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These incidents were reported between Sept. 12 - Sept. 19

Reported

9/12

by: Samantha Bravo

• Ill Student

Malica Mohsenzadeh, engineering major, thinks that the policy that forbids students from taking pictures of textbooks is unfair.

“That’s kind of ironic that they can take pictures of the books in the library but not here,” Mohsenzadeh social upheaval and the civil rights movement, the core tenets of the group may seem divisive to some on the political right, but the MEChA of then is not the same group today, according to Rovero.

“His apologies seem really empty. They don’t seem wholehearted,” Diaz said. “It’s one big “I’m sorry,” and nothing else to it.”

MEChA, which stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, was founded in the 60s on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of the Chicano people and that political involvement and education is the avenue for change. Each letter of MEChA represents individual concepts to their cause, according to their website.

Though founded during a time of

“The foundations of MEChA in 1968 are different now in 2016. We’re not fighting the same thing,” Rovero said. “We promote higher education and learning and it’s not just for Mexicans. We’ve had blacks, whites and Asians in MEChA the past 2 and a half years.”

Asghar does not share the same views.

“I love MEChA, they’re a wonderful group, but what I have a problem is, is that our Latino, Chicano, Mexican students, I want said. “They (the bookstore employees) shouldn’t have been that harsh on him. They should’ve just told him to pay for it and not have brought the sheriffs. It’s not like he can take pictures of the entire book in like 5 to 10 minutes.” them to have a Puente Program here on campus,” Asghar said. “I’m going to be very honest, but I feel like MEChA, the organization, nationally, is racist.”

Pierce College librarian, Kitty Lucero, said that students with a school ID card are allowed to make copies of textbook pages when needed to complete their assignments.

“Students are given two hours to borrow the library textbooks, and when it seems that they don’t have time to finish it, they are allowed to make copies of the pages that they may need in order to do so,” Lucero said.

The Puente Project is an interdisciplinary program that started at Chabot Community College located in Hayward, California in 1981 and has established the program across 61 community colleges in California. Puente, which means bridge in Spanish, aims to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students enrolling in 4 year colleges and emphasizes a curriculum of english, counseling and mentors, according to its website.

Although bullying and intimidation tactics may still occur

According to Lucero, a student can only print up to 10 percent of the book. When a student takes a picture of an unpurchased book, it is considered a crime because they are stealing from a place of business.

According to Sheriff’s Deputy Al Guerrero, school policy prohibits students from taking photos of textbooks. Guerrero recommends that students check for posted signs at the bookstore.

“Is it fair for somebody to go and takes pictures of a book that you paid for? Think about that. You paid full price for that book because you’re in the same class. He goes taking pictures of the pages and gets it for free. Is that on campuses nationwide, social media sites, frequented and used by many young adults, allow a sense of anonymity that lead some people to act out their frustrations, leading to a change in terminology to cyber bullying. The state of California has anti-bullying laws that cover cyber bullying, according to the government website stopbullying. gov. Under the law, gender, religion, race and nationality, are just a few examples that are protected from discrimination or harassment.

Pierce College has no specific wording regarding cyber bullying in its Standards of Student Conduct, which applies to each campus that make up the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) and can fair?” Guerrero said. For the first two weeks of the semester students must leave their backpacks in the shelves outside the student store.

“Some are not happy with it,”

Van said. “We trust the students to come in with their backpacks, but we just want to make it easy for them or we’d have to search their bags and we don’t want to do the searching.”

“They steal chapsticks. They steal access codes. Things that are tiny like headphones, lead and calculators,” Van said. “We have students opening up books, taking pictures and stealing the codes. It’s very difficult to deter that 100 percent.” be found on Pierce’s website, but it states that “all persons shall respect and obey civil and criminal law, and shall be subject to legal penalties for violations of laws of the city, county, state and nation,” according to policy.

College campuses value and promote a person’s right to free speech, but at what point does free speech cross the boundary into discriminatory or hate speech?

“Just by people suggesting that their safety is of concern, it’s outrageous, it’s just an opposing political belief,” Aula said.

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Male student fainted while walking to class room 1311. Paramedics were called and the student was transported to the hospital around noon.

9/13

• Reported mentally ill person Possibly homeless person was taken to the hospital for a 72 hour observation hold, on Lot 1 around 8 a.m.

9/15

• Ill student

Student was reported sick in class, room 3400 Performing Art Center. Paramedics were called and student was transported to the hospital.

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