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Preparing for Union Presidency

Nominees debate platforms for upcoming elections

Candidates debated in the Great Hall April 17 in order to woo faculty members in a campaign that will decide the next Pierce College union chapter president of the Los Angeles College Faculty Guild, American Federation of Teachers Local 1521.

Turnout was high as faculty gathered around tables for talk and lunch, with one executive board delegate remarking that she “had never seen so many at one of these meetings before.”

“Our guild could not function without thoughtful membership

stepping forward to fulfill various leadership in the guild,” said former Chapter President Bill DeRubertis, who also served as a moderator for the debate.

First to speak was Fernando Oleas, department chairman of the modern languages department. Oleas recounted his four-year experience as a grievance representative, involvement on the union’s executive board and participation in various committees for over half a decade.

He also mentioned the Associated Students Organization’s decision to reward him with the teacher of the year award in 2011 and his political involvement, citing his support for proposition 30 being his “biggest accomplishment”.

“To vote for prop 30 was to save the education system,” Oleas said.

Joseph Perret, professor of computer applications and office technologies, spoke after Oleas in the debate. He mentioned his past committee work as well as his experience in the Academic Senate and as a Fortune 500 executive at Litton Industries.

Perret modeled his speech off of what he calls “the three P’s”: Peace, Participation and Progress.

“Peace” refers to Perret’s goal to harmonize relations between the Academic Senate and the union.

“Participation” involves replacing presidential appointments with input from the union and allowing membership to have a say in regards to the union’s political

spending. “Progress” means increasing faculty pay and benefits from Pierce’s current position in the lower third of the state to the upper third.

“No matter which one of us wins, we’re going to have a great president,” Perret said.

Last to speak was Mitra Hoshiar, associate professor of sociology. A recurring phrase in her speech was

Farm Walk: Animals paraded on Mall

“shared governance”. For Hoshiar, it is important to bring shared governance to the union by spurring creativity in management and allocating resources to departments in a “fair and consistent manner.”

Hoshiar also invoked her involvement on the Pierce Diversity Committee for eight years and her immigration from Iran to the United States after earning her bachelor’s

Campus hosts two marquee events on same day

Tim Toton Roundup Reporter

The Los Angeles Pierce College Farm Walk and Topanga Vintage Market will share the campus on April 27, but running both events on the same day is causing confusion about parking, security and costs.

Parking and shuttle buses

Dr. Leland Shapiro, chair of agriculture, is under the assumption that they’re going to have market parking on the other side of campus and the Foundation for Pierce College will finance shuttles.

“When they asked me if we could do the same day I said, ‘Well, I need parking Lot 7 for me,’” Shapiro said.

Foundation Financial Manager

Kathy Zanghi agrees there will be shuttle buses to help with parking, but disagrees with where visitors park.

“First come – first served,” Zanghi said.

Floriya Borzenkova, the senior program director for the Foundation, said they were planning to make market patrons park in Lot 1 but said they cannot control where someone parks their car.

“We just have to put some signs up that say, ‘Additional parking this way. Shuttle buses available,’” she said.

Topanga Vintage Market

cofounder Lori Wolf Rotblatt said she wasn’t comfortable telling her patrons they might be shuttled from a parking lot to the market.

“The shuttle idea is not our

idea,” she said. “At this point we will follow.”

Health and safety

Organizers agree the cost of security is higher because officials are being cautious.

“Last year I paid $750 for sheriffs. Now they want to charge me $2,200 and I don’t have any money,” Shapiro said.

But the Foundation maintains that the Agriculture Department is raising money and can therefore pay.

“The new procedures, according to the [Los Angeles Community College District], is that everybody that does anything has to pay,” Zanghi said.

Shapiro said the sheriffs are hired here anyway, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

“We have a contract with them,” he said. “Why am I paying for time and a half for seven hours of security for a fundraiser for the college? It doesn’t make sense.”

Zanghi said Paul Nieman, director of Facilities at Pierce is responsible for the [Farm Walk] security and they’re going to have volunteers with radios tuned in with the sheriffs.

“They’re worried -- I understand. I’m not knocking that down because I want everybody to be safe. But it should be paid for by the college, not my department,” Shapiro said.

Money raised and spent Shapiro said all the volunteer workers at Farm Walk have meetings every month for a whole year to put it on.

at Tehran University.

“It was a huge cultural change, but it went fast,” Hoshiar said. “I can’t believe it’s already been two decades since I’ve been here.” I’m giving back to my community.”

The final event of the meeting provided an opportunity for faculty to question the three candidates.

Foundation considers downsizing staff

Jessica Boyer Roundup Reporter

The board of the charitable arm of Pierce College is considering laying off an employee to save funds.

The Board of Directors for the Foundation for Pierce College met Wednesday, April 16 in the Student Services Conference Room to discuss the future of the organization. They were unable to come up with a resolution and will resume the discussion at the next meeting on Thursday, May 15 at 4 p.m.

“We might want to consider laying Kathy [Zanghi] off,” said Donna “Obie” Slamon, board chair of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. “I don’t want to do that, possibly she can collect unemployment and she had said she would be willing to volunteer, come in and work because her job is pretty vital here.“

Zanghi is the account manager for the Foundation and opted to be laid-off by the Board in order to save funds.

“I can do the same, if it comes but this way, we can save money in the general funds, if it comes to this,” said Floriya Borzenkova, senior program director for the Foundation.

Borzenkova and Zanghi are the only paid employees of the Foundation, costing about $5,775 so far in April from the general funds.

