Volume 123 Fall 2015 Roundup Issue 6

Letter from the Editor

All tricks, few treats for Pierce

There’s a reputation on campus that, “The Roundup always gets it wrong.”

While reporters and editors have made mistakes in the past, and will continue to make them, we truly strive for accuracy.

I can promise everyone that my staff is not out to “get” anyone or harm anyone’s reputation.

Imagine you were a student in class and your grade depended on getting information from a source that was crucial to a story and that source refused to talk to you due to someone else’s “mistake.”

Or if you were new to the college or community and a story didn’t have information from the main person behind it...would you believe it?

We are students and our jobs are to report the happenings on the Pierce College campus (good or bad) or things that involve it.

Two things that would help and almost guarantee the staff to “get it right” would be allowing reporters to record audio from interviews, and for more faculty, staff and administration cooperation. To reassure accuracy with quotes, the interviewee can also record their audio.

We stress polite persistence. Reporters will continue to ask the tough questions, but are instructed to do so in a respectful manner.

The Roundup also encourages “Letters to the Editor” to inform us if we did get something incorrect, so we can address the potential problem. Please feel free to contact us at anytime.

All articles can be found online at www.theroundupnews.com, and if you would like to have the newspaper delivered to your classroom please email newsroom.roundupnews@gmail.com.

Halloween activities have become ghostly on campus

KE-ALANI SARMIENTO Reporter @KeAlaniNews

After a decade of cornmazes and haunted houses, the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College is gone due to an expired lease at the Farm Center where the community event was held.

Although there are a few activities scheduled for the week, the void of the festival has not yet been filled.

The baseball team will play an intrasquad Halloween game,

costumes included, Friday Oct. 30 at 11 a.m. on Joe Kelly Field.

International Student Services held a Halloween themed event for all students to participate in, with treats, games, and scary music on Oct. 26.

“I usually go out with my friends for Halloween, but I also like to spend time with my family,” said Robert Jimenez, a student at Pierce College. “The farm on campus was something appropriate that I could bring my nieces and nephews to.”

Charles Sheldon, professor of English, told the Academic Senate on Monday that some members of the Senate Ethics Committee agreed with the statement that the

corner of Pierce College not having, “the corn maze, the haunted houses, the pumpkin patch, and other festive accoutrements appears to have lost something meaningful to the community.”

The animals won’t be playing with the kids this year due to the change of land use.

“The kids love it when they get to see animals on Halloween,” said Chris Kim, a father and student at Pierce College. “It’s like a field trip. They get so excited. It’s like running around a zoo with kids on a sugar-high.”

Public relations manager for Pierce, Doreen Clay, said a vendor rented the corner of Victory

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President not chosen

Pierce College President Kathleen Burke was not selected to take over the presidency at El Camino College in Torrance.

Dena Maloney of Taft College will be the college’s sixth president.

Sexual Assault

See story on page 3.

Transfer Day

Boulevard and De Soto Avenue for the last 10 years. Now the land will be returned and focused on academic programs, she added.

“I brought my daughter there last year and she enjoyed it,” said Heather Sanders, a parent and student at Pierce College. “I was planning on bringing her back with some of her schoolmates this time. It would be nice if they had it open again.”

Like a corn maze that comes to an end, the family-oriented Halloween festivities for the Farm Center have been closed this year.

The new plan for the Farm Center has been updated and is featured on Pierce College’s home page.

Family Fun

Sibling rivalry makes for enjoyable comedy

MARIELLE STOBER

Reporter

@StoberMarielle

It is thought that to enjoy Broadway plays one must partake in the dramatic arts in some way, shape, or form. This can be especially true wherever Russian author and physician Anton Chekhov is concerned. Yet budding theater enthusiasts need not despair.

Christopher Durang’s Broadway play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike breaks past the fourth wall with razor sharp humor and disarming realism.

on Oct. 20, 2015.

Set in present-day Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Vanya (David Klane) and his adopted sister Sonia (Laurel Moglen) spend their days together sipping lukewarm coffee while watching

the sparse wildlife outside the living room window.

Mornings consist of aimless bickering and pity parties fueled by the the overwhelming realization that they are middle-aged, single, jobless, and spent the better half of their lives caring for their now deceased parents.

One morning, as plain and indiscernible as the others, Vanya and Sonia notice that the blue heron that frequents the pond in the backyard has not appeared which may or may not be a bad omen.

Enter the fast-talking prophesying cleaning maid Cassandra (Leah Foster). Moving about the living room in a manner similar to a shaman dancing for rain, Cassandra scolds the siblings as she sweeps the rug.

[See THEATER pg. 5]

The Pierce College Transfer Center will be hosting UCLA, USC, CSUN workshops on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. The event will also include a college fair and a raffle for those wearing their alma mater shirts or hats. The college fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the individual university workshops scheduled throughout the day.

First Year Experience

The First Year Experience (FYE) Counseling Center is hosting an open house to introduce new students to the center and the staff. Students can join in on games and free refreshments on Wednesday, Oct. 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the FYE Counseling Center.

Speaker Series

The Pierce College Media Arts speaker series will host Allan Wertheim, Assistant Director for films including Saturday Night Fever and Raging Bull, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall. Admission is free and the event is open to anyone interested in attending.

Lynn Leavitt / Special to the Roundup Cassandra (Leah Foster) performs during dress rehearsal Dow Arena Theatre,

Nicolas Heredia / Roundup

Photo illustration: Pierce College is not holding any official holiday festivities this year, according to the college’s public relations manager.

MEGAN MOUREAUX

Editor-in-Chief @meganlmoureaux mmoureaux.roundupnews@gmail.com

Letter to the Editor

I’d like to correct a few items from Oct. 21’s article, “The Great California Shakeout,” about the earthquake drill and evacuation that happened in the Pierce College library on Oct. 15th. According to the article, the library failed to perform a duck and cover drill before evacuating the students from the emergency exits of the library, where Facilities director Paul Nieman chastised me for not performing the duck and cover drill.

I was not involved in the planning of the earthquake drill, but as a library staff member helping to direct the evacuation, we had been expecting a public address announcement for the students to duck and cover, followed by the evacuation. The library has no control over the PA system, and it was the administration that announced the building evacuation at 10:17. The staff was just as perplexed as the students and your reporters about

“Yeah, a lot of people walk around on Halloween and they look like strippers. They’re trying to bring in a whole new meaning to scary.”

-Celen Ghariban

Undecided major

“Yeah in a way, for children it’s definitely not acceptable. For adults I don’t think it’s becoming too sexy because it’s what they want to wear, it’s acceptable for adults, but not for children.”

