More than 200 hundreds of students, teachers and staff gathered to mourn and protest the “death” of education Tuesday May 1 in the LAC Quad.
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Students are experiencing accidents in the parking structure, according to Long Beach Police Department Lt. Julie Prior, head of LBCC campus safety.
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Employees and a student for the first time boarded a boat and expanded college outreach to Catalina Island, Avalon school on Wednesday, April 4.
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The ASB has voted to ban smoking on both campuses. Currently, smokers are allowed to smoke in designated areas on campus. LAC has eight designated smoking areas and PCC has four.
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Students gathered in the Nordic Lounge at the LAC for the presidential forum Monday, April 2, to discuss current issues and updates affecting LBCC students and employees.
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The Board of Trustees listened to students, teachers and support-staff speak Tuesday, March 27 against the proposed elimination of 43 classified positions and the reduction in hours of 96 positions and addressed the ASB Cabinet’s vote to ban smoking.
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LBCC student Natalie Gonzalez said her uncle is getting married today, Feb. 29, Leap Day, so that he will only have to buy anniversary gifts every four years.
Gonzalez, 18, an X-Ray technician major, said, "He was being cheap."
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The Child Development Associates Groups hosted their first wine tasting fundraiser and attracted a sold-out crowd.
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Some PCC and LAC, students said they still feel unsafe walking to class at night.
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Generally, most students said they seem to be satisfied with the college experience that LBCC offers. However some feel as if the campuses are missing something important: school pride and enthusiasm.
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Superintendant-President Eloy Oakley welcomed Gaither Loewenstein to LBCC as the new Vice President of Academic Affairs following a vote by the Board of Trustees confirming Loewenstein's appointment on January 24.
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Cynthia Montes
Anti-terrorist security management, supply-chain logistics and hybrid car engine diagnostic sound like subjects for experts outside of LBCC ground, but that was before, now these courses are here and tuition-free.
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Michelle Bond
Award-winning author Aimee Bender will visit LBCC on Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. to read and sign her latest novel “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.”
The Baughn Center for Literary Arts will host the event in P104. The event is free to LBCC students with valid I.D but other guests need to pay $15. Students are strongly encouraged to RSVP for the event due to limited capacity.
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Jessica De Soto
Laura, 22, a student at LBCC had fallen victim to Anorexia Nervosa.
Laura personally believed that it was a combination of genetics, her type of personality, and childhood. She grew up in a very chaotic household
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Arnold James
E-readers provide a fresh new approach to literature, but the students who are enrolled in college still ask when the textbooks for their classes will be available.
Since e-readers provide a digital version of the book, the book itself is cheaper to produce, which makes the price of the textbook cheaper.
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Tanner Ruegg
President Obama delivered his fourth State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
Although education only took up 6 ½ minutes of the address, with 3 ½ minutes focused on colleges, Obama’s speech on Friday at the University of Michigan, which ran simultaneously with a Twitter chat on education, showed that college spending is a larger issue on his mind.
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The two most common complaints students have about the Student Health Services at LAC, are they are hardly ever open and they are not seen in a timely manner. On Feb. 1, thirteen out of twenty students never went to the health center. Seven out of ten students said they would rather wait to go to their own doctor than make an appointment with the Student Health Services center.
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Michael Medina, an LBCC student, expresses that depression is a solitary state of being an orphan to life.
Medina, 21, a philosophy major was taken hostage to the mental dejection. He illustrates depression as a room with a locked door in which, the darkness holds the keys. He said it is desperation, a choking hope, and it is the need to breathe but not being able to use oxygen.
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Natalie Ly
The Be the Change Catholic Club and about 50 participants celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass on Feb. 22.
Sister Su Fern Khoo played and sang the entrance song with the choir welcoming the Rev. Brian Doran from St. Anthony Parish Church in Long Beach to start the Mass.
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After a month filled with board meeting protests, combative student forums and the lay-off of over 10 percent of the entire LBCC workforce, President Eloy Oakley may decide the grass is ‘greener.’
According to reports late Wednesday, the LBCC President is one of four finalists for the vacant President/Superintendent job at Santa Barbara City College.
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Potential programs to be eliminated in an effort to cut $2 million from LBCC's 2013-2014 budget.
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The ASB Cabinet plans events to encourage students to stay on campus as opposed to going home after classes
"The events that ASB hosts cost anywhere from free to $6,000 an event," ASB adviser Derek Oriee said.It is free for students to attend ASB sponsored events if they have a valid ASB sticker.Oriee is passionate about the work he does as cabinet adviser. Oriee said, "I want the students to enjoy college life, not just go to class and after that go home.”
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After layoffs and program cuts last semester, controversy arose among students and employees Monday, Sept. 10 during the ASB cabinet meeting when gallery speaker Gregory Peterson, vice president of student support, revealed that the position of recreation, sports and wellness will be eliminated.
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LBCC is expecting a mid-year funding cut of around $5 million, and will also be preparing for additional cuts if the Nov. 6 tax measure doesn’t pass.
In the last three years the school has seen a 7.4 percent reduction in state funding. As Ann-Marie Gabel, the LBCC vice-president of Administrative Services stated in the July 25 budget update, “To make matters worse, if the ballot measure does not pass, then there will be mid-year cuts totaling over $260 million, which would cut another $4.9 million from LBCC’s budget,” almost doubling the budget cuts, and digging deeper into employees and students.
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An audience of more than 200 people, most supporting the endangered photography program, attended the Board of Trustees meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 25, filling the boardroom and the over-flow room of the T Building to capacity.
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Some students could not identify what ASB stands for, let alone what they do for their fellow students.
Joanne Magana, 21, an animation Major said, “What do they do?’
She was confused on what ASB does for her and her schoolmates. She said the ASB are not active on school campus. “They do not advertise their positions or themselves personally,” Magana added.
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