News Briefs

SIA Expo [10/19]

The Science Imaging & Astronomy Expo will be holding an all-day event for the community at Pierce on Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. through 9 p.m. The event will be showcasing new technologies in telescopes and lectures from world-renowned astronomers, and culminating in a night sky viewing party. This will be the first time the Pierce College Planetarium will be open to the public and events will also take place in the new Library/Learning Crossroads Building. The first 400 students to attend will receive a free slice of pizza and a drink with a valid student ID. The SIA Expo is sponsored by Woodland Hills Camera & Telescopes.

Volleyball players dig for pink [10/11] confusing?”

The Pierce women’s volleyball team will be wearing pink shirts, socks and ribbons for their game against Ventura on Friday, Oct. 11 in support of breast cancer awareness. Parents and fans will be fundraising for every “kill” and “dig” made during the game, with money going directly to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. This will be the sixth year the team has participated in events for breast cancer awareness.

Lofrano explained that officials plan to have more security, portable generator lighting in the back of the bungalows, and to make better sure that all doors are locked at appropriate times, but that even then things can still go awry.

“We were broken into at Citrus College three years ago—not to justify this [situation]—but it just happens,” he said. “Even with locked doors it happened.”

Officials did not leave the premises until approximately 11:40; Novelich said the campus sheriffs made a report of the damage to the room and the players’ stolen property, and currently the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s fingerprint technicians were called in, along with detectives who will look further into the crime.

Additional reporting by Kate Noah and Raymond Garcia.

Sheriffs have requested that anyone with information regarding this incident contact the Sheriff’s Community College Bureau Detectives at (323) 669-7555.

- Compiled by Tracy Wright

New vice president of Student Services

[11/1]

Earic Peters will be welcomed as the new vice president of Student Services on Nov. 1. Peters recently served at Los Angeles City College as the associate dean of student life and also served as the associate dean of students at Occidental College. Anthropology lecture series [10/15]

The Department of Anthropological and Geographical Sciences and the Associated Students Organization will be hosting their first in a series of lectures titled “Snow White Live in Kinshasa,” by Leslie Nicole Braun. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 1- 2 p.m. in Behavioral Science, Room 1308.

Proposition 20

California Proposition 20 was a measure passed in March 2000 which distributes state annual lottery revenues to K-14 (Kindergarten to TwoYear-Degree) public schools for “instructional materials.”

The proposition generated up to $1.28 billion for the school district last year, with roughly $430,000 of those dollars going to Pierce. This revenue is generally spent on upgrading textbooks with the current curriculum and funding different school departments. Although these resources go toward advancing certain departments, they do not fund the schools’ constantly expanding infrastructure or the growing employee salary.

The information is then used to further student and faculty collaboration to better handle crime situations on campus, Schleicher said.

“When an incident happens, we want everyone to come to the aid of the person being victimized so we can diffuse that,” Schleicher said.

The Cleary Report helps manage statistics, which in turn helps figure out which areas need more pressure and attention, Schleicher said.

“The main goal is to prevent things from getting out of hand,” Schleicher said. “If everyone stands back and doesn’t do anything, you’re going to see more crime.”