The Foundation currently has about $11,000 in the general funds, said Zanghi.

The Foundation’s general fund relies on certain grants and donations including the Amgen Foundation Grant that brings in $9,600 per year. They also have a restricted fund where the funds are allocated to specific programs at the college.

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“When you give money to the Foundation, we make it clear that this should be given to the Foundation for Pierce College,” Norm Chapman, a board member, said. “If given to the college instead of the Foundation, we have no idea what they will do with it

‘Downtown’ because that becomes District money, when you give it to the Foundation, absolutely if someone wants to support the Agriculture Department or the Music Department, the Foundation has to legally give it to that organization or entity in the college.”

Chapman said they have $700,000 of restricted funds that the board cannot touch.

“All of us feel this way, it has to be done the way the donor says it has to be done when the money is given to the Foundation,” Chapman said.

Many organizations on the campus use their funds from the Foundation to run their programs, one being the Farm.

“The Farm would not exist without the Foundation, the Farm Walk would not exist without the Foundation, the students who work at The Farm would not be there without the Foundation,” said Leland Shapiro, department chair of agriculture and natural resources.

Borzenkova suggested that the Foundation needs an attorney to help with contracts. Other members also suggested bringing more people with fundraising experience onto the Board of Directors.

Brian Chase, the previous parttime director of the Foundation in 2010 was approved as a new board member at Wednesday’s meeting.

The meeting took place Wednesday at the request of the Board Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Directors, Donna “Obie” Slamon, as she will be out of town Thursday.

“If the administration is not here, I don’t want people thinking that they don’t support us or they didn’t want to be here,” said Slamon. “They have a regular schedule. Hopefully somebody will be here.”

Rolf Schleicher, vice president of Administrative Services and Kathleen Burke, president of Pierce College were unable to be reached for comment.

“If you have a strong Foundation, it’s a great support system for the school and we can do a lot more than what the school could do on its own,” said Slamon.

Jordan Utley-Thomas Roundup Reporter

Erick Ceron / Roundup

Union Presidency candidates: LEFT- Fernando Oleas MIDDLE- Joe Perret RIGHT- Mitra Hoshiar

Nicolas Heredia / Roundup

Pierce President Kathleen Burke and Leland Shapiro pet 3 month old Jersey dairy cow Mae behind the Great Hall Monday, April 21.

STREET BEAT

Students speak scholarships

Colleges could benefit from diversified cafeterias

The student body of Pierce College has been grateful for the open cafeteria and the services provided by the vendor. While Love Birds Café is occupying the space, it is only a temporary solution.

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is trying to make a cost effective decision to provide the same food vendors on all campuses of the nine colleges in the district.

This attempt at an economic move by the district is not moving fast enough for campuses with appropriate facilities, which are forced to stand idle when they could be in use, to provide a place of commerce and leisure on district grounds.

Rather than force conformity amongst all colleges, the LACCD should allow the different campuses to decide on an individual basis and sign ven-

Dealing with personal loss

AKA: Ask Kate Anything Advice Column

“Dear Kate, My friend passed away. How do I deal with the grief?”

Sad Soul

Dear Sad, Sorry for your loss. Death is something that no one ever seems ready to deal with, but is something that everyone will have to face at one time or another. It is a sad and unfortunate part of life.

It is important to know that everyone deals with grief differently, so don’t feel ashamed if you cry, don’t cry, need to talk about it incessantly or not talk about it at all. However you cope is OK.

According to helpguide.org, there are five stages of grief. While not everyone goes through every stage and there is no specific order in which they occur, they include denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

There is also no set amount of time that any stage or the entire grief period will last. Each person is different, and grief will vary based on how close the person was, how big a hole their passing will leave, if there is guilt over things left unsettled or feelings left unexpressed, and other factors.

Having a good support system

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in place should help. Find friends or family members that can give you what you need, whether it is simply a listening ear, a distraction, or help building a shrine at an accident site.

Something that might help is writing a letter to the person you lost. It will allow you to express any feelings you have about your relationship, about them in general, and about their passing.

It will allow you to say goodbye.

If you are having trouble coping with the loss, you might consider seeing a counselor. A professional who has been trained to deal with loss and grief could be helpful in the healing process.

The Pierce College Health Center has a psychologist on staff that can meet with students for free counseling.

According to their website, students can go to the Psychologist up to eight times per semester for 45 minute sessions.

No matter how you cope, whether you need to see a counselor or cry in your room alone, it is important that you do face the sadness. Don’t push it away and pretend it didn’t happen. You will have to deal with it eventually. Loss of loved ones is inevitable, and you need to process the grief.

Over time, the pain will lessen. Find some support, and hang in there.

Do you have a question for Kate?

Don’t shy away, ask Kate anything by sending an email to AskKateAnything@ gmail.com. If you have a question of a sensitive nature and wish to remain anonymous, your identity will be a kept a secret.

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dors themselves with approval of the district. This will promote diversity amongst vendors, more choices for students, and competition.

More specifically to Pierce, the design of the current cafeteria can become problematic to finding a long term solution.

While it is designed to host multiple vendors, the conflict resides inside the kitchen. For the vendors to work, they must share a communal kitchen, which may not be appealing to a franchise like Taco Bell because they may not want or be able to share cooking space for sanitation reasons.

Modifications to the cafeteria may be necessary to allow the college to branch out and acquire other vendors. If the design of the cafeteria can not be fixed, a catering style vendor who can manage a large cafeteria and provide a diverse food selection may be the answer.

