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A FIRST AMENDMENT PUBLICATION Volume 123 - Issue 6
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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MEGAN MOUREAUX Editor-in-Chief @meganlmoureaux mmoureaux.roundupnews@gmail.com
There’s a reputation on campus that, “The Roundup always gets it wrong.” While reporters and editors have made mistakes in the past, and will continue to make them, we truly strive for accuracy. I can promise everyone that my staff is not out to “get” anyone or harm anyone’s reputation. Imagine you were a student in class and your grade depended on getting information from a source that was crucial to a story and that source refused to talk to you due to someone else’s “mistake.” Or if you were new to the college or community and a story didn’t have information from the main person behind it...would you believe it? We are students and our jobs are to report the happenings on the Pierce College campus (good or bad) or things that involve it. Two things that would help and almost guarantee the staff to “get it right” would be allowing reporters to record audio from interviews, and for more faculty, staff and administration cooperation. To reassure accuracy with quotes, the interviewee can also record their audio. We stress polite persistence. Reporters will continue to ask the tough questions, but are instructed to do so in a respectful manner. The Roundup also encourages “Letters to the Editor” to inform us if we did get something incorrect, so we can address the potential problem. Please feel free to contact us at anytime. All articles can be found online at www.theroundupnews.com, and if you would like to have the newspaper delivered to your classroom please email newsroom.roundupnews@gmail.com.
President not chosen Pierce College President Kathleen Burke was not selected to take over the presidency at El Camino College in Torrance. Dena Maloney of Taft College will be the college’s sixth president.
Sexual Assault See story on page 3.
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Photo illustration: Pierce College is not holding any official holiday festivities this year, according to the college’s public relations manager.
Halloween activities have become ghostly on campus KE-ALANI SARMIENTO Reporter @KeAlaniNews
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fter a decade of cornmazes and haunted houses, the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College is gone due to an expired lease at the Farm Center where the community event was held. Although there are a few activities scheduled for the week, the void of the festival has not yet been filled. The baseball team will play an intrasquad Halloween game,
costumes included, Friday Oct. 30 at 11 a.m. on Joe Kelly Field. International Student Services held a Halloween themed event for all students to participate in, with treats, games, and scary music on Oct. 26. “I usually go out with my friends for Halloween, but I also like to spend time with my family,” said Robert Jimenez, a student at Pierce College. “The farm on campus was something appropriate that I could bring my nieces and nephews to.” Charles Sheldon, professor of English, told the Academic Senate on Monday that some members of the Senate Ethics Committee agreed with the statement that the
corner of Pierce College not having, “the corn maze, the haunted houses, the pumpkin patch, and other festive accoutrements appears to have lost something meaningful to the community.” The animals won’t be playing with the kids this year due to the change of land use. “The kids love it when they get to see animals on Halloween,” said Chris Kim, a father and student at Pierce College. “It’s like a field trip. They get so excited. It’s like running around a zoo with kids on a sugar-high.” Public relations manager for Pierce, Doreen Clay, said a vendor rented the corner of Victory
Boulevard and De Soto Avenue for the last 10 years. Now the land will be returned and focused on academic programs, she added. “I brought my daughter there last year and she enjoyed it,” said Heather Sanders, a parent and student at Pierce College. “I was planning on bringing her back with some of her schoolmates this time. It would be nice if they had it open again.” Like a corn maze that comes to an end, the family-oriented Halloween festivities for the Farm Center have been closed this year. The new plan for the Farm Center has been updated and is featured on Pierce College’s home page.
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Sibling rivalry makes for enjoyable comedy MARIELLE STOBER Reporter @StoberMarielle
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Cassandra (Leah Foster) performs during dress rehearsal Dow Arena Theatre, on Oct. 20, 2015.
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It is thought that to enjoy Broadway plays one must partake in the dramatic arts in some way, shape, or form. This can be especially true wherever Russian author and physician Anton Chekhov is concerned. Yet budding theater enthusiasts need not despair. Christopher Durang’s Broadway play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike breaks past the fourth wall with razor sharp humor and disarming realism. Set in present-day Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Vanya (David Klane) and his adopted sister Sonia (Laurel Moglen) spend their days together sipping lukewarm coffee while watching
the sparse wildlife outside the living room window. Mornings consist of aimless bickering and pity parties fueled by the the overwhelming realization that they are middle-aged, single, jobless, and spent the better half of their lives caring for their now deceased parents. One morning, as plain and indiscernible as the others, Vanya and Sonia notice that the blue heron that frequents the pond in the backyard has not appeared which may or may not be a bad omen. Enter the fast-talking prophesying cleaning maid Cassandra (Leah Foster). Moving about the living room in a manner similar to a shaman dancing for rain, Cassandra scolds the siblings as she sweeps the rug.
Transfer Day The Pierce College Transfer Center will be hosting UCLA, USC, CSUN workshops on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. The event will also include a college fair and a raffle for those wearing their alma mater shirts or hats. The college fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the individual university workshops scheduled throughout the day.
First Year Experience The First Year Experience (FYE) Counseling Center is hosting an open house to introduce new students to the center and the staff. Students can join in on games and free refreshments on Wednesday, Oct. 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the FYE Counseling Center.
Speaker Series The Pierce College Media Arts speaker series will host Allan Wertheim, Assistant Director for films including Saturday Night Fever and Raging Bull, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Great Hall. Admission is free and the event is open to anyone interested in attending.
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