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PA R A D E OF BREEDS
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Emily Fisk shows off her 5-year-old Quarter house during the fifth annual Parade of Breeds held at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2014.
Construction plans revised Head project manager explains upcoming builds Andrew Escobar Jordan Williams Roundup Reporters
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he Pierce College Master Plan for construction projects north of the campus Mall has been updated and the planned media arts building will be downsized, College Project Director Ed Cadena said during the Academic Senate meeting on Monday, Nov. 17. The media arts building is supposed to be built where the old library currently stands and was originally planned to be a large, three-story building. However, construction costs will result in the schematics being revised. “It has now essentially been downsized to a much smaller building,” Cadena said. “I don’t
“We are having to go through some hoops that are inflamed with the hottest fire you could imagine and doing backflips through it.” -Ed Cadena
College Project Director
want to limit the creativity of the architects, but it’s probably not going to be three stories.” Cadena confirmed that the old library would still be removed to make way for the media arts building. “In the North of Mall currently there are eighty classrooms being programed to become smart classrooms with SMART boards and projectors,” Cadena said. “The south of mall when it gets revisited is supposed to have that same
consideration afforded to it.” In addition to discussing the media arts building and North of Mall, Cadena also said that the Performing Arts building, which is now heading into its fourth year of reconstruction, might be opened by next spring. “We have a target that I think is very achievable which will go ahead and allow occupancy for the spring session,” Cadena said. “We are having to go through some hoops that are inflamed with the
hottest fire you could imagine and doing backflips through it.” The update announcements came as a surprise to the senators, however. After Cadena began speaking about them, the senators expressed that they had not been included in the plan’s recent revisions. Joe Perret, professor of computer applications and senate treasurer, said that even though there was some faculty input in the recent updates, the Academic Senate should have been directly consulted on the matter. “We need to make sure that any revisions to this plan are approved by the shared governance factors here on campus,” Perret said. “There may have been faculty input, but those select faculty members don’t necessarily represent the whole faculty governance of the campus.” Another senator, professor of psychology Angela Belden, shared
a similar opinion to Perret. “We see a lot of unilateral decisions being made without shared governance,” Belden said. “We’re a senate, we need to do something.” Belden’s statement was received with applause from her fellow senators during the meeting. Despite Cadena’s assurances of fidelity in regards to the construction plans, some senators remained unsure of how efficient the construction will actually be once it starts. Constance Moffatt, instructor of art history, said that she hopes the builders perform better on the North of Mall projects than they did on the South of Mall ones. “I would like the builders to get some feedback from the users of those buildings in the North of Mall area,” Moffatt said. “I just hope that they do a great job.”
Health Center orders extra flu vaccines Megan Moureaux Social Media Editor Pierce College Student Health Center has ordered an additional 50 preservative-free flu vaccines, according to Director of the Student Health Center Beth Benne. Benne said the Health Center had originally ordered 100 flu vaccines in mid-October, but didn’t order as many as they usually would because of the Affordable Care Act. “I thought more students would have health insurance this year and they would be able to get it for free at their provider’s office,” Benne said. “But you can’t beat the convenience [of Pierce College] and sometimes the providers can’t get you in for several weeks.” The original 100 vaccines that were ordered were gone in four to five weeks, according to Benne. But she ordered an additional 50 vaccinations and will potentially order more if the flu-shots are in demand. There are two types of flu vaccines, but Pierce only uses the injectable inactive virus, according to Benne. “The inactive, which is what we gave, works in three to four weeks,” Benne said. “It technically can’t make you sick.” Students are encouraged by the Health Center to make an appointment for the flu vaccine to face the annual flu season that started this month.
Cost:
$10
Where: Student Health Center To schedule an appointment call: (818) 710-4270
Public address system in works First Lastname Roundup Reporter Vice President of Administrative Services Rolf Schleicher said Pierce College has put funding into a bond to add a public address system to the school’s in case of emergency. It was widely agreed upon at the Pierce College Council (PCC) meeting on Oct. 24 that though the response to the Oct. 16 threat at Pierce College was an improvement to its emergency communication,
there were still issues to be resolved. Concerns about campus safety and emergency response have been emphasized particularly this semester after two incidents caused a campus lockdown and evacuation within weeks of each other. The most recent incident started when Deputy Alfred Guerrero received a call about a private message sent on Facebook that said, “Do you have class tomorrow at Pierce? Don’t go.” Attached to the message were pictures of loaded automatic
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A basket of flowers was left in memory of 22-year-old Josue Fuentes, who was shot and killed by L.A.P.D, on Nov. 10, 2014 at Haskell Ave. and Victory Blvd. in Van Nuys, Calif. Read the brief on page 3.
weapons. “We checked his Facebook profile and found things that were redflag-ish,” Guerrero said. “I can’t talk about what they were right now as this is an ongoing investigation.” Pierce College President Kathleen Burke and Guerrero acknowledged the outstanding response from the city. California Highway Patrol, special units and the FBI immediately responded to the threat, according to Guerrero. [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]
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