Pros and Cons: Installing skateboard docks and bicycle racks

board racks so those who skate have gotten used to carrying their skateboards with them and taking them into class.

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Installing skateboard docks and racks at Pierce may seem like a good choice for campus attendees who skate and bike but certain flaws will render them unnecessary.

People could easily hesitate to trust the use of racks or docks. If someone’s skateboard or bicycle is left on a dock, what will prevent another person from vandalizing or damaging it?

To make people comfortable using racks or docks, a security system of some type should be paired along with it, but that would only add to the cost and effort that Pierce would have to put forth.

Another reason docks might be a complete waste of money is that Pierce already condemns skating. If skating is completely banned on campus, what would be the point of taking a skateboard to school or even installing docks in the first place? It sends mixed signals. Pierce doesn’t have any skate-

What will get students to break that habit? An extra effort to store one’s personal belongings elsewhere, possibly further from reach? It doesn’t seem logical, which is another reason why docks might be a completely ignored resource.

It may anger Pierce attendees who see the school is providing money to aid such a specific crowd. There are always different causes and opportunities people want money allocated to, and racks and docks are just too demographically biased. If people use the racks and docks, bicycles and skateboards might get damaged from overcrowding since many rack designs are inconsiderate to every type of board or bike people bring in, like banana boards or even varying chassis.

At the Academic Senate Meeting which took place on March 24, a projected cost of a little over $23,000 was made on the actual cost of buying and installing racks and docks.

If the docks and racks were to go unused due to the obvious flaws, that is a nice sum of money which would go to waste.

Pro

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At any campus transportation is crucial to student enrollment.

Some students may walk, drive, cycle, scoot, and even skateboard to campus throughout the semester.

Funds are commonly spent on ambiguous projects that have no immediate impact on current students, like the funding spent on several construction failures that have been initiated through the years at Pierce College.

So what would be the difference in building skateboard and bicycle racks across campus for those students who travel via bicycle and skateboard?

The Academic Senate recently raised concerns of perfecting student life and involvement on campus by building an atmosphere where students had more options to raise school spirit.

Even with policies condemning them, skateboarding and cycling have become a huge part of campus life here at Pierce College. Wouldn’t it make sense to fund something like

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skateboard docks and bicycle racks to facilitate the student culture?

California State University Northridge has created an environment on campus that has alternatives for students such as having numerous bicycle racks around its campus. The result is that more students cycle to campus, so having the racks and docks also promotes green living.

It encourages students to be creative and use other means of transportation than cars.

It is clear that students who travel from far areas to come to campus will not use skateboards and bicycles. However, the option still should be available.

Bicycle racks and skateboard docks would give the campus a more youthful atmosphere and may be a great way to recruit students who skateboard or cycle as a hobby. It would be a great way to diversify the campus in its look and also deem Pierce College to become more innovative in the efforts of accommodating student needs.

Remember, bicycle racks and docks are quick to install, unlike the current construction that is going on in the Village part of campus. For those who decide to keep driving, every docked bicycle or skateboard is potentially an empty parking space.

any officer or employee thereof.

Kate Noah

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“I wasn’t really advertised ‘Hey you qualify for this scholarship, you should apply.’ Send me some emails or advertise, or send me something in the actual mail.”

-Catherine Vliesis Pierce student

“Teachers like to endorse FAFSA. They’re always telling you to sign up.”

-Luis Marqueze Pierce student

“They [administration] sometimes fail on that because they don’t give all the information that is needed.”

-David Zelaya business major

“The only thing I’ve seen on campus is flyers. Never any emails or anything on the website about scholarships.”

-Jason Ingalsbe cinema major

Jesus Castro

Photos by Jeremy Nation. Quotes gathered by Jeremy Nation

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incident report

April 13 - 19

Farm Center produce goes to charity

Unsold goods

om the Farm Center are donated to MEND group

– Compiled by: Genna Gold

4-14 – Petty theft laptop - An unknown suspect stole a laptop from faculty office 2806.

4-14 – Injury - A student was transported from the soccer field to the hospital by paramedics for a broken arm.

4-14 - Ill student - A student became ill and was escorted to the Student Health Center after giving blood in the Great Hall.

4-16 - Grand theft vehicle part - An unknown suspect stole a catalytic converter from a 2007 Honda near the Farm Center.

4-16 - Employee incident - A volunteer on campus was not following the LACCD rules in order to do volunteer work and was asked to leave campus.

Pierce College Sheriff’s Station

General Information: (818) 719 - 6450

Emergency: (818) 710 - 4311

Kitty Rodriguez Roundup Reporter

The Pierce College Farm Center is partnering again this year with the non-profit organization Meeting Each Need with Dignity (MEND) to donate food to those without homes.

Robert McBroom, director of the Farm Center, spoke about how they became involved in 2009. They were looking for a program like MEND that distributes food and other necessities to those in need in the community.

“It was an obvious choice,” said McBroom. “Especially when there are other areas in the local community that aren’t our customers and they’re not coming this far but who can benefit from really good, healthy, wholesome food and vegetables.”

MEND picks up Pierce’s produce every Thursday morning and allows the surrounding communities to take advantage of the programs offered through them like dental, vision and clothing distribution services.

Along with bags of food such as those provided by Pierce, MEND offers cooking classes to those with diabetes to educate members on how to maintain a healthier lifestyle and incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables into their diets.

Food Bank director and chef,

Richard Weinroth, said that they receive around 1000 pounds of produce every year.

