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ROUNDUPwww.theroundupnews.comROUNDWoodland Hills, California Volume 116 - Issue 2 March 7, 2012 One copy free, each additional copy 50¢
The Pierce College Farm, the only urban community college farm in Southern Califor-nia, is undergoing a financial crisis as a result from budget issues plaguing California com-munity colleges.
If the farm does not gain resources within a month, Pierce will have insufficient means to feed the cattle, sheep and chicken, accord-ing to Dr. Leland Shapiro, head of the Agri-culture Department.
The college will be forced to shut down the farm, which is home of dozens of animals and many dedicated students.
“It will be wrong to raise animals here if we can’t treat them humanely,” Shapiro said. “But we’re broke.”
The college administration, on the other hand, insists that there is no intent to close the farm.
“There is no imminent threat of the farm being closed down,” Dean of Research, Plan-ning, and Enrollment Management Carol Kozeracki said.
If the farm does close, it would leave ag-riculture, pre-veterinary and veterinary tech-
nology students in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles without an opportunity to obtain hands-on experience in treating ani-mals.
“No one is going to go to a doctor who’s only watched surgeries on television or in movies,” he said. “Likewise, no one is going to hire a manager of a farm or operation un-less they have the hands-on experience.”
Without the farm, students would be in-capable of competing against other students in the country when applying to graduate schools, UCs or CSUs, Shapiro said.
“I love my students,” Shapiro said. “They have to work so much harder than any other student just to get the work done.”
Tanisha Naido, pre-veterinary major, chose to attend Pierce over a community col-lege closer to her hometown of Redwood City, Calif., because of the Pre-Veterinary program and the tools it offers its students.
“[The farm] has helped me a lot,” Naido said. “ [We have] the animals, and get hands-on experience. If the farm closes, we won’t be able to learn the way we do.”
When Shapiro began his work at the farm 40 year ago, it provided a home to 450 cattle, 250 sheep, 250 pigs and 6,000 chickens.
Today, the farm has 20 cows, 12 sheep, no pigs, 33 chickens and only 3 workers.
“There is no imminent threat of the farm being closed down,” Kozeracki said.
The cost of feed per day for the animals is about $90.
“We could feed more animals with that money, but we don’t have enough workers and I don’t have money coming down from the sky,” Shapiro said.
In past years, the farm earned money from movie shoots on the farm and a profitable dairy.
Eventually, the college requested to re-ceive a part of the income from the movie shoots. Today, the farm only receives 20 per-cent of money paid for usage of the farm for filming.
In addition, when on-sight filming causes accidental damage to the farm, the Agricul-ture Department is forced to pay to repair it, Shapiro said.
The school also decided to close the Pierce College Dairy to save money, Shapiro said.
“Actually, this costs money because the dairy was the only part of the farm that was profitable,” he said.
[See Farm on page 3]
Animals may be sold, Pre-Vet classes possibly canceled due to budget cuts
Jose RomeroHorse: Horse in stables at Pierce College Farm near De Soto Avenue at night.
Lior [email protected]
Future of college farm now in question
Foster youth members will be offered priority registration and special services starting summer 2012.
The foster youth services program provides support services to children that have been through events in their life that caused them to suffer. Some of the problems with these children have to do with the displacement from family, schools and multiple placements in foster care.
“The goal is to give them a fair advantage with all the other students,” David Follosco, dean of Students Services, said. “In order to do that priority registration was put into the program.”
Priority registration allows qualified students to register for classes ahead of new students.
In addition, special services like counseling, tutoring, note-taking assistance and seating arrangements will be offered.
There are four groups of students that can take advantage of priority registration and they must all qualify under their programs: disabled students, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services students, veterans, and foster youth.
Although there are many factors in students that can be taken into consideration to be given special services such as early enrollment, some students agree that it is necessary and fair to the groups that are given that chance.
“I may not always get the classes I need, but the people that get the benefit [priority registration] deserve it, they should feel just like any other student,” Carol Medel, a marketing major student, said.
Many students on campus struggle to get classes every semester due to budget cuts. Some think early enrollment for these certain groups can also affect the amount of time it takes to graduate.
“Many students that are given this opportunity don’t take advantage of it and its not fair to the rest of us. Seniors and students with a high GPA should also get priority to pick classes,” Andrea Meneses, 20, a political science major student, said.
