find your registration appointment, you can check the Student Information System. A full schedule of classes is posted on piercecollege. edu.

Film festival marks Mental Health Month

The Student Health Center and Building Healthy Communities Initiative will be screening “First Break” in the Great Hall on Wednesday, May 8 from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and Thursday, May 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. The documentary explores the impact of a “first break” in mental illness on three young adults and their families. Popcorn, fresh fruit and lemonade will be served. The event is open to the public.

Fundraiser to feature wheels

The Future Automotive Service Technician’s Club is hosting a car show fundraiser Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Industrial Technology building.

See the planets and stars from Pierce College

The Astronomy program of the Department of Physics & Planetary Sciences is hosting a viewing night on Wednesday, May 15 on the patio deck in the Center for Sciences building. All are welcome to join. Telescopes will be brought out at around sunset.

Honor society organizes nacho bar

In place of the chili cook-off scheduled May 6, the Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society will be setting up a nacho bar from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. along the Mall walkway below the Associated Students Organization office.

Party to celebrate retirees

Faculty and staff are invited to attend a party celebrating the retirement of 15 faculty members on Monday, May 13 from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the Great Hall. There will be cake served.

Student photographers spotlighted

Work from students taking photography-centric classes at Pierce College is on display until May 23 on the second floor of the Library and Learning Crossroads. The exhibit is hosted by the Media Arts Department, and sponsored by the Associated Students Organization. Workshops available

Stop by any of these workshops organized by the Career and Transfer Center. Open to all students, they all take place in the Career and Transfer Center in the Student Services building.

• “Financial Fears? How to Pay for College” – May 8 at 11 a.m.

• “Connecting Majors to Careers” – May 8 to 9 at 11 a.m.

• “I Didn’t Get In, Now What?” – May 9 at 1 p.m.

• “I Got Into a UC., Now What?” – May 14 at 1 p.m.

• “I Got Into a CSU, Now What?” – May 14 at 11 a.m.