Volume 124 Spring 2016 Roundup Issue 3

Health survey emailed to students Health Center seeks input for providing additional services

DONNA ROBLES Reporter drobles.roundupnews@ gmail.com

The Student Health Center sent 9,000 surveys to students at random through the Los Angeles Community College District emails.

Students that were selected will be entered in the chance to win a MacBook Air or one of five iPads upon completion of the survey.

Beth Benne, director of the Student Health Center, said that this survey is important to know what the students need and if there are additional services that the Health Center can provide to the Pierce students.

Out of the 9,000 surveys that were sent, the Health Center is expecting to have 900 responses.

Benne said that she’s hoping to have at least 900 responses in order to have generalizations on what the students on campus need.

Art major Sergio Vega thinks that it is a good idea that the Student Health Center is sending out surveys.

“It’s good because it benefits them, but they are also helping the students by providing educational tools. It’s a two-way street,” Vega said.

Students who received the email were randomly selected by the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment and Benne did not have a say on who was sent the survey.

“The researchers randomly pulled student ID numbers out of the hat, computer wise. I have nothing to do with who was selected,” said Benne. “They did that on February 22.”

Benne’s only worry is whether or not the students will respond to the survey. Responding to the survey is not mandatory. Additionally, completing the survey takes about 20 to 30 minutes, but they have an incentive, according to Benne.

Student Health Center Assistants

Bonnie Zahavi and Loralyn Frederick said they notified the students through email reminders and word of mouth.

“ASO has been reaching out to the students and the SHAC committee,” Frederick said.

Zahavi looks forward to seeing the results so they can further develop the services in the health center.

“We’re really excited because we want to know how we’re doing because we want to assess everything we do and [see] if there’s room to improve, which there always is,” Zahavi said.

Benne said she wanted the survey to be available to all the students from Pierce. However, they cannot afford to have it available to everybody. The survey and incentives are funded by the Associated Students Organization.

From the classroom to the field

Positive accreditation report Preparations made in 2014 helps Pierce during spring term

“If we could afford to send it out to everybody, that would be great but we couldn’t afford it,” said Benne. “Actually, the student government paid for it.”

The survey will be available for three weeks. It started on March 7 and it will end on March 25.

The results of the selected students who will receive the incentives will hopefully be notified by March 28, according to Benne.

Students who have not yet responded to the survey will be reminded on March 16 and March 21.

The survey is confidential and Pierce College will not know any personal details of the respondents. The hope is that with the information gathered the Student Health Center will be able to better service the needs of students, according to Benne.

“Every person who gets an invitation and submits the survey, as an incentive, will be entered into a drawing for a Macbook Air and one of five iPads,” Benne said.

to students who want to transfer to universities. The tour was completely free of charge with meals and snacks provided.

to schools by the sea

NADINE GOSTANTIAN Reporter ngostantian.roundupnews@gmail.com

Thirty-seven students huddled into a bus at Pierce College to participate in a college tour, focused on coastal campuses in Southern California on March 10. The tour visited California State University Channel Islands, California Lutheran University and University of California Santa Barbara.

Arranged by the Pierce College Transfer Center, the tour gave insight

Three Pierce College transfer mentors, Akadina Amrekhasadeh, Rosa Medrano and Nicole Goddard, guided and assisted students during the tour. The mentors answered questions regarding transfer requirements, application deadlines, scholarships and tuition.

The first stop of the tour was California State University Channel Islands. Students got to explore various areas of the campus, such as the library, cafeteria, bookstore and the buildings where classes were held.

Amy Wallace, CSU Channel Islands dean of the library, answered questions and gave information about the services that were offered at the university library.

“One thing unique about our library is that we are open 24 hours a day on the week of finals,” Wallace said.

“The other big thing that we do is check out any sort of equipment for classes, such as digital cameras, video/audio recorders, laptops and a

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The Accreditation Steering Committee delivered a positive exit report Thursday, March 10 in the Great Hall after last accrediting Pierce College three years ago.

During the exit report meeting, Pierce College Accreditation Team Chair, Joel Kinnaman, gave a final summary of their observations of the college and what Pierce needs to improve on.

“Overall, the exit report meeting went well,” said Sheri Berger, vice president of academic affairs. “A lot of the recommendations the committee gave weren’t really a surprise.”

If you plan on transferring from Pierce to another school, then credits from a nonaccredited college will not transfer appropriately. Course credits only transfer from institutions that are nationally accredited. It is important for community

colleges to be accredited because of the financial aid students can obtain and even the jobs they will get upon graduating, according to Lyn Clark.

“If the college is not accredited then the students would not be able to transfer anywhere. All of the classes you take would not count and it would be as if you did not have an education,” Clark said.

Los Angeles Pierce College began preparations for the 2016 accreditation cycle in the spring of 2014 by preparing a 350-page self-evaluation report. The selfevaluation report can take over a year to be put together. The report presents each standard that the community college has to demonstrate and what the college needs to complete.

The Pierce College Council approved the self-evaluation report during the Fall 2015 semester after a presentation given by faculty accreditation coordinator Margarita Pillado.

“It is very important to show

the accreditation committee the accredit information has been discussed at the campus level throughout all committee groups,” Pillado said.

The Accreditation Steering Committee must thoroughly describe what Peirce College has done to meet the accreditation standards. The accreditation commission also added standards in the middle of the year, lengthening the process.

Accreditation is an evaluative process and seal of approval for institutions of higher education and it ensures that you are obtaining a quality education and for your future employers and graduate programs to recognize your education.

“If the college isn’t accredited nobody will come here because they cannot get an AA degree that has any validity,” Clark said.

“The whole process went well. The last meeting was great. I heard the accreditation team give us commendations for the library

“We match the same scholarship amount awarded by a UC school if a student has been accepted by one,” Nguyen said. “For example, if a student gets accepted by University of California Los Angeles, and is offered a scholarship of $20,000, we would match the same amount.”

Nguyen also gave information on the application students need to fill out.

“We are a Common Application exclusive university. Meaning that the only way [students] can submit their application is online,” Nguyen said. “With the Common Application, we do ask for a personal statement and two questions. Why you want to transfer to California Lutheran and what you want to study. In addition to your application, we do require one letter of recommendation.”

and for our planning. They thought that those areas were outstanding. I can’t wait to see the school’s final report.” said Jose Luis Fernandez, Dean of Academic affairs.

