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Brahmas' back-to-back heartache Volleyball loses state championship game for second year in a row JOSHUA MANES Reporter @tweeporting The dreams of a fourth state title since 2010 will have to wait after Pierce fell to the Fresno City College Rams in straight sets at the state championship title game on Sunday, Dec. 4. The Brahmas had no answer for the Rams and tournament MVP Jenna Goldsberry as Fresno City College seemed to control the net throughout the three set match. “We lost to a better team, plain and simple,” head coach Nabil Mardini said. “We tried different things but couldn't break them. They were solid on defense, solid on service. They have the guns, the setting. They’re a good team.” The first set was back and forth, the teams trading the first seven points of the match. For much of the match, the largest lead either team would hold was three points until the Rams reached set point at 24-20, and then put the set away 25-20. The Brahmas would come out the gates strong in the second set taking an early 6-2 lead. The Rams would climb back into it, tying the set up at seven. The teams went back and forth until the Rams took control at 23-19. Pierce would fight back in the second set, cutting the deficit to one at 2322. It wasn’t enough as Fresno City College would take set two by a score
of 25-23. The third and final set would again see the two teams jockey back and forth for control. The Rams took and early four point lead, but Pierce would battle back and take a four point lead of their own at 23-19. The Brahmas held set point in the third at 24-22, but they would not score again. Fresno claimed the third set 26-24 and claimed their trophy on Ken Stanley Court. To make it to the title game, the Brahmas went through a grueling five-set match against El Camino College the previous night. With a 17 hour turn around after the semifinals, assistant coach Danetta Boykin made no excuses. “Fresno played their game,” Boykin said. “They picked up everything, covered, served. We didn’t execute at the times that we should have, but we played a really good game, too. I don’t think there was an emotional hangover from last night. We as a whole are really proud of last night.” Coming into the postseason, Pierce was the No. 2 team in the state. To make it to the title game, Fresno City College took out the top ranked team in the state, Grossmont College, with a straight set victory in the semifinals. [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]
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Sydney Molander (2) of Fesno City College serves the ball to Tamia Files (20) and Cassidy Roso (11) durring the 2016 State Championships on Dec.4 at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. Pierce lost to Fresno City College 3-0.
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A class for the muggles Pierce goes to high school Pierce to offer Harry Potter class for first time next semester
College classes to be taught off-campus
According to Dixon-Peters, Pierce has one MOU almost complete with Birmingham High School. AB288 classes offer something different than concurrent enrollment. “This is different than our current concurrent enrollment process, [high school satellite classes, which are] college High school students throughout California will soon classes at the high school that are open to everyone and be able to enroll and take community college credit courses anyone,” Dixon-Peters said. “The dual enrollment process from their high school campuses, according to Assembly must be a career or college pathway program. It must lead Bill 288. The bill was enacted on Jan. 1, 2016 and was added to either a transfer program, a certificate, or a vocational to the California Education Code Section 7600. degree. AP classes don’t lead you to a career.” “[The bill is] an expansion on the concurrent enrollment Distance Education Coordinator Wendy Bass said that it law,” Vice President of Student Services Earic Dixon-Peters seemed to her like there were issues with the bill that weren’t said. “It states that it is a dual enrollment focused toward addressed when it was being created, and it’s unfortunate high school students, which allows colleges in the local that they’re only being addressed now, after the bill is already K-12 systems to enter into an agreement where we can offer in effect. One of the concerns Bass expressed is that high college courses on the high school campus.” school students aren’t mature enough to take college courses According to Dean of Student Services William and take full responsibility for their enrollment. Mamolejo, the bill has Pierce’s Student Services department “I’d hate to have [high school students] take a college class working directly with high schools to establish the respective too soon and have it leave a really negative emotional impact Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs). on them in terms of feeling like they won’t be successful if “We’re working withExamination all the local schoolsSchedule to create these they try going college because they couldn’t do it when Final Fallto2016 [MOUs] so that we know. At Birmingham we’re going they were in tenth grade,” Bass said. to offer this pathway, at Grant we’re going to offer this [For the full story visit SHORT-TERM CLASSES WEEKEND CLASSES pathway,” Marmolejo said. “And so when all those programs Short-term classes (less than 15 weeks) that are theroundupnews.com] Classes that meet only on Saturday or Sunday are established,scheduled we then have to go out there and execute; to end before December 12 willmy have will have their final exam at their normal class snakash.roundupnews@gmail.com team will do that.” their final exam at their normal class time on time on December 17 or 18, respectively.