-Brandon

Tennant

Undecided major

-Editorial-

But then there’s always October 31st to remind us that, yes, we still need to call out racist and inappropriate behavior.

ome may argue that our culture has become too sensitive. We are looking to be offended so we can complain about it. Has political correctness gone too far? Maybe.On October 6th, a UCLA sorority and fraternity cohosted a “Kanye Western.” Attendants dressed up as Kanye West and members of the Kardashian family. Students reportedly donned blackface in the form of brown face paint and charcoal.

“Yestheyare,InoticedthatifI gointoaHalloweenstore,most women’s costumes are are more lingerienow,italsosexualizesthe female’sbody.”

-AlyssaBrandau

Undecidedmajor

“I think they are. More for girls than guys, stereotypically I think about the sexy nurse outfit, I think about a doctor and what a woman would wear as a doctor. I don’t think a doctor would wear something unprofessional like that.”

-Gilbert Walker

Undecided major

Every Halloween, racistthemed parties are hosted by celebrities and college students alike. In these parties people dress up in stereotypical costumes. These costumes are meant to be tongue-in-cheek or clever, but they end up being offensive. Students should be more mindful of their dress and actions during the Halloween season. Though Halloween was originally meant to celebrate, honor, and ward off the dead, it has now become a day to dress up as anything you are not, nor will ever be.

There are costumes that attempt to transcend genetic makeup entirely. Some of the more popular costumes include: the Geisha, the Native American, the Eskimo, and the Mexican bandito.

People need to acknowledge and remember that these costumes are, very inaccurately, based on real cultures with real

“Yeah I think it’s getting too sexy, I don’t think it’s good for society because of the people that wear the costumes behavior, I don’t like it.”

-Golhid Eghbaki, Theater and cinema arts major

customs and histories. While people may dress up for a day and pretend to be someone of a certain culture to acquire sugary substances, members of that culture are a part of that every day and get nothing.

These costumes are based on stereotypes that our society has about other cultures. Instead of honoring them through imitation, stereotypes are being perpetuated and ignorance about different ethnicities continues to spread. The Mexican bandito costume, for example, is harmful to the culture because it spreads a caricature that all Mexican men are violent and aggressive.

People dress up in these costumes and don’t care to understand the meaning behind these sacred garments. Native

Problems with a PC Halloween

fair game for costuming from giant bananas to sexy Hamburglar. Granted, it would most definitely be in poor taste to wear the uniform of an SS officer.

what had happened. As we filed out from the emergency exit at the back of the building, I saw Paul Nieman standing nearby, and told him that there had not been a duck and cover.

This was the context for the quote from Paul Nieman, which was not explained in the article, nor was the exchange as confrontational as the article implies. From my perspective solely as a staff member helping to direct the exercise, the fact that there was not a duck and

cover amounted to miscommunication between the administration and the library about who was responsible for announcing the exercise to the students in a building the size of the library, and not a failure on the library’s part.

-Michael Habata Librarian Associate Professor, Library Department

Quotes by Samantha Bravo | Photos by Gustavo Sanchez

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MARIELLE STOBER mstober.roundupnews@gmail.com @stobermarielle

Halloween 2013—I am standing outside the entrance to Universal Studios with five friends waiting for three others to show up for our night of haunted fun. Through the crowd of sexy nurses and Rick Grimes imposters I spot a trio of curiously dressed individuals.

Side by side is a man in a German lederhosen with a pushbroom mustache, another male in overalls and a straw hat with two teeth blackout, and a sexed up little indian girl. These are the three friends I had been waiting for.

While some would view these costumes as offensive and in poor taste, I had to laugh; namely because I am of strong German heritage, was raised by a southerner, and I have Native American ancestry. Moreover I understood that the costumes my friends were wearing weren’t chosen with devious intent or malice toward myself.

Critics have forgotten that in modern American society, Halloween is a harmless holiday. Nothing about the way it is portrayed nowadays is meant to be taken seriously.

Anything and everything is

Photographers:

American headdresses are built from individual eagle feathers and signify specific accomplishments. It’s an honor to wear one, not something you throw down to buy.

Cultural costumes merit extra sensitivity, especially when the race or culture has been oppressed in the past. Native Americans have a history filled with suffering and now only have a fraction of the population and land they used to have. Their culture is something important to preserve. Wearing their traditional clothing trivializes that.

Besides getting it wrong, a lot of costumes made for women are extremely sexualized. You have the “sexy cowgirl” “sexy” geisha, the “sexy” Native American, and the “sexy” Eskimo.

However, there are those who sport costumes that are so absurd and comical that one can assume the outfit is meant to entertain—not offend. Policing people and telling them that any form of culture parodying is unacceptable is nonsense.

As a member of three cultures that are regularly misunderstood I could take offense at any sexy beer garden girl, naughty Pocahontas, or backwoods hillbilly getup. I don’t though because I can see that these costumes—while a horrendous misrepresentation of my heritage— are purely satire. Native American women do not all dress in skimpy deerskin fringe dress and paint stripes on their faces. Most German men do not wear lederhosen and carry pints of beer in their hands; and they definitely do not all speak as though they are from the Swiss Alps. And American southerners are not ill-bred drunken rednecks who marry their sisters. But I digress.

Halloween is a holiday that is enjoyed nationwide and everyone is entitled to celebrate it freely. This doesn’t give license to cause mass mayhem or rob your neighbors home or terrorize the old lady down the street. What is being said here is that the practice of dressing up in costumes that are so exaggerated that it becomes laughable should not be taken with as much criticism as it is.

Sexy Eskimo costumes are not only inaccurate, but so impractical for typical -49 degree weather! One could certainly go to the northern circumpolar region in such a costume and freeze to death. These sexy costumes are insulting to a culture as a whole, but are also objectifying to minority women.

Halloween costumes are meant to be fun. People may dress up in offensive costumes to be funny, not realizing how harmful the costume really is. As a generation, we are more progressive and tolerant, but there is still prejudice, racism, and bigotry in our country and in the whole world. Cultural appropriation may not be on the same level of a hate crime, but it is just as ignorant.

Cultures are not costumes

they can’t even describe. Tell me how this is fair?

The original purpose of Halloween is to scare off spirits. Over generations, the purpose of costumes went from warding off something, into parading around in costumes that bring shame to cultures.