According to Follosco, the college follows the decisions of priority registration under the state law mandated by the California education code.
Priority registration serves a purpose for these groups and that is to help them achieve their educational goals with less difficulties; the foster youth program will be given that opportunity to the students that qualify under the requirements.
Ava WeintraubSave Education: Nearly 200 students rally outside of West Valley Occupational Center against the upcoming vote by the LAUSD to cancel adult education programs.
Early enrollment off ered to foster studentsPriority registration for adopted childrenMelissa [email protected]
Nearly 200 people gathered outside West Valley Education Center to protest the possible cancelation of adult education programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District(LAUSD).
The crowd, which was comprised of the school’s faculty, staff and students, held signs with slogans like “Dump Villaraigosa” and “No more cuts” while chanting “Save our
schools”. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is
doing nothing to prevent the cutting of adult education programs, medi-cal billing student Stacy Stein said.
The protest was prompted by an upcoming vote on Tuesday March 13 that would decide the fate of the district’s adult education programs.
The LAUSD board will vote to reduce funding to adult education by $200 million.
“I think they should just raise our tuition,” Stein said. “We need the schools to stay open so that unem-
ployed people can learn skills to help them become employed.”
The rally began at 10a.m., and already had a large crowd of protes-tors by 10:15a.m. including faculty and staff members.
“We want the community to know that we want to be here,” Deborah Thompson, teacher of adult education for 35 years, said. “We are an invaluable part of the com-munity.”
Adult education schools provide vocational education for veterans, young adults, and laid-off workers.
“We have been doing a huge let-ter writing and email campaign to board members,” Karen Hribar, adult education teacher for 27 years, said. “We serve a very important part of the community.”
The protest was scheduled to last until noon.
For the two hours it lasted cars drove by honking there horns while protestors continued their loud chanting.
The voices of the protestors could be heard by students across the street in the Village area at Pierce College.
LAUSD to vote on adult educationHundreds protest the possible cancellation of adult education
Did you know?Pierce College will have a new women’s water polo team beginning next fall semester.
Ava WeintraubVet: Marine Veteran Brian Seligman holds up a sign as he participates in Tuesday’s rally.
Kevin [email protected]
ROUNDUP: March 7, 2012Opinion 2
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Purchasing passes is problematicLack of daily paid parking meters in student lots is taking a heavy toll
What are we paying for?
Preferred passa waste of gas
There are not enough paid parking meters available to students or visitors.
It is unfair for Pierce College to issue parking citations to students
with so few meters provided, there should be $2 parking permits available at all the lots, not just half of them.
For those who do not have semester parking passes, finding a parking meter is a frustrating and annoying inconvenience.
Without meters in lots 3, 4, 5 and 6 East, students with time constraints are not only hit with the obstacle of finding a parking space, but a parking meter as well.
This places student drivers in a stressful situation that would not exist if daily passes were made more available.
The risk of getting a $30 citation from parking enforcement weighs very lightly against the $36 (soon to be $46) we are paying per unit.
Aside from tuition students have to worry about textbooks, supplies, food, gas and whatever other expenses that come up during the semester.
Considering that we are facing a serious budget problem, why not help students park so they can get to class and go bother the smokers
that are causing more of a problem instead? According to Associate Vice President of
Administrative Services Larry Kraus, the cost to install a parking meter is around $15,000.
With $30 parking citations, it would only take 500 citations before the school could afford another meter.
The Roundup was unable to attain the number of citations distributed, passes sold or parking spaces available this semester.
Kraus added that the plan was to install meters in lots 5 and 6 East because they get the most traffic, but the project lacks funding.
The six existing meters on campus generate a combined total $60,000 a year, that is $10,000 each.
According to these numbers, installing meters in lots 5 and 6 East would pay for itself in less than two years.
Until then, perhaps parking enforcement could sell passes instead of citing students that have much more to worry about than where to park.
The Academic Senate has a number of task forces addressing the campus’ problems and this is an issue that affects a significant number of students as well as visitors.
Parking has gone unaddressed for too long.
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Paid parking is nothing new for college students, but is preferred parking really worth the extra $7 when parking on campus is anything but preferred?
College is difficult enough with the rising tuition costs and education cuts, but now students may face a $3 increase for preferred parking depending on the upcoming March student elections.
