Volume 140 Spring 2024 Issue 7

A dream resource

By Raquel G. Frohlich Editor-in-Chief

Financial aid applications are important—but so are free tamales.

Students gathered in the Dream Resource Center (DRC) this Wednesday to eat tamales and receive help with financial aid matters during the California Dream Act Tamales & Treats event. Coffee, tea, baked sweets, keychains and socks were also available to attendees.

Dream Resource Center Lead D’arcy Corwin said the event was organized to help students complete their California Dream Act applications. Undocumented students who are AB 540 eligible can fill out the application, explained Corwin.

Representatives from Financial Aid and CARECEN College Legal Services were

Financial Aid office, was onhand to help students with applications.

“Any assistance that we can provide to students to help with their questions or with financial aid applications will help the students and alleviate any issues that they may have in their own process,” Cardenas said.

Biology major Bryan PerezBado highlighted the importance of having a space dedicated to undocumented students.

“I feel like you could find resources for students to have access to anything they might need for undocumented students online, or even through other resources or other campuses, but just having the space for students to know that they can be felt, seen, represented—I

“We also want our undocumented students to know that they have a club where they can build community, build friends, engage and have a safe place to just get together and enjoy school.”

D’arcy

Corwin Dream Resource Center Lead

also present to assist students.

“Not only do we want them to complete the application, maximize their financial aid benefits and get the money that they need to be successful in school, but we also wanted them to learn about other resources,” Corwin said.

A student attending a California Community College for the 2024-2025 academic year should apply for financial aid by May 2 and no later than Sept. 3, 2024, according to the California Student Aid Commission.

Cindy Cardenas, from the

think that’s really important,” Perez-Bado said.

Corwin mentioned the support group and club on campus for undocumented students and allies, Undocu-Brahmas.

“We also want our undocumented students to know that they have a club where they can build community, build friends, engage and have a safe place to just get together and enjoy school,” Corwin said.

Icy Smith contributed to this story.

ABOVE: Lara Conrady-Wong (right) and D’arcy Corwin (center) talk and eat in the Dream Resource Center at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2024.

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BELOW: Items for students to take with them are displayed in the Dream Resource Center at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2024.

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Un recurso de ensueño

By Raquel G. Frohlich Editor-in-Chief

Las solicitudes de ayuda financiera son importantes, pero también son los tamales gratis.

Los estudiantes se reunieron en el Dream Resource Center (DRC) este miércoles para comer tamales y recibir ayuda con asuntos de ayuda financiera durante el evento California Dream Act Tamales & Treats. También había disponible café, té, dulces horneados, llaveros y calcetines para los que asistieron.

La líder del Dream Resource Center, D’arcy Corwin, dijo que el evento se organizó para ayudar a los estudiantes a completar sus solicitudes de la California Dream Act. Los estudiantes indocumentados que sean elegibles para AB 540 pueden completar la solicitud, explicó Corwin.

También estuvieron presentes representantes de Ayuda Financiera de Pierce y Servicios Legales Universitarios de CARECEN para ayudar a los estudiantes.

“No sólo queremos que completen la solicitud, maximicen sus beneficios de

ayuda financiera y obtengan el dinero que necesitan para tener éxito en la escuela, sino que también queremos que conozcan otros recursos [traducido de inglés a español]”, dijo Corwin. Un estudiante que asista a un colegio comunitario de California para el año académico 2024-2025 debe solicitar ayuda financiera antes del 2 de mayo y a más tardar el 3 de septiembre de 2024, según la Comisión de Ayuda Estudiantil de California.

Cindy Cárdenas, de la oficina de Ayuda Financiera, estuvo disponible para ayudar a los estudiantes con las solicitudes.

“Cualquier asistencia que podamos brindar a los estudiantes para ayudarlos con sus preguntas o con las solicitudes de ayuda financiera los ayudará y aliviará cualquier problema que puedan tener en su propio proceso [traducido de inglés a español]”, dijo Cárdenas.

Bryan Pérez-Bado, estudiante de biología, destacó la importancia de tener un espacio dedicado a estudiantes indocumentados.

“Siento que se pueden encontrar

recursos para que los estudiantes tengan acceso a cualquier cosa que puedan necesitar los estudiantes indocumentados en línea, o incluso a través de otros recursos u otros campus, pero simplemente tener el espacio para que los estudiantes sepan que pueden ser sentidos, vistos y representados, creo que eso es realmente importante [traducido de inglés a español]”, dijo PérezBado.

Corwin mencionó el grupo de apoyo y club en el campus para estudiantes y aliados indocumentados, UndocuBrahmas.