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MOHAMMAD DJAUHARI Reporter @17thletter Semesters can be long and boring but students will have the chance to walk through what would seem like a normal classroom door, only to be introduced to a world filled with wizards, witches and shape shifting creatures. In the spring semester, the English Department will offer a class for which the entire course material will consist of the novels from the Harry Potter series. “I think there’s so much depth to the novels in the same light that I think we can see in Mark Twain’s writing,” said Mickey Harrison, associate professor of English who will be teaching the class. “Somebody can get an enjoyment level of the entertainment value if you're eight years old, but you can read it till you're 88 and you will continually get different messages and themes.” It's this magic of the novels that society has begun to appreciate and incorporate in the canon of literature
that can be studied, according to Harrison. Written by J.K Rowling, the novels tell the coming-of-age story of Harry Potter, a boy wizard thrust into a hidden world of magic that exists parallel to the real world, and chronicles his life to adulthood. The popularity for the series has been nothing short of astronomical, spawning a series of eight movies, merchandise and theme parks. The brand is estimated to be worth as much as $25 billion, according to an article in Time Magazine. This interest in the Potter universe has also been demonstrated through the amount people that have already registered for the class. “Last year, I almost had my children's literature class cut because I didn't have the minimum required students,” Harrison said. “This year, after a week of registration, it's maxed out at 35. I've had two former students ask to be on a wait list, and two other students I've never met
before tell me they're taking 101 in the winter because they want to take my Harry Potter class.” Kristine Alcala, a 23-year-old philosophy major and a fan of the series, is interested in the class, but wasn’t able to register in time to secure a seat. “I remember reading the Philosopher’s Stone for the first time when I was younger and I was captivated by it and instantly became a fan,” Alcala said. “I really wanted to take the class, but if it’s offered again in the fall, I’d take it.” English may be thought of as a field of study that would be comprised of more classical writers like William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath or F. Scott Fitzgerald, the interest that students have shown for taking this class could influence other departments to offer classes with unorthodox and interesting material to engage more students. [See Harry Potter, pg. 5] mdjauhari.roundupnews@gmail.com
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Fall 2016 final's schedule
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English Professor Mickey Harrison jumps with a broom on Dec. 6, 2016 at Pierce College to illustrate a childeren's literature class he will teach next semester based off the Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling.
FINALS
Monday December 12
Tuesday December 13
Wednesday December 14
Thursday December 15
Friday December 16
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Classes starting at 8:00 MW or MWF or M
Classes starting at 8:00 TTh or MTWTh or T
Classes starting at 8:00 W
Classes starting at 8:00 Th
Classes starting at 8:00 F or TThF
Classes starting at 9:35 MW or MWF or MTWTh or W
Classes starting at 9:35 TTh or TThF or Th
Classes starting at 9:00 or 9:35 F
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Classes starting at 11:10 MW or MWF
Classes starting at 11:10 TTh or MTWTh
12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Classes starting at 11:10 F or TThF Classes starting at 12:45 MW or MWF or MTWTh or W
Classes starting at 12:45 TTh or TThF or Th
2:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Classes starting at 2:15 MW or MWF or 12:45 M
Classes starting at 2:15 TTh or MTWTh or 12:45 T
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Classes starting at 3:45 or 4:00 or 4:45 M or MW
Classes starting at 3:45 or 4:00 or 4:45 T or TTh
Classes starting at 3:45 or 4:00 or 4:45 W
Classes starting at 3:45 or 4:00 or 4:45 Th
5:20 p.m. to 7:20 p.m.
Classes starting at 5:20 or 5:45 M
Classes starting at 5:20 or 5:45 T
Classes starting at 5:20 MW or 5:45 W
Classes starting at 5:20 TTh or 5:45 Th
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Classes starting at 7:00 M or MW
Classes starting at 7:00 T or TTh
Classes starting at 7:00 W
Classes starting at 7:00 Th
Classes starting at 8:35 MW
Classes starting at 8:35 TTh
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Classes starting at 2:15 F or TThF
FOR CLASS TIMES NOT LISTED OR IN CASE OF CONFLICTS PLEASE SEE INSTRUCTOR.