This would take the cost of a preferred parking pass from $27 up to $30, bringing the total ASO fee up to $10.
Which makes me think, what is it that we are we actually paying for?
Are we paying for a preferred parking pass or an Associated Student Organization (ASO) membership?
As stated in the Business Office’s section of the Pierce College website, administration is in an agreement with the ASO: “To encourage membership in the Pierce College Associated Students’ Organization.”
If this is the case then it should be clearly stated that the $7 preferred fee goes to funding the ASO, perhaps then students would find the fee reasonable.
Possibly, but not likely when students find themselves burning gas in the endless search for decent parking only to be condemned to lots 3, 4, 5, and 6 up by Pierce’s unfinished and incredibly distant Shepard Stadium.
Though most students are aware
of the terrible parking situation on campus and are experienced enough to deal with it, it no longer makes sense to buy a parking pass when off-campus parking is free.
The Metro Orange Line parking lot is now used as free Pierce overflow parking, so why should anyone spend?
This struggle for parking puts students in a difficult position, requiring them to travel further distances with less time to get to class.
It does not help when kicking skateboards and riding bicycles across campus is not permitted.
Students pay for tuition and books to attend school and learn, this burden of paying extra for undesirable parking is not worth our precious time or money.
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Student movie in progress
[Farm: Continued from page 1]
Today, in addition to the 20 percent it gets from movie shoots, the farm earns its money from sell-ing baby animals.
“If we don’t get our ani-mals pregnant, we’ll have to sell everything here,” said Shapiro.
The farm receives no money for feed, veterinary care or repairing of fence lines. It does, however, get money for but only for the two full-time laborers, one part-time worker, and the
water bill.“It pains me to see the
distruction of the farm,” Shapiro said.
The farm has sent a proposal to the Resources Advisory Committee to restore some of its funds, Kozeracki said.
“I don’t know if it’s been approved by the president,” Donna-Mae Villanueva, a member of the committee, said. “I do know that it’s mov-ing along.”Pierce College President Kathleen Burke-Kelly was unavailable for
comment.“Taxpayers put money
into this facility,” Pierce agriculture technician Russ Schrotenboer said. “It’s really the people’s land. It’s a multipurpose facility for families to get a feel for what real farm is like.
A shutdown of the farm would be a great loss to the Pierce’s community, Schrotenboer said.
“Where else is a child going to have the opportu-nity to see what a real farm is like?” he said.
The Pierce College Farm will be hosting a Farm Walk April 22 for students, staff and com-munity members to raise money for the struggling farm, and to benefit the animals and the students.
“We’re really hoping that the community will come forward,” Shapiro said. “It is unbelievably important.”
Contributing: Michaia Hernandez
Ava WeintraubSheep: Agriculture technician Russ Schrotenboer feeds bales of hay to the sheep at the Pierce College Farm. Schrotenboer is a full-time farm employee.
Taylor [email protected]
Budget cuts aff ect farm
Associated Students Or-ganization President Shane Mooney is spearheading the development of a film that will be created wholly by the student body, from script writ-ing to final edits.
Mooney is partnering up with Robert Hovanisian to form the leaders of the project, but any Pierce student or fac-ulty member can be involved.
“I’m trying to get a bunch of creative people together to brainstorm on it,” Mooney said.
The movie is set to be played in the fall, and the idea is to have the film centered on accreditation standards and how they show up in student life.
Shane’s idea for the film is to follow a “student” from the first day of college until he/she graduates or transfers. The story will touch on some standards.
The group will meet in the ASO Conference Room until they need a bigger space.
“We might be up to 100 students,” Mooney said.
He will be talking to Cin-ema Club, the students in-volved in the Theatre Depart-ment and generally anyone who is interested in making a movie.
As of now, Mooney seemed inspired to make a comedy/faux-documentary of the film.
“I think it should be fun-ny because it pulls people in when it‘s funny,” Mooney said.
Faculty Accreditation Co-ordinator Mia Wood is help-ing with the film in any way she can.
“The students run the show and we [the faculty] are just here to serve you,” Wood said.
She agreed with Mooney that the film could use some humor.
“We already have so much serious stuff going on right now,” Wood said. “Sometimes a laugh is needed.”
