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.

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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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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.