“I love Robert. I think it’s unfair that there aren’t more places like Pierce,” he said. “I can’t imagine anyone else being there. What he’s done is nothing short of amazing.”

The center helps individuals and families with various needs such as fitness classes like Zumba and Yoga. They are held at the center to raise awareness among members about obesity and make it more convenient for members by keeping everything in a centralized location.

“I love to be a part of something that truly helps people that need it,” said Weinroth.

Part-time volunteer Anabell Martinez has worked in the food department with MEND for the past four months, commuting from North Hollywood to the center in Pacoima four times a week.

Taking the bus has cost her an estimated six dollars a day, she said, but she always finds a way to cover the cost and volunteer.

“I feel like I wouldn’t want to do anything else. It pays off to see everyone happy,” said Martinez.

She enjoys her time spent at MEND knowing that her hard work is going toward helping others who are in need.

Tiffany Clarke, a MEND member

since Oct 2013, said she came across the program after her mom mentioned it to her.

Since she is currently in the process of moving to Palmdale, Clarke said she is hoping to find a MEND location closer to her new

address but is willing to make the commute to Pacoima if necessary.

“They help with all aspects and don’t discriminate,” she said. “They provide you with so many things that you can take with you.”

Green Technology Building on campus taken off master plan

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After years of ongoing construction on campus, the idea of assembling a Green Technology Building has officially been taken off the to-do list.

The master plan for Pierce College is constantly being updated to keep students and

faculty members aware of future construction, funding, partnerships and student success. The Green Technology Building is still listed under the campus projects that are currently awaiting funding but faculty members feel that the funding for the project is no longer there.

“The school is not willing to spend money on the Green Technology Building unless the

school demands it,” said Leland Shapiro, director of the preveterinary science program and professor of animal science. “By the time they have enough money to fund a building, I don’t even think it would be toward the Green Tech.”

With the major budget cuts, there are not enough professors to teach all the science courses taught on campus.

“We are not even offering 1/3 of

plant sciences classes. I know that not having a Green Tech Building is affecting more than one science department,” said Shapiro.

Not being able to construct the building is not only affecting the professors, but also the students. Even though professors are managing to teach in class, there is still work that students are not able to complete.

“The students and the professors

Annual Farm Walk event to take place on campus [4/27]

The Agriculture department is inviting the community to attend the Farm Walk on Sunday, April 27. Activities will include hay rides, a petting zoo, sheep shearing and face painting.

are troopers. We still manage to teach our students in class,” said Assistant Professor of Physics Lee Loveridge. “Some students aren’t able to work on their lab all day because there isn’t enough space.”

The updated master plan said that the Pierce College committee wants to develop a stronger management oversight for the pre-and postconstruction in hoping that a better team would create a better picture.

News briefs

Show support against violence [4/23]

Students can show support against sexual violence by wearing denim on Wednesday, April 23 for Denim Day. Activities are scheduled in the Great Hall from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m including the display of the Clothesline Project.

The Green Technology Building was originally supposed to be located on the northeast side of campus and had been listed on the construction list since 2010. Other classrooms, buildings and facilities were also supposed to be restored over the next few years including the area north of the Mall.

“I don’t think there will ever be a Green Tech Building, not anytime soon at least,” Loveridge said.

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Health center hosts festival [4/23 & 4/24]

The student Health Center will host a film festival on Wednesday, April 23 from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 24 from 4-6 p.m. called “A New State of Mind: Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness.”

Political discussions on healthcare, the Governor’s race and propositions 41 and 42 are a few of the topics being discussed at Pierce College’s Day of Politics from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29 in the Great Hall.

In anticipation of the upcoming June elections, candidates from

the 30th district congressional race and 45th assembly race will be discussing platforms and policies.

“This may be the only chance to meet most of these third party candidates who rarely get an opportunity to participate in political events,” assistant professor Denise Robb said.

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A winding path to a dream job New English professor nds herself teaching a subject she had declared she never would

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Beginning her first year as an assistant professor of English at Pierce College is something one professor would have never seen herself doing in high school.

Emily Anderson is 28 years old and one of the new full-time professors here at Pierce.

“In high school I remember I declared to my English teacher, ‘I never want to be an English teacher,’” Anderson said. “How can you want to teach this subject, it’s so subjective?”

As she continued to take the required English courses at the University of California, Los Angeles, her love of the written word began to grow.

“I took some classes and I really started enjoying it. And then I thought ‘How can I make this a full-time job, talking about books and talking about effective writing, and reading articles and poems and short stories,’” Anderson said. “Majoring in English is the way to do that.”

Anderson approaches the subject by giving her students the lasting tools to evaluate a piece of writing.

“I like to focus on how to think about something as opposed to what to think,” Anderson said. “I want them to think about how things work, how an effective essay works, what a good thesis statement is. So I guess the theme of all my classes is how to think about literature and writing as opposed to just memorizing things all the time.”

Anderson holds her classes to high standards but is also willing to take the time to help.

“She’s nice but she’s really hard at grading though. I thought because she’s younger she’d be more easy going,” said Ashley Guadamuz, an 18-year-old veterinarian major in Anderson’s English 28 class. “She’ll explain and if someone doesn’t understand she has a lot of patience.”

Anderson holds dedicated office hours and is very inviting whether or not students have an appointment.

Jamie Ray, 30, is an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor whose office is in the same building as Anderson’s. She has noticed Anderson’s commitment to her students.

“I can hear her having conversations with her students and they all seem to benefit from meeting with her. Very friendly and approachable and also humble.