Mooney is inviting anyone interested in being part of the film to show up for a meeting March 9 at 1 p.m. in the ASO Conference Room.
Ava WeintraubMovie: ASO President Shane Mooney.
1671 - Farm owned 450 cattle, 250 sheep, 250 pigs and 6,000 chicken.
1989- The farm’s pig unit was shut down.
1990 - The farm’s dairy was shut down, and 114 heads of dairy cattle were shipped to be slaughtered.
2012- The farm owns 20 cows, 12 sheep, no pigs and 33 chickens. The farm needs $50,000 to feed these animals each year.
ROUNDUP: March 7, 2012News4
Writing for successSonia Gurrola
Writing: English professor Jeanine Brown helps students improve their reading and writing skills at the writing lab workshop.
English Department offers a series of free writing courses
The first in a series of free writing lab workshops offered by the English department and designed to help students improve their writing skills took place Feb. 29 in Village 8310.
“The point here is to educate, not to fix papers,” English profes-sor Jeanine Brown said. “We fix stu-dents.”
Brown, who has worked in the lab 19 years, teaches the writing lab work-shops, of which there are four.
Each workshop has its own topic: paragraph development, punctuation, intro paragraphs & essay writing and words in context.
“[Workshops] are for any person who’s writing and finds themselves concerned about preparation, or they need someone to look over the first page for error patterns,” Brown said. “That’s the time to come.”
Students sat in a small group with the professor, and learned the work-
shop topic as a group through ques-tions, discussion, and analysis.
Each workshop topic is offered four
times, twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, to accommodate students schedules.
“I’m taking all of them [workshops]. I think I will feel more comfortable be-cause English is my second language,” registered nurs-ing student Hilda Morella said.
Students can attend workshops and make writing lab appointments to prepare for English placement test-ing and to possibly increase their Grade Point Average.
“If a person understands the basis for those errors [in the beginning], that person is empowered to go through and fix the rest of the errors,” Brown said. “That, many times, will raise the grade a
letter or two.”The next workshop in the series will
be a paragraph development workshop.
Brittany [email protected]
• Feb. 17 - A minor head injury was reported from the Library.
• Feb. 28 - Hand rails were hit on Brahma Drive.
• Feb. 28 - An argument between students broke out in the Child Development Center.
Compiled by: Kevin Reynolds
Schedule of upcoming
writing lab workshops
• Paragraphdeveloping-March
7-8,11:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
• Punctuation-March21-22,
2-3p.m.andMarch28-29,
11:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
• Introductionparagraphand
essay-May2-3,11:30a.m.-
12:30p.m.
• Wordsincontext-May16-
17,2-3p.m.andMay23-24,
11:30a.m.-12:30p.m.
Blue phones need repairs
Various campus-wide blue emer-gency phone poles, which are meant to keep students safe on campus are not functioning.
The inconvenience is a result of the campus-wide construction, units need-ing to be repaired, Director of Facilities Paul Nieman said.
The blue phones, also known as ‘blue lights’ are meant to provide a method for students and staff to con-tact the Sheriffs for help in case of emergency.
Although not all 26 blue phone units on campus have been blocked, those that have been were blocked for time frames while repair work was tak-ing place, Nieman said.
The units that are currently not functioning are three units in Parking Lot 7, one near the North of Mall Proj-ect in Parking Lot 1, which is located in an area that is unavailable to students due to construction, and one in the Swine Unit of the farm.
“We are working to have the wiring re-pulled [in the Swine Unit] so they will be functional,” Nieman said.
The Sheriffs can still receive calls from students in case of an emergency from the active blue phones, or from cell phones.
“Students can [still] approach a Sheriff on campus and request help in what they might need, or locate us through the blue emergency phone poles they see on campus and even their own cell phones,” Deputy Sheriff Bill Dunkin said.
Some students feel safe on cam-pus despite of the blockage of the blue phones.
“I feel secure when I drive into cam-pus, see the Sheriffs’ vehicles and see the cadets in their carts in the parking lots and throughout campus,” Pierce student Kaitlin Allen said.
Aurora [email protected]
Todd RosenblattPhones: Emergency phones lay out of service to students.
Todd RosenblattSkills: English professor Jeanine Brown teaches at the writing lab workshop.
