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Volume 118- Issue 9
May 8, 2013
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LA college district seeks new chancellor
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GIMME SHELTER: A horse evacuated from Camp Shalom in Malibu, Calif. is kept in a stall of one of the barns at the Equestrian Center on Friday, May 3. The horse is one of approximately 25 animals evacuated to Pierce College over the weekend due to spring fires.
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mhernandez.roundupnews@gmail.com ore than 25 horses owned by Hidden Valley residents ordered to evacuate due to the blazing Springs fire were taken to Pierce College’s Equestrian Center over the
weekend. As a school with the amenities to keep horses on campus, Pierce plays a part in a network of Southland facilities that work with emergency – crews and haulers to aid with large animal evacuations, according to Betsy Connolly, a horse science instructor who helped organize the – evacuation. “We all coordinated because we know we can’t keep people safe unless there is a plan to keep their horses safe,” she said. “Horse owners will not leave their precious horses behind.” The 28,000-acre Springs fire, which spread across Ventura County, damaged 15 homes and resulted in mandatory evacuations, according to the Los Angeles Times. Art Gallery Director Monika Del Bosque lives in Newbury Park, about a block away from where mandatory evacuations began, she said in an email. She said that she voluntarily evacuated twice due to the blaze. “I could have gotten very afraid about losing my possessions, but it’s
just stuff in the end,” Del Bosque said in the email. “I was more concerned about how it would have impacted my children and their loss of possessions. But for me, it’s just material goods. Everything is replaceable in the end. The things that aren’t—they’re fleeting.” Meanwhile, at the Equestrian Center, a map was set up by a registration table to help identify where each horse was kept. Horses were catalogued and assigned ID tags for organization. Also, stalls were zip tied, and buckets of water were set up for each enclosure. Connolly said that the evacuation alert was issued at approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, May 3, and that shortly after, she received the call to start the temporary sheltering process. “[The fire and sheriff’s departments] made the decision to open up Pierce,” she said. The threat subsided sometime around Saturday evening, and the horses were taken back by the haulers Sunday. “Fortunately, the weather cooperated once the Agricultural Assistant sun went down,” Connolly said. Though the school provides the evacuation site facilities, LA County oversees the process. “The county has jurisdiction. We just worked for them,” Warner said. Student and faculty volunteers worked with an emergency evacuation team to keep the process of sheltering the horses as smoothly as possible. [See HORSES, page 3]
“If my horse ever had to be evacuated just seeing how well they’re taken care of here I would want them here.” -Randi Katz
A team from a national search firm assisting the Los Angeles Community College District with its search for the next chancellor is hosting an open forum on Monday, May 13 from 1 to 2 p.m. in Business Education room 3200. The event, put on by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), is aimed at helping the team gather feedback from students, faculty and staff to create a profile for its ideal candidate for chancellor. “We expect to hear as much information as we can from everyone. The collective voice of the district will determine what the profile will include,” said ACCT Executive Vice President of Research, Education and Board Leadership Services Narcisa Polonio, who will lead the national search. “We need to know what you need.” Similar forums will be taking place in the other eight schools in the LACCD. The meetings mark early efforts of the district to move forward with finding a replacement for current chancellor Daniel LaVista. In line with the search, the board will be providing regular reports on the search process through the district website, which will be updated within the next couple of weeks, according to an email circulated by the LACCD Board of Trustees President Steve Veres. According to an email “The Board is committed to conducting an open, transparent, and equitable national search as we seek the next leader for our District.” In addition to the ACCT, the Board of Trustees is working with a new 11-member committee that will serve as a candidate clearinghouse of prospects brought in from the search firm contracted by the board, trustee Scott Svonkin said during a May 1 LACCD meeting. “[ACCT] does the publicity to the possible pool of applicants,” Svonkin said. “Working with our
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CHANCELLOR: Daniel LaVista began his term on Aug. 1, 2010.
human resources, they screen the applicants to make sure they meet our basic qualifications. All of those applicants that qualify will be given to the committee. The committee evaluates them and then sends their recommendations to the Board of Trustees.” A sticking point was member No. 1: board president, and whether or not he was mandated to attend every meeting and interview conducted by the new committee and whether he would have a double vote on a candidate given his double role. “I would like us to amend this formally,” Field said. The “board president,” as a member of the committee and the language of “moderator” as the role of board president was removed from the resolution and passed by a unanimous role call vote, except for trustee Park who was absent. “We have a really aggressive goal of trying to have a new Chancellor on at the beginning of the academic year,” Veres said. “We’re doing focus groups at each of the campuses, from Pierce to Mission to Valley to all across the district, people will have a chance to give input on what they feel what they want to see in a new Chancellor.” The board will meet again on May 15 to further define the selection of the committee chair. LaVista began his term on Aug. 1, 2010.
Annual student art show opening Student works to be showcased May 9 at the Art Garden Tim Toton/Roundup
ttoton.roundupnews@gmail.com On one of the highest plateaus on campus a small group talks about the textures, colors and lines of dozens of pieces of student art before anyone thwacks a nail into a chalk white wall. Art Gallery Director Monika Del Bosque, also an associate professor of art, leads the loose democracy of gallery assistants and art students through the space switching pieces and taking votes. The gallery has been here since the 60s and the idea behind the annual student art show is to highlight the efforts of students who have taken courses at Pierce over the year, Del Bosque said. The opening and award ceremony of The Annual Student Show is May 9 from 6:00 to
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8:00 p.m. in the Art Garden and the show runs through May 29. Even though the show hasn’t opened, the winners have been chosen and will be announced on opening night. Guest juror Karen Rapp, director of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College was already out to view the entries and make her decision, Del Bosque said. “She looks at everything - it takes a few hours – she looks at all the video pieces – looks at all the 2D, 3D art and then makes her decision,” Del Bosque said. In the student show, there are a lot of different types of art to think about and to relate to, though not everybody is able to appreciate it, Del Bosque said. “That makes it a more challenging and exciting show to install,” she said.
P I E R C E The Pierce College Weather Station has provided meteorological data to national agencies since 1949. The information in this graph was provided by our weather correspondent, Sean Clemmons.
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Blayn Barbosa currently attends Student Art Center in Pasadena as a graphic design major but returned to Pierce just to take the exhibition design class with Del Bosque, he said. “There have been 100 entries and we’ve been setting up for about a week,” Barbosa, 31, said. “Students are allowed to show their material from this last year in the previous spring. It’s a mix of ceramics, graphic design, prints, painting and sculpture.” Del Bosque knows many museum curators personally so students have gotten jobs working as docents at museums after taking this class, he said. “This class – could not find it anywhere else. It has been invaluable.“ Last year, 23-year-old illustrator Nicole Ellsworth was in the design installation class [See ART, page 3]
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PREP: Blayn Barbosa and Afshin Shidanshidy hang artwork in the Student Art Gallery on May 3 at Pierce College.
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