LUCAS WIGGINS

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Music, food and an opportunity to meet new people were the themes of The Pierce College Vegan Societies first Potluck in the Great Hall on Friday April 22 coinciding with Earth Day.

Matt Phelps, student and president of the Vegan Society, planned for several guest speakers to attend the event including someone from Sea Shepherd to talk about over fishing in our oceans and a presentation on organic-natural foods.

“The overall idea is we’re trying to emphasize on speakers, but we also want it to be a time where people can socialize and make new friends,” Phelps said.

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The results from the health survey that the Student Health Center sent out, indicated that 11 percent of female respondents are in an emotionally abusive intimate relationship.

“I think the biggest number is that 11 percent of our female respondents are involved in an emotional abusive intimate relationship,” Benne said. “Maybe they’re not physically abused but emotionally, they are and anybody who is a victim of abuse, we know that it involves the physical and emotional.”

Wong said that the Student Health and Advisory Committee (SHAC) are planning to show a movie called, “Hunting Ground” which the premise is sexual assault on college campuses.

“They’re in the process of viewing it themselves just to be sure they can be great hosts for it and the rest of the campus,” Wong said.

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“I mean, our space is small but we can accommodate,” Mendoza said. “Getting space was bit of an an issue, but we resolved it. It’s hard to find space on campus that can accommodate the equipment and stuff we want.”

Originally, they hoped to have hosted the workshop in a larger building, such as the old library, but were unable to get the space.

“The students are interested and the ASO is supportive,” Macander said. “The amount of students that showed up in the little space we have is not conducive. It doesn’t work well together. ”

Students and new club members at the event had to wait outside the room until there was space for them to go in and participate.

Mechanical engineering major experiment, and we’re just trying to see how it goes for next time, what we can do better depending on our experience,” Phelps said.

Galit Ashkenazi, a fulltime student Club Council representative of the Vegan Society, would like to raise awareness about how vegan lifestyles affect the Earth.

“We are trying to bring consciousness about what it is to be vegan and how it helps the earth,” Ashkenazi said Ashkenazi, 18, chose a vegetarian lifestyle when she was 12 after learning how adopting a plant-based diet can impact the planet.

“I started a slow transition into ‘veganism’ when I was 15,” Ashkenazi said. “In Earth Day we try to be sustainable and earth friendly, and being vegan is the best way to do that because it is the most sustainable kind of diet to have.”

Unlike vegetarians, vegans stick to a strict plant-based diet, consuming no product or byproduct of animal, according to all ages of college students, but it has recently been trending nationally where it’s a problem and has been on college campuses, according to Wong.

Wong wants to provide an opportunity for Pierce to raise awareness to everyone to learn what Denim Day is and that it’s a social awareness about an epidemic that’s recently been affecting college students and college campuses.

“We are very lucky to have the sheriff’s office to oversee us and protect us, but I think our best source of protection is each other,” Wong said. “If we see someone struggling, we know who to call and be able to step up.”

According to the website rainn.org, women in college ages 18-24 are three times more likely than women in general to suffer from sexual violence. About eight percent of all sexual assaults occur when the victim attends college.

Sheriff’s Station Team Leader Deputy Al Guerrero confirmed that there has not

Matthew McIntyre discussed and demonstrated how the 3D printer works.