Mall construction still delayed by state
Math class to be cut in fall 2012
Students looking for a three-unitmath class to fulfill their require-ments will have to look elsewherestarting next semester, asMath 245willbeeliminatedatPierce.
CollegeAlgebra,whichisatrans-ferablecoursetobothUCsandCSUs,willno longerbeofferedafterade-cisionreachedbyPierce’sAcademicSchedulingCommittee.
The committee recommendedchanges in course offerings acrossalldisciplines,saidBruceYoshiwara,theMathematicsDepartmentchair.
The committee made changes toaddresstheredundanciesinthenum-
ber of classes offered byPierce andthenumberofclassesneededbystu-dentstotransfer.
For mathematics, the committeechose between two options, one be-ing reducing the number of transfermathunitsby12inboththefallandspring.Theoptiontheyultimatelyde-cidedonwaseliminatingMath245.
Math245,despitefulfillingagen-eraleducationrequirementfortrans-fer, is not required for any specificmajor. It is however, the only trans-ferablethree-unitclassthatfulfillsamathrequirement.
Allotherofferingsconsistoffour-unittofive-unitclasses.
The difference in workload be-tweenathree-unitclassandfive-unit
classmakes adifference to studentslikepoliticalsciencemajorMatthewOh,21.
“They can’t cut the class. It’ll behell,”hesaid.
Oh, who is currently enrolled inMath 245, said that not having theclassonthetableforhimwouldhavebeenequivalent to leavinghimwithnooptionsatall.
Iftheclasshadnotbeenavailable,“I would have been petitioned,” hesaid.
OtherMath245studentslikecom-puterinformationtechnologiesmajorKarlRojo, 22, consider the decisiontobeastepinthewrongdirection.
“Therewere only two other sec-tions for this,”he said, referring the
Pierce College needs permissionfromtheDivisionoftheStateArchi-tect, who has continuously rejectedplans,thatsaystheconditionsunderwhichthebuildingsnorthoftheMallarebeingconstructedmeettheirstan-dard.
“Allofourprojectsareayearanda semester old,” Chapter PresidentDonSparkssaid.“Theyshouldhavebeendonebynowandwecan’tseemtogettheDSAtoapprovethem.”
Eachrejectiondelaysprojects6to8weeks leavinga lotof timewherenophysicalworkcanbedoneleadingtosemestersworthoftimewithlittletonoprogress.
“It’sunfortunatebecauseitisoutof the college’s control,” Co-chairof the Pierce College Council Cur-tis Smith said. “The college is heldhostagebytheDSA.Wejusthavetowait.”
ThePierceCollegeCouncilhostedaspecialmeetingMarch1todiscussat length futureandcurrentprojectsoncampus.
DuringthemeetingWalkermadeof point of letting the council knowthattheyneededtoinvestintheprop-er items that the maintenance crewwouldactuallybeabletomaintain.
“I’ve been here 18 years,” Lock-
smithLawrenceWalkersaid.“Thisismyhomeandyouwant thingscom-fortableinyourhome.
Walker wants to make sure thecollegecontinuestomakestepsintherightdirection.
“We’re working through gettingall the proper hardware installed,”Walkersaid.“We’vedonewell.Theyjust gotta continue hearing the end-userspointofview.”
Currently the district believesthat the user-groups should not beinvolved in the construction phasesbecause once the budget is set thewillneedtosticktothebudget,it isimportant.
The panel discussed the pointof view of the district and said thatwouldnotbeaproblemifthefinishedproductalwayscameoutthewaythatitwasplannedinthepre-productionphases.
Thereweremultipleinstancescit-edbythepanelregardingtotheplansthatchanged.
These changes affected the out-comesofcertainbuildingprojectsinanegativeway.
“The purpose was to provide aforumtogivefeedbackfromthecol-legeconstituency,”ChairpersonLynClark said. “And now the Presidentwillreceivethesecommentsandtakethemtothechancellor.”
Administration awaits approval for projects
Jonathan [email protected]
Kevin [email protected]
Committee eliminates College Algebra from schedule
ROUNDUP: March 7, 2012 Arts & Entertainment 5
The photographers of the 29 en-tires that adorn the white walls of the Pierce Gallery will soon discover if their hard work has earned them an award, during the 1st Photo Sa-lon Awards Ceremony on Thursday, March 8 at 7 P.M. in Art3301.