It is immensely disrespectful and inappropriate to wear cultural Halloween costumes. Almost all costume stores do not put any traditional thought from the historical origin of that particular ethnicity, into the costume depicting people. These costumes make people think all the diversity in a culture can be well illustrated by just one single type of costume.

These cultures and all its uniqueness dissipates when they are mimicked in an incorrect fashion by these costumes. We always talk about equality. Wrong depictions of a culture is one of the many subliminal causes of inequality.

People buy costumes not knowing a single ounce of original background on that culture most of the time. It may seem like no big deal, but it is when one person is offending another’s tradition that they hold sacred. They are ignoring or neglecting the meaning behind everything that culture is.

These manufactured costumes essentially continue the cycle of inequality and misunderstanding.

It’s very inconsiderate for so many people to mindlessly wear a culture

I understand that some people may not uphold the significance of culture, but there are several of those who care about the misconstrued costumes and what they represent to people.

Then those people go around thinking for a long period of time, that those costumes are really the heart and soul of that culture when in reality it’s quite the opposite. Lack of knowledge can be dangerous.

Several cultures are very closely tied to religion. With that being said, there are some costumes out there that exemplify a specific religion falsely. Misapprehended religion can be very offensive and discriminating to its believers.

No one really takes time to look at the effects of costumes on certain cultures or religions. Most people are unaware that it bothers people belonging to that: race, culture, or religion. People should not wear Halloween costumes which inaccurately display a culture because it’s insulting.

These costumes are not legitimately made, and don’t match authentic traditions. Why were they even manufactured? They were manufactured just to make a profit off people and Halloween. There’s no respect for tradition and culture.

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Crime Alert

Assault on campus

MITCH NODELMAN Reporter @mitchnodelman

Afemale student at Pierce College was sexually assaulted in Parking Lot 7 at about 2 p.m. on an unspecified day in early September.

The incident was first reported to the Pierce College Sheriff’s Department on Thursday, Oct. 22, according to Deputy Al Guerrero. The Sheriff’s Department released a bulletin about the incident as soon as it was reported.

The bulletin described the suspect as an adult male driving a black 4-door vehicle, possibly a sedan. The windows of the vehicle were covered up with black towels.

President Kathleen Burke sent an email alert to faculty, students and staff about the assault with the bulletin attached.

Parking Lot 7 is located next to the Child Development Center and the Mason Avenue entrance to the college. One faculty member in the Child Development Center said she will be warning students to be careful.

“I’m going to be talking to my students and reminding them to go out in partners and to be careful,” said Phyllis Schneider, director and instructor of child development.

Schneider said the assault has her staff worried about campus safety.

“Several of us have been very concerned with walking into the parking lot,” Schneider said. “It is concerning that we didn’t hear about it until more than a month after it happened.”

Veteransʼ exhibit is now open at Pierce

Wartime letters are centerpiece of ‘War Comes Home’ installation in LLC

MOHAMMAD DJAUHARI Reporter

@17thLetter

War Comes Home, a collection of letters written by active duty servicemembers and veterans to their families, will be on display beginning Monday, Oct. 26 through Friday, Dec. 4, inside the Library / Learning Crossroads.

A panel discussion and “speed dating”-type event will open the installation where veterans and students will sit down in a questionand-answer session.

“Veterans will be able to tell their point of view of how their service was like,” said Charles Johnson, adjunct faculty and a veteran himself.

The exhibit will also include weekly trivia based on the installation and an interactive portion where people can listen to audio of veterans reading their letters.

“Students will be able to come in and check out an MP3 player at the front desk,” said Lisa Valdez, outreach librarian. “They can also use their smartphones to text a code and listen to the audio.”

A series of events tied to War Comes Home are scheduled in the time between its opening this week and its conclusion Dec. 5. An art exhibit, titled

“When War Comes Home: Snapshots

From Soldiers,” will be in the Art Hill gallery from Monday, Nov. 2 through Friday, Dec. 4.

War Comes Home is based on the book “Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families” by Andrew Carroll. Carroll will speak in the Great Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

War Comes Home is a project of the non-profit organization

Incident Report

10/23—Threats to teacher

At about 12:30 p.m. Friday, the Pierce College Sheriff’s Department responded to a report that a student threatened a teacher in the Special Services office at the SSB. No further details are available as the incident is still under investigation.

Management of farm questioned

Former Agriculture department chair left Pierce after changes to farm operation

come back to the farm, and it never got to us,” he said.

carpentry,” Shapiro said in the email. “They have no expertise in farming.”

10/22—Sexual Assault

Leland Shapiro, former chair of the Agriculture and Natural Resources department, has said major changes by the college to the management of the farm prompted his retirement from Pierce College in September.

He retired this semester after 39 years at the college, one year earlier than he’d planned. He said after the college transferred authority over the farm to Plant Facilities it became too difficult to teach his students using hands-on classes.

“I miss the college and I miss the students but it was my time to leave,” Shapiro said.

According to Shapiro, under “tremendous pressure from developers,” the college has sold several pieces of the farm’s land over the years.

“The Board of Trustees promised the revenue of the sale of that would

According to Shapiro, the college “wound up overspending on other things.” He criticized Pierce President Kathleen Burke’s predecessors, but said Burke herself has been more supportive. Shapiro added that Burke has dedicated about $100,000 per year to the farm.

“She did a lot more than her predecessor,” he said.

Associate vice president Larry Kraus disputed Shapiro’s claim that the farm was cut out of the land sale proceeds.

“After part of the land was sold, about half a million dollars went to the farm,” Kraus said.

In an email statement Shapiro sent to former students, he said “college administration decided to take the farm away from Agriculture and give its management authority to the facilities branch of the college.”

The statement added that the Plant Facilities department is not suited to oversee the farm.

“The facilities branch is great at painting, electrical, plumbing and

According to Shapiro, director of Plant Facilities Paul Nieman “controls the purse and overall management of the farm.”

Shapiro compared Plant Facilities managing the farm to him “going over to the music department.”

Shapiro said after Plant Facilities assumed management in his last semester at Pierce, “more chickens, goats and lambs died in the past year than in the previous years combined.”

Christy Daugherty, a PreVeterinary major at Pierce College, works with the farm animals each week. Daugherty works primarily in poultry production and said she wasn’t aware of a spike in animal deaths.

“Animals die,” she said. “It’s not like we get an email that says ‘one chicken died this week’ or ‘no chickens died this week.’”

According to Shapiro, the hours of operation at the farm have been cut drastically.

“Animals require a 24/7 management, and not a 7 to 4 p.m. management,” he said in an email. “Today, workers close the gates by 4 p.m. If an animal needs help in the evening it takes an act of Congress to get permission for someone to stay.”