I think it’s really important for instructors to be able to admit when they feel that they don’t know everything,” Ray said. “She’s English, I’m ESL. So if she has an ESL question she’ll ask me, if I have an English question I’ll ask her. I think that’s a good characteristic.”

Originally from Manhattan Beach, Anderson previously taught as an adjunct at Pierce, Cerritos College, and Harbor College before landing the full-time job here.

She also loves to travel, and in the summer of 2007 took the part in a program teaching in China.

“It was this really cool program that you can do if you’re a junior or a senior in college and if you are an English major. If you’re interested in

teaching you can apply,” Anderson said. “They basically pay for your flight and for a very rudimentary dorm room in exchange for your teaching.”

This wasn’t the only time Anderson had to deal with a cramped living situation.

After UCLA, Anderson did her postgraduate studies at New York University living in an apartment that Anderson describes as a little bigger than her office.

“There was a kitchen in there. There was a bathroom and a ‘bedroom.’ It was basically just a closet,” Anderson said. “It wasn’t even an actual door. It was a doorframe and you just fall into the bed.”

Although her living conditions were cramped, outside of her apartment is what made the experience worthwhile.

Anderson has a passion for architecture, city planning, and urban design. Her time in New York strengthened that passion.

“I just fell in love with the lifestyle, being able to walk around places and look at buildings,” Anderson said.

Currently Anderson lives in downtown LA where she can soak up what the city has to offer.

She often encourages her students to take advantage of the area we all inhabit.

“I’m a big downtown LA booster. I’m really interested in cities. I’m always on the blogs looking at what’s going to open up downtown,” Anderson said. “I’m always telling my students ‘Go visit downtown. It’s not as scary as you think, I promise.’”

Wednesday, April 23

Alpha Gamma Sigma meets at 1 p.m. in BUS 3206.

The Psychology Club meets at 1 p.m. in the ASO Conference Room.

The Political Science Club meets at 1 p.m. in the ASO Office.

The Philosopy Society meets in the ASO Conference Room at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24

The Anthropology Society meets at noon in CNC 3808. Alpha Gamma Sigma meets at 1 p.m. in BUS 3206

The French Club meets at 2 p.m. in the ASO Office.

Monday, April 28

Habitat for Humanity meets at 4 p.m. in BEH 1309.

Tuesday, April 29

The Architecture Club meets at 3 p.m. in AT 3800 The Business Economics Students Association meets at 3 p.m. in the ASO Conference

Despite this, there are a number of experiences available to those who take classes in the department or participate in the club.

Humankind has been around for quite a while now, and many areas under anthropology have sprung up to study our past and present, spanning from archaeology and humanities to biology and natural sciences.

Anthropology has been at Pierce College since 1956. The Anthropology Society came along not too long after, being formed in the 1960s. The club currently meets on Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. in CNC 3808.

The group has been running steadily since its inception, according to the club’s current adviser Noble Eisenlauer.

“The whole purpose of a club is to explore things you can’t in a class,” Eisenlauer said.

Eisenlauer has advised the club for eighteen years. Students seem to like him as well, according to the club president Christaline Nederlk.

“He’s very encouraging,” Nederlk said. “He got me to participate in my first dig.”

The Anthropology Society

Eisenlauer Professor of Archaeology

hosts a number of events and field trips related to the various anthropological fields.

There are museum visits, film festivals, hikes to places of interest, outings to native areas, and they even manage the flower sales during graduation.

Eisenlauer says he’s noticed a decline in support for campus groups in his time here, which has lead to a downturn in attendance and interest in clubs overall.

“We don’t have a focal point.

There’s a lack of coordination,”

Eisenlauer said of the change over time. “Students lose incentive when there’s a lack of support.”

Among them is an invite-only lab, where students get the chance to go out on digs. The lab counts as credit as well as work-study.

The class is currently working on a dig site that seems to have been a sacred area for the Chumash people. The site is located on the grounds of a school in Chatsworth, and currently has four trenches dug to search for the history of the area.

“The school has been good about letting us in,” said Kyle Montgomery, a club member and student participating in the dig.

There is more to look forward to from the Anthropology Society, as some old traditions are being brought back to light.

The newsletter they used to release is being organized again after a hiatus, according to Nedelk.

Through the ages, anthropology has blossomed into an array of interesting fields.

As humans continue to reach out, invent new things and evolve as a society, there will only be more to document and study.

Concert review: Students a end concert by e Varied Trio

Students crammed into an auditorium atop a hill at the Pierce College campus to get their weekly dose of contemporary classical music on Thursday, April 17.

The week’s free show featured a four-piece set by The Varied Trio, a group of classical musicians with an atypical sonic palette of violin, piano and percussion.

Before the trio played composer Vicki Ray’s “Jugg(ular) ing” to old, crackly footage of juggling acts, pianist Aron Kallay put the group’s eccentric style in perspective.

“Have you covered the Baroque era yet? How many composers did you talk about? Two, three?” Kallay asked the audience. “Right? That was 400 years ago. Well new music, the stuff we’re playing right now, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of composers are vying for your ears.”

Adjunct instructor of music, James Bergman, who organizes the concerts, invited students to expand their iTunes libraries.

“There will be kids that totally grooved out on this,” Bergman said. “This is first-rate stuff that comes to campus, and it’s free.”

Kallay, who teaches

electroacoustic media and piano at the University of Southern California, explained that today’s classical musicians are pioneers of the contemporary soundscape. “We just get so many different variations of sound, with all the percussion and all the varied techniques I do inside the piano,” Kallay said. “Composers really use the whole instrument.”