Jill Connelly, chair of the Media Arts Department, was part of the group that created the Awards Cer-emony.
“We thought this would be a good way to highlight our student photog-
raphy,” Connelly said.The photographs were sorted in
categories such as: Best Photo Jour-nalism, Best Portrait and Best Land-scape. All entires will be considered for Best in Show and Best Creative Photograph.
Photographer Joshua Cowan had an early prediction when the gallery first opened of his own photograph entitled “Protester.”
“That’s going to win best photo,” Cowan said hopefully.
One of the judges this year was Paul Myers, a member of the advi-sory board for the Media Arts De-
partment and a Professor at Brooks Institute of Photography.
“A photo makes me stop and won-der what is going on beyond compo-sition, “ Myers said, “We can see the photographer found a great moment.”
Prizes have been donated from both Canoga Camera and Woodland Hills Camera.
Agata Dziatlowicz whose work is entitled “Dancer” glowed when stu-dents gathered around her work and admired it, even taking pictures with their phones.
“It’s great that my work can in-spire, “Dziatlowicz said.
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Pierce College’s Theater Depart-ment will be showing “The Exon-erated” beginning March 23 in the Temporary Performing Arts Center near parking lot 7.
The play is a drama based on the true story of six people sentenced to death for crimes they did not com-mit, and freed years later. The award-winning drama was written by Eric Jensen and Jessica Blank.
The play is an adaptation of sev-eral interviews, case files, and other documents, and since opening in New York in 2000 has been per-formed across the country.
The play highlights the flaws of the criminal justice system by focus-ing on five men and one woman who were wrongfully put on death row, only to be exonerated after spending varying years in prison.
For Valorie Grear, the director of the play, the story behind the play resonates with her, having come from Memphis and seeing the controver-sial imprisonment of the West Mem-phis Three in 1994.
Those events, she said, influenced
her stance against the death penalty and her decision to direct the play.
Besides the message behind the play, the racial diversity present in both the play and the cast at Pierce also steered her interest towards do-ing the play.
“It’s a great acting opportunity for a multiracial cast,” Grear said.
The actors at Pierce have taken great strides to immerse themselves into their roles, with many poring over documentaries and articles about their respective characters.
Chase Fulton, who will be por-traying Kerry Max Cook, said that the biggest challenge behind play-ing his character is stepping into the shoes of a man 15 years older than him who’s suffered so much. To pre-pare himself, he read the memoir of
the real figure, in attempt to familiar-ize himself with the traumatic experi-ences of the character.
On the other hand, Cody Bailey, the actor playing the role of David Keaton, has purposely not delved as much into his character’s life.
“It’s not about finding out about the character, but finding out how you’re going to play him,” Bailey said.
His character is typically por-trayed as a sad, gentle, and spiritual figure in the play, and Bailey wishes to focus and expand on that. He often sits in front of the mirror going over his lines.
For more information about the play and upcoming theater events, visit: http://info.piercecollege.edu/theater/
Kevin [email protected]
The Pierce College Philharmonic Choir will host their annual Cabaret and Silent Auction Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall.
The event will consist of a sit-down dinner catered by Stonefire Grill and a cabaret show at 6:30 p.m., to be followed by a silent auction at 8 p.m.
Around 25 volunteer jazz choir performers will perform, allowing them the opportunity to demonstrate their solo work and group impromts.
“Many of these performers are also the ones helping to put together the cabaret for patrons and for them-selves to enjoy,” Philharmonic Choir Director Terry Danne said.
The silent auction will be hosted by comic impersonator Perry Lam-bert.
Prices of the items are not ex-pected to exceed $40 to $50. Most of the items silent auction have been donated and given by members of the choir.
Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for children.
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Todd RosenblattRehearsal: Chase Fulton, portraying Kerry Max Cook in the critically-acclaimed fact based drama “The Exonerated,” which is debuting on Pierce College’s campus Friday, March 23, 2012.