“También queremos que nuestros estudiantes indocumentados sepan que tienen un club donde pueden construir una comunidad, hacer amigos, participar y tener un lugar seguro para reunirse y disfrutar de la escuela [traducido de inglés a español]”, dijo Corwin.

Translation by Daniela Raymundo.

Student eat and receive help with financial aid in the Dream Resource Center at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 27, 2024.

The circus comes to Pierce College

Circus has been a tradition in the Caballero family for six generations.

As traveling circus artists, the family of performers live in trailers set up behind the circus tent and move to a new city every couple weeks, and from March 21-31, their home base was Pierce College.

The performers do everything from putting up the tent, building the set, rigging their equipment, taking tickets and performing in the show.

The

traditional circus family learn how to clown, play instruments, ride motorcycles and perform high-level acrobatic skills.

Before going on stage to perform, acrobats collect tickets, sell refreshments and take photos with audience members.

Circuses may be filled with flashy stunts and non stop excitement, but the professional performers could be seen backstage remaining calm and focused.

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Paloma Torresoto performs a Flying Pole act with Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024.

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children raised in this

LEFT: An audience waits outside of Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024.

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BELOW: Nikita Caballero plays the trumpet at Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024.

Anru Caballero (L) and Nikita Caballero (R) entertain the audience at Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024. These sixth-generation circus artists played multiple instuments and worked with the crowd after performing on trampoline and riding motorcycles in the Globe of Death.

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Nataly Miquel performs an Aerial Silk act with Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 20, 2024.

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Caballero brothers perform trampoline and hand to hand acrobatics with Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024.

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Paloma Torresoto (R) and Marco Caballero (L) on Flying Trapeze during Caballero Circus on the Pierce College campus in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 22, 2024.

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Beauty and

(L to R) Marcelo Cabrera, a political science major, Estephanie Paz, a psychology student, and Sophie Guardian, a chemistry student, carefully help take out the remaining tiny Milkweeds from the plastic container during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.

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(L to R) Olivia Kim, a student, Maturah Wardak, a biology major, and Sophie Guardian, a chemistry major, work together to plant the tiny Milkweed plants into the wet soil during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.

Karla Delgado / Roundup News Participants of the Bodega Beautification Workshop gather outside of the Iris 900 building at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.

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the Milkweed

Pierce College is not a place that only students can explore—now it’s for a variety of insects that can fly around the campus freely.

A crowd of students and community members gathered for the Bodega Beautification Workshop and planted Milkweed on campus for the Monarch butterflies to make Pierce their new home. The event was organized to inform individuals about the importance of this specific species and the impact it has on the natural ecosystem.

Brahma Bodega Coordinator

Geremy Mason is a fan of all the

critters on campus and said he enjoys going to the Arboretum. “One of my favorite reasons for going there is because they have the butterfly habitat, but it is really helpful to create a nicer-looking campus, it feels a little more homey,” Mason said. “We have more greenery and it smells nicer. I think having activities like these for the students, especially students that are interested in it and just want to do something to go out and commune, do something to beautify the campus. It’s a win on all fronts.”

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When I got the chance to be able to put more plants at Pierce, a place that consistently looks beautiful, I wanted to bring in more butterflies. And honestly just have a space for students to feel like they did this—they were a direct impact on it,”

said.

LEFT: Cedrice Webber, an intern with the Brahma Bodega and basic needs and coordinator for the event, speaks to attendees about the process and what the Bodega Beautification Workshop is about at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.“We have been in conversation with the facilities and the garden supervisors about doing a series of planting workshops and activities to help students practice a therapeutic activitiy or a meditative or community-building type of activity,” Webber said.

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(L to R) Alexandria Blanco and Ingrid Perez, a child development major, smile as they learn how to plant a tiny Milkweed during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024. “Community wise I think it’s just great learning about it. I definitely did not know about the Monarch butterflies, so it is something interesting knowing, and expanding our knowledge to share with our friends and family, as well as doing good for Earth Day,” Perez said.

Bryan Perez-Bado, a biology major and student worker at the Dream Resource Center, holds a Milkweed plant and demonstrates how to properly take it out of the container during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024. “I think it’s

spaces that they have around them and

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with them.

Perez-Bado

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A student carefully puts dirt into the hole while planting a Milkweed during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.

Sophie Lotterstein / Roundup News Breathe Initiative Coalition representative Jade Frank (right) hands a gift card to biology majors Kimberly Olivera (left) and Karen Pacheco (center) during the Bodega Beautification Workshop at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on March 26, 2024.