The compliance recommendations that the accreditation committee gave are related to the following topics: evaluation of personnel, the search for and selection of adjunct faculty, calculation of future liability and faculty load-banking, development of a business continuity plan, external audit findings and consistent review of Board of Trustee rules.

“It is likely that this recommendation will say “in order to meet the Standards the College should undertake a series of actions.” We will not know the specifics of that until we see the draft report, which will still be confidential and will remain so until the ACCJC acts on the report at their meeting in early June 2016,” stated President Burke in an email sent to out to Pierce faculty.

students needed to do in order to get accepted.

“I love that students come here to visit,” said Flores. “It’s definitely one of that campuses that you need to drive out here and see. You actually have to feel the energy of it and the peacefulness and get that feel that it’s a homely type of environment.”

Andre Tabnak, 30, nursing major at Pierce, thought the school should be hosting more tours from now on.

“It was very informative, exciting, interesting and motivating for me to bring up my GPA,” Tabnak said. “The food, the ride, it was all awesome. There was nothing bad about it and the mentors really went above and beyond to help students. It was really well organized.”

lot of different media. Our collection is mostly electronic because it’s a newer library and we have one of the best collections in the CSU system because of the small area,” Wallace said.

The next stop of the tour was California Lutheran University, a private university located in Thousand Oaks.

Linh Nguyen, Transfer Admissions Counselor at California Lutheran, gave information about various topics like living on campus, acceptance rates, transfer requirements, majors offered, and the activities held on campus.

Nguyen emphasized that Cal Lutheran matched scholarships offered by other schools.

The final stop of the tour was the University of California Santa Barbara. Students attended a meeting and watched a slideshow introducing the school and went on tours guided by student tour guide.

Marisa Flores, Transfer Admissions Counselor at UCSB, was at the meeting and gave information about the majors offered and what

Every Wednesday, Raymond Wells takes his Marine Biology Laboratory Field Studies class to the beach to put into practice what is taught in class and apply it to the field. Wells, a professor at Pierce for more than 27 years, is one of the founders of the Marine Biology program at Pierce.

Photo: Taylor Arthur / Roundup [See Field Lab, pg. 4]

Matthew Garcia / Roundup Students from Pierce college visit the campus of California Lutheran University during the Coastal College Tour on Friday, March 11.

“ It’s good because it benefits them, but they are also helping the students by providing educational tools. It’s a two-way street .”

- Sergio Vega Student

Things student do during break or spare time.

“Iliketogooverclassnotesand getsomethingtoeat.IfIhave timeIliketogetsomerestbefore classalso.”

-Eduardo Martinez, 22, Sophomore, Animal Science major.

“Iwouldgetsomethingtoeat.I alsoliketostudymyhomeworkor foranyteststhatmightcomeup duringtheweek.”

-Monica Cruz, 20, Freshman, Undecided major.

“Iwouldstudyandcatchupon homework.Iwouldtrytorest betweenclassestostayfreshfor thenextclassIamgoingtohave.”

-Zaida Perla, 18, Freshman, Psychology major.

“Iliketostudyorlistento musictogetmymindoffof schoolforalittlebit.Ilike togotothelibraryandread aheadforthenextclass.”

-Kobie Si, 18, Freshman, Biochemistry major.

”Igotothelibraryandstudy myhomeworkorforatestthat iscomingup.Ialsoliketogoto thelibrarytocatchuponsome sleep.”

-Christopher Sotelo, 20, Freshman, Psychology major.

“Iliketostudy,hangaroundthe cafeandlibrary.Itʼsgoodtotake breaksinbetweenclassessoyou canclearyourmindandprepare forthenextclass.”

-Kati Gonzalez, 19, Freshman, Psychology major.

Pierce College is, and has always been, a cauldron where people of different ethnicities, heritages and circumstances meld into a solitary community. We are home to clubs that celebrate different cultures and programs that open the eyes of students to the world beyond the American borders.

Even so, we do not offer the classes students need to speak the languages that they will encounter.

Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish and American Sign Language. These are the choices students are given to choose from to fulfill their foreign language requirement—five to equip students for the futures they face.

The global economy is splitting at the seams and numerous power players have risen in the last six decades or so. Among the emerged are Germany and Korea. Russia and China have always had a hand at shaping the global workplace, but now more so than ever. None of these nations are represented in the foreign languages department.

The goal for students attending Pierce is to transfer to a four-year university or to find employment after earning an associate’s

More overseas studies, please

College may be the most optimal time in life to gain beneficial learning experiences. However, when it comes to studying overseas, the experience you gain from it is invaluable. Pierce College should have more study abroad programs.

While college is the beginning of independence for early adults, most at Pierce College have lived in the San Fernando valley their whole lives and still live with their parents. This takes a tad bit away from the independence factor. Studying overseas gives community college students the rare opportunity of gaining brief independence.

As we get older our window of opportunity starts to dwindle. In a couple of years some may have their careers set with no time to spare. A chance to live in another country may never present itself again.

At Pierce, our choices are

TIFFANY

As college students, there are many expenses when it comes to our education including transportation, especially for community college students. In addition, the most expensive is our textbooks and tuition. Attending a community college should not involve worrying about paying for parking. After all, the main reason some students attend community college is to save money on their education.

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degree. If we do not play to the current job markets and international employers, then we are setting our students up to fail or to flounder.

While the move to expand the program could take time, Pierce should begin by making small changes now. Administration should hire professors that can teach Germanic, Indo-European and Koreanic languages when they start hiring the 50 new faculty members set to arrive by the end of 2016. By the time the process has finished there will likely be enough space to house the new courses.

In April 2010, a study conducted by the United States Department of Commerce and U.S Census Bureau reported that California

had the highest percentage nationwide of Vietnamese and Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) speakers. The state has the second highest concentration of Korean speakers and third highest of Tagalog. It also reported that California has one of the densest populations of Arabic and Farsi speaking people, taking third place to New York and Chicago.

Expanding the Modern Languages Department to include more than what it already encompasses would be beneficial to both the students and community.

It could also be said that this would provide an alternative to students who do not excel in classical Latin based languages.

