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Former professor Henry Lopez died Santiago Svidler Roundup Reporter Henry Powers Lopez, a loving husband, father, and teacher who taught languages and humanities for 45 years at Pierce College, died Oct. 14, 2014 of respiratory failure in Northridge, CA. He was 86. Lopez was born on Jan. 30, 1928 in Los Angeles, California to a teenage mother, Henrietta Romero and was raised by his stepfather Daniel Powers at the start of the Great Depression. Lopez served for six years in the European Theater in World War II as an Army translator and accountant. Once he returned home he started to put his home life in order by providing for his daughter and his ill stepfather. In 1966, Lopez started teaching at Pierce College and for 45 years he was an ESL, Humanities, Russian, Italian, French, German, Spanish professor. Lopez loved to bring his daughters to class with him as he incorporated them in his class David Paz / Roundup lectures. Pierce College Football team gathers for a group picture right after its victory against Los Angeles Valley College. Pierce College won the game 55-48 in John Shepard Stadium. “He really loved what he was doing. You can tell from his lessons and the way he taught, he had a certain zest for teaching that I try to inject in my teaching, he taught me a lot,” daughter Leticia LopezZabaleta said. hostility that started last week on Twitter deficit with a 21-yard touchdown by running the Monarchs. One of those redshirt players is Lopez is survived by his wife, Megan Moureaux and continued the banter on the field during back, De’Shawn Jones late in the first quarter. Jordan Barge, who was active in the taunting daughters (U.S. Army LTC Rose Social Media Editor warm-ups. “I think the whole year’s been emotional, on social media last week. Keravuori; Dr. Leticia LopezThe game started with a Valley touchdown but this week was more emotional than most “The refs cheated us,” Barge said. “Offense, Zabaleta, Liz Weiland), and ensions ran high Saturday by Elli Richardson about three minutes into weeks because it’s personal,” said head coach we did what we needed to do. We put points grandchildren. night after the Pierce College the first quarter. Richardson scored his second Efrain Martinez. on the board and I don’t know what happened A private memorial service took Brahmas defeated its rival, the touchdown about five minutes later and the The cross-valley rivalry has grown after that. We were the better team, we played place at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Los Angeles Valley College Monarchs quickly followed with a 60-yard since ex-Pierce defensive coordinator, Juan better than them but they made bigger plays Hills, on Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. In lieu of Monarchs, to ring the Victory interception return to make the score 21-0. Navarro, left last year to become the head than us.” flowers, the family asks donations Bell for the sixth straight year. Tempers began to flare on the sideline but coach for Valley. Navarro also took around [See FOOTBALL, pg. 8] be sent in Henry’s name to the Members of both teams ramped up the Pierce started its comeback from a 21-point 20 red/gray shirt players with him to play for Salvation Army.
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Committee endorses departments in need of staff members
FPPC recommends where next yearʼs hires should go Seth Perlstein News Editor With the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) set to hire 157 new faculty next year, current Pierce College faculty attempted to convince a room-full of peers about why their department needed new hires more than others. The Faculty Position Priority Committee (FPPC) voted on 31 applications from 18 departments. Each department made its case for up to two of its disciplines. The votes were tallied, and the applications were ranked with cumulative scores that ranged from 27 to 52, with the high scores at the top of the list.
The committee will use the list to recommend to President Kathleen Burke for which departments the school should hire next year. “Because we have shared governance here at Pierce, the faculty plays a critical role in the future of the college, and managing decisions with the President,” Committee Chair Constance Kocs said. The Media Arts department lost one of its two full-time journalism teachers after last semester. Assistant Media Arts Professor Jeff Favre presented his case to add a second full-time journalism teacher to the department. “Advising the Roundup is a twoperson job,” Favre said. “It truly takes two full-time people to make
sure it’s working properly.” Journalism scored 45.50 points and tied for eighth place with theater. Favre also argued for a new fulltime cinema teacher. Cinema lost a full-time, tenured teacher three years ago, and finished in third place with 50.00 points. Cinema was automatically placed in the top-three because it lost a tenured employee. Career Center Director Joanna Zimring Towne pointed out that the counseling department was not inline with Title IX’s recommended student-per-counselor ratio of 900-1, or the Academic Senate’s recommended ratio of 400-1. Pierce had approximately 2,000 students per counselor, Zimring Town said.
“We need some full-time faculty to help manage that program,” Zimring Towne said. “Just relying on adjuncts is not going to be enough.” New-student counseling finished in fourth place with 50.00 points, but sat one spot below cinema because it didn’t lose a tenured employee. General-student counseling finished fifth with 47.00 points. The committee’s list is just a recommendation. Burke will make the final hiring decisions, but will use the FPPC’s recommendations in her decision-making process. [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com] Graph: Seth Perlstein / Roundup
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