Daugherty said she was more optimistic about the ability to tend to animals after hours.

“When it comes to emergencies I’m sure they’re not going to let an animal suffer just because it’s night,” Daugherty said.

Instructor of Agriculture Lu Dao could neither confirm nor deny Shapiro’s claim about animal deaths, and Shapiro did not provide documented instances of animal deaths.

Everything the farm does is part of the college’s instructional programs, which fall under the supervision of Vice President of Academic Affairs Sheri Berger.

“I receive a weekly farm report from Greg Mruk,” Berger said, referring to the farm manager at

Pierce College. She said she had not heard about the string of animal deaths Shapiro mentioned. She was only aware of one, a chicken that died during a heat wave. According to Berger, the reports she has received all indicate things are going well at the farm.

Berger said she takes the welfare of the farm’s animals seriously, and is currently working on strategies to keep the animals safe from coyotes.

“The health and safety of the animals is just as important as the safety of our students,” Berger said.

The new chair of the department, Liz White, is excited to be taking over where Shapiro left off.

“I am very excited about where the farm will be in a year from now,” White said. “The farm is at a crossroads as to what they are doing in an instructional sense.”

Shapiro said not many people wanted to run the department after he retired. He said that the chair of the department was only given seven hours to do a job that required 30 to 40 hours a week. There used to be a full-time secretary that would handle phone calls, paperwork and the ordering of supplies. The college asked the chair of the department to handle all of those responsibilities after the secretary retired.

“It looks like it was calculated to be uneconomical to sustain the farm,” Shapiro said.

White described the administration’s attitude toward the department as “quite supportive.”

“Shapiro would be proud of how we are operating the farm and taking care of things,” White said.

Shapiro said that though White “does an excellent job” as the Veterinary Technology director, he will not be satisfied with the situation unless the farm is managed by the Agriculture department.

Neither Nieman or Burke responded to multiple requests for comment about the management change or allegations of animal deaths.

A sexual assault that occurred in September was reported to the Sheriff’s station on Thursday. Fliers with a description of the suspect’s vehicle have been posted around campus to alert students.

10/22—Student Injury

The Sheriff’s station responded to a report of a student injury on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 9:45 a.m. The student twisted his ankle on the Avenue of the Champions which runs in front of the Gym.

10/19—Student arrested

A male student was arrested at about noon on Monday, Oct. 19, for possession of and attempting to sell marijuana at the SSB student drop-off zone. See News Brief on page 3 of last week’s Roundup Newspaper for more information.

Pierce College Sheriff’s Station

General Information: (818) 719-6450 Emergency: (818) 710 - 4311

California Humanities and aims to promote greater understanding of veterans and the impact of war on communities, according to the organization’s website.

“I’m very pleased to see the library and the college take this on,” said Barbara Lombrano, who served in the military for 13 years and is now vice president of the Student Veterans Club. “They’re putting together not only an exhibit but a lot of different activities for the student body to learn about this.”

War Comes Home provides attendees an insight into the experiences of veterans and their families using the correspondences written between them. Lombrano, who served in the first Gulf War during her time in the Navy, said that letters can be a huge source of reassurance for both those serving

and their families.

“I know how important mail from home is,” she said. “It gives you a release to let your family know how you’re doing and to still feel that connection to your family members and it helps relieve some of the stress.”

Valdez said she hopes students can learn more about the lives and struggles of the people tasked with defending their country.

“I’m hoping that students have a better understanding of some of the things these soldiers go through,” she said. “We can only imagine what it was actually like for them so I hope they take away a better respect and acknowledge their service.”

War Comes Home will be on display inside the LLC from Monday, Oct. 26 until Saturday, Dec. 4.

Joshua Duarte / Roundup

A trio of sheep gather around the trough of hay in their enclosure at the Pierce College farm in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015.

SALVADOR FARIAZ Assistant Sports Editor @S_Fariaz

Joshua Duarte / Roundup

A donkey wanders the pasture at the Pierce College farm on Oct. 2.

“I’m very pleased to see the library and college take this on.”

-Barbara Lombrano

Navy veteran, vice president of Student Veterans Club

Sheriff ’s station warns students about attack in September, posts fliers with description of suspect.

Dead Club Rising

All the way from South Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Iran and Thailand, they congregate in Pierce’s International Student Services office for a Halloween gathering to play games, eat food and meet one another. Jaunty skeletons and jack-o’-lanterns accompany the 30 flags representing countries from around the world that hang around the room.

In some of the international students’ home countries Halloween doesn’t exist, yet here they are surrounded by spooky iconography and new faces. They have gathered to do more than simply enjoy the festivities of this unfamiliar custom. They have come to resurrect the International Student Club from the dead.

Together they begin to form connections and build the foundation to revive the club through games that test their teamwork skills. Working to navigate a minefield by remembering the previous person’s path helps forge friendships. Between games, they discuss how each can contribute to the club. Wherever they may call home, even if they’ve never experienced Halloween, this is the chance to shout “Trick-or-Treat!”

Right: Nursing major Tam Huyhn pins the broom on the witch while student worker John Mata smiles behind her. The player who got the closest won a Halloween themed prize bag.

Photo by: Skylar Lester

Below: Addiction studies major and event co-organizer John Mata places Jenga blocks atop the stack during the Halloween event hosted by International Student Services. Photo by: Richie Zamora

Above: Graphic design major Van Dinh writes what she hopes to gain from, and contribute to, the International Students Club if it is resurrected. Photo by: Skylar Lester

Right: International Student Services counselor and event organizer Tanya Tufenkjian laughs as students play games in the multipurpose room of the International Student Services office.

Photo by: Skylar Lester

Copy by: Richie Zamora

Social Media Roundup

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-@min7yfr3sh

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-@EricWaters24

College and University Fair

OCT. 29

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., representatives from more than 40 colleges and universities will be available to answer questions on admissions requirements, application assistance, etc. on the Mall of Pierce College.

Sheriffs BBQ Fundraiser Media Arts Speaker Series

OCT. 29

Beginning at 10:30 a.m., the Sheriffs Department will be holding a BBQ Fundraiser in front of the old library on the Mall. The Department is selling food to fund the Baker to Vegas relay race in the Spring.

OCT. 29

The Media Arts Department is continuing their Speaker Series with Allan Wertheim at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Wertheim has been an Assistant Director and a Unit Production Manager on major films.