While classical languages are so closely related that one could understand the basics of French if they speak fluent Spanish, Germanic and Indo-European are vast in their differences. Despite sharing close quarters, the languages of the European-Asian continent stand in stark contrast of one another.

Failure at one would not equate to struggling with the rest. Each stands alone, and, therefore, is less likely to resemble the others.

The point is to start now while the campus is in this period of expansion instead of waiting until it stops growing which could lead to cuts in other programs. Sow the seeds now and reap the benefits later.

limited. We have three study abroad programs: French, Spanish, and more recently art in Italy. While a European expedition sounds exciting, there are many different types of studies in various countries for people to consider.

We could have a business program where students could study in China or Japan, or an economics program in Qatar, the richest country in the world according to Forbes. There, students could study what makes the MiddleEastern country the wealthiest. Also we could have a Veterinary Science program in Africa, where students

can study the animals that roam the savannah.

According to Mary M. Dwyer and Courtney K. Peters at iesabroad. org, 70 percent of intern respondents reported that study abroad ignited interest in a career direction pursued after the experience. In addition, 83 percent said that it allowed them to acquire skill sets that influenced their career path, compared to 75 percent who did not intern.

Expenses, may be the biggest factor in why students cannot study abroad. If there was a financing plan where students pay a certain amount

of money a month, it would make the decision to study abroad easier.

Failure to pay the mandatory fees can be similar to tuition negligence, where you cannot see your grades, register for classes or graduate and transfer.

Young college students are in the prime of their lives. With the addition of more overseas studies, it will allow students to take full advantage of their youth. Ultimately, it will be an everlasting memory of a adventurous college ride.

Should parking for students be free?

Students should not have to pay for parking nor should they get tickets for not purchasing a parking pass. Just because students are paying less for their education does not mean they should be charged extra for using the campus’ parking.

Other than Pierce College, different community colleges, including Santa Monica College charge students for parking. Sarah Rivkin, a Business Marketing major, is attending her first semester at Pierce College after attending Santa Monica College. Rivkin mentioned that the parking pass at SMC is around $80 per semester and it does not guarantee a spot.

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Rivkin arrived at Pierce early before her 12:45p.m.

Political Science class. However, the daily parking pass vending machine would not accept payments from card and there was a line of students waiting to purchase, which left her scrambling to get a pass before her class began.

Students who purchase any parking pass, whether it be the daily pass from the machine or the semester pass from the business office, are expected to wait in long lines. The time that students spend waiting in these lines could be better used for studying or doing their homework; things related to their education.

Prior to purchasing a parking pass, students must pay all fees and holds. Fees for California residents include, the $46 per unit enrollment fee, the $11 health fee, $1 student representation fee, and

the optional $7 ASO fee. The ASO fee is optional depending on whether a student wants to be involved in the student government, or if they want to purchase a preferred parking pass. Students who purchase either the non-preferred $20 permit or $27 preferred permit, are advised to always hang their passes in order to avoid tickets from the sheriff station. If a pass is purchased, but not displayed, tickets are still given.

Students can take their receipt of purchase to the sheriff station after receiving a ticket, but it is at the sheriff’s discretion to waive the charges. The hasal is another reason why parking should be free.

Quotes gathered by Jonathan Hintz | Photos by Lauren Chen

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Illustration by Nelson Simmons

Faculty and staff congregated at the Great Hall for the annual Health and Wellness Expo on Monday to obtain information regarding health, dental and vision benefits available to them.

Vendors set up stations to display what they offer and provided information to employees who use their services. Delta Dental, Healthcare Partners, Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo, Lakeside Community Healthcare, USC Vision, and Forest Lawn Cemetery are some of the vendors that appeared at the fair.

Titan Medical provided information regarding TENS units. A TENS unit is a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation that sends electrical impulses to certain parts of the body for pain relief. Dan O’Connell, a regional sales representative, had the units displayed and ready for employees to take home with them.

“We come here every year for this fair and over that time at least 40-50 faculty members have purchased one,” O’Connell said. “Everything goes through your PPO insurance, so it helps the employees out with no out of pocket costs.”

Some vendors provided samples or evaluations of their products.

Primary Health Club performed spinal evaluations, Healthcare

Partners completed blood pressure tests and Alpert Vision Care offered complimentary digital retinal scans.

Deanna Cork, an optician with

Alpert Vision Care, distributed eyeglass cleaner and answered vision questions from students and faculty.

“For the staff of the school, we are providing complimentary eye exams with the mention of ‘Pierce College’ through March and April,” Cork said. “Vision exams are very important and beneficial.”

The event was to provide information to employees, but students were also welcome to obtain information if interested. Admissions and Records, counselors, Plant Facilities,

Students donate to save lives

74 students provide blood at the mall

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center hosted a blood drive on the Mall of Pierce College from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday.

The blood drive was conducted in conjunction with the Health and Wellness Expo, according to the event coordinator David Keys.

Keys has operated blood donor services at the medical center for more than a decade.

“I’ve been doing this for over 10 years. I helped launch the program at Cedars-Sinai,” Keys said. “I’m an alumni of Pierce. I grew up in the West Valley.”

Ivan Guerrero, a 20 year old sophomore and full-time student studying accounting, experienced first hand how

donating blood helps those in need when one of his own family members was involved in a pedestrian accident.

“My sister needed blood once when she got hit by a car,” said Guerrero. "We were kids and she was running after the ice cream truck and it backed up on her and basically severed her arm. She was only 9 years old. It took her about 4 months to recover.”

Giving back to the people is one of Guerrero’s motivations for donating.

“One of the reasons why I donate my own blood is to help other people,” Guerrero said.

Making a donation does not take too much of your time, according to Keys.

“The blood donation itself only takes about 10 minutes. The whole thing together takes about 20 to 30 minutes for the entire process,” Keys said.

Everyone is welcome to register though there are limitations to those who are eligible to donate blood,

according to Keys.

“Permanent long-term deferrals, for example, If someone has had leukemia or lymphoma, they can never give blood,” Keys said.

“Other forms of cancer are okay, breast cancer in women, prostate cancer in men. If it has been a year and you’re all cleared and everything is in remission, you can donate blood,” Keys said.

Alicia Mendez, management assistant for Cedars-Sinai blood services, emphasizes that people wishing to donate drink plenty of fluids prior to giving blood.

