When help is out of reach STREET

Pierce College sits on 426 acres of land, filled with students trying to learn, faculty and staff trying to make a living, and one, particularly small, Sheriff’s office to ensure all of our collective safety.

Currently, the Sheriff’s office sits between the South gym and the Baseball field making dispatches to the other end of campus quite a long trek. An ideal solution is to create

Should we have a Transfer Day on the mall once a semester?

“I think it would be very helpful for people who need the information. It would help me because I don’t know anything about transferring and I’m going to have to register in August, actually, so it would be helpful to have people there to tell you what to do.”

-Ronit Chavol 23, marketing major

“Absolutely, I think that would be educating to people on campus. That could change the course of somebody’s entire life. People want to get educated and they want to move up. Educating them with this event could lead to a snowball effect of fortunate opportunities.”

-Sofia Galuz 15, music major

“Definitely, most people are kind of like me; they don’t know what to do and they don’t know which school they want to go to. If schools come you can get an idea of what kind of school you want, what’s a good place for you to go to, and then it would definitely help to get information on how to go there. If it was more than once a year, more people would probably participate, too.”

-Jasmine Valle 18, undecided

Corrections

Volume 124, Issue 10: a second outpost for campus security, effectively cutting response times in half. With more than 20,000 students coming and going as they please throughout all hours of the day, having a satellite Sheriff’s office near the Child Development Center between parking lots 7 and 8 creates a better chance at covering situations on campus. Scattered across the campus are the emergency poles that shine a bright blue light that allow instantaneous communication regardless of the distance from the Sheriff’s office. A number of the safety poles are constantly out of service. Even if all the poles were in proper working order, it doesn’t eliminate the issue of response time. The Sheriff’s office sends out units to patrol from time to time, but even then there are some parts of the campus that seldom get searched.

Page 1: The article “No longer in the books” was written by Gaby Soriano and Max Sullivan.

We’re not asking for another fully-stocked fullyoperational seperate Sheriff’s office, just another location to more efficiently send help where it’s needed. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, maybe the department could work out of one of the empty office spaces adjacent to the Child development Center. Two locations for the Sheriff’s office to plan, collaborate and work from is a benefit to everyone.

RANDI LOVE Staff rlove.roundupnews@gmail.com

Government funding and tuition are the primary ways colleges receive money. Advertising is way for Pierce to increase income beyond the traditional. Colleges need ways to make money besides fundraisers that are hard to organize and funding from the government. Paid ads can be in print, posted around campus or interactive online.

Online ads can target large crowds and be cost effective in the ways to generate awareness and attract prospects. The placement of print ads in high traffic areas on campus can also generate attention, and students and faculty may be interested in what the ads offer.

Ads are an easy way to promote a product, service or gain information because people see ads everywhere. Ads are on television, billboards, busses and many other places. Allowing paid ads on college campuses would help the campus with money and build consciousness for different brands.

Having incentives on the online ads landing pages, and listed on the print ads can improve the chances of having successful ads.

According to Ruffalo Noel Levitz 2015 E-Expectations Report, more than one-third of prospective students have clicked on a paid interactive ad from a college website.

Prospective students are more inclined to click on ads listed on google or other search engines, but if the motivation to click on ads on college web pages is high enough, they may decide to click on them even more often.

One of the best ways to advertise

Photographers: to students in print is in the school newspaper. It allows the ads to be in the hands of the students and faculty when they pick up the paper.

According to NAM Youth Marketing, college newspapers have a 95 percent readership. College newspaper advertising is a marketing tool that can reach the majority of students frequently, while increasing sales and generating brand awareness. Interesting stories on the front page bring students, faculty and staff to read the newspaper. Once these people have begun reading the paper, ads can be easily seen as they flip through the pages. If clubs, organizations, departments or outside vendors want to post information about upcoming events on or off campus, they should pay to post them. The fee could generate funds.

Paying a fee to the business office for posting their ads for upcoming events for a certain amount of time can help raise money for the campus. The longer the ad is posted, the higher the fee should be.

These three ways to use paid ads on campus could benefit the school in a positive way. Ads like Chic-Fil-A, Microsoft or Amazon could be good ads to be placed on campuses because they offer discounts to students, and the incentive can generate more awareness. Many clothing stores, websites, food locations and apps offer students discounts, and the lure allows for more exposure while benefitting both the brand and the person using it.

KELLAN

BRADLEY Campus Lifestyle Editor

Pierce College should not allow Ads on campus because it’s pointless to let vendors advertise their product when it’s just going to distract the students from their work. It will affect the student’s learning and make them not care for their work.

We have seen enough ads here and there. What’s the point of shoving more of them up in schools? Students have seen enough ads through watching television, playing games or just scrolling down their Google search results. Just the thought of dealing with ads on school grounds is ridiculous enough.

Some students are trying to save up cash for personal reasons, not waste it on persuasive ads they’ve seen while walking out a restroom stall to wash their hands. They’re already trying hard enough to prevent their own impulses to buying useless junk. Besides, why make them go through their own wallet and see how much cash they’ve got on them when they should be focusing more on school?

Advertising works, that is why companies do it. The ideology of education and the ideology of advertising are polar opposite. Education is about enlightening a person so can become critical and creative thinkers. Advertising is a deliberate manipulation to promote a product. In this day and age, we cannot hide from advertising but we can certainly create environments to encourage them to learn. Those who say yes to advertising in schools must have a limit to how much advertising at least? Where does it end? Do we have ExxonMobil writing the science program? McDonald’s creating the the nutritional education? Ads may contain inappropriate messages. This could lead to children buying stuff that is not for them. This could lead to bad habits. This could cause students to not only not be successful, but also won’t let them have a sufficient job. If there aren’t ads in schools, then it would not cause a distraction towards their education. Ads are pointless distractions. The ads are things that people just want to skip and want to get rid of. If schools were to have ads, they would become a distraction really quickly. Don’t bring ads to schools so the students can gain focus and concentration. They are just horrible and annoying. publicity releases, poetry or other such materials as the Editorial Board deems not to be a letter. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. the Sunday prior to the issue date.

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