Light on immigration

NOAH GOLDBLOOM Reporter @NoahGoldbloom

An old Irish passport, a photo collage of Holocaust victims, and a trunk filled with family mementos.

What might look like a list of items found in a flea market can have a deep, emotional and universal meaning when placed in the proper context.

The One Book One Campus novel “Enrique’s Journey” was selected to create thoughts and conversation about immigration, and is open until Dec. 15.

Art Gallery Director Monica Ramirez Wee said that the intention of the exhibit was to shed light on people's stories. The show was formed in collaboration with the Pierce community and members were

Board of Education discontinues funds for faculty training

After a five-year run, Title V, a government grant that designates a certain amount of money in each fiscal year for employees to conduct staff, student and instructional improvement activities at community colleges, has been discontinued by the Board of Education.

Title V was implemented in 2012 and faced elimination before the end of the academic year. The additional funding will not impact students who cannot attend campus. Quality education will be provided for those who wish to enroll for online courses according to Distance Coordinator Wendy Bass.

“Although we didn’t get approved for continuing certain things, we are here and will continue to work around it,” Bass said. “Title V helped faculty members provide students who cannot attend class the opportunity to enroll for online. We will provide them with superior training and support.”

“Her charitable ways helped a little boy in need and she got some amazing photos by Miss Missy,” Noel said. “We all contributed to something that touched our hearts that day, those photos will always be very meaningful.”

Katz has worked at a lingerie shop in Burbank called, “What Katie Did,” for about seven months and enjoys working where she can dress up. The boutique sells women's clothing and corsets.

Lillian Starr, the manager of the boutique, has known Katz for less than a year and said she's great with customers.

“She’s my weekend girl,” Starr said. “She’s our 40’s diva, and she knows her stuff about her vintage lingerie.”

Starr said they try to help their customers feel comfortable with their bodies.

“That’s exactly what we do, we like to make them feel comfortable and sexy and beautiful,” Starr said. “And all of our customers leave happy and feeling great.”

Katz doesn’t regularly dress up for school because of the hassle of shoes, makeup and hair, however, if Katz wants to dress up, she would need hours to get ready.

“It took two hours to get ready and I’m not ashamed of saying that,” Katz said.

“It’s nice to have something to give a little time for yourself, like the two hours. I really like it because I really enjoy every step of that,” Katz said. “Listen to music and just spend some time on yourself.”

At 4 feet 11 inches, Katz said the pinup community accepts you no matter the height, size, or color of a person.

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The grant provided financial support for trainings, attending conferences and seminars. Although there is a lack of funds for certain things, students will be in a position to continue their distance education.

“Title V mostly supports the faculty. It was for extra things, for example, additional training on Canvas or offering more training for teachers in other areas,” said representative for Distance Education and IT Clayton Gediman. “Although the grant was not approved, nothing will change.”

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Outreach Librarian Lisa encouraged to lend mementos.

Valdez said that that the gallery should resonate with everyone. The exhibit shows commonality and awareness of the larger issue of immigration, she said.

“I had people come up to me telling me that they couldn’t tell me their stories,” Ramirez Wee said. “They want to share their stories, but they have concerns about why they don’t want it publicly known.”

In the Art Gallery, there were walls that were left blank. Wee said this was done on purpose to illustrate the absence of the stories that could not be told.

“The whole topic of immigration is fraught with so many different feelings and opinions,” Ramirez Wee said.

Ramirez Wee said this fear was due to the current political climate. When the project first began, it was unknown that DACA would be revoked.

Ramirez Wee said this changed the mood of the exhibit.

To encourage visitors to share their stories there was a wall for people dedicated to add their stories and thoughts. Ramirez Wee said that the space was set aside to help demonstrate how the show encompassed everyone at Pierce College. “We had to think about the fact that once people come and see the show they’ll say, ‘I have a response to what I’ve seen, and I want to say something about it,’” Ramirez Wee said.

“It is showing that at one time or another all of our families were immigrants,” Valdez said. “We have all made some type of journey.”

Valdez said that she was happy with the way the exhibit turned out, and people wanted to share stories.

“It’s great that people were so proud of their family and their heritage,” Valdez said. “That they want to share it and other people want to celebrate it.”

Despite the many stories that were shared, Valdez said she understood why some people might not want to share their own. “Some people don’t know who to trust,” Valdez said. “There is a greater concern that they will be sent back to a place where there is no chance for survival.”

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The library and the Associated Student Organization building are a few of the only places on campus where students can sit, study and relax, but how quiet are those places when you just really want to lay back and drift off?

The old library has been uninhabited for about five years. Why not take the second floor and redesign it as a quiet place where students can take naps between classes or have a place to study?

The ASO is making moves to implement a student union. The old library can easily fulfill that role by becoming an area where people sit, study and relax. (see page 7 for more information)

The old library was supposed to be torn down, but because it’s still there, why not use it as a temporary location for the ASO, or reconstruct it to house the student union?

Cal State Dominguez Hills has a second floor for its student union, which is a large area where people can lay down on couches or sofa chairs and relax, but also study in silence outside of the library.

There can be sofas, love seats, bean bag chairs and recliners. The average price for a L shaped 6-seater sofa is $3,500, and loveseats and recliners average $1,800, depending on fabric and brand choice. Bean bag chairs are cheap and offer quick comfort. They range from $15$45, and students in universities often have one in their dorm rooms.

Hannah Bielert, the British Columbia Institute of

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Volume 127, Issue 7, Page 1: Santa Monica College's Corsairs were misrepresented as The Pirates.

Volume 127, Issue 7, Page 3: Chris Juarez's email was incorrect.

Volume 127, Issue 7, Page 4: Justin Emord's name was misspelled in the photo caption.

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Technology health and wellness coordinator, said that college students often have to choose other endeavors instead of sleep, and nap rooms provide another way for them to recharge, according to an article on vanwinkles.com. “I think most students choose their social life and grades over sleep,” Bielert said. “But they don’t realize how much it affects their physical and mental wellbeing.”

Naps can improve performance, even among wellrested people. such as reaction time, logical reasoning and symbol recognition, according to a 2009 study in the Journal of Sleep Research.

If students have a quiet area where they can relax and take a break, that isn’t the library