Percussionist Yuri Inoo spent the set negotiating her musical playground, rearranging a stage swallowed in instruments between movements.

The opening piece, “Vanishing Act” by composer Takuma Itoh, was written for the trio. Itoh’s website says the nine-minute piece calls for 20 types of percussion instruments including a vibraslap, bass drum, bongos and three small cymbals tuned to different notes.

D’Andre Abrego, 19, said the performance left a lasting impression.

“It was pretty good. Pretty psychedelic,” Abrego said. “I’m going to try and get some of their music.”

There are five remaining concerts of the semester, one of which will feature Pierce students. They are open to the public and will be in room 3400 of the Music Building Thursdays at 12:45 p.m.

Poetry prodigies present prose

Library o cials host poetry contest for National Poetry Month

Pierce College students, faculty and staff are celebrating National Poetry Month all throughout April, offering written and spoken word style poetry events with prizes ranging from a $20 Amazon gift card to a $150 first place prize.

Hosted by the Pierce College library, students will be allowed to submit a one page paper telling all about a favorite poem and what it means or a 20 second video performing their favorite poem or lyric.

Submissions can be entered for the contest or displayed to the public on the Pierce College Library Facebook page. Students can praise their favorite poets and poetry by writing their

Film reveals continued inequality Students watch a lm about inequality in during festival

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Students of Pierce College viewed a documentary film as part of the Resistance Movement Film Festival on Wednesday, April 16.

“Inequality for All” was featured as a part of the Resistance Movement Film Festival at Pierce College. The film festival was sponsored by the GE Path program.

Jon Stewart, host of the

Daily Show was featured in the documentary which is narrated by political-economist and former Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s presidency, Robert Reich.

“Most people view April as tax month, so we tried to show something that would relate to money,” Assistant Professor of History Brian Walsh said. “The economy was a close fit.”

Students who attended had some idea of the state the economy was in, but some agreed that it shed new

light on a familiar topic.

“I’ve heard this stuff before, since it’s become an issue for our generation,” said Kimberly Quinn, a 25-year-old anthropology major., “It was still eye opening to see the charts.”

Although the United States is not a third world country, it still seems to be severely behind with its economic standards, according to Stewart.

most inspirational verses on a whiteboard displayed in the front of the school library.

Instructor of English, Jodi Johnson, was excited for the upcoming events, hoping to maybe see one of her students present their literary talents to the school.

“We’re hoping for a great turnout this year,” Johnson said. “There are a couple competitions with some nice prizes.”

With the National Poetry Month already in progress, students as well as professors have already taken to the library’s Facebook page to present their poetry.

All forms of poetry are accepted for the video competition including classical poems, excerpts from particular musicals and even verses from contemporary forms of poetry including hip-hop or modern rock.

Judges are looking for originality and inventiveness from

five winners to be chosen from separate categories: most creative, most “liked,” most enthusiastic, most poem in 20 seconds and best overall poem.

Contestants can enter as many times as they want, but the videos must be limited to a 20 second maximum. The contest is open to faculty and staff as well as students, and winners will be contacted through Facebook or campus e-mail.

Participants are asked to provide the title and author of the poem and officials ask participants to exercise discretion when writing. The Pierce College library has the right to reject any material that is considered offensive.

As for the written contest, contributors are asked to submit a minimum one page, MLA style essay describing their favorite poem and its importance to the author of the essay. Name and

contact information must be included.

The deadline for the written essay event is April 30, with the grand prize winner receiving $150 dollars, $50 to the runner-up and the third prize winner will be announced in early May.

Paula Paggi, associate professor of library science, may be contacted for further information, and she hopes to see many entrees in this year’s contest.

“We just rolled out our new Facebook page for the event,” Paggi said. “We’re looking to get a lot more people involved that way. We want to see what kind of reaction we get to it.”

Librarian Clayton Gedimon spoke of his fascination with poetry, and also wanted to see styles of rhyme that are not always seen in poetry contests. “I’m a big fan of Deltron 3030. His style of hip-hop is something that would suite this contest well,” Gedimon said.

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Joshua Mahgerefteh, 19, writes “freedom of expression” during Poetry Week, on a board placed inside the Library on April 16. The board is part of an exercise that urges students to write their comments about Poetry

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Shalini Vijayan plays the violin and Aron Kallay plays the Piano at the Thursday concerts in the Music Building on April 17.

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STUDENTS watch “Inequality for All”, a film,

series on April 16.

Cheering for Pierce

Pierce College is home to a cheerleading spirit squad which meets Wednesday nights in the North Gym to practice chants, cheers, and basic stunts. These routines are performed during football, volleyball and basketball games. The program also has a competition team which meets Sunday nights, according to Jenny Ghiglia, the coach for both cheerleading teams. In order to be a part of the teams, all cheerleaders must be enrolled in the Kinesiology Athletics 550-1 class. In the past, members of the cheerleading squads have ranged from the ages of 17 through early 30’s as any Pierce student is allowed to join the team. High school seniors who are eligible to take college courses can also join the team before graduating. “In order to collect funds, the teams are planning fundraisers and also accept contributions through the Foundation at Pierce,” Ghiglia said.

Above: Clarence, the Pierce College Mascot, watches a volleyball game against El Camino College.

Above: Pom poms used by Pierce College cheerleaders to cheer the audience.