NOV. 7

The Pierce College Equine Center is holding a “Welcome Celebration” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entertainment will include Ranch Sorting & Team Penning, Parade of Breeds, Sport Horse Demos and Trick Ropers.

If it ainʼt Baroque, donʼt fix it

Thursday Concert Series hosted trio at Pierce College

instruments became the norm. It’s something I’d like to see come back, though,” Zoppo said.

Throughout the concert, Jeffrey Lavner, who played the harpsichord, sat politely in the background, accompanying the others with melodic and delicate tones. The harpsichord offered a unique and somehow familiar comfort to the music. The audience was simply not prepared when Zoppo and Brazier left the stage for Lavner to break out a crown jewel of the harpsichord world; Bach’s “Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother.” Lavner toted the tune which could be comfortably slotted into a Led Zeppelin anthem with little to no tweaks. The intensely emotional and epic sound brought the few bemused audience members to the edge of their seats as Lavner ever increased the intensity of the piece, bringing it to a crescendo, giving way to silence, then shortly after, the greatest applause of the concert.

The other two-thirds of the trio emerged and finished the set with a duo of mid-baroque traditionalist tunes and took their final bow; that is, until next year.

Bergman also noted that the concert is likely the most pertinent to is appreciation class, which makes up a majority of the audience each week.

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ETHAN ROMAN Reporter @Ethan_Romanoff

The Los Angeles Baroque Players brought history, heritage, and knowledge to students and music enthusiasts alike during the Pierce College Thursday Concert Series. The group, which has seen over

90 members since its inception in 1983, took the shape of a trio for Thursday’s concert. The group brings a new mix of classical pieces from 15th and 16th century composers such as Attilio Ariosti and Johann Sebastian Bach.

“This is the first old music that really starts to sound new, and most are surprised to realize that they already have a certain familiarity to the music,” Bergman said.

In addition to sharing their rarely practiced music with

students, the players also enjoy teaching the students about the technical practices at work.

Anthony Brazier, who plays the baroque flute, emphasizes the deep cultural meaning at work in the pieces.

“Some things may sound different the second time we play them. They aren’t mistakes; there are things we play that aren’t written down. There are notes that are part of the heritage that transcend notes on paper,” Brazier said.

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

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Though they largely disregard the maids ranting, the siblings are shaken by her premonition of them losing their childhood home.

Cassandra tells Vanya and Sonia to “beware the Hootie Pie” and of “Greeks bearing gifts.” In the same breath the maid takes to deal this warning, a car is heard roaring up the driveway. Pausing, Cassandra adds to her previous that their sister Masha (Jeanne Sakata) has arrived and “she is accompanied by a man with Trojans in his back pocket.”

From the moment Masha arrives, Vanya and Sonia are forced to listen to their sister as she regales them with stories from her travels as “a world class celebrity and movie star.” With enough vanity to shame even the wicked queen from Snow White, it is ironic that Masha intends on attending a costume party later that evening dressed as the aforementioned benevolent princess. Her stallion boy toy Spike (Dylan Taylor) will attend dressed as her Prince Charming.

Tagging along is the disarming and upbeat Nina (Michelle Hallbauer) who, despite her youth, plays a brief yet pivotal role in the lives of the three siblings.

Like her five husbands before, Spike leaves Masha for her agent Hootie Pie (as forewarned by Cassandra). Yet even so, the love loss for the actress is minimal as she has come to terms with her age and position in life.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is an honest assessment of the values modern society places on wealth, fame, and youth while

emphasizing what truly matters at the end of the day–family.

Heavy on the humor with a healthy peppering of reality, Durang’s comedy is a classic that anyone can relate to. Everyone knows a Sonia, Vanya, a Masha, or Spike. Some of us may even know a Greek tragedy spouting Cassandra.

It was a wonder to witness Leah Foster as Cassandra ramble in one continuous breath of all woe and discord that was to befall Vanya and Sonia. These riotously funny bursts of bad news were rivaled by the outstanding performance handed down by David Klane who, while portraying Vanya, spiraled into a breakdown repeating “and we licked

stamps!” as if it were to comfort the character.

The play is a delight escape from the hubbub of the daily routine and provides a strong punch by way of wow factor. Perfectly cast, the company on stage draws the audience in leading one to assume they are watching the lives of three bitter yet strangely close siblings unfold in a most unexpected way.

Although my only parcel of advice would be to leave any children under the age of 13 at home with a babysitter. With more insinuation and stripping down to skivvies on Spikes behalf to shame a room of frat boys, this play comes with a parental advisory.

Adriana Zoppo played the baroque violin for most of the show, the instrument a slightly less refined than the violin we’re familiar with today, brought some old-school baroque tones when she played the viola d’amore. The viola d’amore is a 14-stringed instrument, similar in size to a violin.

“The [viola d’amore] was popular in the baroque and classical periods, but dies out when easier to play and easier to make

“Of all the concerts, this really falls in line beautifully with our class. We just completed the unit on baroque music, and it’s great for the students to see the music, rather than listening to or reading about it,” Bergman said.

The next concert Violinist Ji Young An and Pianist James Lent in PAB 3500 at 12:45 p.m. It’s worth it to remember, as all involved in the program would like you to, that each concert is free to all who attend.

People of Pierce

“I am trying to major in communications, I do not really know what I am doing. I think I am just one of those kids who is here, trying to find my place. I moved to the valley very early in my life around four years old. I like to spend my time at home in my backyard doing crazy art stuff. I sculpt, paint, do some paper-mache. As far as hobbies go like with surfing, I just do it to relieve stress. Sometimes I help my mother with her gardening. I grow a lot of fruits and vegetables. I feel like even after school, I am still not going to know my place in this world.”

Edgar Amezcua / Roundup Los Angeles Baroque Player, Jeffery Lavner rehearses prior to the Thursday Concert Series, at Pierce College on Oct. 22, 2015

“PIERCE COLLEGE IS ITS OWN #pierceprobs”

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Avi Nelson, a 20-year-old Communications major.

Lynn Leavitt / Special to the Roundup Sonia (Laurel Moglen) and Vanya (David Klane) take their usual morning coffee, as they look out over the pond.

u supposed to do a swag check if aint no mirrors in the bathroom #pierceprobs”

Wednesday, Oct. 28

Alpha Gamma Sigma meets at 1 p.m. in BUS 3206. The Blatigenous Club meets at 2:30 p.m. in BEH 1300.

The Black Student Union meets at 2:30 p.m. in BUS 3203.

Club Calendar

Thursday, Oct. 29

Tuesday, April 8

The Literature Club meets at 2:30 p.m. in EB 1201. The Pre-Vet Club meets at 5:30 p.m. in CFS 91126.