Sarah StoreyProud artist: Photographer Joy Sindel stands in front of her entry on display at the Photo Salon’s opening ceremony
Choir will host silent auction
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The Pierce College Thursday Concerts hosted the Los Angeles Baroque Players (LABP)
March 1. Playing in front of a packed house, the LABP performed a variety of baroque music from composers like Telemann, Biber Bodin de Boismortier and Geminiani. The group performed with authentic baroque instruments and stopped to explain to the audience how they differed from their present counterparts. The instruments used included a baroque flute, oboe, violin, cello and harpsichord. The group has performed on many West Coast and East Coast chamber music series, according to the group’s flyer. The next Pierce Thursday Concert on March 8 will feature percussionist Bard Dutz in the Music Building, room 3400.
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TOP PHOTO:( From left) Jeffrey Lavner, Adriana Zoppo, and Frances von Seggern Bach perform bwwaroque music
MIDDLE PHOTO: Paul Sherman plays his oboe while f lautist Anthony R. Brazier looks on during a break in performance.
BOTTOM: Thursday Concerts audience waits for the Los Angeles Baroque Players’ performance.Photos by Ava Weintraub
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Defensive errors and lack of productivity cost the Pierce College baseball team their first conference loss of the season against rivals Valley College Saturday.
Even though the Brahmas’ outhit Valley during the game, the Monarchs came on top with a final score of 8-3.
The game started off slow as each team did not score any runs until the Monarchs broke the ice in the fourth inning with an RBI double by right fielder Marcel Chavez off of Brahmas’ starting pitcher David Carver.
“Our starters had a good tone in the beginning but games aren’t won in the first innings they’re won in the last three innings and [Valley] won the last three innings,” said Pierce College head coach John Bushart.
Carver allowed five runs on three hits while striking out four batters in seven innings of work.
“We knew it was going to be tough,” said Valley College player Dave Mallas. “We’re just fortunate we came out on top.”
A wild pitch from Carver at the top of the fifth inning allowed the Monarchs to add another two runs making the score 3-0.
The Brahmas came close to tying it at the bottom of the fifth as they loaded the bases and catcher Greg Koll’s two run single brought Nicholas Bobbs and Kevin Torres home making the score 3-2 Monarchs.
“[Greg] Koll had three hits and [Nick] Murphy had two hits which was a plus,” shortstop R.J. Randal said.
It was a tough game until the eighth inning, when Valley added a total of five runs taking advantage of the three defensive errors the Brahmas committed.
“That five run inning really killed the tempo of the team,” Randal said. ““I felt the intensity wasn’t up. [We] died a little through the game.”
Greg Koll started off the Brahmas’ ninth inning by walking to first, Matt Sanchez had gotten out, and Christian Tobias, Nick Schmidt, and Cody deSpain got bases on balls bringing Koll home.
Brandon Rapoport and Kevin Torres both struck out looking ending the game 8-3 for the Monarchs.
Defensive miscues and no communication among the players prevented the Brahmas’ softball team to stay in the game against Southwestern College last Tuesday.
The Brahmas suffered a 6-1 loss the Jaguars in a hard fought battle.
Pierce held the Jaguars’ powerful offense in the first few innings, sustaining defensive momentum up until the 5th, when with the score remained at 1-1, the Jaguars got two runs.
With Pierce down 3-1 they continued to push off a relentless Jaguars team.
The Brahmas did there best to get as many hits as possible to score, but Southwestern’s defense stopped Pierce in its tracks.
The Jaguars added three more in the 7th to increase their lead to 6-1 and take control of the match.
“We didn’t hit enough,” head coach Pat Grennan said. “I’m encouraged that we’re a better hitting team than that.”
Unfortunately, the team was
making more mistakes than hitting balls.
“We really need to turn it around, we’ve been working really hard during practice and I expect a lot more this semester,” sophomore Katie Kargari said. “Minor errors were killing us.”
The Brahmas are looking to improve on lessening their mistakes
and maintaining their strong defense going into important conference matches.
“I think we did really good today, our defense was hard,” freshman Candice Lujano said. “I think we’re ready for conference as long as we take it one step at a time.”
Head coach Pat Grennan is expecting his team to pull together and step during the tough conference matches.
“These games are getting us ready for the games that count, we have to keep building up momentum,” Grennan said. “I’m optimistic right now.”
The Brahmas have one more game at Chaffey College on March 6 at 1 p.m. before going into an important conference match against Citrus College on March 8.
Angela TafoyaSLIDE: Southwestern College softball catcher Andrea Soto (7) stands poised as she tags out Los Angeles Pierce Brahmas infi elder Janette Torres (3) as she attempts to score in the last innings of the game held at Pierce Feb. 28, 2012.
