Rundown Brahma Blotter

These incidents were reported between Sept. 2 - Sept. 8

Reported by:Joshua Manes

09/4

• Petty Theft Professor reported that a couple North Gym lockers were broken into.

09/4

•Verbal Altercation

Two students were arguing in Lot 1 at 11:33 a.m.

09/4

•Hit and Run Parked Vehicle Student reported her car was hit in Lot 1 while she was in class at 2:14 p.m.

09/5

•Trespassing

A male transient was found sleeping in gender neutral bathroom at 5:33 a.m.

09/5

•Trespassing

A Student reported her car was hit in Lot 1 while she was in class at 2:14 p.m.

09/6

•Ill Student

An ill student in class was escorted to Health Center.

“The funding form gives us performance metrics and some other metrics that we can potentially enhance which gives us additional point of revenue,” Belden said.

Schleicher believes the campus has the people working on the issue to make things work.

“I think the budget committee is very attuned to the needs and trying to do the best they can to help us get the perspective of what's most important to us at our college and fund those things first,” Schleicher said.

Schleicher feels that, even with the pending issues, the campus does well when it comes to spending.

“I feel very confident as a fiscal steward here that we do a good job with what we have but we are going to have to do better because the money we are getting isn't sufficient to cover the amount of headcount we have hired and the amount of expenditures we are incurring for the things we do in the operation.” jvaughan.roundupnews@gmail.com

This is the first time since 1988 that Pierce has found itself in the red. That deficit saw over 400 empoyees laid off district-wide, including dozens at Pierce, as well as a two-year hiring freeze. According to Belden, no layoffs are currently projected for Pierce.

09/6

•Trespassing

A possible male transient was sitting in the shower fully dressed. Escorted off campus.

09/8

•Traffic collison no injuries

A female teen driver hit a parked vechicle in Parking Lot 7 at 12:14 p.m.

Pierce College Sheriff’s Station General Information: Emergency: (818) 710 - 4311 ability to help increased when he became a vice president, and even more so as President.

New bio-security measures introduced at farm

ALEXIS CANELO Reporter @roundupnews

Pierce farm animals can now rest easy in their since Pierce enacted a new biosecurity protocol.

All visitors entering the animal enclosures at Pierce College are required to sanitize and scrub their shoes.

The Pierce College Agriculture department recently enacted a new biosecurity protocol. Before entering any animal unit, people are required to dip their shoes in a sanitizing solution and scrub their shoes. This is to prevent the spread of disease and bacteria that may be harmful to the animals.

David Bothuel, a student worker in the Pre-Veterinary program, explained the new biosecurity protocol is important to the safety of the animals.

“We’re not sure where all the students come from. Maybe they have chickens in their backyard or whatever. So, we don’t want to cross contaminate with our chickens,” Bothuel said.

The new protocol consists of a foot brush upon entry into the facility. The process lasts ten seconds, which is enough time to clean pathogens off the bottom of one’s shoes.

Steven Cooper, a veterinary science major, is a student that takes classes on the farm. The biosecurity protocol protects animals from bacteria present in other animals.

Cooper explains that students must also sanitize their footwear if they are walking to different animal units on the farm. dmalone.roundupnews@gmail.com acanelo.roundupnews@gmail.com

Kaytee Lawrence, a veterinarian student, thinks the new biosecurity protocol is a good idea, which will prevent the transmission of diseases. The protocol not only protects the animals but the students and staff as well.

“It’s not really common, but there are some diseases-- we call them zoonotic diseases, that can transfer between humans and animals,” Lawrence said When working with farm life, the main threat to animals’ safety is the potential pathogens that can be transmitted.

The new biosecurity protocol was put in place to prevent disease transmission among the animals.

When Buckley began teaching, he was a contract worker for the University of Hawaii system, meaning he would be placed at whatever campus he was needed at from semester to semester. He was looking for a full-time, tenure track position. In his field of study, Native American history, there was only one school west of the Mississippi with the position he was seeking, according to Buckley.

That school was Feather River College in Quincy, Ca., the smallest community college in the state.

Buckley’s move to the administration side of things came when he was selected to be division chair.

“I thought if I didn't take the job I wouldn't get tenure,” Buckley said.

Buckley split his time as an instructor and administrator, but slowly realized he could possibly make more a difference as fulltime administration.

“As a faculty member I really loved what I did, and as any faculty member can tell you at the end of the semester when students are taking their final exam and looking out at them you can tell the ones who you had an effect on,” Buckley said. “Then when I started doing the work as a chair realized by helping my fellow faculty members' professional development, supplies, equipment, scheduling, I was kind of having an even bigger impact.I realized that I could do more, for more people doing this. They were never going to know that, but that wasn't important to me.”

According to Buckley, his

“You're affecting tens of thousands of students,” Buckley said. “And that was very satisfying to me.” jmanes.roundupnews@gmail.com