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A FIRST AMENDMENT PUBLICATION
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Volume 129 - Issue 8
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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Transfer Fair brings 60 universities to campus BLAKE WILLIAMS Reporter @BlakeMWilliams̲
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ou may have noticed your professor wearing a shirt from a different college. Or maybe you noticed The Mall was even more packed than usual on Thursday. Community College students are typically skeptical when it comes to transferring, because the decision to go to a certain university over others can affect your future career and life. Pierce College hosted a Transfer Fair on Oct. 25 for students to learn about different universities they could transfer to with hopes of making their decision more clear. Roughly 60 universities sent representatives to Pierce for the Transfer Fair, according to Sunday Salter, director of transfer center. Salter said the main goal of the event is to get students to visit as many universities as possible at the same time and place. “Over the last nine years that I've been doing this, students come to the fair and get to ask questions to the schools that they know they want to apply to,” Salter said. “But then they also learn about schools they haven’t thought of and it allows them to broaden their options.” Pierce Interim President Larry Buckley noticed two things at the event. His alma mater, the
“My goal is to make sure that people understand that if they don’t have the requirements, they're not going to get in.”
- Bruce Vancil
Outreach and school relations CSULB
University of Hawaii, was not there, and many students at the event went to talk to representatives from the University of California, Irvine and Cal. State Northridge. “Most of the students were at UCI and at Northridge, where I expected them to be,” Buckley said. “Those campuses are the campuses reaching out to us and being available to us. It makes all the difference in the world because what students need is to know that the places they want to go are interested in them.” After not sending a representative to the transfer fair for years, Bruce Vancil, University Outreach and School Relations for Cal. State Long Beach, made a
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Pierce College students and some high school students are attending the Transfer Fair at Pierce College on Oct. 25, 2018, in Woodland Hills, Calif.
promise to come to the event. “I always regret not coming out to the valley,” Vancil said. “So many schools don’t come out here. It took me close to three hours to get out here, but i promised Sunday Salter that i’m going to do it.” He said his main focus to is to make sure students know what they
need to be eligible to get accepted to CSULB. “My goal is to make sure that people understand that if they don’t have the requirements, they're not going to get in,” Vancil said. “And really, that’s all of us. If you don’t have the requirements, you won’t get in. The assumption is it’s too
competitive. No, you didn’t have the right requirements.” Pierce student Brandon Moghanian went to the event to learn more about the application process for the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. “Those are my two main
schools because I’m LA based,” Moghanian said. “I just wanted to get more information. UCLA is very difficult to get into so I thought it would be best to start getting familiar with the whole process early.” bwilliams.roundupnews@gmail.com
Pierce talks tech
Wi-Fi, website and cameras discussed at PCC NICK MARTINEZ Reporter @NickEsai
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Reza Yakhi and Kavous Shirzadian have the main section of their vendor area dedicated to bobblehead-esque antique models of famous entertainers, as well as cat statues. Parking Lot 7 of Pierce College, Woodland Hills, Calif. October 28, 2018.
Vintage is back again
Flea market comes to Pierce once a month CHELSEA WESTMAN Reporter @chelsea̲spero The last Sunday of every month brings hidden treasures to the table tops. From intricate jewelry to shabby chic furniture, the Topanga Vintage Market at Pierce College has it all. Vintage clothing, art, antiques, food trucks and live music is just the tip of the iceberg, having over 180 vendors in the small market selling a
plethora of unique items. Vendors Bob Backus and Leilani McDaniel have been coming to the vintage market for five years. The pair commutes from Palmdale and sells vintage items ranging from classic cars to handcrafted stone necklaces. “I come to sell, she [McDaniel] comes to buy,” Backus said. “She collects antique dishes. I look for stuff too, but most of the time I just sell.” McDaniel said she used to live in Topanga and transferred from Pierce to California State University,
Northridge. She said she was familiar with the area when the vintage market migrated to Pierce. “We come here because we knew about it before when it was at the Promenade, then we were coming here and decided to sell because we have so much stuff,” McDaniel said. Backus said he tumbles crystals, which is a technique used to polish rocks, to sell and his favorite aspect of the market is finding old boat models. [see VINTAGE on pg. 3]
The technological issues on campus are once again a topic of discussion. The Pierce College Council meeting on Oct. 25 centered around advances on campus including better Wi-Fi, more surveillance cameras and an updated school website. Buckley said when he first arrived at Pierce, he was surprised by the lack of Wi-Fi connection. Fixing the technological infrastructure has been a priority for Buckley and he does not want to delay fixing this problem. “What we need is a multimillion dollar infrastructure change, but we need to do something now to fix the Wi-Fi,” Buckley said. Buckley said the school has the ability to increase 75 percent of total coverage on campus with an emphasis in the Library / Learning Crossroads and the classrooms both north and south of the Mall. Rolf Schleicher, vice president of administrative services, said the problem with the Wi-Fi are the access points, roughly 140 of them. He said it is going to take $150,000 to fix all of them.
Schleicher thinks a realistic goal is six weeks to increase coverage, but Buckley is optimistic and thinks they can do it in four weeks or less. Eddie Tchertchian, the department chair of mathematics, is ecstatic about the improvements coming to the wireless internet. “We have been reeling for this and it’s been years that we have been waiting for such an improvement to come and it would be really great to see what happens within four to six weeks so I am very excited about it,” Tchertchian said. There is also a campuswide security camera project that has already been put in place. According to College Project Director Ed Cadena, the installation of these cameras are going to be fully installed possibly before the holidays. They will be placed in areas such as the Student Store, the Library / Learning Crossroads and in classrooms. Mission College currently has 200 cameras on campus. The plan is for about 175 cameras at Pierce, with 140 active. There were some concerns about faculty and staff privacy following a report from a staff member in the Admissions and Records office. According to Will Marmolejo,
the dean of student services, said the staff member felt uncomfortable because the camera was installed directly over her work space. President Buckley reassured that the cameras are for security and to ensure liability. They will not be focused on workspaces and not be utilized as an evaluative tool for employees. Tchertchian was relieved to hear the cameras are being used for campus safety rather than to keep an eye on faculty. “I just wanted to make sure and get reassurance that we are using these cameras for security purposes, not for evaluation purposes and the President reassured us of that, which was great to hear,” Tchertchian said. Buckley also mentioned that they are in a position to renew the front page and some prioritized second pages of the Pierce website. His goal is to successfully revise certain aspects of the webpages by the end of this semester and has taken full accountability for this project. “I am putting myself out as someone accountable for this,” Buckley said. “If all goes well, thank Rolf. If it doesn’t work, you can blame me.” nmartinez.roundupnews@gmail.com
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