Left: The Pierce College Cheer squad practices one of its routines at the North Gym. Photo: Nelger Carrera.

From left to right: Morgan Winston, Emmanuel Jefferson, and Samira Faal practice a rountine named Touching Toes.

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Former Brahma shares life story

Football player helps alma mater improve football program

For kids growing up in the streets of Los Angeles, life can be tough. With gang violence and drugs so prevalent, children often grow up in broken families. One of those kids was former Pierce College Brahmas defensive end Elliott Reyes.

“As a youngster I was a troublemaker,” Reyes said. “Growing up I really did not have brothers and sisters. I never knew my father. All there was, was gang members that were the influence and that just kind of became a lifestyle. From 12 to 18 I was gang banging. That was kind of how I developed my leadership skills as a kid.”

Reyes eventually had enough of the gang scene, after being a part of the Temple Street gang. When he was 18, his childhood friend Gary Gomez was shot and killed by a rival gang member. While standing next to Gomez’s mother at his funeral, Reyes made a life changing decision.

Reyes decided to make changes to his lifestyle and separate himself from gangs for good. Reyes then turn his attention to football and decided that he was going to tryout for Pierce’s football team where he was recruited by head coach Efrain Martinez to play for the Brahmas.

“He was a great leader and he was a great motivator,” Martinez said about Reyes “He lead by example. He was always in the weight room, he was always at the practices. He did the right thing and that’s why people followed him.”

Reyes made an important contribution to Pierce’s defensive line from the start. He joined the team in 2010, that same year

Reyes would help the Brahmas win the American Bowl Division Championship. This was also the first year the Brahmas proved they could not only win championships, but they could also send players on to the next level.

In 2010, 26 student athletes from Pierce received athletic scholarships. Reyes is proud to be part of the first group of student athletes that moved on from Pierce and into other schools through athletics.

“When I look back on my life, I can say I played with Jaelen Strong,” Reyes said.” I competed against division one athletes. It was my generation that got the new tradition of Brahma football going.”

Since 2010, the Brahmas have assisted 87 student athletes in obtaining scholarships to play at four year colleges and universities, including 49 players that have played or now play at Division I schools. Current defensive linemen coach Kort Huettinger, who came to Pierce during the summer of 2011, watched Reyes’ development during his sophomore year and remembers Reyes as being one of the hardest workers on the team.

In the eyes of Huettinger, it was Reyes’ hard work that set the bar high for future teams.

“Elliott brought a lot of work ethic, especially in the weight room,” Huettinger said. “He and a couple of the other guys were big time weight lifters and they pushed the bar high in the weight room. They really made it a competition in there and I think that is really why we have had such a big turnaround. All of a sudden we had guys making weight room a competition. Not just competing on the field but competing in the weight room as well. That and him competing with Gerald Bowman (former safety now at USC) and other guys like Mike Pearson (former fullback who was a walk-on at Texas Tech), it really raised the bar in the weight room. To become Division I athletes, the way to be doing it is in the weight room. Elliott’s leadership on the field was exemplary. He always stepped up, he always did what he was asked. He never asked why, he just got it done and he took care of business on and off the field.”

Reyes, who is now 24, has gone from the streets to being on the verge of graduating from Cal Lutheran University, where he chose to attend to continue his studies following his playing days at Pierce.

During his time off, he volunteers as an assistant coach for the Chatsworth High School football team where he went to high school, and is the team’s defensive line coach as well as strength and conditioning coach. Not only does he coach for the love of the game, but he also does it to encourage his students to stay away from gangs and drugs.

“It’s funny because I’m back at my old stomping grounds where I showed a lot of deviance,” Reyes said. “Now that I’m here as an adult, helping kids is really life fulfilling.”

Reyes had an important part in helping develop the Chatsworth

football program in recent months. The Chancellors had been an afterthought in the past few years, but an upset win over University High School in the city section Division II playoffs and making it all the way to the city semifinals changed things.

Reyes thinks that he can help develop the team and make them better than they were before. He not only wants to change the football team, but change the culture as well, which includes upgrading some of Chatsworth’s old facilities such as the football field.

“We’re really changing it up there,” Reyes said. “I’m trying to

make Chatsworth the powerhouse it was when Matt Cassel (former Chatsworth QB who played at USC and currently plays for the Minnesota Vikings) was here. I’m really excited to see what we are going to do this season. One of our goals is to try and win the big lineman competition to try to see what we can do. The facilities here are really bad, so I really want to win first place so then we could start getting some donations and support and help those kids be successful. If we start to win, then the administrators at the school will start taking notice. One of my goals when I’m coaching here is to try

and get a new football field.”

Chatsworth football head coach Andrew Kim has been delighted with the results since Reyes’ began helping out at practices.

“He has a lot of intensity,” Kim said. “Kids look up to him because he has got it done on his own. He was a great football player. He has great work ethic. He is a monster in the weight room and the techniques that he is showing our defensive line has really brought the hunger into this defense.”

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Baseball scout helps potential MLB prospects at Pierce College A er serving time scourt returns to baseball

boat twice, the second being on Aug. 22, 2004, successfully bringing 19 Cubans into the country.

Going from an office as an agent to potential MLB prospects to the confines of a six-by-eight foot jail cell made up of steel bars and brick walls, the view can be a little different.

The view changed for sports agent Gustavo “Gus” Dominguez, co-founder of Total Sports International Inc., as he was sentenced to five years in prison for illegally smuggling Cuban players into the United States. Along with the five years in jail, Dominguez was sentenced to three years probation and a $2,100 fine.