“The best advice I can give for people who wish to donate is for them to hydrate themselves,” Mendez said. “Drink a lot of water, that helps, and eat before you donate, that’s very important. People think it’s not that important, but it is.”

Blood services registered 74 people before closing at 3 p.m. on Monday, according to Mendez.

professors, and many other departments were present to ascertain information available to them.

Karmen Safar and Teresa Frost, Admissions and Records evaluation technicians, came together to the event but for different reasons.

“I wanted to see what was being offered and to get more information about Delta since I have that insurance,” Safar said. “And Regal, they are under Blue Cross and they provided me with a list of all the doctors in all the different cities

that I can go to. That’s very good.”

Knowing some of what was available helped her to go exactly where she needed to get the information important to her.

“I just wanted to come see what it was all about. I got a lot of information,”

Frost said. “I thought I would walk away with a pen or something, but I was pleasantly surprised.”

Employees that attended the event were able to enter in a raffle, organized by the district office, that had a prize pack that included 12 gifts from the various vendors.

Information

overload

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During the spring and fall semester, the Academic Success Center along with the library, will offer workshops to focus on teaching students what they need to learn in order to succeed.

One of the many workshops being offered this month is TMI: How to successfully use information from the web.

Pierce College librarian, Mario Macias, will be teaching the workshop. Macias has worked at the library for over six years. Librarians that submit a proposal for a specific workshop get a chance to teach their own class.

“This is a way that we can focus on a specific subject like searching the web and bring it to the students in a more one-on-one form,” said Macias.

In this worskhop students will learn how to use the information they find on the internet in the correct way. It’s important for students to learn how to search the web effectively in college because it can be critical in the grades you receive on your assignments.

Mario will also be teaching students how to indicate if a website is credible or not. Sometimes the way a website is designed can be a way to really trick a student into think it is a credible source.

“We can sometimes be attracted by a way a

SMART Boards concerns continue at Academic Senate meeting

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Frustration over technology not working in the Center for Sciences continued to be discussed at the Academic Senate in the Great Hall on Monday, March 7.

Physics Professor Ryan

Eagle said SMART Boards have not been working for almost a year now. Eagle explained the SMART Boards were installed over the white boards and are not good for

anything else, so now they’re literally just blocking the board he would have been using otherwise. “We’ve just been waiting for them to get fixed and the frustrating thing is that we already have a lot of the components, but even if we, as the instructors, know how to fix them, we’re not allowed to since we don’t work for IT,” Eagle said. “It’s led to several alternative and creative teaching methods.”

IT Manager Mark Henderson addressed the issue and stated that a main

reason for the delay is that the IT is understaffed and underfunded. They have a lot to do and not enough people to do it. Additionally, due to grants and contracts that need to be approved by various groups such as the budget committee, the process takes even longer.

“I continually fall behind with personnel, equipment, and different things like that,” Henderson said. “As we move forward, we should be getting some of our stuff through the shared governing process as everyone now has realized

website looks, and if a website looks well designed we kind of trust that it is somewhat a credible source. It not about what the website looks it's about the information quality on the site. It's something that can be easily overlooked,” Mario said.

Pierce College student Jessica Ardon 28, undecided, said learning how to search a topic on the internet effectively can save you time.

“I’m taking a class in Child Development and this class can really benefit students young or old on how to search the web the right way,” Ardon said. Pierce College student, Shyan Maurad 19, Business major, attended the TMI workshop.

“It’s a great workshop. I really learned a lot on how to properly cite a website and how to find what I’m looking for,” Maurad said. Students will learn skills such as how to properly cite a website when writing an essay or paper. This allows others who read or see your work, check the resources you’ve used and check for accuracy by following your citation to the exact website you reference.

“These workshops never fill past 30 students," Macias said. "Most of the students who sign up are signing up because their professor offers extra credit. The most we've ever had in one workshop is about 20 students.”

The next workshop is on Thursday March 17th, 12 p.m. in room 5212 under the library and can seat about 45 students. So get your web searching skills ready, because employers want candidates who know the difference between web search and research.

HIV Testing

Free HIV testing will be available Monday March 21 through Thursday 24 at the

Sock Drive

Peer 2 Peer is collecting socks for homeless mens, womens and childrens at the ASO under the library, now through Thursday, March 31st.

Internet workshop

How to find and use web sources workshop on Thursday March 17, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. under the library room 5212

Mysteries of the Collection

Art Exibition will display "Mysteries of the Collection" on March 17, 2016

that we are at a deficit of resources and funding.”

Henderson offered to take advantage of the opportunity and entertain some questions. Eagle didn’t have a question but did publicly comment that, in case a scheduling problem comes up, he would be more than willing to vacate the classroom and teach elsewhere for a day. He made it clear that he was ready to meet the IT staff halfway to allow them the time and space they need to fix the problem.

Pierce students get up close and personal with the world wide web.

" I thought I would walk away with a pen or something, but I was pleasantly surprised ."

-Teresa Frost

Admnissions and Redcords evaluations technician

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Betty Wynn chats with Dr. Earic Dixon-Peters (cq) at the Legal Shield table during the Health and Wellness Expo in the Great Hall at Pierce College on Monday, March 14, 2016 in Woodland Hills, Calif.

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Solito Mani, Blood Donor Phlebotomist, is checking the form from Sophmore Business Administration major student, Bryan Ramos, 20, inside the mobile hospital truck at Pierce College campus on Monday March, 14, 2016 in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Field Lab At The Beach

For the students who take Professor Raymond Wellsʼ Biology 122: Marine Biology Laboratory Field Studies class, it is more than just a lecture. The class is centered around hands on application and learning.

Understanding marine life through a powerpoint only goes so far. For a marine biologist, skills are more easily fine-tuned when exposed to the real thing.

Wellsʼ students travel to the shores of Royal Palms Beach in San Pedro Calif. to explore and search for organisms discussed in class. The goal of the studentʼs first field lab of the semester is to help them recognize specific traits in an area and identify the organisms that live there.

Arriving at Royal Palms Beach, students follow Professor Wells down to a flat spot on the rocks, where he recaps the lecture given in class and points out some of the defining traits of the area.

