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Pierce advocates breast cancer awareness

Walsh said the meetings contain sensitive information that could be manipulated and leaked to the media. He said other bodies have experienced secret recordings taken out of context.

“I mean it sounds like we have no choice here, but I think we now it's incumbent upon ourselves to protect ourselves and particularly protect this committee and protect this institution,” Walsh said.

Student Health Center Director Beth Benne said the committees and their corresponding subcommittees are all open. She said the council would be using up valuable resources to discuss the topic.

“They [The Roundup] could've been recording this entire time and so we're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of time, maybe money on something that they could have been doing forever and we didn't even know it,” Benne said. “Call me naive, but this seems like we've got a lot more important things to worry about.”

Walsh said today’s media driven culture is a reason that doesn’t have him in a hurry to record the meetings. He said the minutes taken at the meetings are good enough and the council members are held accountable for them.

“I think of the culture we're in where everyone's recording each other and taking pictures of themselves and just like in a meeting where we can all just kind of talk freely, I don't think it's going to change our behavior at all, but I'm just not in a rush to like record myself and my colleagues because we take minutes,” Walsh said.

The PCC will vote on whether or not they will have an official recording of every meeting at the next scheduled meeting on Nov. 14.

MAJA LOSINSKA Reporter @RoundupNews

As reported by breastcancer. org, about one in eight U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.

Pierce College offered resources during the Breast Cancer Awareness event Thursday at the Rocky Young Park.

Nursing student Yamil Herrera said that the event aims to increase early detection of breast cancer by providing information.

“It kind of resonated with me because my aunt actually had to deal with breast cancer, and she’s a survivor so this is something that means a lot to me,” Herrera said.

The event was organized by the Student Health Center and the Associated Students Organization.

Vanessa Tillman, a Student Health Center intern, said that the event was organized to inform students about the services provided by the Student Health Center.

“We like to work with the ASO group to do outreach for breast cancer awareness. It is just to get the word out about the Student Health Center because they have so many resources,” Tillman said.

Breast cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer among American women. It's estimated that about 30% of newly diagnosed cancers in women will be breast cancers, according to Breastcancer.org.

Herrera explained that hanging pink ribbons symbolizes solidarity.

“Ribbons basically represent support for women, even if they don’t have anybody who’s been