Sentenced on July 9, 2007, Dominguez was found guilty on 21 felony counts of smuggling, conspiracy and harboring and transporting aliens for profit, according to the LA Times. During the trial, prosecutors said Dominguez traveled to Cuba by

Dominguez was charged with paying four aides to transport the athletes and other Cubans to America. According to USA Today, Dominguez and his associates rented apartments and provided food for the Cuban players, making it possible to begin training.

Charged in the federal indictment were Geoffrey Rodrigues, Robert Yosvany Hernandez, Ramon Batista and Guillermo Valdez. Jurors acquitted co-defendant Hernandez of six counts of conspiracy and alien smuggling while two other original co-defendants of Dominguez reached plea agreements before the trial, according to ESPN.

Upon his early release from prison in January 2011, Dominguez’s conviction on charges of transporting and harboring aliens was reversed, despite already being a free man, according to ESPN.

Continuing to work with baseball prospects after his release,

Dominguez was linked to players taken in the 2011 MLB draft, Yordanys Perez and Alfredo Unzue, according to Baseball America.

Dominguez is most familiar with baseball, previously playing at Valley College and Cal State Northridge. Since he lives in the San Fernando Valley, Dominguez said many players he has helped chose to work out at Pierce.

“My friendship with Bob Lofrano goes way back, 20 years ago. We were working out there trying to get authority from Bob and he was really kind to let us do it,” Dominguez said. “We let the guys start working out there and get in shape for the try outs and stuff like that. Over the years it’s become a home away from home for our guys and that’s where they get ready to go.”

Dominguez has continued his passion of being a baseball agent, using Pierce College as a facility.

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Elliot Reyes hopes his story will help the up and coming footballs at Chatsworth High School.

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“It’s funny because I’m back to my old stomping grounds where I showed a lot of deviance.”

-Elliot Reyes

Former Pierce College football player

Cheerleading program wins championship Competition team wins rst championship

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Her facial expression immediately changed and it lit up as she smiled and described with excitement what it would be like to win a letterman’s jacket.

“You get a championship ring, you win a bunch of really cool stuff, but I really want one of those cool jackets, just to say you’re a winner,” said Andrea Henderson, a cheerleader at Pierce College.

The Pierce College cheerleading program is offered through a oneunit evening class, Kinesiology Athletics 550-1.

The program is composed of not one, but two teams. The spirit or sideline squad meets Wednesday nights and the competition team meets Sunday nights, according to Jenny Ghiglia, the coach for both cheer teams.

Ghiglia, who is also an adjunct assistant professor of dance and kinesiology at Pierce, has been working with the cheer program since 2001 and only created the competition team three years ago.

“The teams that I built before had done what was asked for us to do in a safe manner but not past that,” Ghiglia said. “I had made a strong spirit group who represented Pierce but you can’t be doing stunts in the middle, while a ball was being thrown.”

The sideline squad, who was the original kind of team that Ghiglia created, received its nickname because it is found cheering the Brahmas on from the sidelines during football, basketball and volleyball games sometimes for two and a half hours.

Each team member that is part of the sideline squad is expected to learn approximately 20 chants and more than 54 cheers while using pom-poms, horns and sometimes performing basic stunts, depending on the space.

The competition team, on the other hand, is responsible to learn one routine that lasts only two and a half minutes, which they perform during competitions they attend all over the country.

“Their routines incorporate dance, stunts like the pyramid and the two-man stunt, tumbling, jumps and sequences,” Ghiglia said. “In the competition team your focus is to be the best at what you do over and over and execute each skill until it is perfected.”

Their latest competition, which took place on Sunday, April 13, gave the team the first place award during the Xtreme Spirit SoCal Elite International Championship from the “Collegiate Coed” division, Ghiglia said.

Emmanuel Jefferson, a veterinarian medicine major, and Samira Faal, a nursing major at Pierce, served this spring as captains for the 13-member sideline squad.

Jefferson, 24, who has been cheering for years, said he disagrees with critics who don’t consider cheerleading a sport.

“Cheerleading is really athletic,” Jefferson said. “You can smile and be bubbly but you still need to be fit when you’re raising someone over you.”

Faal, 20, also disagrees with other issues and stereotypes she says are portrayed through movies like “Bring it On.”

“We are not dumb,” Faal said.

“Everyone here studies hard and before cheering, our main goal is to give priority to school and work.”

For those who are interested in joining the teams, a minimum grade point average of 2.0 is required, but admission is allowed to both parttime and full-time students.

A financial commitment is a must since the average price per uniform is about $400 for females and $250 for males according to Faal.

“You have to be passionate for it,” Faal said. “I gained more confidence and we’re like a family. That’s what I was looking for.”

Until this spring, students could choose to join whichever team they preferred.

However, a new rule will be implemented this fall which states that all members of the competition teams must also join the sideline squad, according to Ghiglia. An informational clinic will be held prior to tryouts for the fall teams. This will take place Wednesday, May 14 from 8 - 10 p.m. in the North Gym.

The official tryouts for the sideline team will be held Sunday, May 18 in the North Gym as well, from 10 a.m. to noon. The competition team tryouts will follow later on that day, from 2 - 4 p.m.

For more information and updates, you can visit the team’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook. com/pages/Pierce-CollegeCheer-and-CompetitionTeam/328036104118 or follow their Instagram account under the username: “PierceCollegeCheer”.

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The Pierce College Cheer squad do the half of the hitch pose during practice at the North Gym.