With the help of Wells, the students are challenged to put what is learned in class to use. Their knowledge is reinforced by studying the organisms in environment they naturally inhabit.

During the second half of the field lab, students spend the rest of their day, often till sundown, exploring the Rocky Intertidal zone where there is a high diversity of organisms and varying ecosystems.

Right: Professor Wells gives a lecture to his marine biology students on the shoreline of Royal Palms Beach in San Pedro Calif. March 9, 2016.

Below: Semarath Boonsakul, Eddie Nakashian, Rob Coulter, and Jonathan Hernandez, explore the Rocky Intertidal zone at Royal Palms Beach during their marine biology field lab on March 9, 2016 in San Pedro, Calif.

Below: Professor Raymond Wells explains to his students the significance of the organism kelletʼs welk, a predator that preys on clams, on the shoreline of Royal Palms Beach. March 9, 2016 in San Pedro, Calif.

Below: During a marine biology field lab, Eddie Nakashian, geology major, studies a periwinkle snail as Professor Wells explains the significance of the organism. March 9, 2016 at Royal Palms Beach in San Pedro Calif.

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CLUB FEATURE: Child development club

The Child Development Club is a relatively new club on campus and is largely student-led and it works to assist members in preparing for their major.

The club meets to plan events and provide information to members regarding employment opportunities in the field. They stay up to date with the child development community around the Los Angeles area and invite employers to attend the meetings to reach out to members and inform them of services and opportunities available to them.

Members of the Child development club also receive emails within 24 hours of meetings to ensure that everyone has the same information and is aware of all the opportunities they have been presented with.

With minimal guidance from the faculty advisors, the club emphasizes leadership and group efforts.

“It absolutely teaches you leadership skills and some really valuable real-life hands on experiences, such as planning events,” adjunct professor and co-

advisor Shoshana Grattidge said. Although the club is a way for students to gain more knowledge regarding the child development field, the members range from nursing to business majors.

According to club president Tanisha Saunders, the diversity promotes great opportunities for growth. They build off of one another’s interest and curiosity for exploring the way children develop.

The club’s goal is to build and maintain relationships on and off campus. The members come together as a family and present potential job opportunities in the field.

They also plan events for young children to better prepare them for their career.

“Our mission statement is to make connections in the Early Childhood Education/Child Development Community, and to network with other students, professionals and stay up to date with our current practices; and to engage in philanthropic efforts for children and families,” as is stated on the club’s documents.

Last semester, club members hosted an event at the Pierce College Child Development Center for about 35 children with developmentally appropriate activities, activities that were specially planned keeping in mind safety, the children’s age and

stage of development.

“The focus is on developmental appropriateness and fun. Things that are very hands on as opposed to trying to open their head and pour in information. We want the children to develop by doing,” child development professor and club faculty advisor Lila Snow said.

For some members, the Child Development Department offered the first time they had to interact with a child in a childcare facility, which served as a stepping stone in their career.

This semester, they will be setting up art activities for children during the Farm Walk at Pierce on

April 17, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

They will also be attending a California Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC) Conference in Pasadena, on April 1 and 2.

The club meets every Tuesday from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. in CD 6101

Vet tech goes easy on your wallet and your pet

Pierce College’s Spay and Neuter program at the Veterinary Technology Department, is an affordable class that has taught surgical nursing at Pierce College for more than 25 years.

Surgical procedures are performed by Dr. Jennifer Adeline. The procedures are taught in a teaching environment in the Clinical Procedures in Animal Care laboratory. Students are involved in the whole process from preparation of the patient to surgical assistance and their recovery.

Department and Agriculture

Chair, Elizabeth White, Registered Veterinary Technology (RVT) Director, graduated from the program and has been a part of it since then.

“This program has been here a long time, at least 25 or 30 years,” said White. “I graduated in 1978, and I did this training here, so this program has always been here.”

Dean of Academic Affairs, Donna-Mae Villanueva, has been a part of the program since she started at Pierce College.

“The RVT students were very nurturing. They made me feel calm and that my two puppies were very well taken care of,” said Villanueva.

Villanueva recommends this program to people from all walks of life.

“Absolutely, especially for anyone who may not be able to afford to go to a veterinarian. These I believe, are low cost spay and neuter clinics,” Villanueva said. “It’s a great service that the RVT students give to the community and it also gives our students the experience of what it is like. I think it’s a fabulous program.”

To qualify, the patient needs to be friendly, easy to handle and between six months and four years old. Cats may be any weight and dogs must weigh between 10 and 60 pounds. Vaccinations, microchip placement, heartworm and viral testing are also offered.

Adeline is an Instructor of animal science and a licensed veterinarian.

“I’ve worked here part time for about five years. This is my first year full time,” Adeline said. “I actually perform the surgeries because the students are still technicians. Students learn all the skills they need to assist with surgeries.”

“In fact, I’ve had my friends bring their pets in because it’s a great program and a great opportunity for someone to get high quality care for a low cost.” said Adeline. “They benefit, the pets benefits and our students benefits from having the opportunity to learn.”

“This is a really nice facility, we have state of the art equipment,” said Adeline.“It’s not low cost because of lack of quality that’s for sure.”

The surgeries are every Thursday

and Friday through June 3rd. Surgeries are scheduled one surgery per Thursday and three surgeries per Friday. Arrival times are crucial, due to the classes scheduled time. Pickup time will vary depending on which surgery appointment time is scheduled.

Angela Killips, Instructional Assistant RVT of the program, and has been in the veterinary field for 19 years.

“It’s a class that teaches surgical nursing, in the class they learn surgical nursing skills and then they have to perform those to gain experience,” Killips said.

Killips has been working at Pierce for eight years and recommends this program to anyone.

“You have a licensed veterinarian and a license technician and ten or more students, all concentrating on one animal, no distractions,” Killips said.

Killips recommends to withhold food from your pet after midnight before the scheduled appointment and have access to water until two hours before the appointment. Space is limited, and will be performing four surgeries per week throughout the semester.

For more information or schedule an appointment, contact the veterinary technology instructional assistant Angela Killips, at killipsa@ piercecollege.edu.

