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Best friends form a Special Team Two all-star athletes reunite to help the Brahmas this season Megan Moureaux Copy Editor
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ne of the last things people think or talk about with football is special teams. But these two players have managed to make a name for themselves and have created an unbreakable bond between them at the same time. They met in 2012 during the Prepstar SoCal California Classic North vs. South All-Star game, became fast friends, but quickly moved on with their separate college lives. Two short years later, they would be reunited and playing football together again. Long snapper, Blake Word, and kicker and punter, Jamie Sutcliffe, work together for the Brahmas on one of the most important and underrated parts of the team. Being a part of the special teams comes with a different kind of pressure and strong need for mental toughness. “In other positions you can make a mistake and have it go unnoticed, but as a long snapper, punter or kicker, all eyes are on you every time you’re on the field,” said Kicking and Special Teams Coach of four years, Bob Bognet.
Protest at Trustees meeting Students: Keep our culinary programs
Nicollette Ashtiani Roundup Reporter Nearly 300 students, chefs and graduates showed up to the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees meeting to protest the board’s proposed elimination of its culinary arts program. LACCD’s culinary program is one of the largest, oldest and widest recognized culinary arts programs in the state, said Freddie McClain, sociology professor at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College (LATT). “The uniqueness of the program strongly encourages a positive academic mindset,” McClain said. “The students in the program can actually see the fruits of their labor being purchased and appreciated by faculty, staff and students.” The LATT students want to decide the fate of the culinary program said, James Johnson, president of the Associated Student Organization at LATT. [See TRUSTEES, pg. 3]
“These two guys are playing the two most individualized positions in the most team-oriented sport, so they have to be mentally tough.” Sutcliffe, 21, recently transferred from University of Utah to Pierce College looking for a new opportunity. He has been playing football for six years but this is Sutcliffe’s first semester as a Brahma. He came to Pierce after his allstar teammate, Word, saw a post on social media suggesting he was leaving Utah and decided to tell Sutcliffe about Pierce football. “Blake went out of his way to talk Jamie into coming here. He knew we had an opening and he knew it was a good school for him to come to and showcase himself to go to the next level,” Bognet said. Word, 20, has been playing for the Pierce College Brahmas for two years. He started playing football when he was 8 years old for local teams like the West Valley Eagles and the Chatsworth Chiefs. Word’s father, who played football throughout high school before joining the Marines, encouraged him to play by putting him into different training camps and getting coaches to help Word build his game. [See TEAM, pg. 7]
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Jamie Sutcliffe was convinced to come to Pierce after playing for the University of Utah by long time friend and teammate Blake Word.
Struggling groups get help
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Left: The Bunkerʼs back wall displays Pierce students art work during the Ode to Nature Art Show. Right: Evelyn Gutierrez watches former Pierce student Christian Angel sketch.
Local bar hosts student art
The Bunker opens its doors for Ode to Nature showcase Seth Perlstein News Editor A dive bar, The Bunker, was transformed for an evening from neighborhood tavern to art gallery by a Pierce College double-major, her bartender-manager and the bar’s aesthete owner. Art and nursing major Aimee Malgapo’s “Ode to Nature” art show featured works created by 13 Pierce and Cal. State Northridge (CSUN) students. The nature-inspired pieces ranged from oil paintings to photographs, and spanned a 20-foot stretch of previously empty wall-space in the bar. The show was The Bunker’s second and Malgapo’s first. “I thought this would be my dream job,” Malgapo said. “It’s pretty exciting.” The Bunker owners Josie Wagner and Wagner’s son, Daniel Velazquez, said they wanted to help local student-artists show their
“A lot of artists, especially young artists, don’t have a place to showcase their work.” -Geg Nartates Bunker bartender
work. “It’s about the community and the students,” Wagner said. “They wanted to expose their art, and they didn’t know where to go.” Malgapo knew right away she wanted to have her first art show at The Bunker when she visited it for the first time. “I saw the bare walls and was like, ‘Oh my God, I could totally put my stuff here,’” Malgapo said.
The show’s theme was not chosen with such ease. Malgapo debated with her friends whether it needed one or not, but ultimately decided for the show to have one “so that the audience would get a feel for it, and connect it all.” Pierce illustration major Tawny Therrien shouted “glory to mother earth” when she and Malgapo discussed the show’s theme. “I don’t like randoms,” Malgapo said. “It’s too weird. I like the idea of pulling things together. That’s what I’m all about.” Malgapo’s manager and The Bunker bartender Geg Nartates, who said he earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from CSUN, said The Bunker’s been trying to help revive the San Fernando Valley art scene that he believes is “on the way back.” “A lot of artists, especially young artists, don’t have a place to showcase their work,” Nartates said. [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]
Equity Plan revised to include state funding Andrew Escobar Roundup Reporter The Pierce College Equity Plan was revamped for 2014 to include state funding and analysis for a wider range of struggling student demographics, said Director of the Center for Academic Success Crystal Kiekel. The Equity Plan consists of annual data that examines how certain demographics of students perform academically at Pierce. The plan exists to identify and analyze the demographics that tend to struggle so that the school can establish programs to help them improve. “The Equity Plan is our obligation to identify the underserved students and improve our work so that we can help the students we are not currently serving,” Kiekel said. “It is both a state-mandated and moral obligation.” The data used, is collected from three specific groups – males, African Americans/Latinos and students with disabilities. [See EQUITY, pg. 3]
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