ROUNDUP Los Angeles Pierce College
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Volume 127 - Issue 9
A FIRST AMENDMENT PUBLICATION
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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Pinning up inspiration Model uses social media platform to encourage others to feel beautiful SAMANTHA BRAVO Editor-in-Chief @sammybravo93
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ed lipstick, victory rolls and big skirts are the essentials for a pinup look. However, someone can feel beautiful without those accessories. Pierce student and model Emily Katz works at a boutique where she encourages others to put aside their insecurities and feel confident in themselves. Katz started dressing up in her junior year of high school, however makeup and dresses weren’t always Katz’s go-to look. “I’ve always dressed tomboyish,” Katz said. “And one day, I came to school in a skirt and eyeliner and everyone was looking at me.” The 20-year-old, who goes by her model name ‘Ally Katz’ on Instagram, was awarded ‘Miss Perfectly Pinned Up’ in April. After high school, Katz moved to New York and spent her first year at Wagner College in Staten Island, but she wasn’t happy with what she was doing. Katz then came to Pierce and is in her second year taking Costuming for Theatre. She then decided to change her major to costuming. Katz started dressing up as a pin up because she liked that it was body inclusive and helps people feel beautiful. “That’s what I like about it, you just do your best, and you can achieve the look,” Katz said. Katz said it's a hassle to get ready but she receives multiple compliments when she dresses up. “If you use heat protective spray, it gives your hair a little hold, and you gotta tease,” Katz said. “They say, tease it to Jesus, and then you comb it out.” Emily was recently published on a magazine called, “Pinup
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Emily Katz, who goes by her model name ʻAlly Katzʼ on Instagram, was awarded ʻMiss Perfectly Pinned Upʼ in April. Katz poses for a photo in the makeup room in the Performing Arts Building in Pierce College Woodland Hills, Calif. on Oct. 19, 2017. Kulture,” earlier this year. Makeup artist, Lacey Noel worked on Katz makeup for the magazine and said Katz donated to a child battling childhood cancer. “Emily was very gracious donating to Taylor's gofundme. He was in and out of the hospital and she donated money to shoot with Miss Missy (photographer),” Noel said. “I did her makeup and Tamera Von Tart did her hair.” Noel said Katz was confident while working on her makeup and noticed her love her pinup.
“Her charitable ways helped a little boy in need and she got some amazing photos by Miss Missy,” Noel said. “We all contributed to something that touched our hearts that day, those photos will always be very meaningful.” Katz has worked at a lingerie shop in Burbank called, “What Katie Did,” for about seven months and enjoys working where she can dress up. The boutique sells women's clothing and corsets. Lillian Starr, the manager of the boutique, has known Katz for less than a year and said she's great with customers.
“She’s my weekend girl,” Starr said. “She’s our 40’s diva, and she knows her stuff about her vintage lingerie.” Starr said they try to help their customers feel comfortable with their bodies. “That’s exactly what we do, we like to make them feel comfortable and sexy and beautiful,” Starr said. “And all of our customers leave happy and feeling great.” Katz doesn’t regularly dress up for school because of the hassle of shoes, makeup and hair, however, if Katz wants to dress up, she
would need hours to get ready. “It took two hours to get ready and I’m not ashamed of saying that,” Katz said. “It’s nice to have something to give a little time for yourself, like the two hours. I really like it because I really enjoy every step of that,” Katz said. “Listen to music and just spend some time on yourself.” At 4 feet 11 inches, Katz said the pinup community accepts you no matter the height, size, or color of a person. [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]
Letters, drawings and personal artifacts on display until Dec. 15 Reporter @NoahGoldbloom
An old Irish passport, a photo collage of Holocaust victims, and a trunk filled with family mementos. What might look like a list of items found in a f lea market can have a deep, emotional and universal meaning when placed in the proper context. The One Book One Campus novel “Enrique’s Journey” was selected to create thoughts and conversation about immigration, and is open until Dec. 15. Art Gallery Director Monica Ramirez Wee said that the intention of the exhibit was to shed light on people's stories. The show was formed in collaboration with the Pierce community and members were
Grant defunded
Board of Education discontinues funds for faculty training
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Light on immigration NOAH GOLDBLOOM
Sculpture class go to page. 6
encouraged to lend mementos. “I had people come up to me telling me that they couldn’t tell me their stories,” Ramirez Wee said. “They want to share their stories, but they have concerns about why they don’t want it publicly known.” In the Art Gallery, there were walls that were left blank. Wee said this was done on purpose to illustrate the absence of the stories that could not be told. “The whole topic of immigration is fraught with so many different feelings and opinions,” Ramirez Wee said. Ramirez Wee said this fear was due to the current political climate. When the project first began, it was unknown that DACA would be revoked. Ramirez Wee said this changed the mood of the exhibit. To encourage visitors to share their stories there was a wall for
Titus Littlejohn/ Roundup Gal Kalderon, looks at the art depicting different immigration stories on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in the Art Gallery at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. The exhibit, “The Things We Carried,” will be on display in the Pierce College Art Gallery now until Dec. 15.
people dedicated to add their stories and thoughts. Ramirez Wee said that the space was set aside to help demonstrate how
the show encompassed everyone at Pierce College. “We had to think about the fact that once people come and
see the show they’ll say, ‘I have a response to what I’ve seen, and I want to say something about it,’” Ramirez Wee said.
After a five-year run, Title V, a government grant that designates a certain amount of money in each fiscal year for employees to conduct staff, student and instructional improvement activities at community colleges, has been discontinued by the Board of Education. Title V was implemented in 2012 and faced elimination before the end of the academic year. The additional funding will not impact students who cannot attend campus. Quality education will be provided for those who wish to enroll for online courses according to Distance Coordinator Wendy Bass. “Although we didn’t get approved for continuing certain things, we are here and will continue to work around it,” Bass said. “Title V helped faculty members provide students who cannot attend class the opportunity to enroll for online. We will provide them with superior training and support.” The grant provided financial support for trainings, attending conferences and seminars. Although there is a lack of funds for certain things, students will be in a position to continue their distance education. “Title V mostly supports the faculty. It was for extra things, for example, additional training on Canvas or offering more training for teachers in other areas,” said representative for Distance Education and IT Clayton Gediman. “Although the grant was not approved, nothing will change.” [For the full story visit theroundupnews.com]
Outreach Librarian Lisa Valdez said that that the gallery should resonate with everyone. The exhibit shows commonality and awareness of the larger issue of immigration, she said. “It is showing that at one time or another all of our families were immigrants,” Valdez said. “We have all made some type of journey.” Valdez said that she was happy with the way the exhibit turned out, and people wanted to share stories. “It’s great that people were so proud of their family and their heritage,” Valdez said. “That they want to share it and other people want to celebrate it.” Despite the many stories that were shared, Valdez said she understood why some people might not want to share their own. “Some people don’t know who to trust,” Valdez said. “There is a greater concern that they will be sent back to a place where there is no chance for survival.”
[see art gallery on pg. 5]
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