Yusuf Al-Asfoury, 21, Music major on meditation and the importance of inner peace:

"I found myself on the streets because of my own decisions. I asked myself to take the steps to become happy and meditation ended up becoming an essential part of that journey. Meditation has made it so that my mind has become quiet and now my consciousness is undisturbed by thoughts. Honestly, I think that meditation for anyone seeking spirituality or God is very important cause I feel like God speaks loudest in silence.”

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Tanisha Saunders, club president of the child development club adresses members in the Child Development center at Pierce Collegeon March 15, 2016 in Woodland Hills, Calif.

The anatomy of the coastline Students get their feet wet exploring the rocky intertidal zone

BERWAGER Reporter tberwager.roundupnews@gmail.com

Students of Professor Raymond Wells’ Marine Biology and Ecology courses get to experience the marine life of the California coast, as well as Catalina and Mexico.

Professor Raymond Wells has been a Marine Biology professor at Pierce for more than 27 years and has worked in the Gulf of Mexico since 1973. In fact, he was one of the founders of the Marine Science Program on campus. Wells’ program has attracted international students as well as students from other states.

“This program kind of is my life,” said Wells. “Every place I go are places that are special to me and I enjoy it.”

Wells’ passion for the subject he teaches overpowers any obstacles he faces while teaching out in the field.

“My position is really physical. I’m boosting people up into boats. I have torn part of my foot from trying to land a boat in waves and not have the boat get crushed with students,” said Wells. “It’s pretty physical. It’s pretty hard on my body. I’ve broken

several bones teaching this class, but I’m not ready to give up.”

Wells finished his doctorate in Marine Biology at the University of Southern California. Prior to becoming a professor at Pierce, Wells was an aquanaut, living in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hydrolab. He has around 1,800 hours underwater.

Wells’ Biology 11A students

explore Catalina Island kelp forests during the spring semester. Students in Wells’ Biology 11B-C classes, which are offered during the spring and fall semesters, travel to different islands in Mexico to study the marine life in those regions.

During the same two weeks every summer, Biology 123 students travel to the Sea of Cortez in Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico.

Wells’ students leave Pierce with knowledge obtained from the coursework and field lab experiences, and are well prepared for university.

“From here, a lot of my students go to Northridge, which is an excellent program,” said Wells.

Former student and current biology major at CSUN, Jayslen Serrano, had enrolled in all of Wells’ biology courses offered at Pierce.

Serrano mentioned that she was influenced by Wells to apply for a master’s in Marine Biology.

Jonathan Hernandez, a criminal justice and a theater major, has been a student of Wells’ for almost two semesters. He previously took Wells’ Biology 121 course and is currently enrolled in Biology 122.

“I like taking his class. You have to be very concentrated,” said

Hernandez. “He’s a good teacher. I’ve taken him before, he explains everything clearly so it’s just a matter of you paying attention,”

“It’s not my major, but I’m definitely taking this course because I wanted to and I need a lab. I could have taken another lab, but I like professor Wells,” Hernandez said.

Rob Coulter, an agriculture business major, is a current student of Wells.

“They’re my favorite classes. Dr. Wells is very concise and he gives you the information that you need to succeed in the class,” said Coulter.”He lays everything out, it’s all organized in such a way that it makes it very easy to understand and remember.”

Wells also taught courses at CSUN and USC in the past.

During his time at USC, Wells worked in the principal investigator group for a San Onofre Grant for almost eight years. The investigator group included participants from Scripps College, Santa Barbara, and Long Beach State College, who all contributed to the development of Experimental Field Ecology.

“All these different teams working on different aspects of what the nuclear plant does to the environment. Everything except radioactivity, we couldn’t do that,” Wells said.

Before getting a degree, let alone, a doctorate in marine biology, Wells attended California State University, Northridge as a pre-vet major. Now, however, Wells couldn’t imagine a different life.

“I love coming to work everyday,” Wells said. “And on those days when I say, ‘I don’t want to go to work,’ I just kick myself on the butt and say, ‘you idiot, look what you’re going to go do, there’s no better job than this,’ I can’t think of a better job.”

From Northern France to Southern California

Professor imbues class lectures with her culture

JOSE HERRERA Reporter jherrera.roundupnews@gmail.com

Between vigorous hand gestures and lively turns of phrase, professor Anne Le Barbu infuses class lecture with the rich culture of France. Four years ago, she was brought on to teach French for Pierce College.

However, her passion extends far beyond the classroom walls.

Le Barbu grew up in a small village in Brittany, France. There, she led a peaceful life with her family.

While working toward her bachelor’s degree in French and Education at Universite de Rennes

2 Le Barbu met David Lopez, whom she later married.

“I met my then boyfriend who actually became my husband,” Le Barbu said. “He’s from California and I wanted to be close to him and teach French. I wanted to share my language and culture with people.”

Le Barbu has called many cities across the U.S. home. She lived in Washington D.C. for a year before moving to Louisiana. She resided in San Diego before settling down in Los Angeles at the end of 2013.

That same year in August, Le Barbu applied to become an American citizen. Over the coming months she studied for the naturalization exam. In December, Le Barbu took the test and passed.

“The whole process took four months between the time I applied

to when I took the test,” Le Barbu said. “For me it was really smooth and now I have dual citizenship.”

In the summer of 2015, Le Barbu returned to France to visit her family for three weeks. She brought her year old daughter, Olivia, since her father had not seen the child in person.

“I have my French family and I have my American family,” Le Barbu said. “It’s a richness having two places to call home.”

Due to her dual citizenship, Le Barbu divides herself between her two families and two nations.

“Sometimes it’s sad because when I’m over here [California], I am far from people who I love and [who] live in France,” Le Barbu said. “When I am in France, I am far from people who are here.”

Before Pierce, Le Barbu taught part time at Long Beach City Community College and East Los Angeles Community College. In spring 2012, she was hired as a full time professor by the Modern Languages Department at Pierce.

French III professor, Marie Agel noted that students who take Le Barbu often have great things to say about the class and her teaching style.

To help the Modern Languages Department, Le Barbu communicates any information she hears at department meetings to the part time professors.

“She listens to all our suggestions,” Agel said. “Anne is a very capable professor, very pleasant to work with and she is a very professional person. She keeps us informed and answers

our questions and requests.”

While Le Barbu is excited to share her culture, she has taken to learning from her students.

“The students are usually interesting and they are interested in the subject matter,” Le Barbu said. “Since I’ve been here I’ve taught a great variety of students. They apply themselves to the

subject.”

