A night with the stars Telescope Night offers the Pierce community a reason to look up

cool stuff that I see.” listen to Dale Fields speak. Early into the night, there was a shooting star, and Fields, the astronomy adviser, said he had not seen one as bright in about six years. faculty and staff are invited to gaze at the sky and look at it from a different perspective.

As soon as the sun set

Monday, students gathered around the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes to look at planets and

The unusual sighting was part of the excitement at the first Pierce Telescope Night of the semester.

Telescope nights are put on twice a semester, where students,

“I love getting a chance to observe these kinds of things and share that with people and recognize that this is their sky too,” Fields said. “They actually should have the chance to look up into this and see the same kinds of

Zoe Tallarita, a sociology major, found out about telescope nights through her astronomy class. She decided to take the class, because she was interested in the stars and moon.

“We just saw a shooting star. It lasted forever. That was so crazy. I wish I recorded it,” Tallarita said. “Look through a telescope, because you don’t get to see this any other place-- unless you want to pay.”

Cameron Lazo, a former student, found out about telescope nights through his younger sister.

“That was a better view of the moon than I’ve ever seen before. It was really crazy to see it, just that close and in that much detail.”Lazo said. “As for the other few [planets], while they were maybe a bit smaller-- I’d looked through telescopes in 6th grade on this sort of field trip for school and it really brought me back. We looked at Venus and Saturn and it really brought me back to that.”

Approximately 1,800 students were accidentally auto-enrolled across 1,100 different classes for the Fall 2018 semester, from the waitlist, due to a manual waitlist engine run performed by the District IT department Sept. 11.

The engine run was performed due to a request placed by an LACCD employee for assistance on a waitlist inquiry and to support the college. When the parameters were input into the system, they were incorrect, causing the waitlist engine run to be performed district-wide. The technical team is in the process of dropping the students that were accidently auto-enrolled in the system.

“The team is taking extra precaution to guarantee that the student’s academic record does not reflect a ‘W’ for the drop nor that any institutional charges for the extra class is calculated,” Betsy Regalado said in her email addressing the matter. “Regarding financial aid, there should be no impact to the students affected by the waitlist error since the repackaging run was not scheduled to execute until this evening.”

She noted that initially no

Pierce official notification of the autoenrollment from the waitlist was sent to students, however students became aware of the auto-enrollment through their self-service portal. Regalado explained in the email to faculty that they planned to send out an email to students impacted that they should receive an email concerning the auto-enrollment within 24 hours.

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Athletic counselor Joseph Roberson expressed how we was impressed by the way that the administration handled the matter.

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