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Ava WeintraubStruck out: Brahmas’ second baseman Nick Schmidt stands dissapointed as he struck out leaving the bases loaded.
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Angela TafoyaSPIKE: Brahmas mens volleyball set-ter Ray De Leon (22) sets a ball up for middle Ian Zavala (1) to spike during one of the games in the Pierce volley-ball alumni game held on Saturday March 3, 2012
Former Pierce College Men’s volleyball team members, disputed a friendly tournament against the team’s current roster Saturday on campus.
The alumni ranged from those who graduated from Pierce only a few years prior to the event to graduation dates over 10 years ago.
“There are some good students on the team but a lot of alumni are All-American,” 2008 Pierce graduate and former men’s volleyball team member Thomas Butler said.
The alumni team lost in the tournament to the school’s current men’s volleyball team.
Four teams, two alumni and two current students played through the afternoon until the final game,
when the current team won 25-21, 25-20.“We have to rise up and play for the team today,”
men’s volleyball hitter Alex Jones said. “The alumni have some former national team, but they’re older, so we have to see about their shape.”
The men’s volleyball team used the tournament to further prepare for their game Wednesday at 7 p.m. against Long Beach City College at Pierce.
“Today will exponentially help us with our game against Long Beach,” Daniel Williams said. ”Playing a team who doesn’t play often, they really want it. It’s like playing a tough team who wants every point.”
Wednesday’s game against the Long Beach Vikings is a Western State Conference Southern Division Game.
“Long Beach’s a hotshot team. We have better pull control,” said Jones.
Surrounded by conference titles, coach of the year awards, and a John Lennon poster, Pierce College Athletic Director Bob Lofrano sits comfortably at his desk at the South Gym.
“I can’t wait to wake up and go to work to make sure Pierce is headed on the right direction athletically,” Lofrano said. “It’s my job to ensure students have an opportunity to play intercollegiate sports.”
He attended Pierce as a student athlete during 1968-69. He played as the Brahmas’ second baseman during those years before transferring to California State University of Northridge (CSUN) to graduate with a Physical Education major.
He coached the Chatsworth High School baseball team where he led them to a city championship.
In September 1989, Lofrano came back to Pierce, this time as the head baseball coach.
“Almost half my life has been at Pierce,” he said “It’s a good gig.”
He led the Brahmas to the regional playoffs seven times making it once to the state final four and earning five Coach of the Year awards in the process.
After 35 years of coaching he decided to try new tasks.
“It was time to do something else and I haven’t looked back,” Lofrano said.
Under his term as athletic director and with the help of head coach Nabil Mardini, the women’s volleyball has won back-to-back state championships.
“He’s been doing great,” Secretary of Athletics Pat Croal said. “He was a
good [baseball] coach and that helped him transition to athletic director.”
Lofrano’s current main focus is “keeping our head above water,” as he responds to the proposed budget cuts affecting every college in California.
“We’re on the same boat, as everyone else we might even take a bigger hit,” he said. “We’ve given the administration and school some
proposals to ensure Pierce doesn’t lose the number of sports or any teams.”
Colleagues praise his work as Pierce athletics head man.
“I’m a fan of him, he’s up-front and tells you how it is,” assistant basketball coach Charles White said. “[Were] headed in the right direction.”
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Ava WeintraubPortrait: Athletic Director Bob Lofrano poses in front of the Pierce College Hall of Fame.
Coach spends half of his life helping student athletes
The Pierce College Tennis team continued their winning ways Thursday by defeating Bakersfield College.
The win is Pierce’s second in a row and leaves the Brahmas with a record of 6-9 for the season and 4-4 in conference games.
The Brahmas won eight of the last nine matches.
According to head coach Rajeev Datt Bakersfield players were of a different caliber.
“We could have won them all,” Datt said “but one of our players was a bit nervous.”
Head coach Datt attributes Pierce’s big win to the players strength and conditioning.
“My opponent was fun and interesting,” said Tennis team member Sean Dullaghan “I won 6-1, 6-1.”
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Angela TafoyaALUMNI SPIKE: Former Pierce College men’s volleyball team member goes up t block a spike attempt in one of the games at the Brah-mas’ volleyball alumni games Saturday Mar. 3.
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