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#PIERCEWIRE Conversation with the chancellor
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Los Angeles Community College District Chancellor Francisco Rodriguez will be oncampus to field questions Thursday, March 26 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Performing Arts Building. Share your thoughts about the LACCD on Facebook and Twitter with #Piercenews.
Hoffman widens gap for Seat 1, Fong to fill Seat 7 immediately
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“Academics are important, but Iʼm not working this hard to just be a buff dude with a B.A.,” said Jason Sturdivant, team captain of both the tennis and football teams. “Iʼm trying to go the furthest.” Thursday, March 12, at the Pierce College tennis courts in Woodland Hills, Calif.
ʻTankʼ captains tennis
Andrea Hoffman’s lead in the race for Seat 1 on the LACCD Board of Trustees increased from 937 to 1,619 votes, according to the Los Angeles City Clerk. The latest results were counted on March 12, and are still unofficial. Mike Fong won Seat 7 by more than 70,000 votes, and was set to begin his duty on the board July 1. But the board voted unanimously for him to fill his seat immediately in lieu of its vacancy that was created by Miguel Santiago’s resignation in December. Share your thoughts about the LACCD Board of Trustees on Facebook and Twitter with #Piercenews.
shows Former heavy armor operator excels on court, gridiron Planetarium free for faculty, staff SALVADOR FARIAZ Assistant Sports Editor @S̲Fariaz
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or someone who has been taught the art of discipline, his hyper presence is anything but reserved and his happiness is contagious. Jason Sturdivant is a dual-
athlete at Pierce College. But before he became captain of the football and tennis team, he served three and a half years in the United States Army. Although the difference between serving in the army and having a leadership role on a college sports team is significant, the time that earned him the nicknames “tank” and “army” prepared Sturdivant for the roles. “I learned respect, discipline, leadership,
and how to operate while stressed,” Sturdivant said. “Everything had to do with stress.” In Sturdivant’s senior year at Crosby High School in Waterbury, Conn., he had a Marine recruiter come to his house everyday to talk to his parents to prepare him for the Marines. The recruiter was reassigned to Massachusetts and Sturdivant decided to enlist in the Army instead. “My Marine recruiter left me,” Sturdivant
said. “So to get back at the Marines for taking him away from me, I took myself away from the Marines. I said bye to the Marine office and walked across the hall to the Army office.” Sturdivant was trained to operate a tank at Fort Irwin in San Bernardino, Calif. He had missions that started in the Mojave Desert and ended in Death Valley, which left him dripping with sweat.
Olympic Weightlifting highlights new classes CHRISTOPHER ESCOBAR Roundup Reporter @cescobar46
Pierce College will get new classes in history, economics and kinesiology, which will include Olympic Weightlifting. Strength and conditioning coach Matthew Hank said the Olympic Weightlifting course will be a great addition to the department, and that its high-intensity workout will be extremely popular. “I think it is important to have a class that teaches how to properly perform and implement Olympic Weightlifting into exercise routines,” Hank said. Students have not spent extra time to maximize their strength because of the risk of injuries, Hank said. Olympic Weightlifting will help with conditioning, and the proper training will minimize the risk of injury, according to Hank.
The course will be beneficial to students and student-athletes, because it will increase their strength and keep their bodies conditioned, Hank said. The strength and conditioning coach was asked by students several times if he could teach them Olympic Weightlifting, so the course was introduced to the Curriculum Committee, which is lead by Art instructor Constance Moffatt. But Olympic Weightlifting will not be the only new class at Pierce. History Department Chair Richard McMillan said the History Department is trying to bring back classes such as Asian History and Middle Eastern History “Since 9/11, there have been demands by students to have a Middle Eastern history course,” McMillan said. This semester the college added [See NEW CLASSES, pg. 3]
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Faculty, staff and their families and friends will be able to attend two planetarium shows this semester for free, courtesy of the Astronomy Department. The shows are Friday, March 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Monday, April 20, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., in the Planetarium in the CFS. Share your thoughts about the planetarium on Facebook and Twitter with #Piercescience.
ʻMAJOR MATTERSʼ medical school preparation workshop
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Kinesiology major Jesse Diaz practices parkour in front of Library / Learning Crossroads at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. Thursday, March 12.
The Pierce Counseling Faculty will host the first in a series of “MAJOR MATTERS” workshops about specific majors offered by the college. Its first workshop will cover how to prepare for medical school with the right major and general education pattern at Pierce. The “MAJOR MATTERS” workshop is Friday, March 20, 12:45 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the CTC Room on the first floor of the Student Services Building. Share your thoughts about Pierce’s majors on Facebook and Twitter with #Piercemajors.
ʻCheeseʼ first show at remodeled PAB
Photo Essay: Vibrant Pierce
Softball drops eighth straight
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