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Volume 128 - Issue 9
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
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Men's Volleyball advances to semifinals against undefeated team
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Men's Volleyball celebrates after scoring a point against Fullerton College during the regional round of the state championship on April 20, 2018, at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. The Brahmas won in straight sets and advanced to the semifinals against the Long Beach City College Vikings.
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en’s volleyball advance to the semifinals of the state championship to face the undefeated Long Beach City College Vikings
after a straight set win over the Fullerton College Hornets, Friday night (25-20, 25-12 and 25-17). The last time men’s volleyball was in the playoffs was in 2013 when Head Coach Lance Walker first took over the program. Walker attributed his team’s success to the energy of fans in the gym Friday afternoon.
“We had alumni in the crowds, returning players, we had family and friends. The energy was just very positive, which is what we want,” Walker said. “I mean, this is the biggest turnout we’ve had all year. I think that the support helps the confidence of a team like this.” The Brahmas trailed behind the Hornets by as much as four points.
However, they managed to pull ahead, and Cole Chea got the kill that gave the team the first set. Chea leads the team in kills with 191, the third highest in the Western State North Conference. Walker said he was particularly impressed with the steady rhythm the team established early on in the game.
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“The fact of the matter is that we controlled the tempo of the match,” Walker said. The Brahmas led the second set from the start as Morgan Wadlow and Cole Chea made crucial kills and blocks that gave the team a 17-10 lead. [see VOLLEYBALL on pg. 12]
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REBECCA O'NEIL Reporter @RebeccaRoundup Students were given food — and food for thought — at the Vegan Society’s celebration of Earth Day on Thursday, April 19. Vegan bagels and cream cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches and tacos accompanied a series of discussions led by representatives from local farms as well as environmental and animal advocacy groups in the Great Hall. For nursing major Matt Phelps, Earth Day is an invitation to reflection and mindfulness. “Earth Day is basically an event where we get together and we talk about sustainability. We talk about being mindful of Earth’s resources. We talk about veganism, which is very much interconnected to Earth Day and being connected to the planet and how we treat it,” Phelps said. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and Faculty Advisor for the Pierce Vegan Society Stefanie Winnard said that club members feel strongly about their mission. “All of us in the club are very passionate about protecting our environment and trying to save our planet for future generations,”
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People at the Earth Day event hosted by the Vegan society eat vegan bagels and cream cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches and tacos in the Great Hall at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. on April 19, 2018.
Winnard said. “We especially want to highlight one of the leading causes of climate change, which is animal agriculture.” Winnard said the effects of animal agriculture also extend to deforestation, water pollution, resource depletion, ocean dead zones and species extinction. Winnard said individuals have the power to engender change by embracing the personal as political and environmental. “We want to educate the
community on the connection between environmental degradation and agriculture and encourage everybody to adopt an earth-friendly lifestyle like going vegan,” Winnard said. “Going Vegan is the single best action a person can do on an individual level to help the planet.” Karen Snook, the executive director of Kindred Spirits Care Farm at John R. Woodens High School (JRWHS), said tending to the earth and caring for
animals has a profound social and environmental impact. JRWHS is a continuation school for at-risk youth on Winnetka Ave. “We have about 130 students who come to us, wounded. There they work with the animals, tend to the gardens. We teach them not only why, but how to grow food,” Snook said.
Peace Over Violence, the chief judge argued, “Because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.” In 2008, the Pierce College campus introduced the Clothesline Project tradition in response to the
Denim Day campaign. It has been 10 years since the initial start of the project. Today, ASO and B.R.A.V.E. are sponsoring the Clothesline Project in honor of the Denim Day campaign today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Rocky Young Park. Kathy Oborn, Chair of Political Science, Economics and Criminal Justice, started Denim Day at Pierce when she was a team lead for the
Campus Violence Response Team (CVRT). In 2007, Holly Hagan, Textbook Buyer, became the colead and in 2008 she brought the Clothesline Project to campus and they have been doing it once a semester since, in October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month and in April for Denim Day. The Clothesline Project welcomes students to anonymously share their stories of domestic or sexual abuse
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What is Denim Day? JESSICA VAUGHAN Arts & Entertainment Editor @JVaughanRoundup In Italy in the 1990s, the Italian Supreme Court ruled against a young girl who said she was raped by her driving instructor. According to
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Adjunct theater professor Anna Steers performs "Natural Shocks," a one woman play by Lauren Gunderson, on Sunday, April 22, in the Dow Arena Theatre at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif. Gunderson wrote the play to fit any woman of any age, of any background. She allowed performances across the country, royalty free, for the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting. Photo by Randi Love
on a shirt to be displayed with others from past semesters. “It's important for everybody to see that they are not the only ones and as sad as it is, it's so common. I think it could help those people who just have been holding it in and always wanted to talk to someone,” Hagan said. Hagan said that the stories are incredible to read and it can at times be difficult to take in that many people in a small community has struggled
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with some form of domestic or sexual abuse. “It’s pretty empowering to the person who is making the shirt. Especially if it is something that they have been harboring for a very long time,” Hagan said. To read more about Denim Day and its history, visit http:// denimdayinfo.org/. jvaughan.roundupnews@gmail.com
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