To aid in the memorization process, Le Barbu uses props such as plastic toys to give visual representations for each lesson.

Once students have become comfortable with the basics they advance to French II. Here, Le Barbu teaches more complicated sentence structures such as how to

order food and describe activities and places.

“She has a good attitude and she wants you to learn,” said anthropology major Tory Hager.

“I’ve learned a lot from her.”

Most assignments Le Barbu gives are online and accompanied by videos and audio exercises. For those who need assistance or

help with a particular section, Le Barbu offers one-on-one tutoring aid during her office hours.

Her goal is to ensure that not one student falls behind and receives the help they need.

“She tries to make it fun while learning,” said business major Berthie Alnda. “I like that about her. She wants everybody to move at the same pace.”

As the French club advisor, Le Barbu encourages her students to join and learn more about the culture and to enjoy the things France has to offer.

“It opens you to another culture, another language,” Le Barbu said. “It opens up part of the world to you.”

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Assistant French professor Anne Le Barbu outside the Faculty Offices, March 1 in Woodland Hills, Calif.

“ They’re my favorite classes. Dr. Wells is very concise and he gives you the information that you need to succeed in the class .”

-Rob Coulter Agriculture business major

TIFFANY

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Professor Raymond Wells, PhD, leads the way as his students, make their way down to the Rocky Intertidal Zone of Royal Palms Beach to study marine life during a field lab. March 9, 2016 in San Pedro Calif.

“It opens you up to another culture, another language. It opens up part of the world to you.”

-Anne Le Barbu French professor

Going the ʻLongʼ way

Former Pierce athlete becomes head coach

Donna Robles Reporter drobles.roundupnews@gmail.com

He keeps his cool in the face of adversity. New head coach, Long Dao tries to turn around a tennis team that only won two games last season. After five years as an assistant coach, he is in full control of the team he once played for.

After five years as assistant coach, Long Dao is now at the helm of the team he once played for and a team that only won two games last season. The new head coach for the tennis team keeps his cool in the face of adversity.

Dao began playing competitive tennis at age 14 while he was a student at Birmingham High School. He would continue to

Volleyball scholar strikes a deal

Barsemian commits to division II university

Randi Love Reporter

rlove.roundupnews@gmail.com

Volleyball player Raymond Barsemian received a full tuition scholarship to Concordia University Irvine beginning in the fall of 2016 for his academics and athletics.

Barsemian played four years of high school volleyball at Crescenta Valley High School prior to making the decision to attend Pierce College.

Lance Walker has been the head coach of the men’s volleyball team the past 4 years. Walker also played at Pierce and won a state championship.

“When we first recruited him, he was just a very humble individual,” Walker said. “He had the opportunity to go to California State University, Northridge and decided that Pierce might actually be a better fit for him.”

The players work together as a unit not just as a team.

“He would have been going to Northridge as a walk on. He took a chance in our program and we are grateful for that.” Walker said.

Men’s volleyball and women’s volleyball are able to motivate and help each other out. Isaiah Williams and Bea

Hernandez find Barsemian to be an asset to both team.

Barsemian and Williams have known each other since last summer. Williams is the setter on the team.

“I received a real friendly aura from first meeting him,” Williams said. “Watching him play, I was impressed by his athletic ability.”

Bea Hernandez is on the women’s beach volleyball team and has known Barsemian since last semester.

“He’s tall and he has an amazing vertical,” Hernandez said. “I definitely see him going far in his career as a player.”

Although he qualified right out of high school, Barsemian has taken the opportunity to grow as a player while at Pierce

get to see his progression,” Walker said. “He’s a talented guy and a lot of guys in our league can’t match up with his physique.” Volleyball wasn’t the only reason Barsemian choose this college.

“I was pretty excited; I was waiting for other top schools. I decided that it [Concordia Irvine] was the best overall option, it’s a little church school,” Barsemian said. “I’m pretty religious, I go to church every Sunday.”

He didn’t start out in this sport originally but his heart led him in that direction.

“I played basketball my first year as a freshmen and I wanted to play volleyball because basketball was done. Then I fell in love with it after the first day.” Barsemian said.

His plans for the future include playing professionally in Europe, Italy or Russia after graduating then coach.

“He’s dedicated and he loves the sport a lot, that will only push him to get better.” Hernandez said.

Pierce, before transferring to play Division I tennis at the University of Nevada for two years. Dao returned as an assistant coach for Pierce in 2010.

“He’s going to be helpful to his athletes as they are winding their way to Pierce as an athlete and as a student,” said Athletic Director, Bob Lofrano. “If you’re a Brahma and you’re in the program, it means something to you.”

Dao approaches the game with a calm demeanor, where it seems like nothing bothers the new head coach.

Kiran Dev, 20, a film major, is on his second year playing for the men’s tennis team. He was able to be coached by the last year’s assistant coach Dao and this year’s new head coach Dao. He also said that the old head coach and the new head coach has differences, according to him.

“It’s almost like fire and ice. The coach from last year, he is so energetic and blunt while Long is very calm and collected. He’s [Dao] got a different approach, a different perspective to the game which I’ve never seen from any other coach,” Dev said.

Lofrano and Dev both describes Dao as calm. Nothing bothers the new head coach, according to Lofrano.

“He [Dao] likes to keep things simple, very calm all the time. I’ve never seen him mad or angry,” Dev added.

Lofrano is looking forward that Dao will bring more student athletes to the team and help them.

Currently, there are five members of the team, according to Dev. Dao and Dev are encouraging students to join and become a part of the team.

The men’s tennis team trains Monday to Friday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Dao said that usually the matches are on Tuesday or Thursday afternoon.

“I encourage people to try because it’s an experience that you can’t really get anywhere else. I’ve been with this team for so long. I’m invested and I am here to try my best, to make them succeed in the best I can,” Dao said.

Dao puts a lot of effort for his team as the new head coach including providing uniforms at Dao’s own expense, according to Dev.

SCHEDULE

March 16- March 23

Softball

Thursday, March 17 BYE date

Tuesday, March 22 @ Hancock 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Tennis

Thursday, March 17 vs. Ventura 12 p.m.