A multi-cultural coalition Club focuses on empowering underrepresented groups

MITCH NODELMAN Reporter @MitchNodelman

Peace. Multiculturalism.

Inclusion.

The Blatigenous (Black, Latino, and Indigenous) club at Pierce College seeks to build a community with these three things.

The Blatigenous Club is a progressive social justice group, focused on the socioeconomics of Black, Latina/o, and Indigenous peoples.

“It’s highly a politically motivated group that’s working on the concepts of coalition building,” Faculty Advisor James Mckeever said. “This group [Blatigenous Club] is going to deal with issues that have to deal with Black, Latino, and Indigenous students, but also deal with issues outside of the campus.”

Mckeever said that their focus is primarily on the three groups because they’re at the bottom of

World class experience

ZAC GROFF Reporter @ZGroffNews

By the time adjunct media arts professor Daniel Nyiri was 26, he had already written and directed a short film starring Helena Bonham Carter.

As the son of a playwright and grandson of a screenwriter, it appears that film industry is in his blood.

“It’s difficult to say what was nature and what was nurture,” Nyiri said.

Nyiri grew up in Europe in the 60s and 70s and was constantly moving from city to city. His parents ran a small theater company and his dad would go on tour and often took his family with him.

“It was like growing up in the circus,” Nyiri said. “My sister and I were surrounded by an extended family of crazy, creative people. We didn’t really understand [the concept of] people who spoke only one language at home.”

Nyiri has worked all across Europe in the film and entertainment industry.

“I was lucky to be a competent linguist, which gave me the freedom to work in the entertainment industry in England, France, Hungary, Austria, Spain and the Middle East,” Nyiri said.

Nyiri attended the University of Bristol and obtained his bachelor’s degree in the Classics with honours in Latin and Greek, Language, Literature and Philosophy, in 1984. He attended the London Film School where he obtained a “Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Technique of Filmmaking,” considered to be the equivalent of an American MA or an MFA, in 1988.

Nyiri made many short films

between 1984 and 1988, he said. In 1988, when Nyiri was 26, he wrote and directed a short film titled 6 minutes with Ludwig starring Helena Bonham Carter.

“She was already destined to be a star, long before I met her,” Nyiri said.

“Aside from her striking beauty and immense talent, she has always been one of the brightest, hardest working, and kindest people I’ve ever known.”

This film, and others of his, toured student as well as professional film festivals such as the Budapest Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Many of his films were nominated for awards but didn’t win any, he said. Despite this, Nyiri’s work didn’t go unrecognized.

“It all happened very quickly and I eventually found myself working with the best advertising, creative and film crews in the world,” Nyiri said.

He landed his first industry job in Europe in 1983 working alongside George Clooney and Charlie Sheen on a never-released American production.

His first professional directing job was a documentary for Cyclops Vision. His first directing jobs after attending the London Film School included a series of television commercials for Max Factor fragrances in 1989.

Nyiri founded the LA MEDiA Regional Career Technical Education Program in 2005. The program supports curriculum articulations as well as professional training for digital media including events like the annual “Meet The Pros”, sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. He also served as the statewide director of the California Media Arts Career Technical Education Program from 2009 to 2014.

Nyiri has been an adjunct professor for the Los Angeles Community College District for 12 years.

Pierce College Media Arts

instructor Kenneth Windrum has only met Nyiri once at a department meeting this semester, but said that he instantly liked him.

“I immediately liked him because he’s obviously very bright and a real lover of cinema like I am,” Windrum said. “We had a great time talking.”

Nyiri has taught classes in cinema, broadcasting, multimedia, production, post production, and screenwriting at the University of California and California State University level across about a dozen campuses, he said.

According to Laurie Nalepa, Dean of Career Technical Education at Los Angeles Valley College, Nyiri spent many years working as a full time grant writer and program director based at Valley College, reporting directly to her.

“[Nyiri] was a great addition to Valley College, and he has made lots of contributions to the media arts department,” Nalepa said.

This semester he is teaching Multimedia 210 at Pierce, a CSU approved class about digital media editing techniques and software. In this class, students learn the principles and applications of editing video and audio, which includes creating special effects in Adobe Premier Pro.

“Once they have mastered the fundamental principles of editing digital media and learned to apply the software, they are also ready to continue training as post production professionals in the industry,” Nyiri said.

In addition to teaching, Nyiri runs a privately owned company, Nyiri and Associates, that exists primarily as a rights-holder for certain literary and motion picture properties that have been developed and produced for theatrical and television distribution.

the socioeconomic hierarchy.

Mckeever encourages people that are not Black, Latino, or Indigenous to join, and build a coalition by acquiring more ‘allies.’

“We care about the outcomes of Asian or White, brothers and sisters, or anyone,” Mckeever said. “If anyone is interested in the issues that affect them on a daily basis, and want to feel empowered and do something, join the club.”

Mckeever believes that what they’re fighting for will affect everyone of all races. He says that they want to lower tuitions and raise the minimum wage to $15 h/r.

“It’s that concept of raising all votes,” Mckeever said. “Working to people at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy is a benefit to you.”

The Blatigenous club does not believe in any form of hierarchy, so they do not have an official president. “We’re a group. We’re a collective. We work together. No

one’s voice is more important than the other’s,” Mckeever said. “We believe that each voice here counts, in the same way.”

Rene Paredes, club member, said that the fact that they do not have any designated positions and horizontal structure, makes their club unique.

“That helps to encourage a community within the group,” Paredes said. “Anyone can do what they feel most comfortable doing.”

Joe Hernandez, another club member, said that any new member is always welcome and will immediately feel a sense of belonging and pride for the club.

Members of the club have planned and had several events this semester, which included: cultural events, food, bands, and art.

The club is currently planning for a “Black Lives Matter Event” and a “Women’s Right’s Movement.”

The Blatigenous club meets every Wednesday in room 1300, from 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

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Chairman of the history, philosophy, and sociology deaprtment, James McKeever announces the upcoming Decolonized Event with the help of Sarina Rossi towards the end of the Latino/a LGBTQ talk presented by Blatigenous on Oct. 8, 2015 in the Great Hall at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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Adjunct professor Daniel Nyiri poses for a portrait in front of the Digital Darkroom after his Multimedia 210 class in the Pierce Village at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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She sets her goals higher than sports

SAL FARIAZ

Assistant Sports Editor @S_Fariaz

A player on the volleyball team has recorded 168 kills this season. But if you see her in a few years from now it might be on a court you wouldn’t expect.

