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Volume 116 - Issue 7
April 25, 2012
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Writing lab is treading water Melissa Trahin
mtrahin.roundupnews@gmail.com A motion discussing the lack of recognition for the English Writing Laboratory was presented Monday by English Professor, Richard Follett at the Academic Senate meeting. “If it’s going to be the Center for Academic Success and English Writing Lab, let’s say that upfront,” Follett emphasized. “I do not see the support from the viability study.” Though Follett accepted the combination of both departments, he recommended the reestablishment of the English Writing Lab to be the first priority after the budget issues improve. “Unfortunately, what we are going to do now, is Pierce College student tutors,” said Follett. “They are marvelous, however, a teacher has taught for many years, they are certainly more experienced.” According to Carol Kozerachi, dean of research and planning, apporJoe Kukuczka tionment can be collected in a centralized model if in fact, a faculty or staff The hand that feeds: Children reach out to feed the kid Boer goats during the annual Pierce College Farm Walk outside the Goat Unit on the Farm. member is present in the building. The viability review includes two things, a decentralized model and a centralized model. “[The center], should be guided by a faculty or staff member with an appropriate degree of a bachelors or masters level to collect apportionanyone to feed the young goats, Kal Valasek ment” said Kozerachi. and sheep shearing to demonstrate kvalasek.roundupnews@gmail.com Also, centralizing the center will how a sheep is shaved. The wool allow students to attend tutoring, gathered from sheep shearing was workshops, labs and other services Families flocked to the Pierce College piled up for attendees to take with with less difficulty. them if they wanted to. farm Sunday to participate in the “The committee felt that in lookA number of other teaching Agricultural Department’s annual Farm ing at the new building and staffing demonstrations, including a horse Walk Fundraiser. issues, we should adopt the centralthat was painted on to show its Though the event was free, the ized model that will provide the tutorinternal organs, took place as well. department asked for a $5 donation that ing of support services,” said KozeraThe Dairy Council of California will be used to help pay for the feed chi. also visited Pierce to show children for the farm animals and keep tractors Different scenarios that could working, according to Dean of Research, how to milk a cow. Joe Kukuczka Horse Bones: Patricia Skaskevich,19, shows children a save the school some money in hirThe manager for the Dairy Planning, and Enrolment Management horseʼs bone structure during the annual Pierce College ing tutors were thoroughly explained Mobile Unit, Efrain Valenzuela, Carol Kozeracki. Farm Walk by Dean of Student Success, Crystal came to Pierce with his cow, Everyone who attended was given a Kiekel. Buttercup, to teach children about stamp sheet for a scavenger hunt, where “Scenario two is less expensive Valenzuela said. how they get their milk. participants visit different animals and and could work,” said Keikel. “InIn addition to farm cows, the event “Our goal is to teach children where answer questions about them in order to also featured cow and chick mascots who stead of the instructional assistants, our milk comes from,” Valenzuela said. get their sheet stamped. here we would talk about hiring hourtook pictures with the children There He taught the children how to milk There were events all over the ly adjuncts.” were also other activities, including a a cow by hand but explained it is more farm for people to see all the different Hourly adjuncts would add up to pie-eating contest, face painting, and efficient to use a machine. animals. 30 hours of employment as opposed coloring for the children. “The machine takes five to seven There were horse shows that went on Ava Weintraub to 60 hours from instructional assisminutes, much faster than if you milk throughout the day, as well as pony rides Cow head: Pre-veterinary major Randi Katz parades around in a cow costume. tants, according to Keikel, a big difby hand. If you milk a cow by hand it for visitors to take part in for a fee. ference in budget savings. Contributing: Maria Salvador can take a half hour to 45 minutes,” There was also a petting zoo for
Family fun at annual Farm Walk
Financial aid OneAccount finds a second home Brent Spector
bspector.roundupnews@gmail.com Financial aid recipients will have a new depository bank take control of their financial aid accounts “on or after May 4, 2012,” according to a notice sent out to OneAccount customers. “It is a strategy that we have been working on and have talked about publicly for some time now, in order to strengthen our offering to customers of the OneAccount”, according
to an e-mail from Higher One Media Relations’ Shoba Lemoine. Students with a OneAccount were notified of the change via email. Students receiving financial aid within the Los Angeles Community College District currently use Higher One’s OneAccount to manage their financial aid disbursements. Currently the funds are held by The Bancorp Bank, but “on or after May 4, 2012” Higher One’s banking services will be provided by Bancorp Bank, Wright Express Financial
Services Corporation (WEFSC) and Urban Trust bank, according to Lemoine. In the notice sent to account holders, Bancorp Bank will transfer accounts and funds to WEFSC and remove itself of any further responsibility, which will change the choice of law governing the account agreement from Connecticut to Utah. The unexpected announcement has created confusion and worry about the changes, as nursing major Adriana Reyes explains.
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“I thought they put the money in and you take it out,” 19-year-old Reyes said. “I don’t want it to be a whole shin-dig, but when I first saw it I was worried.” Students shouldn’t be concerned as nothing has changed in regards to the way financial aid is disbursed. “The disbursement of funds for students has not changed,” Financial Aid Director Anafe Robinson said. “[The change] is seamless.” For those worried about what will happen to their myLACCD-
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card, Lemoine wrote that existing cardholders may continue using their current card during this time, in order to provide a smooth transition. Joel Zamora, 26, has been at Pierce for three semesters and isn’t worried about the change. “The way I understand it, there isn’t going to be a big difference,” Zamora said. Both Lemoine and Robinson attest the change in the depository bank will not affect the way colleges distribute financial aid and students
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For a look at one of the campus food trucks go Mon. April 30 to page 5 for this weeks feature of the “Hot Sauce 78/56 Truck.”
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will follow the same process they did in the past during disbursements. Students will be informed by e-mail when their account has transferred over to the new depository, which is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. As Higher One said in the notice to account holders, “[The change] will not change your relationship with Higher One or change the great service and innovative features you get from your Higher One checking account, we promise.”
Did you know? Pierce College won 13 awards at the California College Media Association awards ceremony on Saturday night, coming in second place overall for most awards won.