ROUNDUP Los Angeles Pierce College
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Volume 129 - Issue 13
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Brahma Pantry opens
Service begins just in time for holiday season EZZAT WANAS Reporter @EzzatWanas
A real toy drive A volunteer at Motor4Toys stacks donated presents at Pierce College on Dec. 2, 2018, in Woodland Hills, Calif.
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Supercar Sunday brings Motor4Toys to campus “We’ve got every color, every religion, every age. We’re all having a great time giving back and helping children.” any parents fear the winter holidays because of the - Dustin Troyan
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expectations of buying expensive gifts for friends and family. In response, Pierce College hosted the annual Motor4Toys charity Car Show and Toy Drive with hopes of relieving the stress of holiday shopping and get people in the spirit of giving. Dustin Troyan is the forerunner for the charity event, which has been running annually for over a decade. The charity event now distributes toys to 45 different agencies to help children. Starting at a small coffee shop and now at Pierce, Troyan’s Motor4Toys began with a group of friends at another popular car show.
Motor for Toys
“I threw a car show called Supercar Sunday and then we started asking everyone to bring toys one year and it was a huge hit,” said Troyan. “And now we’re the largest automotive toy drive in the world.” Motor4Toys is 100 percent charity down to the donuts they sell to accommodate. Motors for Toys receives no profit from the program and is projected raise roughly a 100,000 plus, toys. Troyan claims the day will revenue 2 million dollars in toys for charity.
“It’s all about the kids,” said Troyan. “It has added so much joy, friendship, and understanding to my life.” Troyan calls himself a big “community” guy. Some people have come from other states to be apart of this event. What you will see is everything from hot-rods to imported vehicles all owned by car enthusiasts alike. “This is how the world’s meant to be,” said Troyan. “We’ve got the richest, the poorest. We’ve got every
color, every religion, every age. We’re all having a great time giving back and helping children.” Troyan has many annual sponsors that cover the cost of the event. Fast Intentions is one of the many companies who annually come to sponsor. Operations Manager, Kevin Verdina says they’ve been sponsoring for five plus years. “The event is only growing,” said Verdina. “It’s family oriented, you can check out nice cars, and it’s a toy drive. It’s a win-win for everybody.” People seemed to be reluctant to be apart of Troyan’s vision. He says that he had the idea one year but was too chicken to ask. Then the following year he did. “It was like a giant miracle,” said Troyan. “I just said, ‘Hey guys, bring toys’. I can’t take credit for it, it sort of just happened.” [see TOY DRIVE on pg. 5]
A seemingly small room could help students achieve their big goals by connecting them with the resources they need to succeed. The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s office created a hunger free campus grant that is giving community colleges money to address this issue of food insecurity on campus. Through the grant, the pantry is able to remain open, purchase food and get a student worker. Since the pantry’s opening on Nov. 19, it has had a slow start while trying to gain traction on campus. “The visitors that did come, we had meaningful interactions,” D’arcy Corwin, the Brahma Pantry coordinator said. “I would say as I’m learning and as we’re going, I feel the quality of our interactions are kind of having a slower pace and it’s giving us time to have more meaningful conversations with the students.” Since the program is new to Pierce, the program must figure out how to fit with the culture of the campus. This is what Corwin has been learning when she talks with students who visit the pantry. For students, the pantry offers free food, CalFresh enrollment support, helps students find enrollment outside of campus and refers students to different resources on campus. “We are trying to address students’ basic needs,” Corwin said. “Our goal is to help students find success. Not only in the college, but also personally.” Food security is a topic of concern,
especially during the holidays. While the pantry won’t be open during the holidays, it will reopen during the start of winter session. Although the pantry will be closed with the rest of the campus this holiday season, students are encouraged to look at the Brahma Pantry’s website. The site will provide a list of food banks and resources students can access throughout the holidays. “We are trying to make a difference,” Corwin said. “We will have a website soon that connects with different faculty members and department chairs. They connect with their staff and make announcement about our service.” The pantry is a way for the administration to help students on campus seek the assistance they need. While there are similar bodies on campus that work to help food insecurity, the pantry is unlike any organization. “This pantry supported by faculty and staff members and students. The Students Against Student Hunger (ST.A.S.H) club helps unite who have access to food with people who have no food,” Philosophy Professor Christopher Lay said. Since the pantry is funded through a grant, it works specifically for the students on campus to find resources. Pierce Student Francesca Canales said the purpose for the pantry is very helpful, and even through it is new, she would refer it to classmates. The pantry is open Monday and Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday with an appointment with Corwin via her email corwind@piercecollege. edu. ewanas.roundupnews@gmail.com
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D'arcy Corwin in the new Brahma Pantry that is now open and offers free food and CalFresh enrollment support located near the Great Hall, Woodland Hills, Calif. Nov. 21, 2018.
Ground animals feared dead
Faculty members concerned rodent traps have poisoned campus ecosystem JOSHUA MANES Editor-in-Chief @TheManesEvent Those discreet fake rocks around campus housing poison for rats and mice may have had some unwanted effects. Faculty have expressed concern that the rabbits and squirrels have become victims of the rodenticide. “I used to see them all the time. They would have babies so there'd be all sizes running around. It was very active around here,” instructor of English Craig Kramer said. “And just last month we started noticing that there were none. Not a single animal. I
can't remember the last time that I saw one single squirrel or rabbit on campus.” While Kramer has not seen any dead animals on campus, Shannon DeVaney, instructor of life sciences, has seen dead rabbits. “If it's not next to a street, it's probably been poisoned or something because there's not a lot of other things that would kill something like a rabbit and not eat it,” DeVaney said. According to the National Pesticide Information Center website, bromadiolone, the poison used in the traps, prevents the body from recycling Vitamin K, causing the animal to bleed to death, which can take several
days. “It makes them suffer, like a form of torture, and then they die,” Kramer said. According to DeVaney, the impact goes beyond the ground animals like rabbits and squirrels. “Because it takes a few days for it to die, it's more likely to then be consumed by some of our predators,” DeVaney said. “The issue then is that predator is eating multiple meals that are containing the toxin, so they're ingesting it over and over and over again. It isn't being broken down by their body so it's accumulating and it ends up accumulating at higher levels.” And DeVaney said the effects can spread beyond Pierce.
“Coyotes are a little bit more of a concern. The coyotes will certainly eat them,” DeVaney said. “A coyote’s range is large enough that we could have coyotes that are traveling between the Pierce campus and the Santa Monica Mountains which are just a couple of miles away from here. That can easily get the poison into some of the animals like the bobcats and the mountain lions that live up there in the Santa Monica's.” According to DeVaney, this is not the first time rodenticides have been used at Pierce, nor is this the first time other animals may have been affected. [see ANIMALS on pg. 3]
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