Nine students were notified and told they won the Viking Award on Tuesday, April 29 in Dean of Student Affairs Byron Breland's office in the E Building.
Breland said the students were awarded for academic achievement and strong leadership skills.
The winners are David Barrera, Monica Conde, Roy "Butch" De La Cruz, Chansophoe "Chan" Din, David Galves, Uyem Lam, Jennifer Lontajo, Dorothy Pitts and Reijo Rantamaula.
Upon reviewing bids, the LBCC Auxiliary Board will make a decision between May 5-9 regarding an exclusive five-year renewable contract with Pepsi or Coca-Cola.
The companies presented their bids to the committee Monday, April 21, Bookstore Director Marty Wayland said, Tuesday, April 29.
After a heated race, LaTonya Neal was named Associated Student Body chief-executive officer. The results were tallied Thursday evening and ASB winners were announced.
LaTonya was voted with over 350 votes versus runner-up Elsie Nolazco's 141 votes.
Current ASB CEO John Kindred was named vice president in a tight race with Vincent Jordon, who received 230 votes compared to Kindred's 267 votes.
A student who survived a war in her native Iran donated blood Wednesday, April 23 as LBCC sponsored a drive at the PCC.
Fariba Narimen is a frequent donor in her home country and said she donates, "Just to help. I use to donate all the time when I was living in Iran during the war.
Former LBCC employee Shallan Tunupopo plead guilty to three years of probation at her preliminary hearing Monday, May 5 for felony charges, a Long Beach court official said Monday, May 12.
Tunupopo was arrested April 17 for conspiring with Long Beach resident Maria A.
The Associated Student Body elections for Fall 2008 started in front of the LAC's Building E Tuesday, April 22 and Wednesday, April 23 by the student center at PCC.
The ASB candidates running are La Tonya Neal and Elsie Nolazco for President, Vincent Jordan and John Kindred for Vice President, Kathryn Brown and Ernesto Perez for student trustee and Shaun Marshall for chief financial officer.
The LAC Reading and Writing center conducted a workshop on "The Skeletons in Your Sentences" in D102 on Tuesday, April 15.
The workshop helped students to understand basic sentence structure. Professor Julie Adele led the workshop. The center workshops are free and require no registration and any LBCC student may attend.
May 31 will mark a temporary end of the federal work study program that will resume in the Fall.
The program won't be available to students for the Summer semester because funds won't be available. . To protect funds for the 2008-09 year, the suspension is being implemented.
May 31 will mark a temporary end of the federal work study program that will resume in the Fall.
The program won't be available to students for the Summer semester because funds won't be available. . To protect funds for the 2008-09 year, the suspension is being implemented.
A vote to increase child-care fees was approved by the Board of Trustees in a meeting Tuesday, April 22 at the LAC.
The increase, which would start this Fall and covers fees through 2011, would cut the budget deficit to $63,000, down from the $675,000 loss the program now faces.
Hoping to attract women to jobs that pay $35 an hous, LBCC presented the Women in the Trade job fair Wednesday, April 16.
Employers are offering apprenticeship programs so students can earn money as they learn.
The programs in PCC's Student Center encourage women to look to non-traditional jobs as a career choice.
Students studying alternative fuels may soon find a stronger emphasis on liquefied natural gas in future semesters after a recent $1.2 million grant LBCC received from the state and various companies.
"Our long range plans are to have LNG technology introduced as a module and as it grows, a more dominating portion of our alternative fuels classes," said Cal Macy, LBCC's advanced transportation project director.
LBCC is facing a $2.3 million reduction in its budget for 2007-08 and a college official said, "Tough, tough times are ahead for next year."
Vice President Anne-Marie Gabel explained the cuts Monday, April 21.
The cuts can be attributed to the fact that Orange and Sonoma counties overestimated the amount of property tax revenue that would be generated on behalf on Community College Districts, Gabel said.
A message of healing spiritual balance and global harmony was presented in the Nordic Lounge on Tuesday, April 22.
Anthropology teacher Adrian Novotny and guest speaker Chief Marvin Swallow guided the ceremony on Earth Day. Swallow is a part of the Rosebud reservation and used to live in South Dakota.
For the first time in its 18-year history as a club, the Sigma Pi chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association took home the top honor of Spirit Award at the 71st national conference.
"We were elated and overjoyed that we had won the top honor for LBCC," Sigma Pi Chapter adviser and teacher Gregory Slaughter said.
tudents transferring to a university this Fall or next Spring semester will be honored Wednesday, May 14 for their achievements.
The application is available online at transfer.lbcc.edu, where students can simply print it out and submit it to Student Transfer Services coordinator Ruben Page in A156 at the LAC, or Lorraine Blouin in GG100 at the PCC.
