Olympic Weightlifting highlights new classes

The course will be beneficial to students and student-athletes, because it will increase their strength and keep their bodies conditioned, Hank said.

and how to operate while stressed,” Sturdivant said. “Everything had to do with stress.”

In Sturdivant’s senior year at Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., he had a Marine recruiter come to his house everyday to talk to his parents to prepare him for the Marines.

The recruiter was reassigned to Massachusetts and Sturdivant decided to enlist in the Army instead.

“My Marine recruiter left me,” Sturdivant said. “So to get back at the Marines for taking him away from me, I took myself away from the Marines. I said bye to the Marine office and walked across the hall to the Army office.”

Sturdivant was trained to operate a tank at Fort Irwin in San Bernardino, Calif. He had missions that started in the Mojave Desert and ended in Death Valley, which left him dripping with sweat.

Mike Fong won Seat 7 by more than 70,000 votes, and was set to begin his duty on the board July 1. But the board voted unanimously for him to fill his seat immediately in lieu of its vacancy that was created by Miguel Santiago’s resignation in December.

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Planetarium shows free for faculty, staff Faculty, staff and their families and friends will be able to attend two planetarium shows this semester for free, courtesy of the Astronomy Department.

The shows are Friday, March 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Monday, April 20, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., in the Planetarium in the CFS.

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Pierce College will get new classes in history, economics and kinesiology, which will include Olympic Weightlifting.

Strength and conditioning coach

Matthew Hank said the Olympic Weightlifting course will be a great addition to the department, and that its high-intensity workout will be extremely popular.

“I think it is important to have a class that teaches how to properly perform and implement Olympic Weightlifting into exercise routines,” Hank said. Students have not spent extra time to maximize their strength because of the risk of injuries, Hank said. Olympic Weightlifting will help with conditioning, and the proper training will minimize the risk of injury, according to Hank.

The strength and conditioning coach was asked by students several times if he could teach them Olympic Weightlifting, so the course was introduced to the Curriculum Committee, which is lead by Art instructor Constance Moffatt.

But Olympic Weightlifting will not be the only new class at Pierce.

History Department Chair Richard McMillan said the History Department is trying to bring back classes such as Asian History and Middle Eastern History

“Since 9/11, there have been demands by students to have a Middle Eastern history course,” McMillan said.

This semester the college added

ʻMAJOR MATTERSʼ medical school preparation workshop

The Pierce Counseling Faculty will host the first in a series of “MAJOR MATTERS” workshops about specific majors offered by the college.

Its first workshop will cover how to prepare for medical school with the right major and general education pattern at Pierce.

The “MAJOR MATTERS” workshop is Friday, March 20, 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the CTC Room on the first floor of the Student Services Building.

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Softball drops eighth straight

Column: Wi-fi

VICTOR RODRIGUEZ vrodriguez.roundupnews@gmail.com @vrdogriguez2100

The inconsistency that Pierce College’s Wi-Fi is infamous for has become the running joke on campus, and the frustration experienced by not having a connection is universal.

We pay our fees and come to class, so why are we being subjected to what can only be referred to as modern-day torture?

This struggle has existed since Wi-Fi was first implemented on campus. With the long list of problems that is created by faulty connectivity, a long list of failed solutions has followed suit.

Last year, there was an attempt to regulate users by restricting access to everyone except students and staff. This practice utilized the student numbers and PINs given while registering at Pierce.

This reduced the strain caused by large amounts of people trying to gain access, but it also seemed to have a problem with the login the screen that allowed you to enter the necessary information.

Poor Wi-Fi performance might be fine for those in a math class, where all that is required is a piece of chalk, but this leaves specific departments in what can only be described as a bare-bones operation that no amount of arithmetic will solve.

Last month, an automotive class marched from the outskirts of campus to the IT department. No one was able to get online, so all productivity halted.

On a smaller scale, yet just as infuriating, time-sensitive assignments jeopardize student success if they depend on Internet connectivity.

The Pierce College library was supposed to be a beacon of light and our guide through the storm, yet last semester, during finals week nonetheless, if you had brought in your personal web-enabled device you were pretty much out of luck.

By the time you realized that the connectivity problem was the fault of the Wi-Fi and not your device, all the computers that were wired-in were taken.

What was a student to do?

With multiple finals to study for, I had a stroke of genius. I packed my laptop, charger and other tools, and headed to Taco Bell.

I had discovered that Taco Bell offered free Wi-Fi. Better Wi-Fi than Pierce.

A couple hours and a reasonable amount of burritos later, I had successfully led a cram session for a study group in my class.

The allocation of resources needed to remedy our situation cannot be a simple task, but promises are made every year that only raise our expectations.

But every year, like clockwork, these expectations aren’t met.