Brahma’s outside hitter Shari Volpis may lead the team in kills and points, but her career aspirations go way beyond a volleyball court and into a court of law. She wants to be a judge.

“If she can hit the weight room a little bit in the summer and improve her jump, she has the potential to be an All-American,” head coach Nabil Mardini said. “She has the size as an athlete and she has a good arm. The sky’s the limit for her.”

Volpis was born into a family of athletes. Her father played professional basketball in Italy and her mother played tennis her whole life. From a young age Volpis found a desire to play sports.

She started playing volleyball during her sophomore year at Pacifica Christian High School in Santa Monica, Calif. She also played basketball for her four years there. It was a relatively small school with an enrollment of 239 students.

Volpis and her older sister, Shanon Volpis have shared a room their whole life and Shanon Volpis says that has made them closer than most sisters.

“We have shared a room together our whole life and that is why we are super close,” Shanon Volpis said. “She knows everything about me and I know everything about her. She’s like my twin.”

“If you ask other people they will say we are not similar but we are extremely similar,” Shanon Volpis continued. “I am a little more quiet and she says things straight off the bat but mainly I just

know when to be quiet.”

Shari Volpis says that both of them are competitive when it comes to volleyball but not with each other. The sibling rivalry has never been there for them.

“We feel like my success is her success and vice versa,” Volpis said.

Volpis played for club at the Los Angeles Volleyball Academy (LAVA) where Mardini is the girl’s club director. After meeting Mardini and seeing his knowledge

of volleyball she decided to come to Pierce College to play on the volleyball team for him.

“People always ask me why I drive so far to school,” Volpis said. “They ask why I don’t just go to Santa Monica College. I just tell them, Nabil.”

She is an English major with her goals set high to become a judge one day.

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MARITZA SERRANO Reporter @MSerranoRU

Shanon Volpis is a commuter student. With a heavy emphasis on commuter.

Volpis commutes around 22 miles to school from her home, yet still finds time to get everything done that she needs.

“Growing up I was made fun of alot because I looked different than the other kids, but I liked where I

lived and the schools I went to were great. I think because of it I’m where I am today,” Volpis said.

Shanon Volpis still manages to be a full time student and play for the volleyball team at Pierce College.

While attending Pierce, Volpis also attends Loyola Marymount University.

“I take eight classes in total, it’s all about time management, I do not have a social life. I literally eat, sleep, play volleyball, and do homework,” Volpis said.

Sports have always came easy to Volpis. She has been playing tennis since she was four years old as both her parents were athletes. Her dad played professional basketball in Italy and her mother played tennis her whole life and throughout college.

During her high school years Volpis participated in track and basketball. Originally the coach from her high school volleyball team recruited her because she was tall.

“I wanted to play anyways because I love sports and they didn’t have a tennis team,” Volpis said.

Two years into playing for the varsity team she got a concussion. This stopped Volpis from participating in sports and affected her academic side as well.

“I was failing all my classes and I would forget things after I got the concussion,” Volpis said. She slowly recovered and started playing once again when she came to pierce.

“She’s improving and definitely helps a lot because she’s tall and takes a lot of the court up,” said assistant coach Kristin Dolan.

Volleyball is not the passion for Volpis. Instead she takes fascination in the medical field. She is a bio major and wants to go to medical school to become a doctor.

Having her family and a good support system around her, is the only way she can manage all of this.

“Nabil has helped me so much, he’s by far the best coach I have ever had in my life,” Volpis said.

Head coach Nabil Mardini respects all the things that Volpis does on and off the court.

“She makes sacrifices and does a lot for the team, you have to admire that and the fact that she’s going full time at LMU and Pierce, with all of that she also interns at UCLA. She’s a busy woman and student,” Mardini said.

Volpis’ goal is to get scouted by UCLA and play with a volleyball scholarship.

Head above water

Competitions pushes water polo star forward

The Steven E Schofield Aquatic Center is immersed in the chaotic sound of splashing water as players call out defensive plays. With the ball in hand, various pump fake moves are used to psyche out opposing goalkeepers. Half the action happens under the water as legs frenetically kick, keeping the swimmers afloat.

The Pierce College water polo team are behind in points as the horn blows, sounding the end of the match. Despite the loss, Kailey Bennett gets out of the pool and prepares herself for the next challenge. This is the nature of competition.

Bennett wasn’t always a water polo player. Throughout her years at Saugus High School, Bennett was a competitive swimmer and became a member of the water polo team during her first year at Pierce after being recruited by Moriah van Norman, head coach of the women’s water polo team.

“I enjoy that it [water polo] is physical,” says Bennett. “It’s a lot of fun because I used to play ice hockey in my childhood so that was a more physical aspect compared to swimming where there is no contact at all with the other person.”

The transition from being a competitive swimmer to water polo was a bit of a challenge for Bennett.

“I’m a very competitive person,” says Bennett. “The problem was going from doing my best at my events to having to work it into a group situation instead and with water polo, it’s more based off your teammates where you have to really communicate and work as a group.”

Bennett, 19, also had some difficulty transitioning from high school to life on a new campus.

“I’m originally from Saugus and as far as I know, none of my friends come here,” says Bennett. “It was a little bit difficult because it was a new group of girls that I’m going to be with for a year or two but I

eventually bonded [to the team].”

Attracted by Pierce’s preveterinary program, Bennett’s competitive nature extends from the sport of water polo to academics.

“I want to be the curve setter in every class possible,” says Bennett. “When you’re applying for vet school especially, you want to be competitive so you can get into the top vet school and that’s what I’m really aiming for in the end.”

Life as a student athlete can be tough for some people. With the status of a full time student, having a part-time job on the side and being an athlete, finding balance is a challenge Bennett is not shy to tackle.

“I plan ahead because if I don’t, then I know the day of, I’ll be doing homework,” says Bennett. “Having a planner and organizing helps out a lot.”

Currently in her second year at Pierce, Bennett’s competitive nature was guided by head coach Moriah van Norman.

“She’s not really focused on winning,” says Bennett. “She wants us to win but she teaches us life lessons at the same time like how to be great women in the end and emphasizes education as important.”

Van Norman, a former water polo herself from the University of Southern California, won the Peter J. Cutino award in 2004 and was recognized as the best female collegiate player in the nation.

“Kailey will absolutely be super successful in life because she’s so competitive,” says van Norman.

“She’s so hard on herself and this is her first time playing the sport and she’s a leader on the team.”

These qualities are what will help Bennett succeed in life, van Norman added.

