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Confusion in golf cart policy
bring them to the health center and we could take care of it.”
The Student Health Center has a golf cart but only one key that is shared between other authorized personnel at the Health Center who took the training, according to Benne.
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“According to this memo that just came out, you can’t transport anybody, authorized personnel is just the driver, I can only take myself,” Benne said.“I wasn’t asked if this impacts us and the students.”
The Student Health Center uses the golf cart to transport laptops and projectors for classrooms presentations but the policy will prevent them from escorting passengers.
“His [Deputy Guerrero] office and the cadets were able to transport minorly injured students to the health center, they can’t anymore,” Benne said. “What if a student gets seriously injured, am I going to have to call the ambulance to bring them to the health center.”
Benne said the training that advisors attend is to learn how to use golf carts and to get certified.
“You go to a class that tells you how the break works, the acceleration, how to turn it on and off, how the charge works and how to encountered with this play.
“I must have spent four weeks listening to a bunch of speeches from Carl Sagan, Charlie Chaplin and Franklin D. Roosevelt talking about the A-bomb and even eight terrifying words from Hitler,” Medina said.
All of that played on top of another play titled “Not I” by Samuel Beckett. Currently Medina is working on the production of “Good People” that will run at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Hollywood from April 29 to June 5.
“To those that want to go into sound design think of using some sounds in different ways than what they would be used for and keep your ears open,” Medina said. “Be open to ideas from others like you would on a creative project.”
Ayala is completing her first year at Pierce. She was a student at UCLA prior to enrolling at Pierce and is in the process of applying for the Theatre Design and Production program at UCLA.
“If someone is interested in becoming a lighting designer the best thing to do is find someone who is really good at it and shadow them and ask for guidance,” Ayala said. “Never give up on it if it’s something you really love because it will definitely take you through some rough patches.”
Godot was not the first show that Ayala has worked on, but the setup posed a different approach to her design.
“Waiting for Godot was the first show that I worked on that was performed in the round,” Ayala said. “It required me to branch out from the style of lighting that is typically done in proscenium theatres, which is what I was most familiar with.” wear a seatbelt,” Benne said.
Over the summer Ayala will attend an intensive program at the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas to improve her skills. Stewart was the scenic designer for Godot and has attended Pierce since 2014.
Stewart came into Godot as a beginner with no scenic design experience at all.
“Every challenge was rewarding because I was very grateful for the opportunity to work with and learn from the many talented faculty and students I hadn’t worked with before,” Stewart said.
Stewart plans to apply for internships in theatre and to continue her education as much as possible. She wants to ideally work in design or with designers in theatre making an honest living doing something she loves and cares about.
“Anyone interested in scenic design should be meticulous, forward thinking, a great listener and a team player,” Stewart said.
“Many times when change occurs, an incident happens somewhere in the district, that leads to injury, maybe lawsuit, something that makes the district create a policy but doesn’t necessary consider the fallout of that new policy.” Benne said. “We have to find that new medium.”
Schleicher said they [administration] have been trying to start this strict policy for a long time and are authorizing it from now on.
“The goal was never to have a transportation vehicle for the health center or athletics because again, we don’t have that liability coverage,” Schleicher said.