Tuesday, March 22 BYE date

Swim and Dive

Saturday, March 19 WSC @ Santa Barbara City College 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 19 Dive #3 @ Ventura 11 a.m.

Men's Volleyball

Wednesday, March 16 @ Moorpark 6 p.m.

Friday, March 18 @ LA TradeTech 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 23 vs. Santa Barbara 6 p.m.

Baseball

Wednesday, March 16 @ Rio Hondo 2:30 p.m.

Friday, March 18 vs. Cuesta 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 23 vs. Harbor 2 p.m.

with, it’s good that we will have him for a year and

Brahma Week of the

everything I do in the game and end up doing it.

What is the number one thing you want to see yourself improve on?

Probably to make sure I establish every pitch that I have. Including the fast pitches.

What has been the most challenging part of the season?

Before a game, is there any pre-game songs you listen to?

Yes, it’s Jumpman, because every time I come out here or even at home it’s my walk out song. If it’s an away game we listen to it in the car.

How do you prepare for games?

Just stay relaxed. I try not to think about it. If I think about it too much I get nervous. I just visualize

Probably winning. Since we won on Saturday we are probably going to pick back up. Its great to start the second part of the season with a win.

After the season is over, how do you want your teammates and coaches to remember you by?

Just a fun guy. They know I won’t hurt a fly. So probably as a nice guy.

“He instills his trust in me which gives me a major confidence boost while playing,” Williams said. “If Raymond was not on our team this year we would be missing a key component needed to be successful.”

Sports briefs

Brahmas baseball lost to Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros, 5-2 at Pierce’s Kelly Field on Thursday, March 10.

Two players, one from each team were each hit in the helmet by pitches of the opposing team, which resulted in walks to first base.

There were no home runs for either side, but scored on runs. Some of the RBI’s in the game resulted in double plays.

Brahma’s head coach, Bill Picketts and his team, viewed the loss as a chance to improve for future games.

“We executed well, we bonded well. Their guy was pretty vgood [and] did a good job shutting us down, but overall it was not a horrible game and there is definitely some positive I could take out of it,” Picketts said.

The next home game for baseball is on Friday, March 18 vs. Cuesta at 2:30 p.m.

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Raymond Barsemian poses with a volleyball in the South Gym at pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

Pierce College started off Barsemian’s college career through a showcase tournament this past November.

“He was looked at by a lot of schools, he got a few offers and he choose Concordia

Women's Beach Volleyball

Irvine,” Walker said. “There’s a great coaching staff over there and I think it’s a great fit for both the coach and for Raymond. It makes us really happy over here too.”

Friday, March 18 @ Bakersfield and Ventura 10 a.m.

Alan Castro / Roundup Joel Pagan, Outside Hitter for Pierce Mens Volleyball team, demonstrates his breakdance skills. Pierce College, Woodland Hills Calif. March 2, 2016

“He’s a pleasure to work

Dominick Costello

Photos by Taylor Arthur Questions by Mitch Nodelman

“He’s a talented guy and a lot of guys in our league can’t match up with his physique.”

-Lance Walker Head Coach

Brahmas drop game to Corsairs

Multiple blocks can't block the loss

TANYA CASTANEDA Reporter @tanya_castaneda

The Pierce College

men’s volleyball team was defeated Friday, March 11 by the Santa Monica College Corsairs.

Pierce scored the first point in set one, but Santa Monica quickly retaliated which caused the Brahmas to call a timeout trailing 8-3.

Middle blocker Joe Arechiga put the Brahmas down four at 19-4 but the team did not score again and they fell to the hands of Santa Monica 15-25 in the first set.

Pierce kept the second set close and traded points with the Corsairs and tied the game 9-9.

After a Brahmas timeout with a 20-19 lead, the Corsairs scored back-to-back points and eventually won the set.

Pierce’s blocking presence was made known in the third set and the team capitalized on multiple net violations by the Corsairs; one violation gave the set winning point to Pierce.

Pierce College’s head coach Lance Walker said that the surge of blocking led them to win that set.

“I think we won game three at the beginning when we started blocking,” Walker said. “We did a good job of taking them out of their system and getting them to start guessing themselves and starting to doubt what was going on.”

Although the Brahmas scored first in set four, Santa Monica quickly returned the point and won the fourth set 15-25. The Corsairs won the match three sets to one.

According to Walker, they lost the fourth and final set due to an energy shift. He believed they lost

set four the same way they won set three. Santa Monica began blocking and exerted high energy which led them to win the game.

“We got called for a lot of net violations. Those are automatic points. We need to cut down on the unforced errors, that’s a big part of it,” Mike Soto, announcer for Pierce College volleyball said. “If you make a mistake on the court, the referee is going to stop the game, point at you and say the other team gets the point, so it’s big.”

Not only were net violations a cause of Pierce’s defeat but also

lack of consistency. “I just think that we should’ve just had better consistency within

the plays of the game,” Anthony Suber, Pierce College volleyball player, said.

Salvador Fariaz Sports Editor

The Pierce College softball team is currently on an eight game losing streak and is searching for its first win of the season. They will be playing Santa Barbara City College on Tuesday, March 15 to try and get that much needed win.

Santa Barbara is doing slightly better than Pierce in batting average, on base percentage and slugging percentage. Santa Barbara is under .500 in its away games this season which leaves the door cracked open for Pierce to steal the win.

Even though Pierce has lost all eight of its games, five of those have been due to the team forfeiting a game to San Bernardino, two games to Victor Valley and two to Santa Monica because Pierce did not have enough players.

But the biggest hindrance to the team getting the win Tuesday will be experience. Cancelling five games this season has left the Brahmas with three games under the team’s belt compared to Santa Barbara who has played 18 games this season.

After Santa Barbara, the Brahmas will begin to prepare to face Allan Hancock who has made a noticeable effort to get its players on base. Allan Hancock is displaying a record of 9-9-1 and is finding success with batters connecting for home runs. The team can use this week to gain momentum moving forward.

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Manny Sanchez attempts to spike a ball set up for him by his teammate David Salgado in a 3-1 loss against Santa Monica College on March 11 in the South Gym at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif.

“I think we won game three at the beginning when we started blocking. We did a good job of taking them out of their system and getting them to start guessing themselves and starting to doubt what was going on.”

-Lance Walker Head Coach