Bennett’s competitive nature also influences those around her.

“She’s a hardworking student and it reflects in the pool,” says Sofia Gogoasa, a team mate of Bennett on the water polo team. “She’s one of the fastest girls we have and she encourages me to push myself.”

Bennett’s level of focus nurtured her into being a leader on the team.

“She came to us extremely mature and disciplined,” says Judi Terhar, head coach for the swim team.

“She’s the first one here early in the morning, she’s got classes until late at night, she never complains and after swimming three hours not only with me but with the [water polo] team as well, she tells the other girls ‘let’s go in and do some weights’, so she’s already a leader.”

Bennett, who is a pre-vet major, plans to transfer to UC Davis and become a specialized veterinary surgeon and work for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

“I want to do rescue center work and help animals,” says Bennett. “Giving them a voice and make sure that they’re healthy and end the abuse of animals.”

Of her time spent at Pierce, with her focus and competitive nature along with the mentoring of van Norman, Bennett has learned and lived by a rule that will help her reach her goals.

“Hard work will get you where you want to get to in the future.”

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Shari and Shanon Volpis palm volleyballs in the South Gym on Monday, Oct. 26 at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

“Hard work will get you where you want to get to in the future..”

-Kailey Bennet Attacker

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Kailey Bennette displays her gear in the pool at Steven E Schofield Aquatic Center on Oct. 21, 2015.

Another win

Football survives close game

MITCH NODELMAN Reporter @MitchNodelman

The Brahmas proved to have one of the best defenses in the state with a close win against the Santa Barbara Vaqueros at home.

Cornerback Eric Waters was the star of the game, coming up with a big fourth quarter red-zone interception in the final minutes to hold off the Vaqueros, 12-6.

“The whole game they were catching us with slant routes. I knew it was going to come again,” Waters said. “I was just happily and thankfully in the right place at the right time.”

Head coach Jason Sabolic credited the defense to having the most impressive performance of the night.

“My hats off to them [defense],” Sabolic said. “They held on when we needed it, they held strong.”

Pierce played with more emotion and intensity than the previous game against L.A. Southwest, despite the low-scoring and closer point-margin, the team had more optimism after defeating a tougher Santa Barbara team.

“We needed to bring it today, we needed to be enthusiastic. We had to come out on fire and we did,” Sabolic said. “We took control of the game in the beginning and punched them in the mouth.”

The offense, however, struggled after the first quarter. After two early touchdown runs by running back Calvin Howard, and two missed PAT’s, the Brahmas would not score the rest of the game.

Howard continues to impress for the second week in a row, rushing

for 139-yards and two touchdowns on 26 attempts. Howard said this was a statement game for him and the Brahmas.

“I just had to come in this game with a statement and I just had to make a name for myself,” Howard said. “We are trying to complete every drive when we are on the field.”

Pierce’s passing game continued to struggle. Sean Smith was 13-25 on pass attempts for 139 yards and didn’t throw a single touchdown pass. Smith however did play mistake-free football for the second week in a row and never turned the ball over.

Sabolic said that the offense will go back to the drawing board, start doing some simple things, and taking advantages of the little things.

The Brahmas played a cleaner game of football during the night than in past games. The penalty bug that has plagued Pierce all season was still apparent, but not as gamedeciding. The team was penalized 13 times for 105-yards.

Pierce currently stands in second place for the American Pacific Division and remain undefeated against divisional opponents.

“Every game from here on out is a playoff game,” Waters said. “We can’t lose. Our season is on the line.”

Pierce (5-2) will play at noon on Halloween in enemy territory versus long-time rival L.A. Valley College (5-2) in a crucial divisional matchup for second place and the Victory Bell. The Brahmas defeated the Monarchs last year at home, 55-48.

Players and coaches are hoping for the same enthusiasm against L.A. Valley that they played with against Santa Barbara.

“It’s a big time rivalry and we’re going to be ready,” said Sabolic.

Brahma Week of the

Jeanelly Chavez - Forward

Soccer

What keeps you motivated throughout the year?

“The fact that I love playing soccer and the bond we have with the girls, I love it. We’re very energetic with each other outside the field, especially.”

Do you have any pre-game rituals?

“We always do inspiration. Inspiration is when we motivate each other. Someone on the team gives a speech to motivate us and do well before the game. I have before, we all take turns each game.

What has been your favorite moment throughout the season?

“Scoring. I never expected to score at this level. It’s hard, it’s tough.”

How do you deal with pressure?

“I try to take it in. Personally, it has gotten to me, but i’ve learned how to handle that and take than in a positive way, rather than a negative way.”

How do you prepare for your games?

“I just tell myself this is just another game. I’ve played soccer throughout my years. I’m just playing the sport I love to play.”

Do you feel like your teammates rely on you?

“Not personally, no I don’t think that they do. I think we as a team work together, we can’t just rely on someone.”

Are you going to beat Moorpark?

“Of course we are. We have to in order to be champions.”

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Brahmas ram Bulldogs

Brahmas keep continue winning as the team have defeated the Allan Hancock Bulldogs 3-0 (25-20, 25-16, 25-20).

Volleyball has shown a lot of improvement ever since its first loss against Santa Barbara.

The Brahmas will have a chance to redeem itself as the team goes head to head against Santa Barbara again at home.

The game will take place in the South Gym on Friday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m.

Soccer fighting for the top spot

The Brahmas soccer team beat both Cuesta and Oxnard this week, keeping the team in pace with first place Moorpark.

Pierce got two clean sheets as the team held both opponents scoreless.

The Cuesta game ended with a final score of 2-0 and the Oxnard game finished in a 1-0 win for the Brahmas.

The team looks to take the top spot in the division as they go on the road to face first place Moorpark on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m.

SCHEDULE Oct. 28 to Nov. 4

Wednesday, Oct. 28 vs. Alan Hancock, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 3 vs. Santa Barbara, 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 31 at L.A. Valley, noon.

Wednesday, Oct. 28 vs. Moorpark, 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 30 vs. Santa Barbara, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 4 at Ventura, 7 p.m.

Gustavo Sanchez / Roundup

Abe Thomas (36) runs the ball up the field during the Brahmas game against the Vaqueros on Oct. 24, 2015 in John Shepard Stadium.

Jeanelly Chavez steps up in the last two games for the Brahmas. Chavez scores one goal during the team’s game vs Cuesta and scored the only goal of the game vs Oxnard to give the Brahmas the victory.

Photo by Luis Ayala Quotes gathered by Mitch Nodelman